United Santa Assault in the USA! Peace. Harmony. Joy. Community. These were just a few of the horrifying threats scrawled by an Occupy movement Santa and some of his little helpers in sidewalk chalk at the State Capitol in Austin, Texas. More at the Free Keene site, New Hampshire’s on-line destination for liberty activism.
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Ho! Ho! Hold It Right There, Mr. Claus! Occupy Santa tossed in Austin Slammer for coloring with Kids at State Capitol…
“Happyfuckin’ 4th of July, Unclefucker!” New Yaoi Bara Cali Manga from JoJo Mendoco
Posted in Activism, Art and Artists, Comics, Facial hair, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., JoJo Mendoco, Leather, North America, Porn, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Sexy Holidays, Strange Holidays, Subcultures
Tagged 4th of July, Art, Bara, Cartoon, Comics, Culture, Eric Cartman, Gay, Homoerotic, JoJo Mendoco, Manga, Mask, OWS, politics, Satire, South Park, Uncle Sam, Unclefucker, Vendetta, Yaoi
You’d Better Beware!
Not because of x-mas and the Nasty Santas. But all the time. Cause Big Brother IS watching. So is Big Lots. And Bob’s Big Boy and Big Mac and the rest of the big bad corporate people. What? They are people, aren’t they? Must be. Says so in the big legal tomes and on the bigger Internet. Prove they’re not. See? Now…prove you are. Hah!
Santa Sez: Shop Local!
Sight seen on a wall in Willits, in California’s Mendocino County. Good words for today…or any day. Ho Ho Ho.
Posted in Activism, Art and Artists, iPhone, Mendocino County, Photography, Sexy Holidays, Signage, Street Art, Grafitti, etc.
Tagged Art, Christmas, Consumer Culture, Culture, Design, Mendocino County, Occupy, OWS, Poster, Propaganda, Santa, Shop Local, Street Art, X-mas
Goodbye to Louie’s, Rossi’s, Marcello’s? Rising Rents may threaten Historic Castro District Small Biz Building
Castro Street. photo: Gay Highwaymen
Remarkable what you can learn in a barber’s chair. Louie’s Barbershop at 422 Castro Street has been at that address since 1932. Marcello’s Pizza, its neighbor to the north, has been there since 1978, and Rossi’s Deli has been there since…well, almost forever. Now, these familiar neighborhood haunts may be threatened. Word through the Gay-vine is that the old building has changed hands, and that the reasonable rents that have kept it stable for years are scheduled to skyrocket. Details are fuzzy, but multiple heirs and international investors are said to figure into the situation.
Small business is the heart of urban neighborhoods. Each one that gets forced out and replaced by a McBiz diminishes the soul of the place. As do empty storefronts. The international corporations and holding companies that invest in urban real estate are not invested in the well-being of residents. They buy pieces of neighborhoods for their portfolios and don’t care much about occupancy. Raise the rent by a factor of ten, then write off the vacant building. Its just good business…and there goes the neighborhood.
Posted in Architecture, History, Photography, San Francisco, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Signage
Tagged Castro Street, Corporate Crime, Culture, Gay, Louie's Barbershop, Marcello's Pizza, Neighborhood, Occupy Castro, OWS, Real Estate, Rossi's Deli, Shop Main Street, Small Business
The Boy in the Gas Mask: Occupy Photo of the Day
photo: DON EMMERT / Getty Images
Posted in Activism, New York, Photography, Youth
Tagged Culture, Day of Action, Gas Mask, Headlines, New York, Occupy, OWS, Photography, Sexy
The Boys of the NYPD Guard the Wall Street Bull: Occupy Photo of the Day
Police guard the famed bull statue as protesters affiliated with Occupy Wall Street march nearby on Nov. 17, 2011, in New York City. ( Mario Tama / Getty Images )
What’s next for Occupy? Try Mediagenic Activism. Makana Occupies APEC Dinner!
Makana. Photo via The Yes Lab.
When Hawaiian guitarist and singer Makana took the stage at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation gala dinner in Honolulu on November 12th, the audience expected instrumental background music. They got more than they expected.
Attendees at the hyper-secure dinner, which capped a summit of world leaders “included Presidents Barack Obama of the United States of America, Hu Jintao of China, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia, Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada, and over a dozen other heads of state.”
Makana proceeded to unbutton his suit jacket to reveal a home-made “Occupy With Aloha” t-shirt, pick up his guitar, and spend the next 45 minutes singing a very extended version of his freshly-pressed protest song “We are the Many.” According to The Yes Lab, who together with Occupy the Board Room, provided strategic assistance to the performer: “In recent weeks, Occupy protesters have been showing up at corporate events, headquarters and even on the doorsteps of those in power. Makana really raised the bar by delivering the Occupy message inside what is probably the most secure place on the planet right now.”
Makana never expected to be allowed to continue, but the objections he anticipated never came. He recounts his trepidation: “I found it odd that I was afraid to sing a song I’d written, especially since I’d written it with these people in mind. I just kept doing different versions. I must’ve repeated ‘the bidding of the many, not the few’ at least 50 times, like a mantra. It was surreal and sobering.” The ballad includes the refrain: “We’ll occupy the streets. We’ll occupy the courts. We’ll occupy the offices of you. Till you do. The bidding of the many, not the few” For complete lyrics, plus video and more, click here.
Posted in Activism, Hawaii, Music, Photography
Tagged APEC, Culture, Makana, Mediagenic Activism, Music, Occupy, Occupy the Board Room, Occupy With Aloha, OWS, Photography, Revolution, Yes Lab
Occupy Riot Cop and Busted Boy in Zuccotti Park: Photo of the Day
An Occupy Wall Street protestor is arrested during a march on Broadway, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011, in New York, after police ordered demonstrators to leave their encampment in Zuccotti Park. At about 1 a.m. Tuesday, police handed out notices from the park’s owner, Brookfield Office Properties, and the city saying that the park had to be cleared because it had become unsanitary and hazardous. Protesters were told they could return, but without sleeping bags, tarps or tents. via Sacramento Bee. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Posted in Activism, Military, New York, Photography
Tagged New York, NYPD, Occupy, OWS, Photography, police, Revolution, Zuccotti Park
The Gay Highwaymen 