In a California lucha libre-style wrestling match, Blue Demon Jr., a self-proclaimed defender of Mexican immigrants, does battle against wrestlers who portray United States border patrol agents.
Author Archives: Steve Lambert
Rights, Demands, and Radical Reimaginings: Art and Labor in the US
Alexis Clements is running a class on Art and Labor. When: Tuesday evenings, from 7.00-8.30pm Aug 27 – Sep 24, 2013 (5 sessions) Where: Brooklyn, NY (see class reg for full details) Description: In the past century, artists working across disciplines have undertaken a variety of efforts to not only get paid a decent wage …
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Egyptians Understand Spectacle
Egypt: President Morsi defies army ultimatum. Now what? | Toronto Star.
David Letterman – Environmental Activist, Tim DeChristopher
Watch this video on YouTube Tim DeChristopher makes an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman and is able to talk about some really radical ideas in a sensible way.
CAA’s Larry Bogad TEDx talk – Tactical Performance: Thinking Theatrically for Powerful Protest
Larry Bogad is an author, artist, and professor of political performance at U.C. Davis. In this talk he discusses why good theater makes good protest, and why being right is not enough. He is a cofounder of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army, and founding Director of the Center for Artistic Activism/West Coast. Bogad has …
Bloomberg’s Ramadan Breakfast menu
Rumor has it that this special menu was distributed outside the Mayor of New York’s Ramadan breakfast celebration. It references NYPD’s surveillance of innocent NY Muslims, stop and frisk, and excessive violence. (Click to enlarge)
I and We: Collective Movement for Beginners, Workshop presented by Robby Herbst
From some friends of the Center for Artistic Activism: What is Collective Identity? Sociologist Alberto Melucci suggests that in today’s alienated culture people find deep meaning and power through group identities that emerge through political social movements.With I and We, Collective Movement Workshop For Beginners individuals will explore their anxieties and their pleasures in becoming …
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Wealth Inequality in America – YouTube
Very encouraging that this video has 6.5 million views. Since our idea is so far from reality, how does this change the way we talk about this issue? How do we approach the topic so the people we’re talking to don’t dig in and defend what they believe to be true? And how does the …
Heavens, Not Havens
Heavens, Not Havens A short article on the public relations problem around taxes and some ideas for helping it.
Photos from School for Creative Activism, New York 2013
Make Your Own Damn Art – Bob and Roberta Smith – documentary trailer – YouTube
Bob and Roberta Smith: ‘It’s important to undermine and subvert things’ Make Your Own Damn Art
New video: What is The School for Creative Activism?
Will changing your Facebook profile picture do anything for marriage equality? | PsySociety, Scientific American Blog Network
As SCOTUS debates the constitutionality of Proposition 8 and DOMA this week, Facebook users all over the nation have become part of a burgeoning social media trend. Supporters of marriage equality have been changing their profile pictures to the icon on the left, a version of the Human Rights Campaign logo designed specifically to indicate …
Nonprofit Fights Poverty With Poverty | The Onion
This is from 2006 but somehow stayed relevant. Our crack team of anti-poverty activists is totally devoted to marshalling every resource at our disposal,” Lindstrom said as she stood under a flickering light bulb in the office’s bathroom and added some water to an old toner cartridge to squeeze every last drop of usable ink …
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Gravity is a Mistake
The Centrifuge Brain Project from Till Nowak on Vimeo.
Brazil to give $25 monthly culture stipend to workers to go to movies, read books or visit museums
BRASILIA (AFP).- Despite the economic crisis, Brazil announced Thursday it planned to give workers here a 50-real ($25) monthly stipend for cultural expenses like movies, books or museums. “In all developed countries, culture plays a key role in the economy,” Culture Minister Marta Suplicy said in an interview on national television. She recalled that popular …
‘Be Wrong as Fast as You Can’ – NYTimes.com
I recently saw a Charlie Rose interview with John Lasseter, a founder of Pixar, about the creative process behind his movies. Pixar’s in-house theory is: Be wrong as fast as you can. Mistakes are an inevitable part of the creative process, so get right down to it and start making them. Even great ideas are …
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The Power of Failure – NYTimes.com
“The ironic thing,” said Schmitz of Public Allies, “is that you have donors who took major risks in their own fortunes, but are very risk averse when giving to charity. People rightly want their dollars to have the maximum impact, but don’t apply the same logic model that they give to their private sector investment.” …
“It Was a Good Day” Ice Cube and Politics
“It Was a Good Day” is rapper Ice Cube’s biggest hit — a solid rap song with a great beat, it’s easy to see why this record was so successful. What makes this song truly great, however, isn’t Ice Cube’s vivid description of his good day, but looming, omnipresent possibility of a much worse day. …
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Plastic Spoon Graphic
I was reminded of this today (it was a viral hit a while back) and how it impacts cultural norms. I may work it into the School for Creative Activism curriculum…