Oh, and did I mention the Tax Evaders video game? Today the people blast back against the oligarchs. It might not change entrenched policy, but it is certainly cathartic! Game On!

Tonight, there will be actions all around the country, from Milwaukee to Tampa, Brooklyn to Seattle. In NYC, the Occupy Wall Street Light Brigade will make it's debut (they need more holders of the light, so get in touch if you wanna participate), and The Illuminator will become a mobile gaming station, helping to fight the Tax Evaders in urban space.



The Overpass Light Brigade has already been going out, in spite of some of the shittiest weather this side of the Netherlands. The other night we took out our new portable lightbox for the ongoing time-lapse filming of our actions that is part of a larger documentary project. The footage is stunning, and our volunteers are amazing to put up with crazy demands and stage directions for three and a half hours on the freezing freeway. The new lightbox worked out really well, especially for close-up photos, and allows us to add logos and images to our visual vocabulary. (I'll do a "make" diary soon for this box as well as for some very simple DIY cheap disposable light boxes that Tampa Light Brigade field tested last night to great effect.)Do something, anything, that expresses your disgust at the way corporations now rule this country while doing as little as possible to support the very fabric of society. We're simply tired of austerity politics while corporations rig the game and game the system. We're tired of Democratic Presidents who run on promises to watch out of the little guy and protect the middle class, and then offer up Social Security on the Altar of Austerity. We're tired of extremist Republican legislators who know only the logic of profit and greed. We're tired of the legal games of offshoring, of dodging, of evasion, while our schools get shuttered and our kids go hungry. We're disgusted that Exxon has 42 tax havens, Bank of America has 371, GE has at least 104. We find it unfair that Wells Fargo pays a -1.4% tax rate, or that Pfizer holds $73 billion in offshore non taxed liquid assets and has 80 tax havens, while oil leaks into backyards, economies collapse around Wall Street avarice, and normal people can't afford prescribed pills and medical treatments.

If indeed "Corporations are People, my friend!" as Mitt Romney boldly asserted while huffing the tailwinds of Citizens United, then we should probably be finding our own havens, our ports in the gathering storm, our offshore protection of the privilege to protest. My haven is found in creative resistance. Where is yours?