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#BernBabyBern

By mike flugennockWednesday - August 12th, 2015Categories: 2016 Election, Party Animals, elections

What the hell kind of rank-ass politician goes on and on about “revolution” while voting to continue funding Israeli barbarity in Palestine? And what kind of politician talks big talk about “revolution” while knocking himself out to get a base in his home state for a fighter jet whose development ran into trillions of dollars, and already has a reputation for being one of the biggest pain-in-the-ass fighters the Air Force ever had? And what kind of politician can’t shut up about a “revolution” while running as a Democrat, for Christ’s sake?

“Feel The Bern”, my ass.

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“Intifada Everywhere” Picked Up By Mondoweiss

By mike flugennockFriday - July 24th, 2015Categories: Black Lives Matter, Middle East, War on Terror, war and peace

I’m honored to have been included in Mondoweiss’ review of posters and protest art from Israel’s 2014 military campaign against Gaza, which killed over 2,000 Palestinians. The works featured in this article, Bombers, Blood and Teddy Bears, were selected by Mondoweiss from the over 175 artworks contained in the Palestine Poster Project archives.

Catherine Baker writes at Mondoweiss:
“The spirits of the more than 2,000 Palestinians who were killed in Israel’s 50-day military operation against Gaza last summer have been immortalized in the posters that have emerged from the conflict. The online Palestine Poster Project Archives contains more than 175 posters on Gaza published in the past year. ‘Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it,’ in the words of Berthold Brecht…”

“This poster fuses three contemporaneous events: the war on Gaza launched by Israel on July 8; Michael Brown’s killing by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9; and the disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa teachers school after being taken into police custody in Guerrero, Mexico, on September 26. “Ferguson to Palestine” is now a rallying cry (see slogan on the Apartheid Wall, below) and an organizing principle. The ties between these three movements will not likely be undone, and this can only benefit Palestine.

In Flugennock’s poster, the three men are similar in their stance and determination but unique in their garb and choice of weapon. The caption, “Intifada Everywhere,” can be read in at least two ways: “There are uprisings going on everywhere,” and, “There is a right to rise up wherever there is injustice.”

The large hashtags are a new element for Palestine posters. These direct the audience via social media into specific conversations and actions. In this way the poster becomes more than a statement; it serves as a signpost.”

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…and here’s some more of my work on the subject of Israeli barbarity in Palestine:

- American Handala, September 2014
- From Gaza To Missouri, August 2014
- Toys In The Attic, August 2014
- Bring Back Our Boys, June 2014
- Star-Spangled Banner, November 2012
- Look Out, Bibi’s Redlining!, September 2012
- Obama’s AIPAC Speech Condensed, May 2011
- Nerobama, January 2009
- Poor Man’s F-16, July 2006
- Nuclear Threat, June 2006
- What Has Ariel Sharon Learned From The Holocaust?, February 2002

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Toys In The Attic

By mike flugennockFriday - August 8th, 2014Categories: Middle East, War on Terror, liberty, war and peace

Just in case you haven’t been following the bloody shitshow in Gaza, it isn’t just the Israeli state and military that’s batshit these days — it’s the whole damn’ nation of Israel that’s hopped aboard the crazy train.

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Thousands March for Gaza in DC

By mike flugennockSunday - August 3rd, 2014Categories: Middle East, Obamarama, War on Terror, war and peace

Gaza Solidarity Mobilization, Washington DC 08.02.14 from Mike Flugennock on Vimeo.

Far more folks than I expected rolled into DC yesterday afternoon to pack Lafayette Square and get all up into President Farting Rainbows’ face about Gaza.

The word I heard flying around the park was that this was the biggest demonstration in the US so far, which was a surprise considering how big the Chicago march was.

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