On PBS’s Now, they had on Milton Glaser who’s collected a book called the Design of Dissent http://www.pbs.org/now/arts/designofdissent.html.
There is a teeshirt with a ‘city sign’ on it saying Curb Your God, a teeshirt I’d love to own.
And the image that most haunted me – you see a close up of about an octave of a piano keyboard all the sharps & flats are missing, and where the word Steinway would be and in the same font as that iconic word, it says Racism. Amazing image.
The most ice-tooth-picky and fun is a small old-style campaign button all red with lettering saying Rather Dead Than Red (a phrase fashionable in the Cold War, and for those of us in the Blue States having an ironic resurgence . . .).
That Racism piano image may be the best and most wrenching dissent image I've ever seen. Thanks for putting us on to it.
Things are not better enough, but they can get butter better if we push ourselves one step out the door. Inertia is always the only obstacle. Howard Dean (quoting Voltaire) implored people not to let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
I haven't got the persistence or the nerve or verve of pogblog's friend to go walk the world with a Teach Peace sign though something like that is now my goal. I did go out two Thursday eves last month and stand in solidarity with a small protest group in our town. I realized that just by being there I swelled the ranks. The first time I felt a little vulnerable, but the second time I felt like an old hand.
Make one point in a very short letter to the editor. There are very many more likely-progressive votes in this nation than there are regressive votes, but we need to get a little more engaged. A lot of us doing a little will add up. Look in the mirror and say, “Yes, I mean you, dearie.”
I have Michael Moore's website on my Favorites now. http://www.michaelmoore.com/
I love the design of dissent. If you visit my website you will see many pictures of other people's dissent style.
The URL is:
http://tian.greens.org
Click the pictures to explore the details of what you see!
Tian
Tian,
Your picts are great — it's so touching and heartening to see all these divine (truly) and lumpy and short and tall and every kind of people putting their shoeleather where their heart is. How splendid. Makes me proud and glad to be human.
You might like Squawk & re-Squawk here on pogblog. Also clik Planet Beauty under Topics on left side of Main Page and you'll probably like those.
I'm also, by the way, totally wowed & envious at how complex all the clikking on your picts is. Cool!. Pogblog's good at words, but I haven't figured out picts yet. (Everyone would get sick of my cats picts, I fear.)