{ see below for info on street art in this poster } … XLterrestrials presents CiTiZEN KiNO #42: “The Occupied Territories” < Friday, Jan. 30th > At: Station 40 3030b 16th Street, SF, CA. 21:00h – 19:30h by Donation ______ CiTiZEN KiNO is a Berlin-based series of events to inspire collective intelligence and new forms of arts + praxis. A hybrid of film, internet, theater, hacker culture and public forum to analyze and strategize around urgent social issues. Currently on tour in the US.

… “I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.

… Ridley Scott’s making Philip K. Dicks’s Man In The High Castle … for BBC TV and now via Amazon. Perhaps you’ve already noticed: Episode 1 is already available. The image above is, in part, taken from one of the original covers for PKD’s 1962 Hugo award-winning alternate history tale in which the Axis powers are present within the US as the victors of WW2. It weaves an ingenious social analysis of a totalitarian state from that odd and uncomfortably close scenario.

… { Photo was taken in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where children bathe in water that is contaminated with lead paint and scrap metal. One of the places where retired and abandoned cargo ships -that transport products across the globe to feed our civilization’s consumer addictions – end up to be “recycled”. S. Salgado? } … An investigative analysis of the 1% dreams for the future. … work-in-progress When The 1% Start Singing Whalesongs … In the Long Now… Run ! ( part 1 )

… Now THere’s A Sharp Pen ! #CharlieHebdo No, we don’t mean the cartoon artist above – Mark Knight, Herald Sun, we mean the incredible analysis provided by Corey Oakley in REDFLAG, an Alternative Socialist newspaper out of Australia. His piece is called Charlie Hebdo and the hypocrisy of pencils … And it’s like this whole can of worms, and all the debates we’ve been getting into on this squirmy matter, have finally been given the proper context and a fully articulated light.

( vj podinski mix of an Ai WeiWei portrait * ) … -work-in-progress - Dysneytopia Coincidentally the same week we went to go see the Ai WeiWei exhibition on Alcatraz, we got a couple emails about a razor sharp talk at #31c3 – The 31st Chaos Communications Congress – by Hans de Zwart, a civil rights activist with @bitsoffreedom. A presentation about living under permanent surveillance, which is not just the state of the famed Beijing artist embattled with the Chinese govt.