| 15 Apr 2003: Art and Revolution Helps Residents File Their Taxes
(by Rachel M) Tax day! Hundreds of Santa Cruz residents filed into the post office to send off their tax forms, and Art and Revolution, along with other students and community members were there to meet them. Dressed as skeletons, continental soldiers, women covered in lace and blood, Bechtel and Halliburton and Uncle Sam, clad fully in American stripes with a huge $ sign on his back and oil containers chained to his feet and hands, they certainly upped the ante on paying their national dues. |
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| (Photos from the WAMM Medical Marijuana Handout in front of City Hall today; text from Edison Carter, ecarter@network-23.tv) Nine microwave trucks, and 2 satellite - one rumored to be CNN. Wow. LOTS of press. The crowd was easily 200-300 people. The entire front space of the City Hall property was packed to the sidewalk. Santa Cruz Art & Revolution performed several repetitions of a DEA drug raid skit. Great stuff. I couldn't even reach the front of the crowd watching the medical marijuana dispensation itself. It was just too heavy! So I settled for covering the crowd itself. |
There were even 3 anti-marijuana protesters around, maybe more (see bottom - hey, everyone deserves to be heard). Two of them carried their own signs. A third was some tall middle-aged guy in an Air Force t-shirt, engaging in the same sort of topical debate that I heard going on all around me. Everywhere in the crowd, healthy debate was raging.
Even the audience packed tightly around the main attraction, seemed to give a fresh round of cheering and applause as each of 10(?) patients stepped up one at a time to receive their medicine. Today's event was truly awesome. -- Edison |
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| (Photos and text from Edison Carter, ecarter@network-23.tv) SC Art Revolution Does Street Theatre Against Black Hawk Down Feb 9, 2002: Santa Cruz "Art & Revolution" performed a skit about US foreign intervention, in front of the Cinema 9 today to counter the story told in the new movie "Black Hawk Down". Guerrilla theater troop Santa Cruz Art & Revolution performed 3 runs of a 10 minute skit on US involvement in Somalia and Afghanistan tonight across from the Cinema 9 theater on Pacific Ave, around 6pm. Free popcorn was made available to the audience. Visiting Aussie street performer and uranium mining activist Diva Dingo also warmed the crowd up with her flamboyant costume and attitude while giving an expert bullwhip demonstration, before introducing each run of the skit. |
Meanwhile, informational flyers were passed out to the crowd across the street in front of the Cinema 9, presenting an alternate perspective on the story behind the movie "Black Hawk Down".
Three Santa Cruz police strolled through the area at one point, but there were no reports of interference or harrassment by them. At no time did activists block either foot or road traffic. .... -Edison |
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