Tag Archives: direct action

How many people would it take push down the Confederate flag over the South Carolina Capitol?

By Mark | June 20, 2015

Originally, I was thinking that we could just swarm the flag with a hundred drones outfitted with razorblades, operated from nearby vans. And I still like the visual of the Confederate flag being shredded to ribbons as police officers tried unsuccessfully to knock the drones from the sky with rocks. The more that I think […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged call to action, Confederate flag, flagpoles, flash mob, racism, South Carolina | 18 Comments

Operation Foggy Monocle

By Mark | July 8, 2012

In the wake of a global warming-related rant that I posted a few days ago, it occurred to me that nothing is likely to change, at least not in a substantive way, until the men at the top begin to feel the same oppressive, painfully searing heat that the rest of us have been feeling […]