Andre Breton,
quoting Rimbaud, in his speech 'What is surrealism?':
Rimbaud say: "Jamais je ne travaillerai, ô flots
de feu!" and also: "La main à plume vaut la main à
charrue. Quel siècle à mains! Je n'aurai jamais ma
main!" [Never will I work, O torrents of flame! The hand that
writes is worth the hand that ploughs! What a century of hands! I
will never lift my hand!]
And so we have
- a '"day
of mourning" in front of the entrance to the Hannaford
supermarket on Route 9W in Kingston [NY] ... [where] Members of the
singing group Voices for Peace will attend, as well as members of
the anti-war group Women in Black. Artwork protesting the ongoing
war in Iraq will be displayed.
- at the inauguration,
the Rhythm Workers Union, ... banging on steel drums and dancing in
mud-caked boots
- a
more profound and subtle message: 'Turn Your Back On Bush', and
'Not One Damn Dime' (Ann
Althouse calls it 'lame' and quotes Snopes: 'one of
the least effective forms of symbolic protest one could devise: it
literally proposes that people do nothing, and doing nothing
generates little, if any, publicity or news coverage'), whose
participants 'will not spend any money today and also will not go
to work.' They're coming by bus
all the way from Madison, Wisconsin.
- BushBlackOut.com,
which calls for folks to '[black] out your website or blog for the
day and displaying a short message of protest'. (HT to Blogs for
Bush)
-
a recent coordinating meeting ... got bogged down in making a
decision about whether the group had the power to make
decisions.
"We just go with the flow," antiwar activist Jose J.
Rodriguez of Alexandria announced in the middle of the two-hour
meeting, undaunted. "We're like water going downhill. They can't
stop us."
Quite a relevant simile, a torrent of water sweeping everything
before itself. Poetic actually, as in asinine.
UPDATE:
Michelle Malkin
mentions the Backbone Campaign, and
philly.com
has this detail:
A group of activists under the banner of The Backbone
Campaign plans on Friday to deliver a 70-foot puppet of a human
spine to the Democratic National Committee, urging stronger
opposition to the GOP.
This is the headquarters Terry McAuliffe built, the man who
proudly said
[I] will leave a legacy behind of a 21st century party
with a brand new state of the art national headquarters, a new 175
million name data file, an organization that is debt free for the
first time in decades, a 10 million name e mail list -- up from
70,000 when I became chairman and five times as many small donors
as when I started.
Got that Joe?
I hope there will be photos of this Backbone Campaign event. When I
search google news for Backbone Campaign the closest item
returned is
Building
The Next Paul Wellstone.
Will they drop it off? Will it be papier mache? Symbolism works
best if it is original and subtle, though.