Auctionblogging!

Brilliant.

"I found it really easy to get inside and become a bidder, and went inside and was in the auction room. And once I was in there, I realized that any kind of speech or disruption or something like that wasn’t going to be very effective, but I saw pretty quickly that I could have a pretty major impact on the way this worked. And it just took me a little bit of time to build up the courage to do that, knowing what the consequences would be. And so, I started bidding and started driving up the prices for some of the oil companies."

Interview on Democracy Now

Sock and Awe

Above sign hung for +/- 2.5 hours over the Pasadena Freeway,

courtesy of The Tribunes of the People
Play Sock and Awe!

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Page Two

(Galleries are still under construction: Y'all put up thousands of signs.)

Some Collages

Five Words They Won't Say On Television

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Advertising Peace


Someone Please Inform The Media


The Awesome Power of the Overhead Projector

Dawn Patrol Rides Again

Hey Scarlet, sorry we're late... these are the signs we put up before the election:

Hey Dawn Patrol, good to hear from you, and good to see Smithantics is back.

You guys were one of the very first people to send in a sign picture, way back in May 2004

You said what needed to be said long before it became fashionable to do so, and, of course, you were right. Now that the country's going back to good hands, let's get together soon and figure out how to save the world. Yours, Scarlet

(signs posted in Sacramento, a great town for freewayblogging.)

School of Assassins

Protest this weekend at Fort Benning, GA





from Mimi La Valley and a Hundred Nuns

(one of the funniest protest songs ever written...

Listen Here.)

"Private, either my brain’s going mushy and moist or
they’re cracking Fort Benning in half like an oyster!
Can you get me their headquarters, phone up the cloister?
Can you tell me what this is about?"
"Sir, I ventured outside, and I spoke to a sister,
who put us on a listserve for wartax resisters,
I was going to arrest her, but I’m getting a blister
so I think I’m gonna sit this one out."

Well the boys in the fort were dismantling the mortars
when the Corporal reported to the General’s quarters:
"Three-fourths of the fort would be following orders
if you ordered the fort to surrender.
Because sir I assure you, you’ll be disconcerted
when you learn that the current cadets have deserted,
and I’ve just been alerted that the colonel’s converted
and the sergeant’s rethinking his gender."

And the nuns are invading and they’re calmly persuading
our commander to sign up as a monk.
Besides, Corporal Clone and I just started dating
and he’s probably waiting for me in my bunk.
So we’re abandoning camp ’til the nuns overwhelm it,
sir, might I suggest that you tie-dye your helmet?
You need a few colors, and khaki's as dull as it comes..."

VFP Bannerdrop

On Saturday, November 15, at 8:00 am, at the National Archives Building on Connecticut Ave., eight military veterans and a military mother climbed a 9-foot retaining fence and occupied a ninety-foot high scaffolding to raise two 450 square foot banners stating, "DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION. ARREST BUSH AND CHENEY: WAR CRIMINALS!" and "WE WILL NOT BE SILENT." The same message will also be displayed at demonstrations in the Los Angeles area on Saturday.Members of Veterans for Peace (VFP) chose the Archives for their nonviolent protest because it is symbolic of their military oath to "Defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." In September they occupied the Archives for 24 hours, and plan to stay longer this time.

Veteransforpeace.org

THOSE WHO PARTICIPATED WERE:
Elliott Adams VFP: 61, Sharon Springs, NY, VFP President and former Army paratrooper, Viet Nam.
Ellen Barfield VFP: 52, Baltimore, MD, former Army Sgt.
Kim Carlyle VFP: 61, Buncombe County, NC, former Army Spec 5.
Doug Zachary VFP: 58, Austin, TX, VFP staff, former USMC .
Lance Cpl. Tarak Kauff VFP: 67, Woodstock, NY, former PFC, Army Airborne .
Will Covert VFP: 63, San Diego, CA, VFP lifetime member, former E4 Navy.
Elaine Brower MFSO: 54, Staten Island, NY, Military Families Speak Out, National Steering Committee, mother of USMC Sgt. James Brower on third tour in Iraq.
Matthis Chiroux IVAW: 24, Army Sergeant, served in Afghanistan, refused deployment to Iraq.