Back in September, I wrote about the Dream Rocket, an amazing project headed up by the equally amazing Jennifer Marsh! The idea behind the Dream Rocket is to cover a (real!) rocket with quilted panels made from around the world… facilitating our global wish for peace. The panels themselves, were a bit spendy for me [...]
Archive for the 'anti-war.' Category
You’ll have to turn up your speakers to hear this properly. It’s been transferred from VHS, and is a 1993 performance by 10,000 Maniacs at the inauguration of President Clinton. This morning I read that already this year there have been 219 American soldier deaths this year in Afghanistan, up 41% from all of [...]
The photos below are just a few of the many photos online of political graffiti, click on the photo to go to the photographer’s Flickr page.
Rome, Italy
Oxford, UK, 1993
St. Petersburg, Russia
Want more?
*Global Graphica
*Wooster Collective
*GraffitiStudies.info
*Art Crimes: War Murals
*Graffiti: The Art of Politics
*Torontoist: Taking it to the Streets
*Anti-Bush Graffiti: 25 countries, 6 continents
*Streetsy: 40+ [...]
I just finished the piece above, which is graffiti of the Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled spraypainted on the wall between Bethlehem and Jerusalem. Leila Khaled was a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). It was a choice made originally to highlight the fact that what we may view through our [...]
Almost a month ago, I wrote about CODEPINK’S call for crochet and knit squares for a Mother’s Day day banner they were going to display in front of the White House.
Below are some of the resulting photos from all those squares sent (I wonder if my squares made it in?), and you can see [...]
