Views around NYC. Remember that murderous little war with its record deficits that George Bush got us into?
Here’s the thing about the people’s mic. You can try to drown it out, but you can never turn it off. Thank you, Occupy Chicago.
Move Your Money
Remember that November 5th is the official “Move Your Money” day. We here at Anti-Stasis have already taken steps to bank at local institutions, no matter how inconvenient that may end up being.
Defend Occupy Chicago
This just in. The good folks at the Prop Thtr are hosting a two-day benefit for the Occupy Chicago Legal Defense Fund. This is at least partly in support of Occupy Chi’s attempts to secure a permanent home, as Rahm Emanuel and the CPD continue their own attempts to bash and diffuse the movement.
America the Oligarchy
This may be one of the most important and informative articles of the last few years to detail why we are where we are now. Simon Johnson, former chief economist for the IMF, describes how America’s reaction to the 2008 financial crisis is virtually indistinguishable from those he witnessed firsthand in corrupt “emerging market” oligarchies faced with similar crises:
1947 to now. Once upon a time, our pay rose with productivity. Then it didn’t. Thank you, Ronald Reagan and all the Republicans who followed. These jokers who whine about class warfare need only look past their own (brown)noses.
Source: NY Times.
Why We Occupy
Of course it’s supposed to be a ha-ha gotcha moment, or a confrontational fuck you to protesters, but this little number effectively sums up why people are taking to the streets to oppose the stinky, nefarious elitism of Wall Street.
In another let them eat cake moment the Chicago Board of Trade dumped employment applications on Occupy Chicago protesters. Ostensibly telling them to get a job.
Employment applications for McDonalds, that is. Little does the Chicago Board of Trade know, they’ve done a terrific job of summarizing—and symbolizing—exactly what’s wrong with the current system. Thanks for the perfect symbolism, guys.
This little ditty combines my two favorite subjects—cats and mortality—as a mysterious cat guides us through the Dorotheenstadt Cemetery in Berlin to the graves of Brecht, Hegel, Marcuse, and Heiner Müller. Then disappears.
Occupy Chicago 10/27/11
Occupy Chicago 102711
Shot some footage at the Occupy Chicago rally 10/27/11, on assignment from Mad As Hell in America. Some really great people, united in a cause. I wish you and I could meet them all. There was a little bit of rain, which hindered the shoot for a while, but it enabled me to set down the camera and join the march to Grant Park, where Jesse LaGreca showed up afterward to give a rousing speech. Later, we were informed that somebody’s dog (previously or now named Solo) had been abandoned after his owner was arrested by the CPD. People carried that dog around, one pair of arms to another. I hope that dog found a place to keep warm last night. I’m sure he did.
I will return to this.
The train ride from Osaka to Toyko, the speed of the vehicle captured with the poetic insufficiency of the 30p iPhone, turning the slow old world itself into a film strip of pure cinema. How can Neveldine/Taylor outdo this? They can’t. Game Over.
In a piece for Mubi Notebook, Uncas Blythe links Michael Bay to Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti, founder of the Futurist movement—and a committed Fascist ideologue.
We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing automobile with its bonnet adorned with great tubes like serpents with explosive breath … a roaring motor car which seems to run on machine-gun fire, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace.
