The War is a Lie.

"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now--always." -Albert Schweitzer

"Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence." -William Henry

"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time." -Thomas Jefferson

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." -Leo Tolstoy

"The reverse side also has a reverse side." -Japanese Proverb

Leaving Los Angeles

Signs posted on Sunday on the 10, 405, 101 and La Cienega.
Surprised to see this (first sign) still up on the 405 after three days, and this one (fourth from bottom) here has been up directly over the Santa Monica Freeway for an amazing 29 days now.

"The basis of a democratic state is liberty." -Aristotle



"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." -Abbie Hoffman

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. I see things that never were and ask why not?" -Robert F. Kennedy

"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens." -Epictetus

"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace." -Oscar Wilde

I-80/Classical Guitar

The above sign is passed by over 130,000 cars a day. Last time I checked it'd been up for nine days. Signs below were placed August 11th.

Asturias, by Albeniz played by Andres Segovia

Fantasia for a Gentleman, by Joachim Rodrigo

Orientale, by Enrique Granados

Passing Through LA

"They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." -- Isaiah, II:4

"Pain is certain, suffering is optional." ~ Buddha

"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion." ~ Oscar Wilde

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. " -ee cummings

"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap." ~ Kurt Vonnegut

The above sign has been over the Santa Monica Freeway since July 21st. It took less than ten minutes to make and five minutes to post with a material cost of about a nickel. It has probably been read over a million times by now.
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Free Speech in San Francisco

Signs placed this morning between 7 and 9 a.m. All still up at noon.




Signs made with cardboard painted white and lettered with an overhead projector.


Signs placed in accordance with the First Amendment right of full and unfettered free political speech.




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Peace On Earth, California

"Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock." -Sigmund Freud

"Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous."George Bernard Shaw

"Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. " -Martin Amis

"Peace is the only battle worth waging." -Albert Camus


"The major problem with the peace movement in this country is that there's no evidence of it." -Scarlet P.

Smaller Peace Signs Around California

"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority." ~ Thomas Huxley

"It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish." ~ Mother Teresa

"I ain't got no quarrel with the Vietcong... No Vietcong ever called me nigger."~ Muhammad Ali

"A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be... surer of the noose than a private homicide."~ H. G. Wells

"A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but can’t afford an air force." ~ William Blum

"If you speak the truth, have one foot in the stirrup." ~ Turkish proverb