VIDEO: Banksy - Reconditioned Dolphin Ride

You may remember that I kinda like Banksy's work. Well...

Banksy accessorized a child’s electronic dolphin ride with a “BP” oil drum and a tuna net.




Scoped out and posted by AWKWORD.
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Do Protests Matter? Howard Zinn & Others Weigh In

[painting by Jamelah of photo by Dave Gray (Voice1)]

Excerpted from The New York Times, August 20, 2009 (about one month prior to Howard Zinn's death).

Iran’s citizens take to the streets en masse after a disputed election. Gay men in Salt Lake City hold a kissing protest. Members of the Westboro Baptist Church voice their anti-just-about-everything views to military funerals and elsewhere.

Beyond the media attention they inevitably garner, what do protests actually accomplish?

We rounded up a few people who have thought a lot about this topic — Chester Crocker, Bernardine Dohrn, Donna Lieberman, Juan E. Méndez, David S. Meyer, and Howard Zinn — and asked them how much protest matters in this day and age, and why.



Here are their answers.