Action
“…beat the gong of revolt, and stop with fugitives and them that plot and conspire.” –Walt Whitman

Wall Street Occupation 2009

Direct Action at the Mexican Consulate following the 2006 Oaxaca Uprising and the assassination of my long-time friend and collaborator Brad Will.

July 31st, 2003, Qalqilya, Occupied Palestine: The Israeli army announced completion of Stage 1 of their separation wall. We launched a nonviolent direct action that included a high flying banner, paint balloons and graffiti, and hundreds of Israeli and Palestinian peace activists trying to greet each through a gate blockaded by tanks and soldiers.

September 12, 2002: Earth to Bush Action. This is the day that President George W. Bush first argued before the UN that we must wage war in Iraq.

Esperanza Blockade: In 1999, we created a six-month blockade to defend a community garden in the East Village. Homesteaders, anarcho-punks, environmentalists, students and others tended a bonfire and erected an aerial fort in the shape of el coqui, a frog that in scares away invaders in Puerto Rican legends. Defying court orders, Mayor Giuliani sent hundreds of police officers to remove us, along with a bulldozer to raze the garden. As a result, the judge in the case, along with the state attorney general, Elliot Spitzer, were so enraged that they put a temporary moratorium on the destruction of all community gardens in New York.