|
Constructive Dissent (Slouching Towards Apocalypse)
"In 1986, a former nuclear technician in an Israeli plutonium processing plant had a tough choice: Mordechai Vanunu could stay quiet and keep his
comfortable life, or risk it all by exposing the truth about Israel's nuclear program. Vanunu chose the latter and proved that, contrary to repeated denials, Israel was a fully nuclear state possessing hundreds of thermonuclear bombs, with accelerated clandestine manufacturing of further nuclear weapons. Vanunu's reward? A conviction of treason in an Israeli court, 12 years in solitary confinement, and a prison sentence that continues to this day."
A Not So Brief History of The Firesign Theatre
"The name The Firesign Theatre evokes many mental images. A nostalgic warmth for the good old days that never were. Of thousands of Americans gathering around their citizen radios listening to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's weekly fireside chats. Zodiacal puns for the pot smoking patrons of the psychedelic sixties and seventies, trying to escape from a club swinging world gone mad with war and political upheaval. Guerrilla Theatre in the streets, humorously deprogramming a populous from the narcotic of pop culture. Fighting clowns against the powers that be. Of Shakespearean comedy in a time of Orwellian tragedy. A Theatre of the mind, built with the bricks of politics and poetry on the solid foundation of the golden age of radio. The images pile on and on, and on, with double, triple, quadruple entendres and non-sequiturs, layering a baklava of subconscious surreal and blatantly silly humor acting as a political poultice for the wounds of a sick society. The Firesign Theatre is all of things and none of these things."
A Quick and Dirty Guide to DIY Media: Broadcasting
"Pirate television is mostly useful for broadcasting short clips and is safest when mobile. Using a television transmitter it's possible to replace commercials with your own broadcasts in your immediate vicinity."
Annie Sprinkle: SexPositive Shaman in a Sex-Negative Culture
"Annie Sprinkle continues to promote a SexPositive viewpoint through educational films, workshops, erotic art, photography and writing. She also continues to come under fire from religious conservatives and patriarchal mysoginists who are deeply troubled by Sprinkle's demystification of human sexuality and rescralization of eros."
|
|
