Tag Archives: Bobby Seale

fanon: stoking the flames of freedom

Frantz Fanon and the Wretched of the Earth. A prophet scorned. Fifty years after Frantz Fanon’s death, there is still an audience for this theorist of revolution. Question is, are the ideas relevant in an era of post-modernism?… …But prophets … Continue reading

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then and now…

by Art Chantry: the black panther logo. designed by emory douglas (with input from bobby seale). an american classic. an icon. …don’t forget the ‘white panthers’ (john sinclair’s organization around the MC5). they simply used the thing in white against … Continue reading

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leave it to cleaver: the guy next door

by Art Chantry: eldridge cleaver was one heck of a guy. a serial rapist who repudiated rape while in prison (soledad, san quentin and folsom prisons – all notoriously nasty places). he wrote a series of important essays that were … Continue reading

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genet: delaying the punch-line

Jean Genet:”A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness” Genet’s stage is a space where politics and metaphysics collide, and partly fuse.Some of it sticks to the wall. Like … Continue reading

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kicking the can down the road: again

There is no doubt that poverty is degrading, and through force, legislation, moral suasion,manipulation, blackmail,  soft euthanasia, and “gaming” democracy and elementary social responsibility we have gloriously succeeded in creating the scenario for economic collapse and social and political insurrection. … Continue reading

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most wanted: america’s got talent

Most wanted posters. An aesthetic of crime ?….. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): Angela Davis still has my vote for the best ‘fro of all time. Man, look at this wanted poster! That is the flat-out coolest mug shot ever! I have … Continue reading

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The Merchant of Venice Plying Big Muddy Waters

Huckleberry Finn is in the public domain.It is unchained and off the perils of indentured labor. Its simply reality television, unfettered by broadcast license and restrictions thrown back at in an untransformed state. This is not hate literature; it was … Continue reading

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DARK KNIGHTS & THE LAST OF THE WHITE COLD LOVERS

”I’d been prepped for understanding by my parents and grandparents, who constantly spoke of the regressive, racially pathological south. They took me to South Carolina almost every summer throughout my youth. I had seen and experienced the ugliness and petty … Continue reading

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ANARCHISTS WHO RUN WITH WOLVES

… and occasionally ride camels. Nearly all exponents of anarchism, for example, have used the term to refer to a natural state of society in which people are not governed by submission to humanmade laws or to any external authority. … Continue reading

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