Softening the Message of a Hard Truth

This was originally posted at the Anarchy In Your Head comic and blog website on 8/18/2008.

“If your art can get more press for anarchy, I won’t have to get arrested so often.”
– Lauren Canario

I got what I consider a very good comment on a recent comic strip- I Aim to Misbehave, that deserves a proper response. The comic focuses on a controversial activist, Lauren Canario, known for refusing to participate in driver licensing and car registrations, among other things, to the point of being arrested. It brought up some very good points about how we communicate our ideas. The videos of Lauren embedded with that entry get quite a lot of views and some of the YouTube comments responding to the videos make it clear that many people just don’t get it. Obviously she’s trying to make a powerful statement with her actions and it’s important that people get the message.

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First Monthly Fully Informed Jury Outreach

Yesterday marked the beginning of what I hope becomes a monthly reoccurring event: Keene FIJA Outreach.

In the morning, four area activist and myself, gathered in front of the Cheshire County Court house in Keene to hand out Fully Informed Jury fliers to people entering the court house. The reception seemed (more…)

COMMUNITY PUBLIC ACCESS, FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS THREATENED IN MONADNOCK REGION

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 31 October 2007

Contact: Lee Perkins, Director, Cheshire TV (603) 283-6621
PRESS CONFERENCE: Heberdon Hall, Winter St, Keene, NH on Thursday, November 1, 8:30a

COMMUNITY PUBLIC ACCESS, FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS
THREATENED IN MONADNOCK REGION

(Keene, NH) Residents of this picture-perfect New England city best known for the annual Pumpkin Festival may lose their local community access channel, Cheshire TV, if mogul Time Warner Cable does not honor and amend its franchise agreement with the City of Keene.

Most pressing is that Cheshire TV will run out of money in about 30 days. (more…)

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Another email to Representative Burridge

The following is an email I sent to representative Burridge regarding his conduct and HB92

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Dear Representative Burridge,

I would like to take the time to write you regarding your stand on HB92, as well as your remarks to my colleague, Toby Iselin.

You claim to represent the people here in Keene. As such, you must be approachable. Your constituents must trust that they can approach you with their concerns about pending legislation. You have betrayed that trust by forwarding a constituent’s email to the local police department.

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Another response to Rep. Burridge

Count me in as someone who astounded at Mr. Burridge’s reply to Toby’s email. I not only covered this on WKBK this morning (shameless plug: go to wkbkam.com and select streaming audio to hear the show) but drafted my own response to him. I’ve also been trying to reach Executive Councilor Deb Pignatelli about Mr. Burridge’s conduct toward one of his constituents. Her office number is 603-888-5245 but has been out of order today, probably due to the ice storm. Below is my email response. (more…)