ASTRONAUTS SEE STUDENT REVOLT FROM SPACE

admin — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:43:05 +0000

Astronauts on the International Space Station took some time off to observe internet video of the recent student uprising at the University of California at Berkeley. Students occupied Wheeler Hall and shut down the Doe Library on Friday November 20, 2009 as part of an ongoing student – worker strike protesting a 32% hike in tuition fees, the layoff of 900 employees, loss of minority owned businesses on campus and affordable student housing.

In this 3 minute BetterBadNews video clip NASA astronauts appear to support passionate students needed for future space explorations.

Video from inside occupied Wheeler Hall :

occupyeverything2009 by brandon jourdan david martinez andy stern josh wolf

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LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI TOASTED ON BETTERBADNEWS.

admin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:33:14 +0000

Off BEAT HOMAGE TO INSURGENT POET LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI on his 90th birthday inspired by:

Poetry As An Insurgent Art, a recent work.

“The hour of om-ing is over, the time for keening is come”

Ferlinghetti identifies his work as Open Field Poetry not Beat Poetry. Possibly, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Neal Cassady, Heidi Benson and jack Kerouac wrote Open Field Poetry too but weren’t aware of it at the time.

This 4 minute video satire mocks popular misconceptions about the beat generation, operation mockingbird, false Muslim attacks and the unutterable sighs of the heart knocking on the door of the unknown. Other targets include; New York Times fiction writers Frank Rich and Judith Miller and Shakespeare’s bitch, Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

From Wikipedia:

Ferlinghetti was in attendance at the now-famous Six Gallery reading where Ginsberg first performed Howl publicly. The next day Ferlinghetti contacted Ginsberg: “I greet you at the beginning of a great literary career,” subsequently offering to publish his work.

The book was seized in 1956 by the San Francisco police. Ferlinghetti and Shig Murao, the bookstore manager who had sold the book to the police, were arrested on obscenity charges.

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ASTRONAUTS SEE STUDENT REVOLT FROM SPACE

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI TOASTED ON BETTERBADNEWS.