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Jiggity Jig

[Switch to Pris. Outside J. F. Sebastians's apartment building. Covers herself in trash pile.]

Pris: Pugh... Uhhh... Ungh... Ungh...

Sebastian: Hey! You forgot your bag.

Pris: I'm lost.

Sebastian: Don't worry, I won't hurt you. (pause) What's your name?

Pris: Pris.

Sebastian: Mine's J. F. Sebastian.

Pris: Hi.

Sebastian: Hi. Oh, where were you going? Home?

Pris: I don't have one. We scared each other pretty good, didn't we?

Sebastian: We sure did.

Pris: I'm hungry J. F.

Sebastian: I've got some stuff inside. You want to come in?

Pris: I was hoping you'd say that.

[Pris and Sebastian enter building.]

Pris: Do you live in this building all by yourself?

Sebastian: Yeah, I live here pretty much alone right now. No housing
shortage around here. Plenty of room for everybody. (pause)

Pris: (cough).

Sebastian: Watch out for the water.

Pris: Must get lonely here J. F.

Sebastian: Mmm... Not really. I make friends. They're toys. My friends
are toys. I make them. It's a hobby. I'm a genetic designer. Do you
know what that is?

Pris: No.

Sebastian: Yoo-hoo, home again.

Toys: Home again, home again, jiggity jig. Good evening J. F.

Sebastian: Good evening, fellas.

Toy 1: Oooh!

Sebastian: They're my friends. I made them. Where are you're folks?

Pris: I'm sort of an orphan.

Sebastian: Oh, what about your friends?

Pris: I have some, but I have to find them. I'll let 'em know where I
am tomorrow.

Sebastian: Oh. Can I take those things for you? They're soaked aren't
they?

The Art of Sue Coe

Auschwitz begins whenever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals. --Theodor Adorno

Exploring with Sue Coe is no gentle stroll through cloistered sanctuaries of art. She makes uncompromising demands. She demands to speak freely. She demands viewers go eye-to-eye with the equivalent of road kill. She demands unflinching openness in full view of painful contradictions. Essentially, Coe demands that we re-examine our assumptions. When reading her books or looking at her images, the natural reaction is to turn away, to shut out horrific truths. One cannot meet her work without encountering resistance. This is inevitable, because this is her intent. --Judith Brody

Sue Coe and the Press: Speaking Out

Sue Coe is one of the most important politically oriented artists living in the U.S. today. From the outset of her career working as an illustrator for such publications as the New York Times and Time Magazine, Coe was committed to reaching a broad audience through the print media. Later, she began creating extended visual discourses on subjects (such as racial discrimination or animal rights) that she felt were not being adequately addressed by conventional news organizations. Widely written about and exhibited, Coe has appeared on the cover of Art News and been the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. Her work is in the collections of many major museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Born in Britain, Sue Coe moved to the US in 1972 and immediately began work as an illustrator for the op-ed page of the New York Times. Her drawings have since been included in The New Yorker, Time,  Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, National  Lampoon, and Artforum, among other publications.

Coe has an unerring instinct for anticipating significant issues. Her book How to Commit Suicide in South Africa (1983)—about the death of Stephen Biko and other student organizers in South African prisons—became an anti-apartheid organizing tool used on college campuses to persuade investors to divest themselves of South African stock. Similarly, her 1986 book X (The Life and Times of Malcolm X) prefigured the resurgence of popular interest in the black leader.

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Since 1986, Coe has devoted her energies, more and more exclusively, to the defense of animals in industry, from factory farming to medical research and genetic engineering. The victimization of animals in Porkopolis is related to other issues, other situations of social and political oppression. The meat industry exploits its workers and pollutes the environment; its abuse of animals is a variation on the theme of the exploitation of the weak by the strong. In the words of Theodor Adorno, "Auschwitz begins whenever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals."

Sue Coe is a New York artist and illustrator and a longtime contributor to The Nation who modestly describes herself as "double parked on the highway of life." Her books include Dead Meat (with an introduction by Alexander Cockburn) and Bully! (with Judith Brody).

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Bush AIDS (1990)                                              Bush and Duke- Presidential Timbre-
                                                                               The Root of the Tree is Rotten (1992)

   

Bomb Shelter ? Iraq Feb 91 (1991)              MOBILize/the Gulf (1990) 

          
News hound (1991)                                  AIDS won't wait, the enemy is here
                                                                      not in Kuwait (1990)

   

Eden [?] 

Bully ! Master of the Global Merry-Go-Round (2004)

    

The New World Order (1991)                         The Environmental President (1992)

Meat Fly

Target Practice

     

   9/11 (2002)                                                       9/11 (2002)

   
Halliburton War Trough (2005)                     Abu Ghraib: "The Americans brought
                                                                             electricity to my ass before my house."
                                                                             (2005)

Napalm on Falluja (2005)

Here is a note from Judith at Graphic Witness regarding purchase information and pricing for Sue Coe artwork:

For a price list of Sue's prints, please check:

Prints by Sue Coe 1979 - Present

There is a link on that page to buying Sue's work on-line 

Sue Coe Direct Print Sales

For Sue's paintings and drawings, her gallery in New York would have prices and information:  

Galerie St. Etienne

Best wishes,

Judith

Sue Coe Related Links

Sue Coe Homepage

More Sue Coe Artwork

Sue Coe Woodcuts 2005

Who is Sue Coe and why should I buy her prints ?

LA Times interview with Sue Coe

Bully! : Master of the Global Merry-Go-Round by Sue Coe, Judith Brody

Fantagraphic Books: Blab!

A RAW History: The Magazine

A tremendous thank you to artist Sue Coe and Judith Brody at Graphic Witness for granting ce399 permission to reproduce Sue Coe’s amazing artwork here.

The Samson Option

The Samson Option

The Biblical Samson, of course, brought down a temple that killed himself and his enemies. According to the namebase.org "The title of Hersh's book comes from Israel's notion that once they have the Bomb, they are in a position to bring it all down on everyone if ever they feel cornered. It's the ultimate in Israeli security as a nation-state, if not for the security of humankind…The Bomb has been a hidden factor in U.S.-Israeli relations ever since the Eisenhower administration, but this is the first book [to] deal with Israeli relations from this perspective.

The Samson Option : Israel's Nuclear Arsenal & American Foreign Policy by Seymour M. Hersh
 
“It [Israel] must be in a position to threaten another Hiroshima to prevent another Holocaust.”

-Avner Cohen

...Seymour Hersh warns, "Should war break out in the Middle East again,...  or should any Arab nation fire missiles against Israel, as the Iraqis did, a nuclear escalation, once unthinkable except as a last resort, would now be a strong probability."  Ezar Weissman, Israel's current President said "The nuclear issue is gaining momentum (and the)  next war will not be conventional." Russia and before it the Soviet Union has long been a major (if not the major) target of Israeli nukes.  It is widely reported that the principal purpose of Jonathan Pollard's spying for Israel was to furnish satellite images of Soviet targets and other super sensitive data relating to U.S. nuclear targeting strategy. (Since launching its own satellite in 1988, Israel no longer needs U.S. spy secrets.)  Israeli nukes aimed at the Russian heartland seriously complicate disarmament and arms control negotiations and, at the very least, the unilateral possession of nuclear weapons by Israel is enormously destabilizing, and dramatically lowers the threshold for their actual use, if not for all out nuclear war.

Seymour Hersh sites other threats in The Samson Option.  Referring to the U.S. failure to support Israel's invasion of Egypt in 1956, including in the face of nuclear threats from the Soviet Union, one unnamed former Israeli official told Hersh in the late 1980s: "You Americans screwed us...We got the message. We can still remember the smell of Auschwitz and Treblinka.  Next time we'll take all of you with us."

Israeli Nuclear Threats and Blackmail

Israel's Nuclear Posture: The Samson Option

THE THIRD TEMPLE'S HOLY OF HOLIES: ISRAEL'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS

"Every morning now, I awake beside the Mediterranean in Beirut with a feeling of great foreboding, There is a firestorm coming. And we are blissfully ignoring its arrival; indeed, we are provoking it."

-Robert Fisk

"Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches." 

-Ariel Sharon

Palestinians hit by sonic boom air raids

UN condemns night noise attacks as indiscriminate
Agencies say they cause trauma and miscarriages

Israel is deploying a terrifying new tactic against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip by letting loose deafening "sound bombs" that cause widespread fear, induce miscarriages and traumatise children.

The removal of Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip opened the way for the military to use air force jets to create dozens of sonic booms by breaking the sound barrier at low altitude, sending shockwaves across the territory, often at night. Palestinians liken the sound to an earthquake or huge bomb. They describe the effect as being hit by a wall of air that is painful on the ears, sometimes causing nosebleeds and "leaving you shaking inside".

The Palestinian health ministry says the sonic booms have led to miscarriages and heart problems. The United Nations has demanded an end to the tactic, saying it causes panic attacks in children. The shockwaves have also damaged buildings by cracking walls and smashing thousands of windows.

"I have never heard such a loud explosion. I thought it was right over the top of my building," said the owner, Tareq Dayyeh. "Sometimes you hear the rockets the Israelis fire but this was different. I felt like I was in the middle of a bomb. When I ran out the door I thought I might find the rest of the street was gone."

Over the past week, Israeli jets created 28 sonic booms by flying at high speed and low altitude over the Gaza Strip, sometimes as little as an hour apart through the night. During five days in late September, the air force caused 29 sonic booms.

A senior Israeli army intelligence source, who the military would not permit to be named, said the tactic is intended to break civilian support for armed Palestinian groups. "We are trying to send a message in a way that doesn't harm people. We want to encourage the Palestinian public to do something about the terror situation," he said. "What are the alternatives? We are not like the terrorists who shoot civilians. We are cautious. We make sure nobody is really hurt."

Yesterday, two medical human rights groups asked the Tel Aviv high court to outlaw the use of sound bombs on the grounds it amounts to illegal collective punishment and is detrimental to health.

"The stress is phenomenal," said Eyad El Sarraj, a psychologist and director of Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, one of the groups filing the petition. "The Israelis do it after midnight and then every one or two hours. You try to go to sleep and then there's another one. When it happens night after night you become exhausted. You get a heightened sense of alert, waiting continuously for it to happen. People suffer hypertension, fatigue, sleeplessness.

"For children, the loud noise means danger. Adults may know it's only a sound but small children feel threatened. They are crying and clinging to their parents. Afterwards they are dazed and fearful, waiting for something to happen."

The UN Palestinian refugee agency said a majority of the patients seen at its clinics as a result of the sonic booms were under 16 and suffering from symptoms such as anxiety attacks, bedwetting, muscle spasms, temporary loss of hearing and breathing difficulties.

Although the Israelis say the shockwaves do not cause casualties, doctors at Gaza's Shifa hospital said the overflights had forced women to miscarry. The number of miscarriages had increased by 40%, according to Jumaa Saqqa, a surgeon and hospital spokesman. "There were no other symptoms and the rise happened after the sonic booms. We can see no other explanation. The number of patients admitted to the cardiac care unit doubled. Some of them proved to have suffered serious harm."

Dr Saqqa said one overflight occurred while he was operating. The Palestinian health ministry estimates the sonic booms have caused at least 20 miscarriages.

The UN's Middle East envoy, Alvaro de Soto, wrote to the Israeli high command this week saying he was "deeply concerned at the impact on children, particularly infants, of the use of sonic booms".

Mr de Soto said he did not accept that the tactic was a legitimate response to Islamic Jihad and Hamas firing rockets into Israeli towns. "Sonic booms are an indiscriminate instrument, the use of which punishes the population collectively. We ask therefore that their use be stopped without delay," the letter said.

The military was forced to apologise after one sonic boom was unintentionally heard hundreds of kilometres inside Israel last week. Maariv newspaper described it as sounding "like a heavy bombardment. The noise that shook the Israeli skies was frightening. Thousands of citizens leapt in panic from their beds, and many of them placed worried calls to the police and the fire department. The Tel Aviv and central district police switchboards crashed."

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Israeli sonic booms terrorising Gaza

T for Terminator or T for Tiergartenstrasse ? (Part Two)

Upcoming Movie Concept: Terminator 4

T4 Wallpaper

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T for Terminator or T for Tiergartenstrasse ? (Part One)

T4 or Tiergartenstrasse 4 Nazi Euthanasia and Medical Killing Programme

In the fall of 1939 the German government established, under the Reich Chancellery, the Euthanasie Programme under the direction of Philip Bouhler and Dr. Karl Brandt.  The headquarters of the operation were at Tiergartenstrasse 4, Berlin and the code name for the program was derived from that address -- T-4

Between December 1939 and August 1941, about 50,000 to 60,000 Germans--children and adults--were secretly killed by lethal injections or in gassing installations designed to look like shower stalls. It was a foretast of Auschwitz. The victims were taken from the medical institution and put to death...

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