Times Square
Times Square by Howard Zinn and Wes Modes.
I wrote this like a million years ago, illustrating a story that Howard Zinn used to tell about his moment of radicalization. It inspired me because I had a similar experience and epiphany. In 2002, I was brutally arrested by the San Francisco PD with hundreds of others peacefully protesting on the first day of the Iraq War in 2002. This was long before I’d taken my deep dive into the terrible oppressive history of the United States, and the exact same thought struck me, “But this is America.”
I had a chance to give Howard a copy of the comic a few years later in Boston.
This is an excerpt and I might see if I can slip the whole comic into this issue. If space allows.
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Okay, sure.
So we’re a little late, but I wanted to wait until I was laid up in bed and high on Oxycodone before I put together this issue. So far, it’s pretty much like normal except I can’t easily get up to distract myself, and I kee] falling asleep in between sentences. And its not like I don’t notice the tpyos, I simply can’t be bothered to care.
I don’t know what happened to May. I remember it vaguely. For me, it was also the end of the school term, so that always becomes a blur. And here we are in June, first official month of the summer, with it’s corn and cherries and watermelon and zukes and fresh tomatoes. Or as I call it now, Mune, our favorite early summer 61 day month.
Inspired by May Day, this is the Solidarity issue. May Day was the original Labor Day, an important international day to recognize the laborers who actually do all the work, while capitalists rake in the profit. Fuck the bosses.
Hey have you been here before? Is this your first disaster? Well, this is it. Our (more or less) monthy Unavoidable Disaster, with contributions by hundreds of readers scattered over the globe, cvhiock full of stupid memes, poignant observations on the human condition and fucking politics, ugly half-assed drawings, matchbook covers, stripper club cocktail napkins, overflowing ashtrays, and a woman who sashays out of a kroger with a handle of gin. So sorry, just got carried away on a drug-induced reverie that felt like a Tom Waits song.
Deadline is the 25th of each month. Maybe you should submit something this time. What do you think?
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Dilaudid
Being on doctor-sanctioned narcotics for weeks at a time is a great excuse for a lot of things. Relationship challenges? Work emails? Now’s a good chance to really say what you think.
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Michelson-Morley Experiment
The Michelson–Morley experiment was an attempt to detect the existence of the luminiferous aether, a supposed medium permeating space that was thought to be the carrier of light waves. The experiment was performed between April and July 1887 by American physicists Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley at what is now Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and published in November of the same year.
No Luminiferous Aether!
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Oh, thank goodness. I couldn’t handle anymore ether than I’m already on.
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A Soundtrack for Mune
Fellow Workers is an album by American folksinger Utah Phillips and American singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco. It was released May 18, 1999, on Difranco’s own Righteous Babe Records. Fellow Workers is DiFranco’s and Phillip’s second collaboration, following The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere. “Fellow workers!” is the phrase with which members of the Industrial Workers of the World traditionally begin their public addresses.
Mune’s
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See and be Scene
If you have a smart TV or streaming device, there is a good chance your TV is watching you while you watch it. … It found all smart TVs can collect and share personal information about viewers. A recent study found several devices sent data to Amazon, Facebook, and Google’s advertising company.
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So many eyeballs…
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That’s dope.
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Thisisfreakingmeout.
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(6) The little border of hearts means this thing has received the most likes in this issue. Occasionally, we put other sparkly shit like this for all sorts of reasons.Â
(3) When you click, you get more about the thing: description, links, author, comment, likes, and even sometimes audio and video. For example, every issue has a specially-selected soundtrack — except, oh shit, I forgot one for this issue. Be right back.
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We Made Pins.
Here at Feat. Jeff Goldblum we took your sponsor support and alchemy-like turned it into these sick pins. 2″ Thicc boys so you can really show your love for the most enigmatic man in movies. And also, your love for me. Well, mostly your love for me. I need it more anyway. Help us get Jeff on the show or pay our legal fees while we try by buying one. $10 gets you a pin and a signed illustration from one of the hosts.
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IUOE Local 501
The International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) is a trade union within the United States-based AFL-CIO representing primarily construction workers who work as heavy equipment operators, mechanics, surveyors, and stationary engineers (also called operating engineers or power engineers) who maintain heating and other systems in buildings and industrial complexes, in the United States and Canada.
Founded in 1896, it currently represents roughly 400,000 workers in approximately 170 local unions and operates nearly 100 apprenticeship programs.
My dad was a member for nearly fifty years, and the union continued to support my mom after his death.
Construct something!
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this was a landfill once
this is a beach made of broken bottles from ancient high school trysts. jagged edges soften with each wave repeated
Pick up your trash tho
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Super friends organize
While I actually don’t fully agree with the graphic I do have a fondness for the super friends! I feel we can be empowered in various ways, including collaborating together. The concept of “organize” sometimes bothers me too… especially in the activist realm. And I greatly value coming together to mutually support each other, for however long people choose, for a variety of reasons.
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When you’re a Pfizer… you’re a Pfizer
All the way from your first vaccine shot to your second vaccine shot you’re a Pfizer.
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Times Square by Howard Zinn
In 2010, my long-time hero Howard Zinn died. For years I was deeply touched by his intelligence, compassion, and humor.I had the honor of creating an illustrated account of one of his often-told stories, a New York anti-war march and police riot that turned him into a life-long radical. I had the pleasure of giving it to him in person at a talk in Boston.
Times Square: A True Story by Howard Zinn
Story by Howard Zinn, Illustration by Wes Modes
Howard Zinn’s personal account of a New York demonstration and police riot in the late ’30s that left him with a life-long radical point-of-view.
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Foucault Pendulum
Foucault’s pendulum is a simple device named after French physicist Léon Foucault and conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the Earth’s rotation.
Feel the Rotation?
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Triscuit the Electric Biscuit
We know that Triscuit is an offshoot of the word Biscuit. But why Tri-scuit? Is it because of it having three ingredients? (certainly not)
-Does it have a triple weave? (No)
A PI did some digging and there was no google record other than guesses as to why it is called this. The slueth then contacted Nabisco who makes them to ask and they stated ” Thank you for your interest in our Trsiscuit Crackers. No business records survived which specifically explain the origins or inspiration for the name Trsicuit. But we do know the name was a fun derivation of the word biscuit.”
The sleuth now very confused has more questions than answers. Did the building explode? Did it burn. Did someone leave the burning building yelling it doesn’t mean three before dying in a blaze of glory?
He digs deeper and finds some old advertisements and found something interesting. The company in 1903 was formed in Niagra Falls and there main advertisements were about being the only company that baked their biscuits using electricity. A huge deal at the time.
Triscuit is short for Electricity Biscuit.
That hero’s name is Sage Boggs.
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UBEW
The Union of Benevolent Electrical Workers provides mutual support to anti-authoritarian groups making radical social change through direct involvement, connecting communities, and education. Specifically, UBEW focuses on
- Creating technical infrastructure for the local radical community, making the results of this development generally available for distribution to a wider community of radicals and activists,
- Educating people about responsible and sustainable uses of technology that work toward a better world, and
- Informing people about issues at the crossroads of technology and activism, privacy, surveillance, and liberatory politics.
UBEW has roots in the anarchist traditions of autonomy, cooperation, mutual aid, solidarity, and direct action. UBEW is a collectively-run, all-volunteer, non-profit organization, fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)(3) non-profit.
From the hackbloc.org site whose tagline is “Exploit code, not people:”
Our mission is to research, create and disseminate information, tools, and tactics that empower people to use technology in a way that is liberating. We support and strengthen our local communities through education and action. We strive to learn from each other and focus our skills toward creative goals, to explore and research positive hacktivism, and to defend a free internet and free society!
We’re down with that.
Are they even still around, brah?
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I wonder if other’s may have input in how UBEW can be of service in the new Free Skool
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Come on Santa Cruz, seriously.
https://www.change.org/p/rtc-commissioners-approve-rail-transit-in-santa-cruz-county?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_28376234_en-US%3A7&recruiter=87279537&recruited_by_id=4a2d0f60-b42a-11e3-8612-0f30272a3bce&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&fbclid=IwAR3n03kFIKPCr7wUEz9aj-j5Hj9V5_ZASvu5I6We_1B-mCFhMHqrfz0EmTs
Sign the Petition
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Yes please!
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I took your finger print from this image, and now I’ve used it to create an identity at a local data center with which I will initiate the first steps Operation Mayhem.