Broken Hallelujah

Spelling Fuck You For Peace

Last week, the FBI warned the major television networks about the possible threat of anarchists tossing Molotov cocktails at their media trucks. But the Feds didn’t say anything about those same anti-authoritarians singing, bike-riding, juggling, playing the guitar, eating baked beans, and offering free hugs during the DNC. But there they were milling around the Boston Common on Tuesday afternoon for the Bl(A)ck Tea Society’s REALLY really Democratic Bazaar -- anarchists, socialists, Greens, Nader supporters, and anyone else who felt disenfranchised by capitalism, the two-party system, or just wanted a free bagel -- all gathered together for an open-air market that demonstrated the consensus-based group’s "visions of a better world."



And all afternoon, one police helicopter kept buzzing by like a mammoth mechanized mosquito, often drowning out the sound system.



Finally, in between songs, Rovics summoned a call to action. Those of you who want to lay down on the ground and spell ‘Fuck you’ to the helicopters, head over to the medic tent. So 40 or 50 people leapt up from the grass, walked eagerly over to the medic tent, and arranged themselves from head-to-toe, forming seven letters on the ground.



Just one small Fuck You to the police state that tried to keep demonstrators away from Boston. I'm waiting to see the Fuck You they give them in New York. more »