Posted February 21st, 2008 by surplus
Originally posted at We Make Money Not Art
Designing a Protest
The Serious Organized Crime and Police Act 2005 prohibits anyone staging spontaneous protests within a 1km radius of Westminster’s Houses of Parliament. However, Tony Mullin found a loophole in the law. You can carry placards around those no-protest zones as long as they do not [...]
Posted February 18th, 2008 by surplus
More Than Tissues in a Box of Kleenex
Greenpeace Denies Sanctioning Notes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/15/AR2008021503198.html
By Ylan Q. Mui
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, February 16, 2008; D01
The battle over the environment has found a new front: the inside of a Kleenex box.
“Wiping away ancient forests,” warned a note found inside a box bought recently at a drug store in New York [...]
Posted May 30th, 2007 by surplus
FelS G8 Call to Action
http://www.fels-berlin.de
Make the G8 Precarious, Flexi-Fight the New World Order
Superfluous and Superheroes of the World: Unite and Take Over!
From 6-8 June, together with thousands of others, as part of the Block G8 campaign, we will cut the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm off from its infrastructure. The other world – the one [...]
Posted May 12th, 2007 by surplus
Two clips from ‘Ghost Dance’ with Jacques Derrida describing ghostly hauntings. In the first Derrida explains an “abnormal” state of mourning where, rather than being internalized and accepted, the dead are “incorporated” in a way where they are taken in but don’t become part of us. It’s a quick and poetic except that speaks [...]
Posted May 3rd, 2007 by surplus
Clip I
Clip II