I would love to write something up about the Goat with a Vote group which was active in 2000. The above photo was taken from the debate at the first George W. Bush and Al Gore debate at UMass Boston on October 3, 2000, but I first encountered them during the Republican National Convention earlier that same year in July and August.
One of my ongoing tasks has been to sort through documents and photos from the early 2000's. This was from the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. This image of the cop by the anarchist symbol and Mumia sticker had just the right amount of symbolism I could get behind. Sadly, I was sick and hospitalized before I could do anything with this material. I plan on coming back to this and other material from that event-filled year.
When I started my Sarcastic Haiku series, I wrote my first American Haiku. An American Haiku doesn't care about tradition, formality or history. it takes as long as it wants to make its point because America. You can read others I've written since by clicking here and scrolling down.
