Casual snapshots of Iraqi people.
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Iraq snapshots
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Jewelry for peace
Some celebrities are going to demonstrate their commitment to peace at the Oscars by wearing expensive jewelry with diamonds.
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I surved El Niño
I went to see John Adams’s El Niño at BAM tonight. Ugh. I think living in California has ruined his mind. Given the current state of the world, the last thing I want to hear is a religious work about Mary and the birth of Jesus. I live in a country whose president says he is a man of faith and God wants him to bomb Iraq to make us safe. Soaking in the most anti-woman, anti-human aspects of Christianity isn’t something I want to make time for. Let’s think about it: the only woman suitable to bear Jesus is a virgin, so the only really holy woman in Christianity does something no human woman can do: bear a child while remaining a virgin.
The music isn’t even particulary interesting, with a few exceptions, and I love a lot of Adams’s work — especially Nixon in China and Death of Klinghoffer.
For a better written take on the whole thing, go read James.
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We’re not worthy of Kiki and Herb
Speaking of queer culture, while getting the demo photos from my camera, I realized I had two good photos of Kiki from the March 3 performance. She really is a performance goddess.
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Anti-war protest March 21, 2003
The heavy rain made it depressing and wet, and the NYPD were pretty incompetent. They spent most of their time trying to figure out how to keep traffic moving despite big crowds, rather than dealing with crowd control in any intelligent way. We left as they started arresting people and pushing against them. We refused to move into any pens, and after seeing the Newsday photos, I’m glad.
James‘s sign, suitable for a queer anti-war protest, quoted The Wizard of Oz. The other side said, “Toto Knew.”
Newsday has a good article. Don’t miss the slideshow with photos, including nice moments like the police using a barricade to shove protesters.
After reading this Reuters story, I feel like NYC is rather amateur. There were over 1000 arrests in San Franciso.
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Israel attacks Rachel Corrie’s funeral
From The Guardian:
Israeli forces fired teargas and stun grenades yesterday in an attempt to break up a memorial service for Rachel Corrie, the American peace activist killed by an army bulldozer in Gaza on Sunday.
Witnesses including several dozen foreigners and Palestinian supporters say Israeli armoured vehicles tried to disperse the gathering at the spot in Rafah refugee camp where Ms Corrie was crushed to death.
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3,000 students demonstrate in Vienna
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It has started
I will be at the demo at Times Square tomorrow at 5pm. Call or email me if you want to meet up.
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Is satire possible anymore?
At yesterday’s meeting we talked about using satire for anti-war purposes. I’m not sure that’s possible when a Supreme Court Justice (Scalia) can ban the media from a ceremony where he is to receive a free speech award.
He also said this in a speech last night:
The Constitution just sets minimums. Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires.
More discussion of this may be found here.
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Menschy
Word of the day: menschy
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