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Thursday, January 15th, 2009From our Oakland correspondent:
More following as I find out, but on a walk down 14th this morning I saw these two incredible murals. All the businesses put up plywood sheets over their windows yesterday afternoon, and in the mostly youth-led demonstration, some of the plywood got turned into canvases.
Outside a Chinese trinket shop:
The owner came [...]
Heartbroken over Kirsten Brydum’s death
Friday, October 3rd, 2008Kirsten Brydum, activist, artist and leader, and former New College student, was murdered in New Orleans on September 26.
There’s not a whole lot to say about the insanity of violence, but everything to say about her work. Please read more about her incredible work here. There are links on the left of the memorial page [...]
Here, rape my daughters: Quaint scenes of family values from the Judeo-Christian tradition
Saturday, August 9th, 2008Sometimes we’re reminded that Christianity had issues long before medieval adventure-hungry young men were offered a trip to the Near East to get off on killing heretics or anyone else who looked rather swarthy; before various Inquisition purges and the campaign against, well, women, basically; before proto-capitalists used Jesus to beat as much labor out [...]