Ana and the Calabash- now in full color! Click to read the comic at RosettaStoneComic.com
Ana and the Calabash is a fictional story based on real events in the Toledo district of southern Belize. To learn more about Maya land rights read our Manifesto.
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Photo taken 1-20-09
The New York Indypendent sponsored this inauguration day event, allowing passers-by in Union Square to hurl shoes at Dubya’s head for a dollar a toss. Proceeds benefited war widows and orphans in Iraq. The painting by Rebecca Migdal did not survive.
“See that curb over there? There is still some blood on it from where my friend hit his head when a trooper pushed him down on it.”
The telephone rang in the campus minister’s parsonage in San Diego. It was a long distance call for me from Montgomery, Alabama, from the steering committee of the National Methodist Student Movement. They were calling all seven of the MSM Regional Directors to see if we would join the MSM students and national staff in Montgomery for the end of the Selma to Montgomery march. I was the Methodist Student Movement Western Regional Director then, in the Spring of 1965, as well as the Wesley Foundation Director and Methodist Campus Minister at San Diego State University.
Could I come the next day and stay for several days? Take your time and think it over, the voice said—take as long as three minutes; we will hold. My first thought was of the people who had been beaten up and killed, including a Unitarian minister, James Reeb. My next thought was that this was indeed the voice of God calling me to stand up for what I believed. I could not say no with a clear conscience to this request. After all, I strongly believed in the civil rights movement, in the struggle for racial equality, and Martin Luther King, Jr., was one of my heroes. After quickly consulting with my wife, I said I would come. We would figure out later how to pay for the plane fare. It was the right thing to do.
The next day, dressed in the campus ministers uniform of the time, a clerical collar and a tweedy sport coat, with my sleeping bag under my arm, I flew to Montgomery. Of course I had to change planes in Atlanta. Everyone who flies in that direction has to change planes in Atlanta. There is a Southern joke that when you die, you first have to change planes in Atlanta before you can go to heaven.
Waiting for my plane to Montgomery, I was strolling around the Atlanta airport terminal. When I passed a group of about five airport workers, all white males, I heard one of the say in a loud whisper to the others, Look, theres a beatnik priest! Good grief, I thought, A beatnik priest?
Standing in line for the plane, a young woman with a huge handbag was in front of me. She turned around and asked, Where are you staying tonight? Startled, I said, I don’t know. Why? She replied that she didn’t know she was staying, either, and was looking for a place. She was a Jewish nurse from New York City whose doctor employers had given her a few days off so she could be present at the end of the march in Montgomery. Her huge handbag was filled with medical supplies they had contributed. She wanted to be there, she said, just in case she was needed.
Yep, you really can throw shoes at a sneering portrait of Dubya (painted by yours truly) Tuesday at Union Square in NYC.
Shoe Target by Rebecca Migdal
Get your kicks for $1 a throw on Tuesday, January 20, inauguration day, at the south side of Union Square in Manhattan from 11 AM-2 PM. The event is sponsored by the Indyendent, and proceeds will benefit Iraqi refugees.
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Arts For Social Justice Holiday Party and Sale
Click here to EXHIBIT, PERFORM or VOLUNTEER
Schedule of events:
Saturday December 13th, 11-8
11 AM - 8 PM
-Art for Darfur -art show and sale benefiting Doctors Without Borders
-Amnesty International Write-A-Thon - write letters to free prisoners of conscience
-Bake Sale
-Organic candy, Fair trade costumes and accessories
11:30 AM - 2:30 PM
-Stationery Printing Workshop
3 PM - 6 PM
-Christmas Ornament-Making
-Face Painting
6 PM - 8 PM
-Music, Poetry and Performance open mic
-Silent Auction
Click here to EXHIBIT, PERFORM or VOLUNTEER
-make art, have fun and save lives
The event is taking place at:
Rebecca Migdal Studio,
Paper City Studios, 80 Race St. Floor 3, Holyoke
This is a terrific video created of Amnesty entitled “Bullet- The Execution”.
It won a Silver Lion at Cannes. Just watch it!
Click Here for more Amnesty International videos with great animation.
Want to do you part to help save lives and free prisoners of conscience? Gonzo Comix and Tours is sponsoring a Write-A-Thon in Holyoke on December 13th. It’s going to be a great time, with a stationery printing workshop, open mic, a letter-writing party, and even Rebecca’s famous homemade pie! See below for details.
Feel the Love! Send the Love!
***OPEN CALL***
Please pass this on to all artists, craftspeople and musicians, and anyone else who might be interested in participating in the event.
Tidings of Joy-
Arts For Social Justice Holiday Party and Sale
-make art, have fun and save lives!
Saturday December 13th, 11-7
at Rebecca Migdal Studio, Paper City Studios, 80 Race St. Floor 3, Holyoke
FEATURING
-Art for Darfur -art show and sale benefiting Doctors Without Borders
-Amnesty International Write-A-Thon - write letters to free prisoners of conscience
-Stationery Printing Workshop
-Christmas Ornament-Making
-Bake Sale; Coffee, Tea, Hot Spiced Cider
-Organic candy, Fair trade costumes and accessories
-Music, Poetry and Performance open mic
Amazing links to the YES MEN, Bureaucrash and more!
Everybody’s talking about the spoof New York Times (this link is to a pdf) distributed last week, announcing the end of the Iraq war. The major entity involved in the spoof was a media activist group called the Yes Men. They also created a spoof NY Times web site.
I had the privilege of meeting Yes Man extraordinaire Andy Bichlbaum last night at a screening of their documentary film.
Andy Bichlbaum demonstrates the “Employee Visualization Appendage” in Helsinki
After my heady indoctrination into the world of Yes-Manigans I did some research, and I found out that the Yes Men did a spoof involving “Captain Euro“ - a strangely naziesque comic/cartoon action hero, created by PR firm Twelve Stars Corporate Vision Strategists, advocating Eurofederalism to children.
The mission of Captain Euro is to "successfully eradicate any possibility for divergence from the common vision" of the European Union.
Apparently the Yes Men dressed up as Captain Euro characters and interviewed real children in London. Then they showed up at the offices of the PR agency, were welcomed, and asked the questions (without revealing their source.) Twelve Star’s Eduardo DeSantis was delighted to answer, and finally proclaimed “This is what I like about America. Any idea is accepted - without discussion!”
This wonderful video features art, photographs and animation documenting the draconian police state conditions in Oaxaca during the famous Teachers Strike. There’s great music and the gorgeously macabre imagery may give you chills-it does it for me.
Enjoy!
One morning, when Ana went to pick beans in her parent's milpa, she heard a loud noise...
Papa spoke politely to the driver of the bulldozer, asking him to please stop destroying their farm.
Introducing a new feature comic from Gonzo Comix. Ana and the Calabash was created by Rebecca Migdal for the Julian Cho Society of Toledo District, Belize.