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worker: jt
08.Dec.2008
16h17m46
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thseanjohn2

hail! get active with a new public action in the name of the wrk.grp.

manifesto excerpt:
Look at the streets around you, they are littered with the remainders of lives amidst objects. As we shed our skin we shed our objects, it has become human nature, the automatic response of the consumer. Every week, every day, a pile, representing a cell in the life prison of an individual, is let loose to the scavengers, or more probably, the elements and the dumps. Certainly we fight against this consumer decadence, why would you have something that was shit in the first place, why not just wait until you find the right thing to fill that spot in your heart. Certainly we believe that the folks should not waste resources, waste their time, and make do with what rightfully belongs in their lives. Certainly we believe in the stewardship of American Indian ecology, certainly we should “use everything.” But the schism has to start somewhere. As there are people at the bottom of the social bell curve using everything, wearing their shoes into oblivion, making housing out of your garbage, there must be those who construct the visual identity of culture meeting them from the other end. As artists, we can resist the temptation that places beauty in the palm of opulence, a bourgeoise construct that keeps everyone idly struggling, and place beauty back into the economy of ecology, the indulgence in the creative spirit of paucity, and the charge to “use everything.”



john
16h18m40
08.Dec.2008

obviously it closes in 2009.


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john
18h12m04
15.Dec.2008

thanks to those hangers on who braved the saturday night cold to kneel before ‘goatlord.’


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ashley
18h39m25
15.Dec.2008

did you ride that guy to the show? bravo!


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john
18h45m10
15.Dec.2008

sorry…

trucklord:


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ashley
18h50m52
15.Dec.2008

i can’t believe i sold my truck, for pennies.


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john
18h52m20
15.Dec.2008

i guess you can buy it back when you return.


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ashley
18h54m37
15.Dec.2008

why didn’t you buy it; it could have stayed in the family.


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john
18h57m29
15.Dec.2008

it wasnt offered to me because i might have paid someone to change the oil rather than do it myself.


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ashley
19h02m03
15.Dec.2008

looking back, i should have just given it to you. i sold it for $800 or something absurd, and i don’t even have that money today, anyway.


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