Category: news

  • new Stone Rangers

    My longest-lasting friend Stone Ranger from 1971 or 2 been warping some of my fotos into his collages. I’ll post later some of his Stone Ranger & Snorto cartoons from the early 1970’s Here are his latest:

  • (a few news headlines from the past 3 months)

    Didn’t want to post these police brutality headlines selected from the past three months because they are so negative and depressing. But it’s what we see everyday, see and read and watch and hear. The police are a para-military force whose primary purpose is to protect the possessions of the rich . . . their […]

  • happiness can happen

    Status Report 37 The daily news obscures the views that happiness can happen. – Smith, 7.9.2015

  • the crime is not stealing big enough

    There’s an open poetry reading Sunday at Rooms To Let art installation 2 pm at 3810 E. 71 St., Cleveland, OHIO hosted by Smith & Lady in the Chiplis room I would imagine, or elsewhere outside, depending on how many come no sign up, just read if and when you feel Rooms to Let art […]

  • Black History Month Poems – 2

      Tamir dropped like a rag doll in two seconds Video with no sound The camera, horrified, had to watch this movie and it did so, dutifully doling out chunks a faithful guardian Lungs knocked out throat silent pungent scream wheezing burning sympathy goads many to do something Please come all to gentle tableland of […]

  • Occupation Station

    Tonight’s occupy Cleveland General Assembly meeting – foto Smith Just stood in the cold for an hour for tonight’s Occupy Cleveland General Assembly so Lady could offer a proposal to help slow down a bank evicting a woman with cancer. It was 29 degrees Fahrenheit but felt like 16 according to weather.com. It’s going down […]

  • Daily Digest – Sunday, Nov. 20 – Toward the Sky

    Mayors Conspired to Close Occupy Wall Street Encampments * Today’s (Sunday’s) Events * Please Speak out Against Violence Against Dogs, Arrests and Other Inappropriate Actions in NY * Recap Links * Important Movement Needs Raised 11/15-11/17 * Possible Community Meetings with Police * Call for Help with Winter Occupation Quarters, Volunteers and Food * Call for Help to Stop Garbage Incinerator * Fresh Facilitators Wanted * Upcoming Events of Note * Meetings / WAGs * Current Haves and Needs * More Reading / Links * Call for Information

  • Extra Extra Read All About It ! ! ! ! ! ! !

    Member No Solicit – foto by Smith Not enough monkey business going on, way too much serious shoots sprouting unspring-like. So, let’s lighten the load with some odiously odd and seriously silly headlines I’ve harvested from the news sevices these past three years. With headlines like these, no wondfer Monty Python disbanded — they couldn’t […]

  • Letter to the Universe: Ironboltbruce and the 15 Issues of the Occupy Movement

    Ironboldbruce has created a personalized take on each of the 15 issues and positions identified by the Occupy Movement. Positions range from from ending war to human rights to the rights of the environment.

  • No 9-1-1 for me please, I’m on the wagon

    Abolish death – foto by Smith Ten years ago when I first watched the hijackers crash two airplanes into the World Trade Center Towers, my first response was awe at how people with no army, no money, no war equipment and few soldiers had turned the might of the mightiest military power on the planet […]