Showing posts with label protest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label protest. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Support non-human rights!
I'm more than happy to help out with viral marketing, provided it's good viral marketing.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Saturday, March 28, 2009
It bears repeating.
Earth Hour. Because the World Isn't Worth a Whole Day. (Peter Watts)
Ninety percent of the world's charismatic megafauna is gone. Hormone disrupters are turning the fish off Lakeshore into hermaphrodites, if the tumors don't get them first. The Arctic is heading for ice-free status by 2030, the Wilkins Ice Shelf is a measly six kilometers away from disintegration, air pollution in this miserable dick-ass excuse for a country alone helps kill 16,000 people a year. How do we rise to this challenge? How do we lie in this bed we have made?
Earth Hour. Sixty minutes during which we turn out the lights and pat ourselves on the back for saving the planet.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Shipping Justice
The box is 10-by-6-foot, with an eight foot-high ceiling. Inside nothing exists but cold white walls, a platform with a measly mattress, a stainless steel toilet/sink fixture, a florescent light, and a slitted window to meet the bare minimum requirement for a human’s right to natural light.
Needless to say, the bright crate isn't delivering a diplomatic gesture of internationally prized oranges. And thankfully not a menacing experimental crowd control robot, either. It's actually a scaled replica of a maximum security prison cell at Guantanamo Bay where detainees are known to spend up to 23 hours a day in total isolation.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
In Honor of George Carlin (Peter Watts)
A magic word, fuck. A voodoo word, condemned and censured by pretty much every official institution for no real reason anyone can pin down except that, a few centuries ago, this continent was invaded by a bunch of bible-thumping prudes so scared of their own animal secretions that they felt compelled to demonize any public reference to bodily functions. A day barely passes when I don't marvel at this absurdity.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Cory Doctorow asks:
Who needs terrorists to rip America apart when you've got drug warriors killing off, imprisoning and shunning its innocents?
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Taco Bell, Wal-Mart, NRA hired 'black ops' company that targeted environmental groups
Documents obtained by James Ridgeway, a Mother Jones correspondent formerly with the Village Voice, reveals the contractor collected confidential internal records -- donor lists, financial statements -- even Social Security numbers, for public relations outfits and "corporations involved in environmental controversies."
Beckett Brown International also offered "intelligence" services to the Carlyle Group, the controversial DC-based investment company; "protective services" for the National Rifle Association; "crisis management" for the Gallo wine company and for Pirelli; "information collection" for Wal-Mart.
"Also listed as clients in BBI records," Ridgeway reveals: "Halliburton and Monsanto."
(Via Dr. Menlo.)
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Chinese security forces swarm Tibet
The beginning of the end.
Soldiers on foot and in armored carriers swarmed Tibet's capital Saturday, enforcing a strict curfew a day after protesters burned shops and cars to vent their anger against Chinese rule. In another western city, police clashed with hundreds of Buddhist monks leading a sympathy demonstration.
The beginning of the end.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Martin Luther King, Jr. describes the human predicament in a nutshell.
Friday, January 11, 2008
Sunday, January 06, 2008
Rubberized Gas Mask for Raccoons in Polluted Forests
I've got to hand it to the folks at io9: they come up with some fantastic oddities.
As toxins invade environments where small animals dwell, and as those animals are bio-engineered to be smarter, you're going to see a booming market in safety gear for tiny creatures who want to stay pert for their Cute Overload closeup. I predict a run on artist Bill Burns' rubberized gas masks. They're made for any creature with a snout who is about the size of a possum or raccoon. Burns has got a whole line of safety gear for the post-apocalyptic Cheezburger set, including safety goggles and biohazard suits in diminutive sizes.
I've got to hand it to the folks at io9: they come up with some fantastic oddities.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Friday, June 15, 2007
Yes Men Strike Oil: Civil Disobedients Make Modest Flesh-to-Fuel Proposal
"Without oil, at least four billion people would starve. This spiral of trouble would make the oil infrastructure utterly useless" -- unless their bodies could be turned into fuel.
That was the satirical message delivered by two corporate ethics activists to the Gas and Oil Exposition 2007 in Calgary, Alberta. The activists, part of political trickster collective the Yes Men, used the Exposition to stage their latest theatre of corporate absurdity, with Exxon/Mobil and the Natural Petroleum Council playing the fools.
(Via Boing Boing.)
Thursday, May 17, 2007
John Shirley on the wanton "Blade Runner"-ification of San Fransisco:
How My Pebble Started an Avalanche
I can't be the only one dismayed by the big, brand new electronic (LCD?) billboard glaring at us as we leave the Bay Bridge from San Francisco, entering the East Bay. This is not just an eyesore, it's a traffic hazard. I wonder if it's in violation of environmental laws -- certainly it demonstrates an indifference to environmental concerns. It's really quite stridently bright, so bright the glare makes it difficult to drive past, at night, coming off the bridge. (The other side of the billboard is not so bright, for some reason -- still, it's an eyesore from the east and west both). It flickers from one vivid advertising image to the next, distractingly, like a gigantic television screen being channel surfed by an unknown controller. There is such a thing as light pollution, and this object is the very exemplar of it. It's probably deleterious to wild life. It has a Bladerunner-like affect, some glowering chunk of futuristic inner-city sleaze transplanted jarringly to an East Bay landscape.