protest warrior - the book

[sniffa]

i was wondering what happened to the guy - he's been busy writing a book.


A Field Guide to Left-Wing Wackos

And What to Do About Them
Kfir Alfia - Author
Alan Lipton - Author
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Book: Hardcover | 5.51 x 8.26in | 256 pages | ISBN 9781595230379 | 21 Jun 2007 | Portfolio

A Field Guide to Left-Wing Wackos

Here’s everything you need to know about Anarchists, Peace Moms, Granolas, and many other types of left-wing wackos . . . so you can annoy them before they annoy you!

Dreadlocks. Megaphones. The stench of patchouli oil and bad ideas. Who are these ridiculous characters clogging our streets and college campuses, protesting everything from “American imperialism” to genetically modified food to tax cuts?

And how can an articulate, employed, sane person like yourself glean entertainment value from their antics?

Kfir Alfia and Alan Lipton, the founders of ProtestWarrior, America’s leading antiactivist organization, have spent years studying the eighteen distinct species of leftist protesters in our midst—everyone from Blacktivists to Hacktivists to Islamothugs. And in this hilarious guide, they will teach you:

• How to easily differentiate among similar species like Communists, Anarchists, and College Students.
• How to recognize the subtleties of the Performance Artist versus the Dylan Wannabe and the Acid Freak versus the Granola.
• How to confront, tease and taunt these wackos with witty comebacks, demolishing zingers, and infuriating facts. (Here’s one: “War never solved anything ... except for slavery, fascism, Nazism and communism!”)

A Field Guide to Left Wing Wackos is the manual you want at your fingertips to defend yourself and the American Way—and have some fun while you’re at it.

http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781595230379,00.html



he's been up to other exciting stuff too, according to his emaiL...



Well, it's been a long time since the last PW update. The reason being that I took a break from the organization, letting the local chapters run independently.

I kept busy during this hiatus - I wrote a book, got engaged, and started a business with my brother.

The book, The ProtestWarrior Field Guide to Left-Wing Wackos, will be available at your local book stores next month:

http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781595230379,00.html

More details to follow as the release date approaches.

As to getting engaged, I recently asked the woman who inspired me to start ProtestWarrior to marry me, and luckily she agreed.

The new business I started is called Maestro - a service you can call up any time 24/7 and ask any question or request any task. It's like having your very own personal assistant just a phone call away. We're currently giving complimentary personal assistants to every Iraqi War Vet as a token of appreciation.

If you're interested, check it out at www.personalmaestro.com

I also launched Minute Alert (www.minutealert.com), a service that will text message or email you as soon as you get close to running out of your premium cell phone minutes.

So that's what's been keeping me busy, but I plan to fire up the PW machinery now that things have slowed down a bit with my PW hiatus.

Another change within the org is that Alan is no longer a part of PW. Alan wanted to take PW to a more spiritual direction than I wanted to, and he left on his own accord.

Sorry to keep this brief, but I'm off to Italy to get married and won't be back till mid June.

-Kfir



wow! freepers in Love. i'm dying to know what this woman is Like if she was the inspiration for PW. :rofl:

and can you reaLLy caLL that a business? :eyes:

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

1. "Blacktivists?"

that's not a tad racist, now isn't it?

i swear, any hack can get a job or a book deal if they're rightwing

[sniffa]

5. what do you expect from PW?

:eyes:

[deutsey]

2. Wonder if there's a chapter on not getting your ass kicked by rightwingers

who are too stupid to figure out you're on their side?

(ProtestWarrior morans were attacked by Busheviks in Crawford because the Busheviks couldn't decipher their "clever" wit and mistook them for libruls).

Sigh. I think "antiactivist" says it all, doesn't it? Activists are grassroots organizers trying to defend their rights and interests against corporate fascism. So if these jerks are "antiactivist"...

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. I'd be happy to publish this person's book.

Why, for a flat up front fee of $2000 dollars, I'll be happy to publish any conservative's book.

PM me, and I'll give you an address to send your cash or money order.

[sniffa]

7. i'LL do it for $1900

and you'LL get the LLLLLLLLL on the cheap.

[rivertext]

4. the truth about Protest Warriors -- my book ;-)

I posted this once before in another forum here. But I couldn't resist posting it here, my DU tribute to Protest Warriors..





Hi. Most, perhaps all, of the photos essays that I wove together to create the tapestry of NIght Life were published here on DU as well as Portland Indymedia. However, I believe that here the whole is more than the sum of its parts. Although these pictures were taken with inexpensive "point and shoot" cameras, it was very difficult for the DSLR users that lined the sidewalks of these street protests to take better pictures. To borrow a phrase from the world of real estate, the three things that matter most in photography are, "location, location, location." In this case, the advantage of my location as an activist/photographer was that most of these photographs were taken from inside the protests.


From photojournalism to porn, it is now the players, not the professional spectators, that take the most memorable photographs. The photos taken by the guards at Abu Ghraib prison may not quite meet the standards of either photojournalism or porn, but they are the iconic images of that horrific conflict.


night ride with Critical Mass and candle-lit vigil

Night Light is a book of progressive, participatory photojournalism. My goal was to take pictures of protests of the Bush regime, without taking myself out of those protests. From the first protest I photographed, where my camera and I were baptized in pepper spray, I put as much care into creating my own protest signs or leaflets as I did into my photography. However, it is in the chapter on my work in political street theatre that I came the closest to realizing my ideal of equally high quality participation and depiction.



The text of Night Light is as well composed as the images for it highlights the best writing of several years of Portland Indymedia photo essays. Each essay had a subtext such as, class warfare, how the media seduces and betrays us, or the questionable morality of religious conservatives. Night Light weaves all these themes together. The concluding chapter a visual chronology of Portland's protests of the Bush regime.

For more about my photo essays, and my latest book and film, visit:

http://rivertext.smugmug.com/

Brian

[MisterP]

6. they're actually stupider than the Freepers!

[Decruiter]

8. Met them more than once

Here are the pics:



That's KFIR and ALAN in their glory days.

[Decruiter]

9. Smile, you've been punked.

[Decruiter]

10. Some pix you might find in their book on protest signs

[Decruiter]

11. Goons look after them and peace officers look after us !

Fun afternoon defending the First Amendment, free speech, and demanding the return of our Fourth Estate, a free press.




(Guitarist added for musical effect.)

I'm protesting the book signing. Who's with me?