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Originally Posted by demonrail666
It'll be interesting to see what the local reaction will be if the authorities and planners try to remove stuff like this
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We could have a protest with 500,000 people and alas, still the mural would probably be removed and replaced by an LED Clear Channel sign
I think what the post-Obama political world has taught America is a lesson Angelinos learned after the Uprising in the mid-1990s. Even with immense societal support, with huge grass-roots movements, with overwhelming popular agreement, still, money trumps all this. In our city and state, we've had so many popular movements which have gained so much momentum, and yet NO political traction to actually implement as power. We have taken all the authority from government, from corporations, and yet still they yield all the raw power. In America it is the same, we have growing consensuses on political and economic transitions and changes, and yet we can't get forward on implementation. We've exhausted decades, centuries even, worth of traditionally successfully political mechanisms towards societal change, and yet nothing. We demand insistently for a decade to end the war(s), they carry on as ever. We demand insistently fair wages and pricing, we get gutted wages and increases in the cost of goods and services. We demand education reform and investment, we get 100,000 teacher lay-offs. We demand accountability for police brutality, instead officer-involved fatalities are up every year. Even the US Supreme Court has been demanding for TWENTY years that California abandon its unconstitutional prison system, which year after year Court determines as cruel and unusual punishment. Still the prisons grow, the schools shrink, the jobs decline. Sometimes RATM was right
"Aint it funny how the factory doors closes, around the same time that the school doors closed, at the same time as a 100,000 jails cells opened up to greet you.."