I love the fact that you can soak up free and cheap culture in San Francisco. My music tastes can always be satiated with $5 to $10 events, in great underground spots, that benefit hard-working organizations and people. I rarely go to bars and clubs to catch larger shows anymore and instead pay what I can to support amazing causes. There might even be free food, drinks, and smoke at some of these events (read ahead for details).
See you in the Mission at one of these fun events. PS: DJ Pod in the house at the Feb. 3 ArtSF event.
- 2/1/07: BLO’S 5TH BIRTHDAY PARTY AND BENEFIT FOR MISSION ANTI-DISPLACEMENT COALITION!
- 2/2/07: CELEBRATION AND SOLIDARITY FOR OAXACA AND ATENCO’S POLITICAL PRISONERS
- 2/3/07: KAFANA BALKAN - a benefit for the Bread and Cheese Circus
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Stop Peabody Coal from Destroying the land and peoples of Black Mesa
Like the Wizard behind the curtain, ignore what Bush said about alternative energy in his State of the Union Address. Look at his concern as simple rhetoric to placate the critics, wash over the bad press, and shift citizen’s thinking to that of a gentle lamb. As Bush spouts desires of a cleaner future, a war looms across the nation. Battles have already been fought, one is going on right now, and a larger framing of the debate has begun.
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At this week’s State of the Union Address, George Bush did his usual rhetorical spiel. He had a good speech writer who crafted statements that Democrats had to applaud. He said things that are vaporware for the most part, and the idea of balancing the budget while expanding the Pentagon made my skin crawl. Most people that read my blogs know that we all could’ve debated the President on many points he brought up.
After stating that he wanted to expand our armed forces by over 90,000 (Imagine the Pentagon budget after that escalation!), Bush dropped a quiet bomb on those who have a creeping paranoia about our current government system:
A second task we can take on together is to design and establish a volunteer Civilian Reserve Corps. Such a corps would function much like our military reserve. It would ease the burden on the Armed Forces by allowing us to hire civilians with critical skills to serve on missions abroad when America needs them. It would give people across America who do not wear the uniform a chance to serve in the defining struggle of our time.
Civilian Reserve Corps (CRC)? My roomie Pip and I both caught the statement and began to try to figure out what the hell Bush was talking about? I imagined neighbors around the USA, going off to war-torn areas to do tasks that corporations where doing. Then, maybe, they’d come back and march around the neighborhood, snitch on us activists, and create a type of fascist vanguard for taking over our commercial areas in the country.
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I learned a simple lesson last week at Macworld. Hypercapitalism equals hooked on gadgets. When my two nieces got an iPod stereo/alarm clock on this past Christmas, I didn’t notice. They also separately got a cellphone and a camera from Santa Claus. Mr. Claus would probably give junk to a junky if that’s what was the hot seller that holiday season. I still didn’t bother to pick up the addicted message.
But with the new Apple iPhone, I got hooked right along with the school of consumer fish. As Wednesday’s audience oh’d and ah’d at Macworld’s iPhone presentation, I drooled as well. My friend Antonio texted me while I was there, “bow down and prey(sic) to ur new god.” He had taken photos of people oogling at the encased iPhone, but afterwards still ran over to the Apple Store and bought his girlfriend an iPod.
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Big Coal in Black Mesa, AZ
