We narrowly won the referendum vote to make Mendocino Co, CA the first US jurisdiction to ban growing, producing, or distributing Genetically Modified products in March 2004. The corporations such as Monsanto spent millions but we educated each other, person to person. My husband and I participated with street theater spoofing the similarity between “Proposition” H and Preparation H.
From Dirty Empire
Our everyday economic activity drives world politics. Our two-party system is a pleasantry we enjoy in the absence of conscious participation. Though the success of a democracy hinges on an informed public, we clamor for diversion.
Solutions: Don’t watch the news. Turn aside from advertising. Pursue independent sources of information. Don’t buy into the illusion of authority that comes with accepting as fact the expertise of others. Be a student of history.
Sinkers.org
Felt-tip on paper, scanned and treated with Photoshop and Illustrator, layout in Illustrator. Poster art.
February 2012: This one’s a salute to all you surviving Kool-Aid-drinking Obamabots getting ready to soldier on into this year’s Presidential Freak Circus — all you Lefties and Progressives who were willingly, knowingly, happily bamboozled by all the hope’n’change talk four years ago. The slightest bit of research could’ve shown you folks that not only was Obama not a Progressive, but there was no way in Hell you were going to get anything remotely resembling what you all assumed you were going to get once Obama took office — namely, the political equivalent of a pony. You did think Obama was going to get you all ponies, right?
- Artists Website –
Graphite stick and pencil on paper, scanned and treated with Photoshop and Illustrator. Poster art for wheatpasting. “Editor’s Choice” at Cartoon Movement, September 2011.
September 2011: Never forget how the State used the attacks of September 11, 2001 as a pretext to shred the Constitution and encourage the escalation of police thuggery against citizens.
Never forget how the State used September 11 to encourage profiteering in the “defense” and “security” industries at the expense of citizens.
Never forget how the State used September 11 as a pretext for illegal wars and military occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Never forget how the State used September 11 as a pretext for illegal imprisonment, secret courts and torture.
Never forget that the atmosphere of oppression, suspicion, paranoia and racism which has taken root in this country since September 11, 2001 has been fostered and maintained by both Republican and Democratic governments…
Graphite stick and pencil on paper, scanned and treated with Photoshop and Illustrator, layout in InDesign. Tri-fold, two-sided restaurant menu parody.
August 2011: Come join the winner of the 2009 Nobel “Iron Chef” Prize on a culinary review of the Hope’n’Change Administration. Bon Appetit!
This is an advertisement I made to go into a publication I was designing. The actual “Satan” image was at deviantart.com and I can no longer find it there. I think the source was from Russia. Anyway, it makes a statement about the already evil nature of the US government. I started school in January so I no longer had time to further develop the publication. The publication, “The Village Spirit” makes quite a statement as a whole by using photos found on the web and real articles from independent news sites. I may continue the idea in the future. It starts at page 1 here.
Journalist Chris Hedges and graphic artist Joe Sacco traveled to the most depressed pockets of the United States to combine narrative nonfiction with graphic art in their book Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt.
Together they report from the vast ad growing zones of sacrifice imposed across the US by the corporate state. From the streets of Camden, New Jersey, the devastated coal fields of West Virginia, the Lakota reservation of Pine Ridge, South Dakota and among undocumented agricultural workers in Florida, Hedges and Sacco offer a ground up view of existence when the marketplace rules, when corporate capitalism is unregulated and unfettered.
San Fransisco Projection Department
The San Francisco Projection Dept. descended on Sacramento’s Capitol Building on Summer Solstice 2014 to project the messages the March for Democracy are bringing to the Government. They walked from LA to Sacramento!
“I am a 54-year-old self-taught homeless artist and distance runner living in San Francisco. I am inspired by the beauty of this city and its diversity, balanced with the struggles of human despair. With my brush, I try to capture these raw emotions in painted images.”
My artwork will be featured in a solo show at the San Francisco Main Library in June 2015 (4th Floor)
– Artist’s Website –
from “Escaping Time: Art From US Prisons,” an exhibition that looks to highlight the power of rehabilitation.
From Dirty Empire
Our everyday economic activity drives world politics. Our two-party system is a pleasantry we enjoy in the absence of conscious participation. Though the success of a democracy hinges on an informed public, we clamor for diversion.
Solutions: Don’t watch the news. Turn aside from advertising. Pursue independent sources of information. Don’t buy into the illusion of authority that comes with accepting as fact the expertise of others. Be a student of history.
Sinkers.org
Felt-tip on paper, scanned and treated with Photoshop and Illustrator, layout in Illustrator. Poster art.
February 2012: This one’s a salute to all you surviving Kool-Aid-drinking Obamabots getting ready to soldier on into this year’s Presidential Freak Circus — all you Lefties and Progressives who were willingly, knowingly, happily bamboozled by all the hope’n’change talk four years ago. The slightest bit of research could’ve shown you folks that not only was Obama not a Progressive, but there was no way in Hell you were going to get anything remotely resembling what you all assumed you were going to get once Obama took office — namely, the political equivalent of a pony. You did think Obama was going to get you all ponies, right?
- Artists Website –
Graphite stick and pencil on paper, scanned and treated with Photoshop and Illustrator. Poster art for wheatpasting. “Editor’s Choice” at Cartoon Movement, September 2011.
September 2011: Never forget how the State used the attacks of September 11, 2001 as a pretext to shred the Constitution and encourage the escalation of police thuggery against citizens.
Never forget how the State used September 11 to encourage profiteering in the “defense” and “security” industries at the expense of citizens.
Never forget how the State used September 11 as a pretext for illegal wars and military occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Never forget how the State used September 11 as a pretext for illegal imprisonment, secret courts and torture.
Never forget that the atmosphere of oppression, suspicion, paranoia and racism which has taken root in this country since September 11, 2001 has been fostered and maintained by both Republican and Democratic governments…
Graphite stick and pencil on paper, scanned and treated with Photoshop and Illustrator, layout in InDesign. Tri-fold, two-sided restaurant menu parody.
August 2011: Come join the winner of the 2009 Nobel “Iron Chef” Prize on a culinary review of the Hope’n’Change Administration. Bon Appetit!
This is an advertisement I made to go into a publication I was designing. The actual “Satan” image was at deviantart.com and I can no longer find it there. I think the source was from Russia. Anyway, it makes a statement about the already evil nature of the US government. I started school in January so I no longer had time to further develop the publication. The publication, “The Village Spirit” makes quite a statement as a whole by using photos found on the web and real articles from independent news sites. I may continue the idea in the future. It starts at page 1 here.
Journalist Chris Hedges and graphic artist Joe Sacco traveled to the most depressed pockets of the United States to combine narrative nonfiction with graphic art in their book Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt.
Together they report from the vast ad growing zones of sacrifice imposed across the US by the corporate state. From the streets of Camden, New Jersey, the devastated coal fields of West Virginia, the Lakota reservation of Pine Ridge, South Dakota and among undocumented agricultural workers in Florida, Hedges and Sacco offer a ground up view of existence when the marketplace rules, when corporate capitalism is unregulated and unfettered.
San Fransisco Projection Department
The San Francisco Projection Dept. descended on Sacramento’s Capitol Building on Summer Solstice 2014 to project the messages the March for Democracy are bringing to the Government. They walked from LA to Sacramento!
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I don’t want to see the American people voting for the lesser of two evils,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) told viewers of This Week with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday. To be clear, he was implying two things: First, that Donald Trump is the greater of two evils and second, Hillary Clinton is evil. To be fair, he has said he’d rather see her in the White House than Trump—but not as much as he’d like to see himself.
Sanders might be overstating it a bit, but most Americans are in a similar state of mind. A new Washington Post/ABC News poll of registered voters finds nearly 60 percent of us view Trump and Clinton unfavorably.
“Never in the history of the Post-ABC poll,” write Dan Balz and Scott Clement, “have the two major party nominees been viewed as harshly as Clinton and Trump.”
Let’s be clear: The problem isn’t with voters, it’s with the candidates. You can debate whether Clinton is not as utterly awful as Trump (as some libertarians hold) but we don’t need to go there, really, do we? It’s enough to say that both presumptive nominees are, in the term of liberal friend of mine, unacceptable. When 57 percent are saying you suck, something has gone wrong with the selection process, hasn’t it? The only thing surprising about the case of Mary Anne Noland, the 68-year-old Virginian who chose to die rather than face a Trump-Clinton choice, is that there aren’t dozens of such cases a day!
David DeebleDavid DeebleThe Wash Post/ABC poll finds 44 percent of voters want a third-party candidate and in a potential three-way contest including 2012 GOP loser Mitt Romney, Clinton gets 37 percent, Trump 35 percent, and Romney 22 percent. This is sound of an electorate deeply dissatisfied with what the Democrats and Republicans are offering. No wonder then, that party identification is at historic lows for Democrats (at 29 percent) and near a historic low for Republicans (26 percent).
Gary Johnson, the best-known candidate vying for the Libertarian Party nomination, has pulled 10 percent and 11 percent in recent polls—and the indications are that he would take support from both Clinton and Trump (recall that in the 2013 Virginia governor’s race, Libertarian Sarvis, who won almost 7 percent of the vote, pulled far more from Democrat Terry McAuliffe than from Republican Ken Cuccinelli).
A strong Libertarian Party ticket is one obvious way to force the major parties to field candidates who can appeal to wider swaths of voters. Socially liberal and fiscally conservative libertarians comprise the single-largest ideological voting bloc according to Gallup. Using questions on the scope of government in the economy and whether government should support traditional morals, Gallup finds 27 percent of voters are libertarian, 26 percent are conservative, 23 percent are liberal, and 15 percent are populist.
If the Democratic Party and the Republican Party lived up to their various feints toward libertarian rhetoric, they would certainly blunt the appeal of most third-party candidates but certainly anybody put up by the LP itself. The refusal to do so will likely be the undoing of one or both of them. Consider the fact that Hillary Clinton is not just an unregenerate hawk on foreign policy. She is an all-in drug warrior and a hater of the sharing economy who, like Donald Trump, has called for Internet censorship. On the either side of the aisle, Trump’s mass-deportation plan implies the creation of a your-papers-please police state and his trade policy is good old American protectionism on steroids. Exactly where he stands on most issues is anybody’s guess (on foreign policy, he’s promised both “bomb the shit out of them” and get other countries to fight their own battles).
The role of third parties isn’t necessarily to win elections. At least in part, third parties represent the views of voters left out or ignored by the major parties. More and more of those being ignored are temperamentally libertarian. That is, more and more of us agree, in the phrase of CNN’s regular survey, that “government was doing too much.”
Neither the Dems or the Reps promise to address that complaint, despite about 60 percent of us feeling that way. To the extent that the LP speaks to that concern—and offers up a compelling way to pare the state back while giving people more ability to live their lives on their own terms—it will shape how the major parties change and adapt as they go hunting for new voters.
