segunda-feira, 30 de agosto de 2004

RNC protests: Brooklyn Orgastic Politics Collective. Xeni Jardin: Color me jaded, but this call for citywide deployment of orgone cloudbuster machines to induce a "quivering saturnalia" inside the RNC walls sounds more like parody, and less like actual protest. But, hey, what do I know about Reichian energetics? Fleshbot says, If the skies are dark over New York City next week during the Republican National Convention, it may be due to the cloudbusting efforts of the Brooklyn Orgastic Politics Collective, who plan to combat the "Deadly Orgone Energy (DOR)" of Dubya and company with ... uh, something based on the theories of Wilhelm Reich ("Metaphorically speaking, our September 2nd project will be an attempt to give the sky a blowjob... Imagine the Republican delegates so consumed in fucking and sucking that they forget to nominate Bush.") Link. Don't forget to wear your tinfoil beanie thong. [Boing Boing] 2:54:34 AM    comment []

RNC protests: First Amendment read-ins. Xeni Jardin: BoingBoing reader Dave says, Reverend Billy [from the Church of Stop Shopping] leads the faithful in rousing choruses of the First Amendment. A Quicktime clip shows one chorus and the hallelujahs leaving St Marks church in the East Village, New York, a center for organizing this week's demonstrations. (more clips from the street today will be posted this evening). Rev. Billy has been staging public readings of the First Amendment in smart mobs at Ground Zero and other locations, exercising the rights to free assembly and speech. Link to Dave's blog post, more on Smart Mobs. The read-ins with Reverend Billy continue today. [Boing Boing] 2:50:16 AM    comment []

General Barlow's dancin' platoons planning to boogie at the RNC. Cory Doctorow: General John Perry Barlow continues to plan his mad protest of the RNC in which hundreds of secret agents dressed like civilians will converge on a public, off-limits-to-protestors space, turn on a boom box, and DANCE LIKE HELL: 2. TEXT MESSAGE COORDINATION I have created a text-message "loop" for us on the Ruckus site. It's called "dancemob." This will enable all of us to receive cell phone text messages from one another, noting current platoon location, likely eruption zones, police movements and temperament, etc. In order to participate, you will need to do the following: -- Send the text "join dancemob" to 8762. -- Once you are joined, you can send messages up to about 150 characters to your loop by texting dancemob: [your message here]" to 8762. For instance, if there were a loop named "PeaceMakers", you would text "PeaceMakers: meet now at 32nd and 6th". In addition, I recommend that at least some of you in each platoon register your phone to receive bulletins from Ruckus with breaking news and logistical updates from the streets of New York City during the RNC. Link [Boing Boing] 2:46:37 AM    comment []

DIY coverage from the RNC. Cory Doctorow: Metafilter Matt has written a great roundup of DIY coverage of the RNC event in New York: all Flickr photos tagged with rnc, rncwatch.typepad.com, Technorati search for New York City ("rnc" was too short to search), Buzznet's No RNC photostream, rnc convention bloggers, WeSeeRNC moblog, Indymedia's RNC coverage, and Google News search for rnc. Link [Boing Boing] 2:43:05 AM    comment []

Faltering Bush plays terror card. US election: Kerry leads in key states as Republicans mass for convention. Paul Harris reports. [Guardian Unlimited] 2:41:20 AM    comment []

Drawing together. Arts: As the Tate's forthcoming retrospective reveals, the paintings of brother and sister Augustus and Gwen John are opposites which attract. By Tim Adams [Guardian Unlimited] 2:39:34 AM    comment []

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