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Candy Raver Russian Revolutionaries

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Not everyone has much faith in art-activism, but you can’t please ‘em all. Do symbolic protests accomplish anything more than raising morale for the protesters? If not is it enough to simply raise morale? Or do actions like this War prank create temporary autonomous zones and manifest, albeit briefly, the type of reality the [...]

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LIVERMORE / Anti-nuke activists lose out on bid to run weapons lab

Sunday, October 26, 2008

A bid by Bay Area anti-nuclear weapons activists and the New College of California to take over Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has been rejected by the U.S. nuclear weapons agency.

Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) out of Livermore, New College in San Francisco and two allied groups filed the bid for the Livermore contract [...]

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Laugh at a Campaign Pitch? Sure. Visit the Grandparents? Not So Much. - NYTimes.com

Thursday, October 23, 2008

MIAMI — When Sarah Silverman told young Jews to get their lazy rotund rear ends to Florida to persuade their grandparents to vote for Senator Barack Obama, one question loomed: Would they go?

This weekend was the first big test, a kickoff for the so-called Great Schlep, and so far, momentum has been building with the [...]

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I met the Walrus

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

In 1970, a fourteen year old boy named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Montreal room during their “peace in.” The following animated short, I Met the Walrus, is based on a recording of their conversations. It was nominated for an Oscar for “best animated short” at the 2008 Academy Awards, [...]

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Alain Robert/Spiderman “Raising Awareness of Global Warming”

Monday, June 9, 2008

In this video from the Today Show, Alain “Spiderman” Robert talks about how he climbed the New York Times to raise awareness of Global Warming.  My criticism of these kinds of things is “who is not aware of the climate crisis?” Awareness is not longer the problem. Lack of action is. However, Robert makes some good [...]

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