I made a cartoon for the hard-working organizers in Florida who spent the last two weeks trying to convince the United Methodist Church to honor their rhetoric about Palestinian human rights and respect the Palestinian Christian Kairos document. Read more about what happened here.

English and Russian (!) after the jump, Bengali coming soon. Thanks to the organizers of New York Communities for Change and the workers of Golden Farm!

English and Spanish PDF Flyer For Printing

Russian PDF Flyer For Printing

I will be representing World War 3 Illustrated and Adalah-NY at multiple events this weekend at the NYC Anarchist Bookfair, in addition to sitting at the table for both (it helps that they will be next to each other ) with copies of my zines and the latest issue of WW3I to sell. Keep reading to see the full schedule!

Saturday!

I will be helping co-facilitate the following discussion:
Questions of Solidarity: The Palestinian Call For  Boycott, Divestment And Sanctions

The Palestinian BDS call represents a mass  popular movement that is coordinated and supported in a non- hierarchical fashion, pressuring both the Israeli state and Palestinian  political elites. It demands an end to Israeli military occupation,  complete equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel, and a  recognition of the right of all refugees to return to their homes. In this workshop we will present critical questions that  solidarity activists should consider when engaging with liberation  struggles and decolonization movements.

When: Saturday, April 14, 12:45-2:15pm
Where: Bluestockings (172 Allen Street between Stanton St. and Rivington St.

and reading from my comics at this:

WW3 Illustrated: Liberation from Cairo to Occupy Wall St.
Cartoonists from the magazine World War 3 Illustrated will present a slide show of their of most recent comics dealing with the uprisings of the last year, accompanied by dramatic readings and music by Eric Blitz and Andy Laties. Featured artists include Seth Tobocman, Carlo Quispe and Ethan Heitner.

Sketch #1: Participate in Group Sports

See the rest after the jump!

Sketch #2: Hold Your Ground (Build A Fort)

Sketch #3: Get To Know Your Neighbors

No work! #1

Sketch #4: Fly a kite!

Sketch #5: Hold Your Ground (Resist Eviction)

No work! #2 - Dump your iPhone!

It’s time once again for the JFREJ Purimshpiel, a raucous saturnalia dedicated to social justice, art, and redeeming Jewish tradition as a liberating force. It is the most Jewish thing I regularly participate in and one of my favorite things about New York– this year, like I have for the past several years, I have provided the program cover, which you see above. Keep reading for event details:

Your Homentaschen Are Killing Me!
A Purim Ball for the body, its resilience, its fragility, and its bounce!

Presented by Jews for Racial and Economic Justice

https://www.facebook.com/JFREJNYC

March 3rd, 2012
220 36th St, Industry City, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
D/N/R to 36th St or B35 to 39th St/2nd Ave
8pm–late
$12-$20 sliding scale
No one turned away for lack of cash or costume
Performance and food by Domestic Workers United

Performances start at 8pm sharp with Daddy, followed by
Purim Shpiel Act I
The Rude Mechanical Orchestra
Purim Shpiel Act II
Shelley Nicole’s blaKbüshe
Purim Shpiel Act III
DJ Ripley

The event is wheelchair accessible.

On Saturday, March 3rd 2012 the Aftselokhes Spectacle Committee and a coterie of celebrity brass bands, rock stars, Yiddishy supernovas, cabaret singers, activists, and jesters of all stripes present a very ancient, yet totally contemporary Purim masquerade Ball.

The Purim Ball (Your homentaschen are killing me!) is an original work of art grounded in the traditional pan-Jewish practice of staging transgressive folk plays re-enacting the scroll of Esther, and delivering a fanciful, somewhat drunken but always profound, critique of power. At the heart of the event is a glittering original handmade Purim Shpiel. Expect oversize costumes and puppets, dazzling sets, the drag will be high, low and medium, and the age and gender spectrum will runneth over. Many of the languages of our kingdom of Shushan, NYC will be spoken.

The party is created by a collaborative group of artists, activists and civilians (including Julie Davids, Avi Fox-Rosen, Anna Jacobs, Daniel Roza Lang-Levitsky, Dr. Rachel Mattson, Abigail Miller, LJ Roberts, Jenny Romaine, Zach Scholl, Hannah Temple, Josh Waletzky, Cassandra Burrows, and the Occupy Wall Street Puppetry Guild) in the style of a carnival mas camp. The crew, originally gathered under the tutelage of visionary Yiddish scholar and beloved Diva Adrienne Cooper (to whom this year’s Purim shpiel is dedicated), has been working together for a decade, in collaboration with Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (http://www.jfrej.org/), Workmen’s Circle (http://www.circle.org/), and Great Small Works (http://www.greatsmallworks.org/).

Purim is the Jewish festival of spring fever, of masquerade and parodies of all sacred things. It centers on the Scroll of Esther, the Megillah, a burlesque of a story that wears the mask of being a factual history. For centuries Jews have made homemade pageants like ours to tell this story and to talk about overreach—about how the powerful turn abysmally stupid and bring about their own destruction. But Purim also has a mystical side, and we learn from the Purim rabbis that this holiday is a campy stare at what scares us the most, in ourselves and in the world. It must be taken seriously. There are many paths to holy disorder, many routes to the place of perfect misunderstanding. The more we move towards what scares us, explore and embody it, the more we are entering into the practice of Purim and the more deeply we will be renewed. So set your watch to the wrong time, dress up topsy-turvy, and meet us between 8 and late at 220 36th street in Industry City, Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

The theme of this year’s Purim Shpiel is the body, its fragility, strength, and resilience. We are using the bodies of the heroes of the megillah to tell stories from the disability justice movement and from the domestic employers and domestic workers teamed up in the Caring Across Generations campaign. (http://caringacrossgenerations.org/) Caring Across Generations recognizes that we all give and receive care over the course of our lives. Their innovative analysis and organizing strategy are bringing together the home health care workers of Domestic Workers United (http://www.domesticworkersunited.org/) and the disability justice movement to address the many dimensions of the health care crisis in America. “Your homentaschen are killing me!” also draws together the energy (and puppeteers) of the Occupy movement with activists and artists who have been doing long term work to revolutionize the economics of health care.

Members of the Aftselokhes crew have worked with Circus Amok, the Rude Mechanical Orchestra, Yiddish Princess, Jenny Romaine’s Sukkos Mob, and the Department of Transformation. Previous Purim partners include Frank London’s Klezmer Brass All Stars, Jennifer Miller, Maracatu New York, Abigail Levine, Adrienne Cooper, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, Nicolai Borodulin, Amichai Lau-Lavie, Mira Stroika, Una Osato/ExHOTic Other; [installation and video artists] Terra Incognita, Carrie Gleason, Kate Huh, Niknaz Tavakolian, Pearl Gluck, Seltzer & Salt, Heather Acs; [musicians], Michael Winograd, Rima Fand, Wollesonics, Sarah Aroeste, Michelle Miller, Judith Berkson, Xavier, Crosmopolitan; [bands & DJs], Kol Isha, Inner Princess, Yiddish Princess, Schmekel, Freetheopiques, Rebel Diaz, DJ Rekha, and DJ Shomi Noise.

Extra special thanks to Natalie Agee (http://www.natalieagee.com/) and the Velveteen Rainbow Trapeze and Acrobatics Studio and Performance Space for all their support!

Information:
(303) 519 0083
www.jfrej.org

Press Contact:

Marjorie Dove Kent
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
marjorie@jfrej.org
(347) 977-7011

Abigail Miller
ostalgie@gmail.com
(617) 285–1062

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