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December 2011
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Dearest...
…world of Tumblr. I have a simple request. Anyone reading this, if you know a friend, family member, neighbor, peer, etc., who has spent time or if they have loved ones incarcerated at Pelican Bay Prison, please email me at brownanon[at]gmail.com. I am involved with a long-term oral history project with prisoners and will publish your story [anonymity respected, as always].
Still counting...
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November 2011
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October 2011
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22 thousand sunsets..
..a random girl stopped me recently as I was rushing to my train and she said, “slow the fuck down and enjoy this mural with me..” At this point I was incredibly intrigued that I slowed my pace, and backtracked over to her in the middle of Los Angeles Union Station. I enjoyed a graffiti mural in [relative] silence for three minutes. Should I miss my train? Maybe. No, I Can’t...
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Art as resistance: The story of the Maia Mural...
This summer, four Olympia activists joined a delegation to Palestine as part of the Maia Mural project. The project involved touring Gaza and the West Bank, producing collaborative murals at the sites of newly installed water purification units. Upon returning to Olympia, three of the participants sat down with WIP to tell us about their experiences and what they witnessed in...
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Anonymous asked: Read any good books lately?
September 2011
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Anonymous asked: how old r u?
Anonymous asked: do you teach highschool??
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Another session with one of my students..
high school student: Oscar Wilde is gay
me: Not is, was.
high school student: Huh?
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Anonymous asked: what is your schooling background?
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“You do not become a dissident just because you decide one day to take up this...”
– (via mamitah)
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Planting Love: Wangari Maathai and the Fight for a... →
“The planting of trees is the planting of ideas. By starting with the simple step of digging a hole and planting a tree, we plant hope for ourselves and for future generations.” (1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011)
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The Holy Shit
Friedensreich Hundertwasser designed this public toilet for the town Kawakawa, New Zealand.
A person should be buried only half a meter, or two feet, below the surface. Then a tree should be planted there. He should be buried in a coffin that decays so that when you plant a tree on top the tree will take something out of his substance and change it into tree-substance. When you visit the...
Anonymous asked: tvontheradio/arctic monkeys tomorrow?
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4 Artists Who Are Reshaping America’s Immigration...
In the often ugly battle over immigration, culture resistance has energized the masses despite congressional inaction.
While the detention complex continues to balloon and the Obama administration has tallied up more than one million deportations while states pass increasingly restrictive anti-immigrant laws, artists are redefining the fight by using culture as a weapon.
“Without those...
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“Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always...”
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postcardofapplecores asked: How was Bon Iver? =)
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mamitah asked: Your tumblr is amazing. Thankyou.
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Anonymous asked: thank you thank you thank you for the Troy Davis link. What else can I do? :(
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Tomorrow, Georgia Murders Troy Davis →
It’s with shock that I report that the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles on Tuesday denied clemency for Troy Anthony Davis. The 42-year-old Davis is now due to be executed tomorrow, Wednesday September 21st, at 7pm.
Folks, please take a few minutes to flood the District Attorney’s office with your disapproval of their death warrant.
District Attorney’s Office Chatham County...
Anonymous asked: how do you sneak into shows?
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Anonymous asked: would you try ayahuasca
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Ayahuasca: life from the perspective of death
Artistic rendition of hallucination while on Ayahuasca
Ayahuasca is quite possibly the most intense and powerful hallucinogen known. Although the hallucinations induced by the substance can be pleasant, some people experience nightmarish visions that last for hours. The agony, Weiskopf says, is part of the allure. “You get these near death experiences,” he says. “And once...
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Troy Davis and the Politics of Death
Death brings cheers these days in America. In the most recent Republican presidential debate in Tampa, Fla., when CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked, hypothetically, if a man who chose to carry no medical insurance, then was stricken with a grave illness, should be left to die, cheers of “Yeah!” filled the hall. When, in the prior debate, Gov. Rick Perry was asked about his enthusiastic use of the...
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Painting Of A Burning Bank Fetches $25,000 At...
One California artist has made some serious money with a series of paintings that have struck a chord internationally. In an auction on Ebay, Alex Schaefer sold a 22-by-28 inch oil painting of a burning Chase Bank branch in Los Angeles for $25,200.
Schaefer tells The Los Angeles Times that his painting is a “visual metaphor for the havoc that banking practices have caused to the...
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An Indian Tribal Artist Hits the Mainstream at...
Jangarh Singh Shyam, Untitled (Tree and Panther) (all images courtesy of Hervé Perdriolle)
PUNE, INDIA — On September 15, 2011, Sotheby’s New York auction of South Asian art will present a significantly important piece of work by prolific Indian tribal artist Jangarh Singh Shyam (1960-2001) alongside well-recognized and frequently auctioned artists from the Indian modern art scene. It is a...
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“Students, workers…don’t ever let that vulture to the north steal...”
– Zack de La Rocha, mic check in Brazil