Minneapolis Will Pay Seven Zombies $165,000 In A Federal Lawsuit

[Rakhmetov]

Guerrilla theatre forever!!!!!!!!

http://www.commondreams.org/files/images/zombiecrawl.jpg


http://www.commondreams.org/further/2010/08/23-4

http://www.startribune.com/local/101273159.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUi D3aPc:_Yyc:aUac8HEaDiaMDCinchO7DU[/URL]


[URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_theatre (http://www.startribune.com/local/101273159.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4OW3ckUiD3 aPc:_Yyc:aUac8HEaDiaMDCinchO7DU)

[leftace53]

A decent step in zombie and human rights. Silly police, of course they arrest anyone who isn't a basic authoritarian kiss ass.

[Ele'ill]

I didn't know it was quite that easy to get rich.

[Peace on Earth]

I didn't know it was quite that easy to get rich.
Exactly what I was thinking. I might have to dress up in an outlandish outfit and piss of the police.

[ckaihatsu]

Minneapolis will pay seven zombies $165,000 in a federal lawsuit the zombies filed after being arrested while protesting mindless consumerism. Police had charged them with carrying simulated "weapons of mass destruction" - aka sound equipment - and dismissed their legal rights with obscenities.

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2010/08/23-4


Hope I'm not being ultra-left here, but I fully support civil rights for zombies, even if the monetary damages awarded to them from the infringement of said civil rights leads to mindless consumerism and the use of weapons of mass destruction...!


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[LETSFIGHTBACK]

Hope I'm not being ultra-left here, but I fully support civil rights for zombies, even if the monetary damages awarded to them from the infringement of said civil rights leads to mindless consumerism and the use of weapons of mass destruction...!


x D


This is not an insult, But supporting civil rights for zombies is supporting the working class. Just look at their face on the bus going to work in the morning, A LOOK OF DREAD, having to go through and deal with the same repetitive bullshit every day.

[ckaihatsu]

This is not an insult, But supporting civil rights for zombies is supporting the working class. Just look at their face on the bus going to work in the morning, A LOOK OF DREAD, having to go through and deal with the same repetitive bullshit every day.


Your point is certainly well-taken. On a lesser point I wonder if it's really a service to the working class to make the comparison to "zombies" (or to "sheeple", from other quarters)....

[LETSFIGHTBACK]

Your point is certainly well-taken. On a lesser point I wonder if it's really a service to the working class to make the comparison to "zombies" (or to "sheeple", from other quarters)....


Believe me, they will tell you the same thing, and they have said the same to me while waiting for the bus in the morning. And at 5pm, life suddenly comes back into their body, there are smiles on their faces once they leave the hell hole work place.

Look at the commercials on TV, they show working people all tried, listless with no energy. So big business puts out a drink, 5 hour energy, to give you a boost.So you become more productive for your boss.

The problem is not the workers, it's the work place. It kills the mind and body.There is no feeling of creativity, no feeling of accomplishment, no satisfaction. They can't see themselves in their work. Unless you can see yourself in a Big Mac.

[ckaihatsu]

I've come to approach this all-too-common situation using the perspective afforded by the method of 'cognitive dissonance' to arrive at a notion of *existential stress*.





Using the tool of materialism I'd like to suggest that the process of artistic endeavors is -- or can be -- a matter of very high-level, intensive cognitive and emotional effort, and, as such, must be counter-balanced, or compensated, in like measure with access to, and indulgence in, a commensurate quantity and quality of gratifying pleasure.

The exertion of effort -- even if profoundly self-motivated -- is intrinsically alienating, as it represents a detaching and removal of work-force from one's own domain. The logic of materialism would suggest that a severe *existential* stress would be the result of this alienation from the product of one's own labor efforts, no matter how mundane or enlightened, if not compensated for with the indulgence in pleasures of one's own choosing.

http://tinyurl.com/existential-stress





Marx's theory of alienation

[...]

In the labour process

According to Karl Marx, alienation is a systemic result of capitalism. Marx's Theory of Alienation is founded upon his observation that in emerging industrial production under capitalism, workers inevitably lose control over their lives and destinies by being deprived of control over their actions. Workers never become autonomous, self-realized human beings, but are directed, diverted, into the ways in which the bourgeois want workers to behave. Alienation in capitalist societies occurs because in work each contributes to the common wealth, but can only express this fundamentally social aspect of individuality through a production system that is not publicly (socially), but privately owned, and for which each individual functions, not as a social being, but as an instrument:

[...]

Marx identifies four types of alienation in labour under capitalism.[1] These include:

Alienation of the worker from his or her ‘species essence’ as a human being; not a cog in a machine.

Alienation among workers; capitalism reduces labour to a commercial commodity to be traded on the market, rather than a social relationship

Alienation of the worker from the product; its design and production are appropriated by the capitalist class and escape the worker's control.

Alienation from the act of production itself; that work boils down to an endless sequence of discrete, repetitive, trivial, and meaningless motions, offering little, if any, intrinsic value.

[...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx's_theory_of_alienation

[Dimentio]

This is an insult against people who really are discriminated...

[ckaihatsu]

This is an insult against people who really are discriminated...


Huh? I don't understand. Would you care to clarify?

[Crux]

Zombies are people too.

[Lenina Rosenweg]

Zombies are people too.

They used to be people, anyway. What did Marx say about capital being "dead labor" sucking the blood, vampire like, of the working class?

[Comrade Mango]

That's just a load of crap.

[LETSFIGHTBACK]

That's just a load of crap.


Well then I guess your saying Marx is a load of crap. This is what Marx's theory of alienation was all about. Marx said: the individual in capitalist society is withdrawn into himself, wholly preoccupied with his private interest and acting in accodance with his private caprice.Life under this systen is reduced to relentless work and self advantage, the inclination, the necessity to treat other human beings as instrumental rather than end values, as competitors and potential enemies, the tendency to measure one's personal worth by one's material and hierarchical status, to experience other peoples failures as our successes and their successes as our failures.

And it's this condition, this alienation from each other that has people craving to feel affection, trust and mutual esteem and ingage in socially meaningful and useful activities, thus, indeed, getting in touch with their own feelings and the feelings of others

And it's this condition, as Bertell Ollman said:most of Americans, their conditions have so limited their conceptions, that their conceptions offer them little opportunity to break out of their conditions.