This is an excerpt. Download the entire mini-zine (print and web formats) as .pdf attachments below.
'Suggested Donation' was created for distribution and/or display in volunteer-run not-for-profit spaces. It is intended to deepen the conversation around monetary support of anti-capitalist space and lengthen the vision of a market-free world. It consists of 8 small pages and was produced in 2008.
enjoy.
Seth Tobocman
I recently coordinated a presentation of work by Seth Tobocman at the Sanctuary for Indpendent Media. I had heard Seth's name exalted in radical circles during my time in NYC, but never had any opportunity or reason to meet him. I knew him, as I suspect most people do, by his work on a collection of comics called World War 3 Illustrated and a graphic novel (big thick comic book) called War in the Neighborhood, which is pretty much the definitive history of the Tompkins square riots - told truthfully and powerfully and visually.
RPI - where I currently teach as adjunct arts faculty - has oficially banned the Iraqi artist, Wafaa Bilal's exhibition after its opening on Wed. (Mar. 5, 2008) night. It seems like a pretty stupid move, but in a sense is not surprising given the funding and support that RPI receives from the military, and its pivotal role in the military-industrial complex. It has sparked a bit of an outrage. If you want to write to the president to voice your opinion, go ahead.... president@rpi.edu
Both yesterday and today i received handmade articles from wonderful friends in diferent parts of the world. The parts of the world are Cambodia and Argentina; the friends are my dear ex-housemate, bandmate, studiomate, kitchenmate, etc., Eliza Jane Curtis and Anne Elizabeth Moore, the famous-in-some-circles (that seems to be a term i use often) writer and zinester and ex-editor of Punk Planet (admitted namedrop, there). Here's the wonderful things they sent me.
This is a hand printed letter from EJC talking about haw f&^%ng hot it is in Argetina and how excited she is to come and put her creative energy into our house in Troy. That makes me happy. I love Eiiza. check out her blog from BA here
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