On Monday, I wrote about the Austin Overpass Light Brigade and its struggles with the police on Firedoglake: The Overpass Light Brigade began in Wisconsin during the “uprising”…
Category: Journalism
Bleep Labs’ Noise Explorer 5000 (on Firedoglake)
Posted in Austin, Burning Man, Firedoglake, Media, and Published
Art Outside is inspiring in the way it mixes and melds music, making and seeing art, and other types of creative expression into a single…
Lessons from the Death of Paul Addis (on Firedoglake)
Posted in Burning Man, Firedoglake, Life, and Published
I haven’t had time to add to A Burner Lexicon recently, but I just wrote about about Burning Man again on Firedoglake. I touched on the…
Art Outside 2012
Posted in Austin, Burning Man, and Firedoglake
I’ll be leaving this afternoon for Art Outside 2012. Last year I wrote about Art Outside here on 8,000 Words in two parts — one for each…
Are Chalkers Terrorists? (Firedoglake)
Posted in Austin, Firedoglake, Occupy Wall Street, and Published
During Occupy Austin’s birthday week, we participated in a national day of action called Chalk the Police. The Austin Police Department responded with two arrests,…
Occupy Austin Mic Checks For Medicaid
Posted in Austin, and Occupy Wall Street
Today Occupy Austin OccuKripz mic-checked the Texas State Capitol in solidarity with ADAPT who completed five days of intensive direct action in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania today. Activists there faced police brutality as they tried to force meetings with government officials to protest cuts to Medicaid.