HBO’s new mini-series, Generation Kill is an eye opener. A candid portrayal of the lives of US soldiers in the battlefield of Iraq. The screenplay is raw, direct and intelligent. A refreshing perspective of the intimate conversations that take place between the camaraderie of young men fighting for a war which at times leaves them equally perplexed and frustrated.

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www.hbo.com/generationkill

From the Evil Monito archives:
Editorial on the Triads - Chinese Crime Syndicate
Originally published January 2001.
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www.evilmonito.com/archives/001/triads.htm

From the Evil Monito archives:
Editorial with South Central Middle Students.
Originally published Spring/Summer 2003.
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www.evilmonito.com/archives/015/southcm/1.htm

In response to an op-ed piece written from Senator Obama last week in the New York Times, Senator McCain submitted a rebuttal but the NY Times rejected his essay. According to CNN, “Opinion Page Editor David Shipley said he could not accept the piece as written, but would be “pleased, though, to look at another draft…Let me suggest an approach,” he wrote Friday. “The Obama piece worked for me because it offered new information (it appeared before his speech); while Senator Obama discussed Senator McCain, he also went into detail about his own plans. It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama’s piece.” 

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www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/21/mccain.nyt/index.html 

It’s been interesting observing how the Obama campaign has so effectively communicated to their constituents via their ever so resourceful website. In the past, the use of the web in political campaigns have been based at best purely for informational press junkets. Seeing how the Obama campaign not only utilizes modern web-compliant tools in their use of embeddable video, allowance of comments →

Shepard Fairey, the contemporary artist whose irreverent works have deconstructed the meaning and methods of propaganda, ironically became the creator of one of the most potent political images in recent history - the OBAMA “HOPE” poster. The image found such immediate resonance with Obama supporters that it became ubiquitous →

WE ARE ALSO RESPONSIBLE : 1971 speech by César Chávez
South Lawn, Exposition Park - Los Angeles
Event: 7/19/08
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Presented by CREATIVE TIME with LACE:

The Port Huron Project is a series of reenactments of protest speeches from the New Left movements of the 1960s and ’70s →

John Edwards has formally announced his endorsement for Barack Obama. This is exciting news for us, further reinforcing what may be a sure win for the Obama campaign in securing the Democratic nominee in the upcoming general election. For a detailed report, go to the article in the New York Times .

Interview with Mario Gonzalez
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Downtown Los Angeles is home to a new kind of turf war, the likes of which hasn’t been seen here for decades and – as is fitting in the world’s most cinematic city →