Can we turn things around in a timely fashion and can we redirect our nation's energy before it is too late? It is difficult to project the future.
We desperately needed a change from the routine of 'normal' government running our country from Washington DC. Things have been very bad for a very long time. It has been 'down-hill' for a very long time, but under Trump, things have gotten much worse.
Many of us who did not vote for Trump and could not allow ourselves to vote for Clinton were waiting and hoping for the best. Instead, we are experiencing the worst in the form of Trump appointments.
There was a moment of hope. It appeared possible that a Trump presidency would be independent of the 'deep state', independent of the established oligarchy and their rule of greed... not that greed isn't one of Trump's calling cards, but it seemed for a brief period of time that, at the very least, Trump's greed would be outside of 'normal' politics of 'America as usual'. There was hope for something different under Trump.
But, instead, Trump's appointments reinforce the very worst of us.
KKK Is Okay By Us
from Common Dreams by Abby Zimet
All photos by Liz Gorman, courtesy of Bell Visuals
New guerrilla art made a dazzling, albeit brief, appearance this weekend when artist and activist Robin Bell lit up the front of the Department of Justice and FBI buildings in D.C. with light projections calling out AG and good-ole-white-boy Jeff Sessions, along with several of his cronies, for crimes against decency and competence. Bell's hour-long, one-man protest featured beady-eyed images of Sessions dressed as a Klansman with messages urging “#FireSessions” and "#SessionsMustGo," as well as "#RefusaltoRecuse” and one of Sessions' most infamously racist lines, “I thought the KKK was OK until I learned that they smoked pot.”
Bell's light show was part of a series of truth-telling projections, from a post-election “Experts Agree: Trump is a Pig” blazed over the arched entry of Trump International Hotel to last week's welcome at the same site to emoluments. He hopes such fly-by-night actions will bolster resistance: In the midst of reacting to so many regime abuses, he argues, "You have to create your own story." The latest, which included Russia-themed projections of Trump cronies insisting, “#WeNeedToSeeTheMemo,” targeted Sessions not just for his failure to recuse and affinity for the KKK, but his longtime racism, cruelty and fear-mongering - this, most newly manifested in a revisionist call for a war on crime and drugs long deemed ineffective, and now blasted, even by prosecutors, as "unwise" and "uninformed." Bell is likewise appalled: His final projection showed a stark image of a man behind bars with the message, “1/3 of black males can’t vote because of the war on drugs.”
from Common Dreams by Abby Zimet
All photos by Liz Gorman, courtesy of Bell Visuals
New guerrilla art made a dazzling, albeit brief, appearance this weekend when artist and activist Robin Bell lit up the front of the Department of Justice and FBI buildings in D.C. with light projections calling out AG and good-ole-white-boy Jeff Sessions, along with several of his cronies, for crimes against decency and competence. Bell's hour-long, one-man protest featured beady-eyed images of Sessions dressed as a Klansman with messages urging “#FireSessions” and "#SessionsMustGo," as well as "#RefusaltoRecuse” and one of Sessions' most infamously racist lines, “I thought the KKK was OK until I learned that they smoked pot.”
Bell's light show was part of a series of truth-telling projections, from a post-election “Experts Agree: Trump is a Pig” blazed over the arched entry of Trump International Hotel to last week's welcome at the same site to emoluments. He hopes such fly-by-night actions will bolster resistance: In the midst of reacting to so many regime abuses, he argues, "You have to create your own story." The latest, which included Russia-themed projections of Trump cronies insisting, “#WeNeedToSeeTheMemo,” targeted Sessions not just for his failure to recuse and affinity for the KKK, but his longtime racism, cruelty and fear-mongering - this, most newly manifested in a revisionist call for a war on crime and drugs long deemed ineffective, and now blasted, even by prosecutors, as "unwise" and "uninformed." Bell is likewise appalled: His final projection showed a stark image of a man behind bars with the message, “1/3 of black males can’t vote because of the war on drugs.”
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