Rain kept me out of the garden today, so I did some long overdue digital housekeeping instead: spiffed up this site a bit, and added nearly a year’s worth of projects to my Beccatron portfolio. More coming soon!
Category Archives: made by me
Today: ASHLEY/AMBER screening in Duhok, Kurdistan Region – Iraq
Never dreamed my film would screen in Iraq (Kurdistan region, but still!). I wish I could be in the theater to feel the reaction … so curious about what the reception will be like.
ASHLEY/AMBER at the 1st Duhok International Film Festival
September 12, 2012 – 11AM
Congress Hall, Main Campus of the University of Duhok
Duhok, Kurdistan Region – Iraq
May Day: Demand JOBS FOR ALL
Join the Rally and March on May Day for JOBS FOR ALL!
Join a large, visible presence advocating job creation and an end to unemployment:
JOBS FOR ALL
Dignified work at good union wages for everyone who wants a job.
TRABAJOS PARA TODOS
Trabajo digno con sueldos buenos de escala sindical para cualquiera que quiera un trabajo.
TUESDAY MAY 1
Mayday 2012 Rally & March
Union Square, NYC
4:00PM
Join us at the corner of Union Sq. West & 14th St.
(By the dry fountain)
We demand a democratically-controlled public works and public service program, with direct government employment, to create 25 million new jobs at good union wages. The new jobs will be to build the facilities and provide the services needed to meet the needs of the 99%, including in education, healthcare, housing, transportation, and clean energy. The program will be funded by raising taxes on the banks, corporations and the wealthiest 1%, and by ending all U.S. wars. Employment in the program will be open to all, including immigrants and persons formerly incarcerated.
Demandamos obras públicas y un programa de servicios públicos democráticamente controlados, con empleo directo del gobierno, para crear 25 millones de nuevos empleos con sueldos buenos de escala sindical. Los nuevos empleos serán para construir las instalaciones y proveer los servicios necesitados para satisfacer las necesidades del 99%, incluyendo en educación, cuidados de la salud, vivienda, transporte y energía limpia. El programa será financiado aumentando los impuestos a los bancos, las corporaciones y el 1% de los más ricos, y poniendo fin a todas las guerras por los Estados Unidos de América. Empleo en el programa estará disponible para todos, incluyendo a los inmigrantes y a las personas anteriormente encarceladas.
www.jobsforallny.org
Facebook Event
NY JOBS FOR ALL COMMITTEE • www.JobsForAllNY.org • twitter: @JobsForAllNY
For more information, or to endorse the demand, email: info@jobsforallny.org
Para mas información, o para apoyar la demanda, email: info@jobsforallny.org
A couple illustrations for Jacobin Magazine
I have two illustrations in the latest issue of Jacobin Magazine, a provocative, beautifully-designed lefty mag you should subscribe to.
Reality TV And Flexible Future by Gavin Mueller
Against Law, For Order by Mike Konczal
ASHLEY/AMBER screening Mar. 29 in Prospect Heights
Super excited that Ashley/Amber is part of the first-ever Brooklyn Girl Film Festival! Hope some of you can make it! Also, check out the reviews in The Independent Critic and We Are Movie Geeks.
Ashley/Amber at the BROOKLYN GIRL FILM FESTIVAL
Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 6:30pm
Launchpad, 721 Franklin Ave, Brooklyn, NY, USA
screening in Short Films, Block 2
tix: $10 or $20 for day pass – purchase online
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“The Struggle for Full Employment: Not a New Idea and Not a New Struggle”
Last weekend I attended Left Forum and videoed a fantastic panel, The Struggle for Full Employment: Not a New Idea and Not a New Struggle, sponsored by the National Jobs for All Coalition.
“The Struggle for Full Employment: Not a New Idea and Not a New Struggle”
Left Forum 2012
Saturday, March 17, 5:00-6:40 PM, Room W401www.njfac.org
www.jobscampaign.orgThe presentation explores New Deal job creation efforts and FDR’s Economic Bill of Rights that began with the right to a decent job. It discusses two major attempts to secure full employment, in the immediate post-World War II period and in the 1970s, the first ending in the defeat of full employment legislation and the second, in the failure to implement a watered-down full employment act. Full employment, the presentation shows, will take a fundamental break with neo-liberalism and a reorientation of power from big business and Wall Street to middle- and working-class people and will require the full-scale social movement that both earlier struggles lacked.
Panelists:
Chuck Bell: Vice Chair, National Jobs for All Coalition, co-author of “Shared Prosperity: The Drive For Decent Work” (2006). Twenty years of experience in consumer and health care advocacy, and community movements for jobs and economic justice.
Helen Ginsburg: Professor Emerita of Economics, Brooklyn College, CUNY., and co-founder of the National Jobs for All Coalition. Author of books and articles on employment policy and strategies.
Gertrude S. Goldberg: The New Deal and Social Welfare Professor of Social Policy Emerita, Adelphi University School of Social Work where she directed the Ph.D. program. Chair of the National Jobs for All Coalition. Co-chair of the Columbia Seminar on Full Employment, Social Welfare & Equity. Author/co-author and editor of six books and numerous book chapters and articles on social policy and employment.
Moderator: Sheila D. Collins, Professor of Political Science at William Paterson University and co-founder of the National Jobs for All Coalition.
Video by Rebecca Rojer, http://rrrojer.net
ASHLEY/AMBER screening in Istanbul on March 19 & 28
Ashley/Amber will screen in Istanbul on March 19 & 28 at the AKBANK 8. KISA FILM FESTIVAL!
Ashley/Amber at the AKBANK 8. KISA FILM FESTIVAL
Akbank Sanat, Istiklal Cad. No:8 34435 Beyoglu-?stanbul
screening in International Section (A)
Monday 03/19/2012 at 18:30
&
Wednesday 03/28/2010 at 13:00
“In essence, Congress was putting handcuffs not on the people breaking the law, but on the agencies who were responsible for enforcing the laws.”
One of the interviews I shot in Kansas City last month at the Autopsy of a Financial Crisis conference at UMKC:
“The Banks Own Us” – Former Chief Accountant of the SEC Lynn Turner
ASHLEY/AMBER now on the Internet
I am so pleased to write that as of the past month, my short film has become outdated. Ashely/Amber is now a relic of another era.
The American protest movement has found it’s fighting spirit. Throughout the nation, the people are out in the streets. Normal people, by which I mean people who’ve never lived in a nudist cooperative house in the Bay Area, are debating the merits of consensus-based decision making and self-governance. We are openly asking: should we play by the rules, control our image, present a simple & easy message? Or is protest not just a means to an ends, but an assertion of democratic sovereignty, which therefore must accommodate the messiness of many opinions, values, and approaches?
The Occupy Movement has thus far negotiated this dilemma beautifully, adopting as its slogan a simple and appealing statement that asserts the rule of the people. The means is the end. We are the 99% and we want a government that represents us. So we assemble in the streets, and represent ourselves. But beyond the initial catharsis of overthrowing our apathy and helplessness, can we keep this going? I hope so, and I hope my film can contribute in some small way, if only to remind us of how impossible this moment felt half a year ago.
