occupying oakland
Friday, October 21, 2011
I’ve been working on this piece about Occupy Oakland since October 10, and it’s finally coming together — it will be a five-part series for Oakland Local and Truthout. From the pitch:
Could Occupy Oakland be a model for this movement — and how does it work?
From the General Assembly to the food lines to the self-policing. Since the camp at Frank Ogawa/Oscar Grant Plaza first coalesced on October 10, it has grown rapidly to fill the plaza; and just as quickly, demonstrators have worked to create an infrastructure that turns this protest into a commune that welcomes a broad range of residents with a functional kitchen, library, media center, childrens space and their own camp security.
Occupy Oakland has not been without its incidents and backlash over cleanliness and mainstream media access. But as authorities are cracking down on occupation demonstrators across the country — and even just across the Bay in San Francisco –Oakland presents another option. So what does that look like?
Please pass along this Spot.Us pitch to anyone you think might be interested. I haven’t done the crowd-funding thing in a while and it always makes me itch. I think this is a worthy project, though, and I’ve definitely been putting in the hours. And hey, big spenders can get original art!

The SF Public Press newspaper came out on Thursday and it looks great — I’m very happy with how the graphic turned out, especially since it is so freaking huge. Really, it’s such a delight to see my art blown up to broadsheet size, and with very nice four-color registration to boot.


So far I’ve raised $600 for
I finally got my shit together and printed up a new batch of these suckers. These ones have slightly less awesome cover paper, and are a new black and white line art design instead of the old color painting… HOWEVER: I am hand-painting all of them.