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Entries in interventions (55)
Married To Corporate America
Friday, June 22, 2012 at 10:10PM FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRESS CONTACT: Leon Pease| leon.pease@gmail.com| 917-855-0285
B.S. Productions and Leon Pease Presents
Married To Corporate America:
A New Political Experiment To Test the Limits of Corporate Personhood in America
Married To Corporate America is a new political/social experiment meant to shine a light on the bizarre idea of corporate personhood and to question its very validity. The primary question posed by this project is that if corporations are people then should they be allowed to legally marry. In the following video I invite any American corporation to propose for my hand in marriage by sending me an email at
It is my goal to become legal married to an American corporation sometime with in the coming year. Any corporation, large and small may apply. Here is the link to the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d7yyP0C03Y
And this is a link to the projects blog
http://marriedtocorporateamerica.wordpress.com/
Leon Pease (Project Creator/Playwright/Actor) Leon Pease is a NYC based actor/writer. His many projects include working with the OWS group the Tax Dodgers as well as being the founder and artistic director of Theatre in a VAN! His writing credits with Theatre in a VAN! include, The Big Spill: A 10-Minute Musical about the BP Oil Spill, Gilgord, King of the Moontopians, The Subatomic Solution: A 10-Minute Musical Solution to the Conflict in the Middle East, and a new adaption of Bertolt Brecht’s The Elephant Calf. Last September he premiered his first full-length play Luminescent Blues at Theatre for the New City’s Dream Up festival. He also recently directed and produced a short play of his titled It’s A Wonder Anyone Gets Anything Done Anymore… for the Manhattan Repertory Theatre’s Spring One Act Competition. Leon has also co-written for projects with the Glass Bandits Theatre Company, which include In Memoriam: A Recession Play in 13 Acts, Hecuba the Bitch of Cynossema and The Best Laid Plans of Seamen.
concept, corporate personhood, marriage in interventions, projects Flamenco for Justice
Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 12:42PM Flamenco flashmob by flo6x8 inside a bank in Sevilla Spain to protest against the finacial system.
dance, protest in interventions Heads up gamers! Week of actions coming up.
Sunday, May 6, 2012 at 01:55PM 
Hey radical gamers, as a heads up there is a week of actions coming up soon. Below is the framework. Feel free to plug in. We definitely need some play all over this thing. The final day we take times square so definitely a good opportunity to make some awesome shit happen.
PLANNING, Revolutionary Games, actions in activism, fun, games, interventions OCCUPY THE LANDSCAPE
Sunday, May 6, 2012 at 01:04PM 
[CLICK IMAGE ABOVE FOR MORE INFO ON OCCUPY THE LANDSCAPE]
"People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take. - Emma Goldman
Twenty-One Days until OCCUPY THE LANDSCAPE
EVERY STEP WE TAKE TOGETHER COUNTS!
Register Today! [CLICK IMAGE BELOW]
"It takes some strength of soul—and not just individual strength, but collective understanding—to resist this void, this non-being, into which you are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard" - Adrienne Rich
All in for the 99%
Monday, April 23, 2012 at 09:13AM [Coverage at the Huffington Post and Wall Street Journal]
[From the video description]:
Hundreds of Angelenos unite to oppose "Citizens United vs FEC" - the 2010 Supreme Court decision that allowed corporations to make unlimited/undisclosed political contributions. Join our call for real campaign finance reform. Please share this video and Like "Stop Citizens United" on fb to help spread the word: http://facebook.com/StopCitizensUnited
Big thanks to Marisa Tomei and the hundreds of participants who came out on a Saturday morning (and stayed out in the rain for hours) to help make this video!
Produced by Interconnected
http://interconnected.is
http://facebook.com/interconnected.is
http://twitter.com/interconnectd
http://twitter.com/nirvan (director)
In collaboration with Air Evidence, GOOD, and Spectral Q
http://facebook.com/airevidence (octocopter wizards)
http://GOOD.is
http://SpectralQ.com (John Quigley - Aerial Artist)
Music: "Kopeika" from "The Agency of Missing Hearts" by et_
CC/NC/SA
SteadyCam: http://twitter.com/AmzaMoglan
99% Jelly Bean art by Mark Blackwell
Made at http://allinforthe99percent.org
http://StopCitizensUnited.org
Citizen's United, Los Angeles in activism, interventions OPEN CALL: FREE ART FOR FAIR EXCHANGE AT THE 2012 ARMORY SHOW
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 11:51AM 
Piers 92 & 94, New York City
Saturday and Sunday, March 10th & 11th
1-4pm
FB event page
Occupy Museums invites all artists and non-artists to join a mobile exchange art fair on the sidewalk outside of this year’s Armory Show in New York City. Participants are encouraged to bring items such as paintings, drawings, sculpture, conceptual art, crafts, food, and other objects to exchange with Armory attendees and each other. We particularly welcome modes of exchange are not based on profit.
This week from Yes Lab in NYC
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 02:29AM 
Dear New Yorker,
Two treats for you: an all-star revolutionary panel this evening (Thursday), and hilarious clown fun this Saturday.
1. This Saturday evening, come prepare fun, funny, and media-savvy actions for F29 with Occupy's newest venture, the +Brigades. BYOB. Beware of clowns. Spread the word!
- Date: Saturday, Feb. 25, 7pm
- Where: Judson Church (Thompson St. entrance), New York City
2. Tonight (Thursday), come seriously consider how change happens, the role of electoral politics, the nature of revolution, and other big questions. Moderated by Nation editor Richard Kim, the panel will include Richard Schechner, Yotam Marom, Chaia Heller, and Nelini Stamp. Bring ID!
- Date: Thursday, Feb. 23, 7pm
- Where: Hemispheric Institute (20 Cooper Square, 5th floor), New York City
- More info: www.yeslab.org/cat
See you soon!
Your friends at the Yes Lab
[Also, from the Yes Lab blog]:
yes lab in discussion, interventions The People's Puppets of Occupy Wall Street - Creation of Neighborhood Heights
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 09:25AM 
Puppets, art action, performance, subways in interventions, puppets OWS Space Team Presents: Valentine's Day @Hyperallergic
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 04:26PM Occupy Wall Street: Wall Street is ALL (!) Streets from SpontaneousAutonomousCreativity on Vimeo.
arts and culture, screening, space team in archives, interventions New Photos by Paul Talbot!
Sunday, February 12, 2012 at 12:08PM 
From: [CPAC 2012 Tax Dodgers socialize with the 1%, Walmart run for President!]
See more in the OwA Photos section!
PPaul Talbot, ows, photography in PHOTOS, activism, interventions Tax Dodgers [GE]
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 04:12PM Uploaded by NEREphotography on Feb 1, 2012
The Tax Dodgers are a group of street theater performers and activists that are going around to different major corporations and playing out farces around the amount of money the corporation and chief operators of those organizations make. They express in a funny but informative way how corporations make billions and pay no taxes, get government money, but still fire people while paying no taxes and giving the upper management pay raises.
Paul Talbot, street theater, tax dodgers in interventions, street theater [#j27]: MoMA Intervention; Video, Photos & Re-enactment by Paul Talbot
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 06:02PM 
Click the image to see the photoset in OwA Photos
RE-ENACTMENT:
BANNER, MoMA, OCCUPY MUSEUMS, arts and labor in activism, art and work, interventions 16 Beaver Group's Midwinter Retreat
Friday, January 20, 2012 at 11:35PM [NOTE: 16 Beaver conducted a forum from January 7-15. Below is an excerpt. To review the propositions, click HERE.]
WELCOME TO THE NEW PARADIGM
or THE CRISIS OF EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE
A midwinter retreat, a modular molecular seminar
with Everyone
[SAMPLE PROGRAM]
Day 3 : Monday (09.01)
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Body Practices : Spatial Politics
"to attack the body is to attack the right itself, since the right is precisely what is exercised by the body on the street"
The use of Bodies and (in) Space have been two critical elements of the emergent political movements of 2011 (eternal?). This day will be dedicated to thinking about the spatial practices which have emerged over the last year. We would like to invite all those interested in these issues to join us. We will begin with a walk that will enter a kind of taxonomy of the sites and practices which have emerged this last Fall. We also hope the walk will also be a way to activate and enter the conversation which will take place in the evening, oriented toward some questions about the role of space and the use of bodies in liberating spaces, reasserting a common right to the city, and potentially blocking the flow of relentless enclosure.
Pt. 1 (walk) 5:30-7:30PM
Meet at 16 Beaver at 5:00
Pt. 2 (discussion) 8PM
Bodies and Spaces Matter: On Spatial Politics, Spatial Practices and the Performativity of Reclaiming the Common(s)
Squares, parks, streets, bridges, ports, banks, factories, offices, campuses, museums, gardens, farms, forests, rivers, atmospheres, houses, apartments, community centers, neighborhoods, zoning districts, cities, towns, villages, camps... No space is ever neutral; every space is governed in some form or another by various combinations of institutional and economic power at local, national, and planetary scales. In some cases, these spatio-political relationships are brutally evident, while in others they may be obscure, illegible, or simply taken for granted in the course of everyday life. From the encampments of Tahrir Square to the foreclosed homes of East New York and beyond, the movements of the past year have brought questions of spatial politics to the forefront of theory and practice, strategy and tactics.
These movements have involved the performative appropriation and transformation of physical spaces--whether officially designated "public," "private" or something in-between-- for common occupation and use. In doing so they have also necessarily raised questions about what Judith Butler, following Hannah Arendt, has recently called "the space of public appearance": who can appear where and when, doing what, and what are the conditions for this appearance? Social media networks and the spaces they create have clearly been one of the necessary enabling conditions for recent movements; but commentators have sometimes overemphasized the latter at the expense of "real" bodies assembling in physical spaces--and the forms of violence to which these assembling bodies have been subjected by police and security forces.
Given the central role bodies in space have played in the encampments and occupation movements, we thought to begin the weeday discussions with a focused inquiry into new uses of space and our bodies in the context of political struggle inside the city.
The evening will include a performative contribution to the debate by Randy Martin.
Among the questions to be explored this Monday include:
-- Does the meaning of "occupation" necessarily involve physical encampment of the sort that took place at Zuccotti Park?
-- What forms of life are prefigured in such occupations, and how might they relate to the transformation of political and economic life at larger scales?
-- What are some emerging spatio-political possibilities for New York as we enter the new year?
-- What have the spatial practices of these last months of occupy and experiments globally brought to the fore in terms of our thinking around the use of space?
-- How do they relate to or differ from the bodily ‘repertoires’ and spatial practices of past social movements?
-- What qualities do we associate with the postures, gestures, bodily movements we see in these movements?
-- How might techniques of physical occupation – including sleeping, eating, and reproducing life in a specific space – be understood as political speech in its own right?
-- How to understand these encampments both as temporarily ‘utopian’ realized places, where new - and more horizontal - sociabilities and redistribution of labor ‘immediately’ occur and also as sites of resistance, highly mediatized and completely surounded by the police? ...........(i don´t like this formulation but... how can we say something of this kind?)
-- What techniques of resistance and participation are being rehearsed here?
-- What have these processes revealed about the role of our bodies in the space of the city, in the space of political struggle?
--How to address the struggles for and through the use of space and body in light of the force and violence employed by the police body?
-- Is the occupation and liberation of new space in the city critical for sustaining these movements?
-- What kind of small-scale spatial experiments may potentially contribute to longer term goals of the movements?
-- What does it mean to occupy a space (like this), assembling (like this), and moving - or not moving (like this)?
-- What spaces are being contested and which new spaces are being created?
-- What are people fighting for when they struggle for these spaces?
-- How can these bodies -sleeping, eating, occupying … temporarly living there- be understood as signifying or embodying?
-- How is this “being there in person” different from representing …a political party, an agenda, a group of interests?
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16 Beaver, SEMINAR, WORKSHOP in WORKSHOP, discourse, discussion, interventions Great #j13 MoMA Action Coverage at ARTFAGCITY
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 01:23PM 
Occupy Museums meeting beneath Sanja Iveković's "Lady Rosa of Luxembourg"
[EXCERPT]:
On Friday night, Occupy Museums — in conjunction with Arts and Labor, 16 Beaver, and Occupy Sotheby’s – conducted an exceptionally clear and efficient GA under Sanja Iveković’s controversial feminist monument Lady Rosa of Luxembourg, while a small group from Arts and Labor demonstrated with OWS banners and a flugelhorn outside the museum. Though “this isn’t Wall Street” was the general response from museum visitors, articulate speakers pinpointed specific issues. Feasible goals were set. The crowd, of about fifty people in the atrium and a combined sixty looking down from MoMA’s three landings, included a notable increase in women and academics.
MoMA, OCCUPY MUSEUMS, arts and labor in interventions #J13 #OCCUPYMUSEUMS #OCCUPYWALLSTREET - MoMA BANNER DROP @ DIEGO RIVERA EXHIBIT
Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 08:52AM Uploaded by RhodesPictures on Jan 14, 2012
MoMA is exhibiting work from one of the most renowned Mexican painters of the twentieth century, Diego Rivera. Diego influenced by the Mexican Revolution and the Russian Revolution, believed that art should play a role in empowering working people to understand their own histories. Meanwhile MoMA buys and sells millions of dollars in art at Sotheby's auction house. Sotheby's has locked out 43 Local 814 union art handlers, claiming they are unable to negotiate a new contract with them. "The auctioneer proposed cutting the handlers' workweek to 36 1/4 hours from 38 3/4 hours and increasing the number of temporary laborers, according to both sides. The union said new work rules would decrease eligibility for overtime, resulting in take-home pay declining 5 percent to 15 percent. Temporary workers without medical or pension benefits would replace unionized art handlers as they retire or find other jobs. Chief Executive Officer William Ruprecht, yearly salary doubled in 2010 to $6 million dollars."
http://www.sothebysbadforart.com/content/
- See post at Ken Vallario's blog: "When Art is a luxury…Art is a lie!"
MoMA, OCCUPY MUSEUMS, arts and labor, interventions in art and work, interventions, protests Occupy George
Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 04:08PM 
Click the image to visit the Occupy George website.
Click HERE to read about Occupy George at Hyperallergic.
Hyperallergic, money, occupy george in interventions Un-Settling Occupation, December 29, 2011
Tuesday, December 27, 2011 at 10:30PM 
Please join Occupy Wall St. at IRONDALE on the evening of December 29th 2011 as we connect the colonial occupation of Manhattan to Occupy Wall Street— an occupation of already occupied land. We are taking action on this day, on the 121st anniversary of the massacre at Wou...nded Knee, in order to initiate an open dialogue with indigenous Americans, to raise local and national awareness of ongoing Native struggles, and to recognize that the injustices and inequalities we all currently confront are the bricks and mortar of conquest and settler colonialism.
The Smell of a Critical Moment [Update]
Tuesday, December 27, 2011 at 09:11PM Below is a proposal that was presented at Arts and Culture a few weeks ago, and is in progress...
sophia marisa n. lucas
Occupy Staten Island, exhibition, participation in interventions 