Update on “A fire to scare the sun”

Well it is off being printed up as I type. I am really happy with the artwork. It makes the physical version worth picking up. I will fill you all in as i get more info on the release dates etc. Sorry this is brief but i have a head full of mucus and i’m jetlagged as all fuck.

much love and respect

Jailed for HTML…the insanity of the Patriot act.

I played a show in Vancouver last week with Sherman Austin, a great musician and activist from LA who spent a year in Jail for hosting a website where someone else posted a link to an article that had an excerpt from “The anarchist’s cook book”.  A first for the “Patriot act”. Sherman wasn’t even the author he was just the host. He was looking at 20 years if he didn’t plea.  Most of the sentence was spent in solitary under death threats from the Aryan Brotherhood. He was also banned from accessing a computer for 3 years.
Jail for HTML. It’s fucking Orwellian.

We shared some food along with Dj Chela and Meegan the organiser of Under the volcano festival. All of us were open mouthed as he filled us in on the insane details.

It is quite the read. Link to full article.

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and Clann Zu

I just came across this mash up and thought it worked well.  Clann Zu was a band I sang in before  singing on me own.

100 cameras.

I am in awe of these people, Israeli’s documenting abuse and fighting for human rights in the Palestinian occupied territories. That takes guts. Immense strength to stand against your own very powerful state and public opinion. Refuseniks in the army…that takes bravery beyond imagining.

This was in the guardian this morning, It is one of many B’Tselem videos on you tube. They started a campaign called 100 cameras where they passed out digital cameras to Palestinians to document the abuse and humiliation. Official complaints were always ignored.

My sister sister traveled to the occupied territories as part of an aid agency and brought me back a load of B’tselem videos from this project.

I was speaking to a writer the other day about how people are being labeled anti semitic if they speak out against Israel’s illegal occupation and apartheid wall. This is insanity. It is like saying an ethical vegetarian hates cattle or sheep because they are part of the meat industry. It makes no sense at all.

I am hoping to take a trip over to Palestine and Israel next year so i can see for myself first hand.