Here is the ice-cold footage of US Marine Scott Olson getting shot by the Oakland police department. Feel free to watch with a cynical eye, but check out when the flash bomb explodes in the midst of people trying to help an injured person.
This is intended to anger you.
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With all due respect to Marine Sergent Shamar Thomas there is no honor in killing Iraqis either. But at the moment I suspect that would be a reasonable discussion at #occupy wallstreet.
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Thanks to Chloe at feministing, I discovered #notcool the website which helps angry viewers to alter wretched ads. Simply by adding “NOT COOL” in spray paint style (MS Paint anyone?) the ads become a parry/response kind of read.
Although I like #notcool, I think there is a further discussion to be had about the symbolic energy sponge of angry web-based re-articulation. I think this site might satisfy the desire to actually graffiti terrible advertisements. I cheer on those who alter public space with graffiti and billboard modification, so I guess I just wish the response meme could somehow swamp or poison the brand.
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thanks scrapetv for the image
I have thoroughly enjoyed a number of Michael Moore’s films. He has also played the Muhammad Ali role of public intellectual articulating resistance. As a result of his critiques of the government and corporations, he has been widely scorned and attacked. He has a new book coming out and the Guardian excerpt is pretty hardcore. Read it for the rundown of just how ugly harassment and threats can get. Of course Michael Moore continues to fight.
I chose not to give up. I wanted to give up, badly. Instead I got fit. If you take a punch at me now, I can assure you three things will happen: 1) You will break your hand. That’s the beauty of spending just a half hour a day on your muscular-skeletal structure – it turns into kryptonite; 2) I will fall on you. I’m still working on my core and balance issues, so after you slug me I will tip over and crush you; 3) My Seals will spray mace or their own homemade concoction of jalapeño spider spray directly into your eye sockets while you are on the ground. As a pacifist, please accept my apologies in advance – and never, ever use violence against me or anyone else again.
via Michael Moore: I was the most hated man in America | Books | The Guardian.
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Thanks to the liberator magazine for the image.
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Life of refinement 