By mike flugennockWednesday - June 15th, 2011Categories: DC Local, liberty
The weather was iffy all day, swinging back and forth from perfect to looking like a downpour from one minute to the next. Still, by the time showtime rolled around, it had finally settled down to something unseasonably comfortable, and the gathered crowd of DC Statehood activists and supporting citizens finally got down to celebrating Flag Day by showing off a wide variety of DC flag-based tattoos.
“In The Flesh”, photographed and edited by Mike Flugennock, 04:32
And now, to augment your Flag Day Experience, here’s a little trip to Song Poem Hell, with the perversely legendary Gary Roberts — in his own inimitably atonal fashion — crooning “Our Flag”:
By mike flugennockMonday - May 9th, 2011Categories: DC Local, liberty
Hey now, DCers! Time to show off your DC Flag tattoos at the Statehood Rally at Dupont Circle on June 14 from 6 to 8pm! Let Congress know where you stand! Bring it on down, and let’s see that ink!
In the meantime, why not download this invigorating art for your leafletting and wheatpasting pleasure in two convenient sizes.
Find out more about DC’s struggle for liberation against the slavemasters on Capitol Hill, and get info on upcoming protests for DC Statehood and voting rights here and here!
By mike flugennockTuesday - January 11th, 2011Categories: DC Local, media
Man, this sure is getting to be a long fifteen minutes.
Mike Rhode, who writes and edits the excellent ComicsDC blog, has also for about the past year been writing about comics for the Washington City Paper’s arts section, including a regular feature called “Meet A Local Cartoonist”. Mike claims to have been a fan of mine for a number of years, and this week I’m the subject of his local cartoonist feature. Read on, gang…
Blast From Yer Past: Yours truly featured on the front page of Washington Post’s Style section on the opening day of the 2002 IMF/World Bank mobilization (4.3mb pdf file).
Time once again to fire up the old TARDIS, and dive into this action-packed day of gleeful antiglob frenzy at the IMF, World Bank, and all over downtown DC on April 16, 2000 — and, unlike the ’60s, if you can remember it, you were there!
In the Spring of 2000, Ralph Nader and the Green Party were calling bullshit on the Democrats and challenging their stranglehold on the US Left, the Democratic Party was pissing in its shoes, and the US Left couldn’t have been happier — as opposed to today, when the US Left is sitting on its hands, and the “progressives” couldn’t be happier to be marching over a cliff behind Barack Obama and his cult of personality.
This was a time when The Movement™ was riding high on a wave of energy and solidarity after its victory in the Seattle Rebellion, and was full of hope for bringing about change in our future — before the Democratic Party got its hooks into us. (D’oh, sorry; I just said “hope” and “change” there, didn’t I?)
While the Anticapitalathon’s scraggly gaggle is ignored by global capital and its fawning media, now would be a good time to remember more inspiring times — times when The Movement™ wasn’t afraid to protest against a Democratic Administration, times when The Movement™ wasn’t cowed and intimidated by the Democratic Party and the AFL-CIO.
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