Friday, September 3rd, 2004

Bring On The Debates

Debate season begins now. But even if they let Nader in the front door–not likely–none of them will be likely to top this. Click now!

While we’re on the topic, what about the Kerry daughters vs. the Bush twins? Hamster Girls against Crack Babies. There’s a concept.

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Friday, September 3rd, 2004

Republican Ketchup

Missed the last 2 days due to a summer blizzard of deadlines. I stayed home this week to make money. So I played ketchup last night. Can’t keep coming up wth lint! Yelling at the kids during Bush’s speech cause he gets me that way. Then watching pundits and Kerry’s oh-shit-I-better-say-something speech until I passed out from boredom and round-the-clock-writing exhaustion.

Stuff to peep:

+”Bush is a no-tax, still-spend “conservative,” which means he’s spent more than Clinton while decimating the treasury w/ tax cuts. Waytago!” From Farai Chideya’s annotated guide to Bush’s speech.

+”America,” he proclaimed from that altar-like podium, “is called to lead the cause of freedom in the new century….Freedom is not America’s gift to the world. It is the Almighty God’s gift.” From David Corn on Bush’s Mission From God.

+””I will not have my commitment to defend this country questioned by those who refused to serve when they could have and who misled America into Iraq”. From Kerry’s speech last night. About time he defended himself. He was starting to look like a sorry-ass mark.

+”These people have already been the victims of a process.” A quote from State Supreme Court Judge John Cataldo. From Sarah Ferguson at the Village Voice. Andre 3000 was apparently waiting in the crowd on a crew member who was among those released yesterday.

+”There never have been so many people arrested in the history of our 80 political conventions in the United States.” From Tom Hayden. Quoted in Newsday.

+”This morning, the Labor Department quietly released data showing that new unemployment claims rose by 19,000 last week, a number Bush will likely be far too manly to mention when he takes the stage tonight.” Esther Kaplan on the economic girly-men beat. BTW the new economic numbers hit today…more soon.

+”Truly inspiring. His powerful message was conveyed with the gravitas and charisma of Kindergarten Cop and the rippling eroticism of Conan the Barbarian.” Ed Helms on Arnold’s speech.

+”You’ve got to tell the delegates what they want to hear in order to win them over. Politicians always talk the way it fits into their agenda,” an Austrian waitress on Schwarzenegger’s bizarro history of Austria.

+”I really wish the GOP had scheduled Alan Keyes as a speaker. Now that would have been really entertaining.” From Notes from a Different Kitchen

+”Dissing Michael Moore? Why not, I feel like doing it myself sometimes. But biting Saturday Night Live and “Jump?” Offensive. Unforgivably wack.” From Hua.

+Bonus: Jay Smooth grokking the Twins. Be easy on em yall–they’re crack babies!

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Friday, September 3rd, 2004

Division Beat

Robert Christgau and John Payne on protest music.

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Wednesday, September 1st, 2004

Hawai’i on TV

So NBC’s “Hawaii” debuted this week. Minors, brah. Just some tourist shit. Here’s the real story.

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Tuesday, August 31st, 2004

Bush Flip-Flopping + Day 1

W. on The War on Terror yesterday:

“I don’t think you can win it but I think you can create conditions so that those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world.”

W. on the War on Terror today:

“In this different kind of war, we may never sit down at a peace table. But make no mistake about it, we are winning and we will win,” Bush said, pausing to grin slightly. “We will win by staying on the offensive, we will win by spreading liberty.”

If it flops like a fish…

Meanwhile stuff from yesterday:

“I hope the media are responsible enough to report the numbers honestly, but I am not sure they will. How would they know if they weren’t there?”

—Margaret Cho

“They have spent $80 million on just security for seven days. Do you know how many people we can feed with $80 million?”

—unnamed protester at the Poor People’sCampaign March

“New York City is a fortress, and I love it.”

—Joseph Kyrillos, the New Jersey state Republican chairman

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scroll down for the anti-RNC links to the mayhem in the streets…

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Monday, August 30th, 2004

Me and Chuck D Down By The Barricade

I’m late on posting this, but hey, I’ve been busy. Anyway, more wisdom from the master.

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For news, updates, and everything on the week’s events in New York, scroll down or just click here.

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Monday, August 30th, 2004

Accounts of Protest Sunday

From Davey D’s coverage of yesterday’s events:

“Actress Rosario Dawson was shooting a film during the march. Her film company was given a permit to do their movie and use the protest as a backdrop, but the police didn’t like the fact that she wore a scarf which covered her face while the march was taking place. New York has some sort of law on the books that says you cannot shield your identity during protests. Dawson was arrested and jailed. A few minutes later the film’s director who attempted to show the police the permits was also arrested and jailed. By the time the evening news came on, Dawson was still in jail.

The other thing that took place was the Republicans who sent out a group of protestors who dressed like anarchists and carried signs called ‘protestwarriors.com.. The signs had slogans like ‘Communists For Kerry’ and ‘Osama For Kerry’.

I interviewed these people who claimed they were trying to use satire. but instead they actually tried to pretend to be marchers and at one point encouraged people to storm the police.”

From the NY Times:

“A quarter of a million people made a commitment to a peaceful legal march,” said one of yesterday’s marchers, Ronald Kuby, the civil rights lawyer from New York who gave his own unofficial estimate of the crowd size. “They were the ones who kept the peace. They were the ones who were well behaved. So this notion that the police did a good job is true only to the extent that the demonstrators themselves had a powerful commitment to keep this demonstration peaceful and legal.”

From Democracy Now:

“Well, yesterday was a historic day. More than half a million people took to the streets of New York in a march organized by the nation’s largest anti-war organization, United for Peace and Justice. March organizers said the numbers far exceeded their expectations. In fact, it was so massive that the lead contingent had finished marching long before thousands of people could even move from the starting point at Union Square.”

Stuff that caught J-Schmoove’s eye. Plus this:

We ran into a small contingent of right-wing christian zealots with serious anger management issues, but they got more than they bargained for when confronted with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog(!!), who interrogated them on what exactly they think is wrong with sodomy. Triumph’s appearance soon inspired a rousing “Poop on Bush!” chant, and he also took a moment on 34th street to lead us in an “H&M makes shitty clothes!” side-protest.

A picture of ma peoples!

From Esther Kaplan for The Nation:

And then there were the signs. Lots of scatological ones involving the words “Bush” and “Dick,” some suggestively lettered in faux fur. Then “Peace is Bootylicious” in lavender sequins. “Stolen elections are so 2000,” bordered in blue feathers. And the haughty, “Goodbye, GOP. You’re not on the list!” I selected a tasteful one in black and hot pink that read, “Tax cuts are tacky, darling.”

Meanwhile, today is the Still We Rise march.

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Sunday, August 29th, 2004

Go Get Em!

Important info from the helpful and incredibly riveting minute-to-minute updates at NYC Indymedia:

“08/29 07:34 PM

For everybody’s information: All delegates are identifiable by the bright red bags, (gifts from the NYTimes) they are carrying.”

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Sunday, August 29th, 2004

A Preview of Bush’s Acceptance Speech

“The last three years have been a time of unparalleled economic calamity. They have been years of greater suffering and hardship than any which have come to the American people since the aftermath of the Civil War. …

“If we look back on the disasters of these three years, we find that three quarters of the population of the globe has suffered from the flames of revolution. Many nations have been subject to constant change and vacillation of government. Others have resorted to dictatorship or tyranny in desperate attempts to preserve some sort of social order. …

“Our measures have repelled these attacks of fear and panic. … “As a nation we are undefeated and unafraid. Government by the people has not been defiled.”

—Herbert Hoover accepting the presidential nomination at the 1932 Republican Convention

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Sunday, August 29th, 2004

THE ANTI-RNC DESKTOP GUIDE TO THE STREETS OF NEW YORK

Your Cantstopwontstop Anti-RNC Desktop Guide to The Streets of New York, an armchair entryway into all the joy and mayhem your corporate media is missing:

BREAKING NEWS :: GENERAL

+ NYC Indymedia

+ Democracy Now

BREAKING NEWS :: HIPHOPCENTRIC

+ Pop and Politics!

+ Davey D

+ Jay Smooth

+ Prometheus 6

+ Josh Clover’s Guns of Brixton

BREAKING NEWS :: LEFT

+ Talk Left blog

+ Mojoblog

+ The Nation Rapid Response blogs

+ Village Voice: James Ridgeway’s Blog

+ Village Voice: Anya Kamenetz’s Blog

ANALYSIS

+ Village Voice RNC Coverage

+ Alternet

+ Mother Jones

+ City Limits

+ Counterpunch

PROTEST INFO

+ United For Peace and Justice

+ Bushville-Kensington Welfare Rights Union

+ Still We Rise

+ Immigrant Solidarity Network

+ RNC Not Welcome

+ Virtual Sit-In

+ Billionaires For Bush

+ Counterconvention

+ Shut It Down

+ Not In Our Name

+ RNC Watch

+ A31.org

+ The People’s Guide to the Republican National Convention

+ Life After Capitalism conference

+ National Lawyer’s Guild

+ People’s Law Collective

STREET ART + POSTERS FOR PROTESTERS

+ No RNC Art Gallery

+ Yo! What Happened To Peace?

+ Partisan Project

+ I Raq

+ Center for the Study of Political Graphics

+ Make No Mistake

+ Roberta Smith’s NYT overview (includes slide show)

This guide will be updated through the week…

Best of luck to the all the people in the streets!

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