Joey, 19, is from Brooklyn and is an art student at Pratt. He spoke to the We Are the Youth project about his new hobby: “I’ve been going down to Zuccotti Park at least once a week. My friends and I go there and yell so loud and so much that I’ve been losing my voice a lot. I’m trying to get other people active and not feel apathetic toward it. I’ve been beating myself up a little bit for not going more, but midterms happen…” Don’t beat yourself up, Joey! That’s the job of the riot police. More from Joey here.
Tag Archives: OWS
Voice of the Youth: Cute Gay Joey Occupies Wall Street
Posted in Activism, New York, Photography, Youth
Tagged Activism, Culture, Gay, Gay Youth, New York, Occupy, OWS, Photography, Revolution, Zuccotti Park
WTF? Hot Cops take down Cute Students at Occupy Cal: Slide Show and Mini-Rant
To protect and to serve: noble ideals. Is this what anyone is hoping for when they apply to the police academy? The police are no more elite than the students. Pawns against pawns: the new kings can afford to watch this like a play. The nearby city of Oakland, including its small businesses, takes the bulk of an assault intended for corporations well insulated from the occupations on the streets. For a statement from the Oakland Police Officers Association expressing their frustration with a ridiculous situation, click here. For updates from The Daily Californian, here.
Tax the 1% – Giant Human Billboard on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach!
Cab driver Brad Newsham organized hundreds of cohorts into a Giant Human Billboard Saturday, October 29th, on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach. Newsham said: “I work hard every day. It isn’t right that I pay higher taxes than billionaires like Warren Buffet. And actually, Mr. Buffet agrees with me on this.”
Happy Fuckin’ Halloween! New Cali Manga from JoJo Mendoco
Posted in Comics, Human Animals, JoJo Mendoco, Leather, Military, Strange Holidays
Tagged Bara, Cartoon, Comics, Devil, Erotic Art, Erotica, Gaddafi, Gay, Halloween, Jack-o-Lantern, JoJo Mendoco, Manga, Occupy Castro, OWS, Werewolf, Yaoi, Zombafi, Zombie
#Occupy Museums! Activist Artists to protest at MoMA, Frick and New…
A demonstrator lies on the ground in front of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington on Oct. 8 after police pepper-sprayed protestors trying to get into the museum. (Jose Luis Magana - AP)
The artists of the Occupy Movement are heading to New York’s cultural institutions this evening. The activist artists state: “The game is up: we see through the pyramid schemes of the temples of cultural elitism controlled by the 1%. No longer will we, the artists of the 99%, allow ourselves to be tricked into accepting a corrupt hierarchical system based on false scarcity and propaganda concerning absurd elevation of one individual genius over another human being for the monetary gain of the elitest of elite.” MoMA, the Frick and the New Museum are all expecting demonstrators. For the Washington Post article, click here. For signs o’ the times, here. And for sexy revolutionaries, here and here.
Posted in Activism, Collecting, Crime, DIY and Maker Culture, History, New York, Street Art, Grafitti, etc., Subcultures
Tagged Activism, Art and Artists, Culture, Elite, Frick, History, MoMA, New Museum, New York, Occupy, OWS, protest
What would Jesus Occupy?
Posted in Activism, Crime, DIY and Maker Culture, History, Human Rights, New York, Photography, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Spirituality, Street Art, Grafitti, etc.
Tagged Activism, Corporate Crime, New York, Occupy, OWS, Photography, Revolution, Signage, Usury, What Would Jesus Occupy
A Global, Legitimate and very Sexy Threat: BIG Revolutionary Slide Show!
The International Business Times has called the Occupy Movement “global in nature” and a “legitimate threat.” It is that. It is also a feast of photography, and the first world-wide movement supported by the new communication technologies that fueled the Arab Spring. Gil Scott Heron was right. The revolution will not be televised. But…it will be tweeted. Photos from Amsterdam, Belgrade, Berlin, Denver, Durban, Hong Kong, London, New York, Rome, Taipei, Tokyo, San Francisco, Santiago, Sydney and Vancouver.
#OccupyMordor, porque no podemos permitir que haya un anillo único para gobernarnos a todos
Occupy Mordor! “Because One Ring Should Not Be Allowed to Rule Them All.” via Juventud Sin Futura – and friend of this site Guo-Juin Hong.
#OWS comes to small college towns: #OccupyCarbondale and #OccupyArcata
Photo via Occupy Carbondale
The Occupy Wall Street movement is spreading globally and regionally. Small college towns across the United States demonstrate contrasting responses. Protesters in Carbondale, Illinois have been huddling under a model of Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome on the campus of Southern Illinois University. Campus police are considering removing the dome. According to Freshman Derrick Burns: “We had about 20 tents set up. Now look – zero, it’s a shame.” Read more and see video here.
"2:40 and still no police" Photo via Occupy Arcata
Meantime in Arcata, California, home of Humboldt State University, 20 days into a camp-out, there have been some individual arrests, but the protests enjoy wide community support and the City Council is meeting to discuss installation of portable toilets and other amenities at the encampment.
Posted in Activism, Crime, DIY and Maker Culture, History, Human Rights, Northern California, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Scholarship, Southern Illinois
Tagged Buckminster Fuller, College, Corporate Crime, Humboldt State, Occupation, Occupy Arcata, Occupy Carbondale, Occupy Humboldt, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, protest, SIUC, University
The Gay Highwaymen 