Political
protests take countless forms.
The
hunger strike and the wildcat strike. The protest march and the protest
song. The sit-in and the petition. They all have their place in history
for combating the powerful.
But none match the splendidly photogenic, questionably effective,
sometimes delicious and always ludicrous act of throwing a pie in the
face of authority.
"It's the simplest form of political message," said Patrick Robert -
also known as Pop Tarte - the founder of Montreal-based Les
Entartistes, Canada's most active pie protest group.
Last Monday, in an attack that Robert said could reinvigorate the
40-year-old form of protest, an animal-rights activist pied Federal
Fisheries Minister Gail Shea square in the face.
Liberal MP Gerry Byrne called the act "akin to terrorism," a comparison
Robert said was, well, half-baked.
"If it is seen as a terrorist act, the terrorists have won," he said.
Then,
on Friday, a seal-hunt protester in Newfoundland was pied in the face
by someone who supports the hunt.
The flying pies have placed Shea and Friday's victim, in the company of
the famous and infamous.
Canadian victims alone include some of the most powerful political
luminaries of the past 20 years, with names such as Chretien, Charest,
Dion, Klein, Pettigrew, Rock and Parizeau peppering the list.
While some targets, such as former health minister Allan Rock, laughed
the incident off, others seemed less amused.
Former Liberal leader Stephane Dion pressed charges when he was pied in
1999 by Robert.
Shea's attacker has also been charged.
When former prime minister Jean Chretien got a face full of custard at
an event in Charlottetown in 2000, some law-enforcement officials
called it a sign of rising civil disobedience not seen since the
anti-war protests of the 1960s.
Several political pie-throwing cabals exist around the world, including
Les Entartistes and the Meringue Marauders from Canada, the Biotic
Baking Brigade and Al Pieda from the United States and Internationales
Patissiere from Belgium.
Many of the groups sprang to life after a 1998 attack on Microsoft
chairman Bill Gates by more than 30 cream commandos.
Their attack, which left pie covering the computer magnate's glasses
and shoulders, seemed to reheat the pie as a protest tool.
Since then, high-profile targets have included conservative political
pundit Ann Coulter, Swedish King Carl Gustaf, former Enron CEO Jeffrey
Skilling, San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and actor Sylvester Stallone.
Tracing the history of pie throwing, much is owed to cinema. The pie in
the face is a slapstick gag dating back to silent films, and
popularized by Laurel and Hardy and the Three Stooges. It has been
comedic gold for nearly a century.
In 1969, Belgian artist Noel Godin, who led the 1998 Gates mission,
used a protest pie for the first time against another artist. But in
1970, it became political. Thomas Forcade, the founder of the
marijuana-promoting High Times magazine, pied Otto Larsen, the chairman
of a U.S. federal commission on obscenity.
In 1973, the most celebrated North American pie protester, the "Pie
Man" Aron Kay flung his first pastry.
In an interview with Canwest News Service, he described pieing as "a
form of character assassination."
"Pies smash your demeanor, they take you down a notch," said the
Winnipeg-born Kay.
"The
only thing that gets hurt is your ego."
Kay has several high-profile hits, including political
commentator
William F. Buckley, former CIA director William Colby and artist Andy
Warhol.
Of Kay's 40 or so strikes, his greatest, he said, was nailing G. Gordon
Liddy, one of the central figures of the 1972 Watergate scandal.
On the day Liddy was paroled in 1977, Kay borrowed a jacket and tie,
strolled nonchalantly into the luxurious Mayflower Hotel in Washington,
D.C., and hit Liddy with an apple pie.
"In honor of mother America," Kay said.
Some
times a joint is as affective as a pie. Mayor Ed Koch of NYC
gets pot smoke at a ritzy party in NYC in Feb. 1979
Kay, 60, retired from pieing since 1992, was introduced to a new
generation when the Simpsons satirized him in 2004, enhancing his
legend.
He
remains a vehement supporter of the movement.
"I am issuing a fatwa against Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others of
that ilk," he said, referring to two of the most controversial
conservative commentators in the U.S.
"The
pies must fly!"
BTO Heads to
Court
VANCOUVER,
B.C. — Randy Bachman and Fred Turner fronted one of the hottest rock
bands of the 1970's, selling millions of albums under the name
Bachman-Turner Overdrive.
Now they're front and centre in a B.C. Supreme Court lawsuit in which
Bachman's own brother and another former bandmate are suing the pair
for using their own names.
Robin Bachman and Blair Thornton launched the lawsuit claiming Randy
Bachman and Fred Turner signed away the rights to the Bachman-Turner
Overdrive and BTO names in three separate contracts.
"Much as Coca Cola is synonymous in the world with Coke, so too is
Bachman-Turner Overdrive with BTO," says the lawsuit filed last Friday.
The Canadian rock band from Winnipeg was best known for the songs "You
Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" and "Takin' Care of Business."
After
the group broke up in 1977, the lawsuit claims Randy Bachman and Turner
signed away the rights to the BTO name to their two former bandmates
and agreed not to use the Bachman-Turner Overdrive name without the
consent of the other parties.
The lawsuit states that Randy Bachman and Turner signed two further
deals in 1984 and 2002, saying they wouldn't use the Bachman-Turner
Overdrive name in connection to new recordings and live performances.
But in May 2009, the lawsuit claims that Randy Bachman's company,
Ranback, registered several names with the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office and the Canadian Intellectual Property Office including the
names Bachman-Turner, B.T.U., and Bachman Turner Union.
It
said Bachman and Turner have entered into contracts with concert
promoters and agents to perform in Canada and Europe without the
plaintiffs consent..... more
source : The Canadian Press
BTO
website
BTO Vinyl
Records - one -
two - three -
four - five |
Some of Mr. Kay's
& associates pie assaults
Nixon
Bagman, Tony Ulasewicz gets creamed
Jerry
Rubin lands one on pro-nuker Edward Teller
Homophobe
Anita Bryant faces fruit pie
Anti-feminist
Phyliss Schlafly receives apple pie from Pie Man
Jerry
Brown gets custard from Pie Man
Moynihan
gets mocha cream from Pie Man...see more http://www.pieman.org/pageb.html
You can't
always get what you want, unless your Mick Jagger
"I'd known Mick since I was a kid, and maybe
most people think High
on Arrival."
their parents' friends are old and gross,"
Mackenzie Phillips writes in
her new bombshell tell-all, book "
"But this was Mick Jagger. Mick Jagger! He was hot. He had
the most perfect ass in history."
The wild child and "One Day at a Time" actress says she had sex with
the Rolling Stones frontman during a raucous, drug-fueled party at the
Central Park West home of her dad, folk-rock star John Phillips.
"I've been waiting for this since you were 10 years old,"
Jagger allegedly told the then-18-year-old
Phillips.
She says that she and Jagger had sneaked away while her dad was at the
party, making the Stones singer a tuna-salad sandwich.
"In the middle of our tumble, my dad came back and started knocking on
the door, yelling, 'You've got my daughter in there!' " she writes. "I
imagined he was more annoyed at losing the chance to show off his
tuna-salad recipe than genuinely concerned about the defiling of his
daughter.
The
story is just one of many lurid anecdotes from Phillips' wild life of
sex, drugs 'n' rock and roll.
"High on Arrival" has already made jaw-dropping headlines for the
49-year-old's claim that she and her dad -- the former lead singer of
the Mamas and the Papas -- had consensual sex on and off for 10 years.
The Purple Pill
One
day, Mackenzie found a purple pill in her dad's bedroom.
She instinctively took it. But it turned out not to be just
any pill -- it was the last of the LSD pills made by the famous drug
cook Owsley Stanley, and it was a collector's item among moneyed
celebrity druggies of the time.
"It was as if I'd crashed a normal dad's Porsche," she
writes. "He said, 'You took my last hit of Owsley. You're grounded!' "
lesbian
experience
Mackenzie
also recalls how, as a teen, she went to a party hosted by the Kennedy
family, and had a lesbian experience. "One of Andy Warhol's cronies was
there with his niece. I got in big, big trouble for seducing the
niece," she writes. "Her uncle was very upset, shouting, 'How dare you?
She's just a child!' "
Mackenzie also tells about being raped by a man who raped her
at knifepoint. Rolling joints for her dad. And about being held hostage
for several days in a drug den, she claims. The ordeal ended when her
dad sent a guy named "Big Sal," who flashed a gun and rescued her.
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How Arron Kay became "The Pie Man"
I attended
marches on behalf of the Chicano Moratorium and the Black Panther Party
to protest the brutality which had been inflicted on them by the cops.
Peoples Park, Venice, Ca., the 1966 Sunset Strip Riots,along with the
struggles against racism and the Vietnam War were what shaped me into
becoming the Pieman. Let 1,000 Pies Fly so as to paraphrase Chairman
Mao.
One day in April, 1976, I got a phone call from a source in
the underground press. The source told me that William F. Buckley was
speaking at N.Y University. I conjured up a shaving creampie which
landed on his head. Buckley would not press charges. Soon,I became
known as the PIEMAN.
I partook in the National Marijuana Day
smoke-ins at Washington Square Park and the protests surrounding the
Democratic Convention in NYC and the Republican Convention in Kansas
City. I also helped disseminate information about the conspiracy
surrounding the AJ Weberman's book, Coup
d'Etat in America: The CIA and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy about the
JFK Assassination and Watergate. Weberman has launched many new sites
including Dylanology ,Garbology ,Acidtrip (alongwith a Java version of
acidtrip and Bozoland .
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Kathi
McDonald solidifies
her legacy as rock 'n' roll survivor
Singer Kathi
McDonald, set to make a rare appearance in Marin next week, is a little-known but fascinating figure
in rock 'n' roll history. After decades of denial, she's learned to
accept that she will forever be inextricably linked to one of rock's
most tragic characters - Janis Joplin.
The 60-year-old singer makes her home near Seattle now, but during the
'70s and '80s, she was among the extraordinary collection of rock
musicians who settled in Marin.
"I
lived in every single town in Marin," she said in a husky, lived-in
voice. "Mill Valley, San Rafael, San Anselmo, Lagunitas, Forest Knolls.
You name it, I lived there."
The way she tells her story, San Francisco promoter Chet Helms invited
her to audition for Big Brother and the
Holding Company at the same time in 1966 that he'd recruited Joplin.
Joplin was in Austin, Texas, 18-year-old McDonald in Seattle.
"Chet Helms
called me and I hitch-
hiked down, but I got there a little later than Janis did," McDonald
told me the other day, speaking by cell phone from the Skagit Valley in
Washington, where she was visiting a childhood friend. "She beat me to
the punch."
When Joplin left Big Brother to form the Kosmic Blues Band, McDonald
replaced her, recording three albums: "Can't Go Home Again," "How Hard
It Is" and "Be a Brother." In 1974, she also released a solo album,
"Insane Asylum."
"I
used to hate it when people would say, 'You sound like Janis Joplin,'"
she recalled. "I'd say, 'No, she sounds like me"
... READ
MORE
ROCK
CREEK, W. Virginia -- Just a few months ago, three little
coal
company houses stood along the Coal River, gutted and near the end of
their lives.
Now, those three little homes are considered the
Appalachian base for Climate Ground Zero and Coal River Wind. Their new
tenant, 54-year-old national environmentalist Mike Roselle, is setting
up shop to get ready for a long summer of disobedience in the
coalfields.
 But he’s used to that.
Roselle
started his life on the road as a yippie/lowbagger at 16, leaving
Louisville, Ky., to first protest against the Vietnam War and then any
supposed-environmental wrongs he felt needed righted.
Lowbaggers are part of a loosely tied alternative community that shares
resources when living and traveling together.
Yippie
is a term created by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, both of whom
Roselle said he met in those early Vietnam protests. The Youth
International Party (YIP!) merged hippie counterculture and New Left
activities, according to UrbanDictionary.com.
Later, Roselle was
the founder of Earth First!, an environmental movement that has made
headlines across the nation in the 1980s, '90s and this decade for its
nontraditional and sometimes aggressive attempts to protect wilderness.
Some
areas where Earth First! members have been active recently, according
to the group's Web site, include a tree-sit protesting development on
Vancouver Island, British Columbia; protests of drilling in the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska; and trying to stop seal slaughter
in Canada.
...MORE HERE
source : 59 News
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4 Year old Texas hippie
suspended from school...section
A,column #1 
In
1973, the most celebrated North American pie protester, the "Pie Man"
Aron Kay flung his first pastry. In an interview with Canwest News
Service, ...section
B, column #1, 2 & 3
Howard Zinn dead at age
87... section A,
column #2
Another
Poor Ol' Hippie
website 
2008
with
help from 
REDNECKS
exit
to RedneckEnuff.com
from
jail on a charge he carried heroin into a Los Angeles subway station.
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