14 Sunday Jul 2019
Posted in Life, Photography
Tags
camps, demonstration, Foley Square, Immigrants, Never Again, photography, protest, rally, sign, street photography
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Thousands rally in Foley Square
New York, New York
15 Tuesday May 2018
Posted in Life, Music, Performance, Writing
Tags
antiwar, Bob Dylan, Masters of War, music, protest, song, songwriting
19 Sunday Nov 2017
Posted in Life, Photography
Tags
photography, protest, rat, street life, street photography, union
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Inflatable rodent, part of a protest against non-union construction labor.
New York City, NY
21 Monday Dec 2015
Posted in Life, Music, Performance, Writing
Tags
Bob Gibson, music, One More Parade, performance, Phil Ochs, protest, song, songwriting
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December 19th was, jarringly, the 75th anniversary of the birth of folk singer Phil Ochs. Jarringly, because Phil, who died too soon, seemed to be the embodiment of youthful energy, creativity, and rebellion. His songs decrying the United States of War sound as fresh and pointed now as they did back then. The song above, co-written with Bob Gibson, is on Phil’s first album, All the News That’s Fit to Sing.
Monday’s child trumps off to war yet once more.
29 Thursday Oct 2015
Posted in Comedy, Life, Performance, Writing
Tags
Chaplin, comedy, film, flag, Modern Times, movie, performance, police, protest, silent
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One more great scene from Charlie Chaplin’s wonderful movie, Modern Times. The set-up is that he’s just been released from the hospital (nervous breakdown from his last factory job), so he’s not fully aware of what is going on in the outside world.
The flag, of course, is red.
