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Hey, friends,
We want to help out with all the shit you're doing. We think you're awesome. We think your uncompromising stand against authority, against tyranny is inspiring.
Invite us to wade through teargas with you, or break through police lines, to create a distraction while you rob a bank to redistribute the wealth in the name of the Cause. Invite us to help tear down the walls of oppression -- understand that it is totally okay if you mean this literally.
If you are working to shut down the war machine, environmental destruction, the world free trade efforts, racist and classist mofos, corporate swine and their media lapdogs, repressive laws, the fascist police state, and capitalism itself -- if you are working to support indigenous rights, the freedom of women and children (and men, for that matter), civil liberties and free speech, poor people and homeless folk -- if you are engaged in anarchist and anti-authoritarian struggles -- we're there.
Trash Orchestra is a marching percussion band – a bone-shaking recycled orchestra. We make percussion on tuned cans, hubcaps and barrels, drums, pieces of sheet metal, and homemade oddities. We show up at demonstrations and performances, sometimes invited, sometimes not, to make a big noise wherever it is needed.
We have experience working with kids, fighting cops, taking streets, entertaining crowds, tearing up a house show, leading parades and marches, spicing up an anarchist cafe, or crashing the local farmer's market. We want to play with you.
If you are far from the West Coast, more advance notice is better and maybe some help getting and staying there. But we are game to consider anything.
We'd love to do what we can to support your efforts.
Photos, audio, rants, etc at trashorchestra.org
Cheers!
Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra
You can make all the noise you want and it won't make a difference, muchachos. The rich folk will simply close the windows of their air-conditioned town cars and drive right past. This isn't the freakin' sixties when anything someone could imagine was "protest." Get with the times. The only true radicalism is CYBERISM. The cyber errorist knows how to bring down the system. You can bang away little drummer boys, but "anarchy" is passe. Welcome to cyberia!
So always be willing to look deeper than the institutional bullshit delivered to you at your local corporate media outlet. Be willing to look beyond the simple pigeonholes that mainstream society has ready for anyone who steps outside the circle of conventionality. Ask yourself hard questions about what you hear, what you read, your own assumptions, and even what you believe. Be willing to listen. A lot. It goes a long way.
When you begin to understand that truth does not equal the message that comes out of the loudest mouth or gets the widest distribution -- when you realize that those with money and power work very hard to get their point-of-view accepted as the only correct one -- then you start questioning the "truths" that you've inherited from your society and start forming your own beliefs.
When you have your own understanding of the way the world works, it is hard to sit by and watch when you see things that seem wrong. And if you are courageous enough to keep looking and not look away, then you may feel compelled, as we have, to get up and do something about it.
Noise may not equal truth, but sometimes it is important to make a big noise to draw attention to the truth that is right in front of our faces.
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More important is the taking of our right to use public property and not allow the City to use unnecessary laws aimed at the poor, and unconstitutional in nature.
I am disabled and find myself in my car resting and paranoid I will be cited. There is already a law for anything that can happen in a parking garage or lot. This ordinance can and will only be selectively enforced. Its a waste of time, money, resources and is just another way to slowly take away all our free speech and rights the commons have traditionally throughout history been used for.
I was not present at the time this was taken. But thank you all who attended and fought for all our rights to use our own public space without a 15 min time limit.
Thank you Trash Orchestra and all the other musicians and community members that attended. I believe it was your numbers that kept surveillant officers at bay. There was one incident with a woman who attacked some of the drummers, but I left it out because although she screamed " I just want to shop!" over and over, and did attack and spit on people, I believe she was mentally ill, or distressed, and its not appropriate to post. If others feel differently or need the video for legal reasons, just let me know. I appreciated the drummer who got the brunt of the attacks comments afterward. It showed someone who is truly dignified and peaceful.
Tim Rumford
Sleepisarigh [at] live.com
http://www.humanityforhomeless.blogspot.com
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