Fck Corporate Media and MIC, We Are Not Completely Powerless
Going through our Wunderlist today and came across an item I had put on a while back: a reminder to donate in support of a project to make an end run around the corporate media, to take the message direct to people about the costs of US and other countries' policies of Endless War and the tradeoffs that are the consequence.
While reading Friday night's The Evening Blues I followed the link to Jimmy Dore's interview with Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard about the US intervention into Syria. They both of course groused about the corporate media not covering this, in fact encouraging war.
Gabbard did talk of the importance of educating people using every means possible.
I just can't accept that there is nothing we can do in face of this.
I want to support and participate in efforts to educate.
So jb and I just gave a donation in support of this project by World Beyond War.
Retweeted Ted Landrum (@UbuLoca):
If you'd like to see more anti-war billboards - donate to @WorldBeyondWar 's #BillboardsProject > #WagePeace here > https://t.co/JaPOXTY0zS pic.twitter.com/iisrUsniFW
— Amazing Amy Harlib (@amyharlib) July 9, 2018
Here's a list of what's been funded so far:
See lots of designs here.
See explanation of the 3% calculation here.
Billboards and other big ads are going up:
In Pittburgh, PA, soon, thanks to WILPF Pittsburgh.
In Albany and Schenectady, NY, in September, 2018, thanks to Women Against War.
In New York City thanks to the Puffin Foundation, huge billboards at 11th Ave and 49th St August 21 to Oct. 28, 2018, and 11th Ave and 45th St August 21 to Nov. 25, 2018.
From week of Aug. 27 to week of Sept. 23, 2018, two ads in each of these Toronto subway stations: Dundas, St George Bloor-Danforth, St. George Yonge Line, and Queen.
In July-August 2018 in Toronto, Canada, in dozens of subway trains.
In July 2018 on bus shelters near White House in Washington, D.C.
In April and May 2018 big billboards in Albany, New York, USA.
Through March – July 2018, on stationary and moving billboards all over Syracuse, New York, USA.
For the month of January 2018 a billboard in downtown Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
For the month of December 2017 a billboard in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.We can put up more, and you can tell us where you want to see which ones, if you fund them.
Pictures at this link: https://worldbeyondwar.org/billboardsproject/
I posted this in the event there are other dreamers who might find it interesting.
Those who wish to donate in support may do so here.
Comments
Billboards Project a sign of the times...
action as antidote.
Hope you are having a good Saturday, and I wish the same for all the people....
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
The local Peace vigil
That I was involved with for a little over four years, but had existed for nine years prior to my joining, was all about educating people. My buddy, Don who was a founding member, said that when they first began people were very negative toward them.
But during the time I spent with them until we disbanded, due to age and health of the remaining participants, I found the Peace vigil to be a very positive experience. This is in an area that is relatively conservative politically, but the people I talked to (most of whom were self identified as conservatives) understood why endless war is so devastating to us at home.
My second sig line says it all and is directly related to my first sig line.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Great action, your peace vigil, gg!
FWIW Part of the reason we participated with Occupy was because of Wall Street war profiteers and their part in supporting endless war.
Thanks for what you did back then and for sharing it here.
There was one here in Santa Fe a few years back. jb and I thought of trying to join it but never did. We did admire the people standing at one of the busiest intersections in town and engaging folks as they drove by. Where else were drivers going to see a different point of view than the msm?
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Occupy brought me to the Peace vigil
We did ours every Saturday from noon til one in front of the courthouse. Brevard is a small town with a real downtown that attracts people from the area as a weekend trip so we had the chance to talk to a lot of people, not just locals. It was one of the most emotionally rewarding things I ever did, and I learned so much from it. It made me realize just how much more we all have in common rather than our differences.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
yes. fully agree and already support, hola! tablet + bad wifi in
Fallon, so bye for now.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Copy that and thanks for commenting, eh. Enjoy!
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
thanks for the opportunity
to contribute, divineorder. worldbeyondwar is also sponsoring the March to Reclaim Armistice Day Sunday, November 11, 2018
and whooosh; your photo: where is that seeming idyll?
Hello wd, thanks for the info about the
info about the March to Reclaim Armistice Day !
Would really love to attend their annual conference, this year in Toronto.
Hey while you are here, wanted to say that I would really like to invite people who are not Twitter averse to check out the WorldBeyondWar Twitter feed. Lot's of informative timely tweets and re-tweets there imo.
@WorldBeyondWar
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That photo is of Bled, Slovenia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bled.
My wife c99er jakkalbessie and I had met a Slovenian couple about our genre in Costa Rica several years ago. We sheepishly admitted that although we had been to 40 plus countries over the years, we really knew little of their country or the rest of Eastern Europe for that matter. Then we met other people who either lived in Slovenia or who had been there and spoke very highly of it. A year or so later we stopped over from our annual budget camping in southern Africa trip for a bucket list visit to Venice. Our Slovenian friends saw that on Facebook and invited us to come visit and they would come to Venice next time we came and take us home and show us the country!
So last year a we decided to take them up on it. We saw Bled for the first time on that trip, kayaked out to that church rode bikes around the lake, but did not get any spectacular photos like we had seen online that others had taken from some high perch up above.
We went back this year to visit Slovenian friends again and explore more own our own as well. We decided to spend a week in Bled in an Airbnb with a guest kitchen and shared baths at a reasonable price. We wanted to use the amazing setting there to kayak, bike, hike and try to get back in shape after a couple of months on safari. again on way back from Africa.
Before we went this year we had researched around on the net and found out how to find the steep trail to hike up above the lake and get this photo. The weather was perfect for photos that day and although it rained on us a bit it was worth the somewhat slippery climb ! Before that day. we had been down at lake level and so had not been able not been able to see the Julian Alps in the distance!
When I was about to post this essay the idea came up in my mind to use this photo. For me, that place invokes a feeling of peace and glorious beauty available to us special places on this amazing planet.
Look forward to having a World Beyond War someday!
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Gah folks, sorry for that poor writing in the comment above
have to come back when have more time and edit it later.
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Right on, d-o...
and good on you. tyvm
Thanks OPOL! Remember this oldie?
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
In Germany the newspaper Taz.de, owned and published by a co-op,
started out as, and could still be, a great alternative to corporate media — if only nowadays it weren’t continually (1) pulling its punches on economic issues and, (2) when it comes to foreign policy, toeing such a NATO-and-neocon-friendly line.
(1) Here’s an article it ran about Occupy:
https://www.taz.de/!5535084/
Except for one generic reference to police use of pepper spray, not a word about how the Obama administration co-ordinated an effort along with Democratic mayors to shut down Occupy protest camps across the country.
And the very first comment, by a prolific regular registered Taz.de commenter with the American-sounding handle “Jim Hawkins,” accuses the Occupy movement of being, “from its very inception, völkisch [nationalistic and/or racist] with anti-Semitic connotations.” So, no loss” — no regrets that it disappeared.
In other words there are vocal people, either genuinely on the Left or merely trolling and/or infiltrating the Left, harping on the idea that in Germany you can’t criticize banking and bankers or speak in terms of the 99% versus the 1%, because that would be anti-Semitic.
(2) Taz.de sponsors what purports to be a German-Syrian human rights organization called “Adopt a Revolution” — which tries to shame the German Green and alternative Left spectrum into supporting “moderate Syrian rebels” (a.k.a. foreign-backed anti-Assad Sunni terrorists).
Hoo, boy! Where to begin? Here’s a guest editorial by the head of this outfit catapulting the Obama-Trump line on alleged use of chemical weapons:
https://taz.de/Gastkommentar-Chemiewaffen-in-Syrien/!5533476/
These are the kind of “Green / alternative Left” positions that, at least on some issues these days, can make the German populist Right look sane by comparison.
Cheers, d-o; we had coal ash pit failures in the storm ...
toxic sludge mixing with flood waters; friends at local non-profit off to test the waters soon. Damn legislature backtracked on new guideline we all fought to put in place some years ago.
And so it goes and another reason your highlight is important as the MSN and local media-which has been purchased and stripped of reporters--doesn't bring critical news; we must fill in the blanks best we can.
Thanks again for this good essay.
good outfit WBW
we contribute. Code Pink is good too. Here's Medea in a recent interview.
https://therealnews.com/stories/merchants-of-death-how-the-military-indu...
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”