Welcome to Poetic Terrorism--a new method of communication. A new vocabulary for resistance. We're opening a new front in the war against soundbytes and corporate catchphrases, because it's impossible to think when your words are controlled by discourse that is manufactured by imperialist corporations and sold to us wholesale in our schools and TVs. Bullshit shoved down our throats by government spokespeople and paid advertising--WE (you) have something to say, SAY IT!
Poetic Terrorism is profoundly nonviolent. It is the resistance of our voices. We are controlled by a submersion tank of manufactured ideas--by the media repeating the talking points of the government.
Poetic terrorism is about bringing the art of resistance into every facet of our lives. Live your life loudly. 'There is no becoming, no revolution, no struggle, no path; already you're the monarch of your own skin--your inviolable freedom waits to be completed only by the love of other monarchs: a politics of dream, urgent as the blueness of sky.'--Hakim Bey
This blog is open to anyone's words and ideas. If you would like to post, email jed.bickman@gmail.com to let me know--I'll give you privileges and then you can post whatever you want.
It's very important that everyone (if anyone reads this blog) to go to the Underground on Wed. night at 9:00 pm. Myles Lennon will be rhyming, which, if you've never seen him before, is the most amazing thing you will ever see in your life. I will also do a few poems which I hope will go over well. Peace Jed
Clean Elections, Dirty Music and Ex-Cons WEDNESDAY 9pm free @ the underground
hip-hop and spoken word spotlighting the Rhode Island Clean Elections campaign and the campaign to end felon disenfranchisement
feat. hip-hop from Broad St. Studio, word! poets and the grandstylings of Andrew Fox
if you like democracy, or are pissed about the fact that 20% of black men in rhode island can't vote, if you don't like democracy but you like hip-hop and talent, if you think corporations shouldn't write laws and that 'one man one vote' should mean more than 'one dollar one vote,' if you like poetry and impassioned people, and/or if you have sympathy for a group of idealistic kids that've been trying to run an all-out statewide campaign out of their own pockets and on their own steam....
then come show support show love.
cosponsored by students for sensible drug policy and democracy matters
for more info call @ 510.914.1200 www.cleanelectionsri.org
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