Saturday, April 13, 2013

Gorilla Warfare: The Animal-Prison/Industrial Complex

The role of the corporate media is to normalize the daily—hourly—violence and hierarchy inherent within the dominant culture. For example: speciesism. Corporate news outlets work around the clock to keep the human/non-human privilege alive and unexamined.

Case in point: On April 1, 2013, N. R. Kleinfield of the New York Times penned a predictably ill-informed and agenda-reinforcing piece called, “A Child Star With a Knack for Publicity,” about the death a western lowland gorilla (a species classified as “critically endangered”) who was born behind bars within the Central Park Zoo.

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One of my recent photos:

Stop Drone Warfare (demo)

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Seal hunt demo photos here

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Courtesy of Rick the Cartoonist:

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Monday, April 08, 2013

The Lie of "Precision" Bombing Drones On (What We’re Up Against)



While I was participating in a demonstration against predator drone warfare at the U.S. Armed Forces “Career” Center at Times Square, I watched the passersby closely. From the brief conversations we provoked, I learned the unsurprising news that plenty of Americans have been conditioned to accept the concepts of targeted assassinations and presidential kill-lists—in the holy name of national security (sic).

But that’s for a future article. What inspired this piece is the widespread belief—across the political spectrum—that U.S. technology allows for “surgical strikes” and “pinpoint” bombing. Yet again, I marvel at the magic of corporate propaganda.

With 54 percent of U.S. Federal tax dollars used to fund the most violent institution on the planet—the U.S. Department of Defense (sic)—this expenditure must be justified through a variety of spins. For example: U.S. weapons are the most technologically advanced the world has ever seen.

Like all spin, evidence to the contrary is not hard to find…

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One of my recent photos:

Pillow Fight

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Yet more new photos here

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Friday, April 05, 2013

slavery: a capitalist parable



in the most remote regions of brazil,
slave labor is employed to cut down grand swaths
of the precious rain forest to make room for
growing eucalyptus, which is then burned by male slaves

male slaves,
who exploit the body, mind, and spirit
of female slaves forced into prostitution

male slaves,
who make charcoal for the steel mills of brazil

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One of my recent activist photos:

Which side are you on?

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