Progression of a journal page- I started by "recycling" painted pages from days passed...binding them into this book. So, the "paint" part is done as far as a "base coat" goes. Next step is collage: I didn't know where I was going with this page or what I wanted it to "say". I had a few ideas in my head and I start by playing and just grabbing images and things that "work" together (and click in my head) and gluing them down. (I used a Scotch "permanent" glue stick to stick 'em down).
Next came the "warning", "Poison" labels and skull tape. Then I grabbed my gel pens and markers and went to town, making the page "say" what I wanted it to say. 
I turned to my Zinn book, "Voices of a People's History" and found one of my favorite speeches by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. His "Beyond Vietnam" speech...I've used this before and here it is again...still very very true 40 years later. I also added some of my own commentary...
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$35 a gallon gas in Gaza.
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This is probably one of the things that made the man snap...and now it may happen to his family??
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Global Warming is an inaccurate term...it should be called Global Disruption.
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Maybe one of these days I will get to see one of Anna Deavere Smith's performances.
Next came the "warning", "Poison" labels and skull tape. Then I grabbed my gel pens and markers and went to town, making the page "say" what I wanted it to say. 
I turned to my Zinn book, "Voices of a People's History" and found one of my favorite speeches by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. His "Beyond Vietnam" speech...I've used this before and here it is again...still very very true 40 years later. I also added some of my own commentary...
*****$35 a gallon gas in Gaza.
***
This is probably one of the things that made the man snap...and now it may happen to his family??
***
Global Warming is an inaccurate term...it should be called Global Disruption.
***
Maybe one of these days I will get to see one of Anna Deavere Smith's performances.
Comments
I started laughing - thinking what if they bulldozed gang member's homes in Los Angeles... what would my part of town look like?
The bulldozers are used there not only to construct "select" homes but also to tear down Palestinian homes and also to murder people (remember Rachel Corrie).
Do you not realize you're only free to spew the vile emesis that you spew, because people with much more Honor than you seem to have, DIED in battles so you can?
Do you REALLY BELIEVE that mere humans have control over the temperatures of this earth?
On the surface, your art is rather pretty. It is a shame you have a need to ruin it with your bully pulpit theatrics.
If I didn't believe it, then I wouldn't write it.
As far as the "vile emesis" that I spew, I'll let these quotes speak for me.
Edward R. Murrow:
"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it."
George Orwell:
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
Harry S Truman:
"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."
John F. Kennedy:
"Without debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed -- and no republic can survive."
Barbara Ehrenreich:
“No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower:
"May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."
Thomas Jefferson:
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."
Amy Goodman:
“I really do think that if for one week in the U.S. we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game. Our mission is to make dissent commonplace in America.”