Revelations: “Our Best Weapon is Sunlight…”
Will Potter: The shocking move to criminalize nonviolent protest Green Is the New Red Drone on the Farm Campaign, Kickstarter (33)
Revelations: The Pale Blue Dot
Audiobook, Carl Sagan, h/t @eleaticstranger (13)
Revelations: The Mayor of Castro Street
Harvey Milk Stamps ~ Forever 49 cents n 1977, Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, making him one of the first openly gay elected officials in the United States. His career was tragically cut short nearly a year after he took office, when he and San…
Revelations: The Defiance of Flowers
“War kills people and destroys human creation; but as though mocking war’s devastation, flowers inevitably bloom through its ruins.” ~ from “The First Decoration Day” by David W. Blight, 2011. The People’s History of Memorial Day, Zinn Education Project. (8)
Revelations: Deus Ex Machina
We Animals, by Jo-Anne McArthur “We Animals is an ambitious project which documents, through photography, animals in the human environment. Humans are as much animal as the sentient beings we use for food, clothing, research, experimentation, work, entertainment, slavery and companionship. With this as its premise, We Animals aims to…
Revelations: Mother’s Day
Earth Song, Michael Jackson (9)
Revelations: Witness
Crow Keepers of Stonehenge, 2009 from Easter, 1916 William Butler Yeats “Hearts with one purpose alone Through summer and winter seem Enchanted to a stone To trouble the living stream. The horse that comes from the road, The rider, the birds that range From cloud to tumbling cloud, Minute by…
Revelations: The Rite of Spring
Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, Animated Graphical Score Milestones of the Millennium, NPR Stravinksy, Nijinsky and Riots in Paris, 1913 (15)