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Emmanuelle Seigner & Peter Coyote in 'Bitter Moon' (1992)

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Bitter Moon (1992)

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Zen priest, Peter Coyote, on protest: "I’m watching the Los Angeles reaction to ICE raids with trepidation and regret.

Three years ago I taught a class at Harvard on the “theater of protest”— designed to help people understand why so many protests turn out to be Republican campaign videos working directly against the interests of the original protest.

A protest is an invitation to a better world.

It’s a ceremony.

No one accepts a ceremonial invitation when they’re being screamed at.

More important you have to know who the real audience of the protest is.

The audience is NEVER the police, the politicians, the Board of supervisors, Congress,etc.

The audience is always the American people, who are trying to decide who they can trust; who will not embarrass them.

If you win them, you win power at the box office and power to make positive change.

Everything else is a waste.

There are a few ways to get there:

1. Let women organize the event. They’re more collaborative. They’re more inclusive, and they don’t generally bring the undertones of violence men do.

2 Appoint monitors, give them yellow, vests and whistles. At the first sign of violence, they blow the whistles and the real protester sit down.

Let the police take out their aggression on the anarchists and the provocateurs trying to discredit the movement.

3. Dress like you’re going to church. It’s hard to be painted as a hoodlum when you’re dressed in clean, presentable clothes.

They don’t have to be fancy they just signal the respect for the occasion that you want to transmit to the audience.

4. Make your protest silent. Demonstrate your discipline to the American people. Let signs do the talking.

5. Go home at night. In the dark, you can’t tell the cops from the killers. Come back at dawn fresh and rested.

I have great fear that Trump’s staging with the National Guard and maybe the Marines is designed to clash with anarchists who are playing into his hands and offering him the opportunity to declare an insurrection.

It’s such a waste and it’s only because we haven’t thought things through strategically.

Nothing I thought of is particularly original.

It was all learned by watching the early civil rights protests in the 50s and 60s.

And it was the discipline and courage of African-Americans that drew such a clear line in the American sand that people were forced to take sides and that produced the civil rights act.

The American people are watching and once again if we behave in ways that can be misinterpreted, we’ll see this explained to the public in Republican campaign videos benefiting the very people who started this.

Wake up.

Vent at home.

In public practice discipline and self control.

It takes much more courage."

Zen teacher and author/narrator with Ken Burns

Note: Carry an American flag. As the administration creates a fake emergency to justify a state crackdown, it's important to honor the values and vision of democracy for which we're advocating.

When the Enquirer came for pics back in 2017, I smiled a big toothy grin and held a big flag as it felt so empowering and good to stand with my adult daughter, pastors, Franciscans, nuns, kids, parents, grandparents and some women from our women's groups for the values we tried to pass on.

After the protest, we sang and marched to a church where we heard poignant witness of immigrants trying to build a better life for their families against insurmountable odds.

Many Marines, National Guardsmen and vets are over on Threads and Substack expressinging their disagreement over being used by this lawless administration.

Peace, santi and shalom to all. ☮️

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Peter Birkenhead 

 I’ve always liked Peter Coyote, but wow that post of his that’s going around is so wrongheaded.

A protest is not an “invitation to a better world.” A protest is a disruption of the status quo. An attention-grabbing blast of sight and sound meant to be unavoidable. An insistence.

Coyote says, “No one accepts a ceremonial invitation when they’re being screamed at.” True enough. Nobody wants the enemy at their ceremony. Or their achool, or their workplace.

Nobody wants ICE at their Quinceanera, or naturalization ceremony. That’s the whole fucking point. The screams of protestors are the opposite of an invitation. They are a demand that the enemy leave town.

Dr. King’s Birmingham Campaign was a means of gumming up the works, of illegally disrupting lunch counters, businesses, churches and libraries with sit ins intended to overwhelm local jails. The march from Selma to Montgomery purposefully blocked traffic, to draw the attention of both law enforcement and a national television audience.

It was a wrench in the machinery, meant to stop its terrible work. To stop segregation, stop discrimination, stop police brutality, stop murder. It was meant to save lives.

ACT-UP was similary focused on purposeful confrontation to save lives. It was guided by a one-line statement of principle: “Direct action to end the Aids crisis.” The organization was unafraid of alienating institutions of power, or offending the sensibilities of genteel liberals. It led a movement that was, by necessity, as in-your-face and immediate as it could be. ACT-UP isn’t remembered today for polite invitations to ceremonies, but for screaming “We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it!” It is remembered for its insistence.

There will be a time — maybe — for invitations and ceremonies. Peter Coyote describes a vision of a better world, and I’m all for working towards realizing that vision. But the point of the protests happening in Los Angeles and across the country is not to make peace or forge unity with our enemies as a means of finding Utopia. The point of the protests is to save people’s lives.

Right now.

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Zen priest, Peter Coyote, on protest: "I’m watching the Los Angeles reaction to ICE raids with trepidation and regret.

Three years ago I taught a class at Harvard on the “theater of protest”— designed to help people understand why so many protests turn out to be Republican campaign videos working directly against the interests of the original protest.

A protest is an invitation to a better world.

It’s a ceremony.

No one accepts a ceremonial invitation when they’re being screamed at.

More important you have to know who the real audience of the protest is.

The audience is NEVER the police, the politicians, the Board of supervisors, Congress,etc.

The audience is always the American people, who are trying to decide who they can trust; who will not embarrass them.

If you win them, you win power at the box office and power to make positive change.

Everything else is a waste.

There are a few ways to get there:

1. Let women organize the event. They’re more collaborative. They’re more inclusive, and they don’t generally bring the undertones of violence men do.

2 Appoint monitors, give them yellow, vests and whistles. At the first sign of violence, they blow the whistles and the real protester sit down.

Let the police take out their aggression on the anarchists and the provocateurs trying to discredit the movement.

3. Dress like you’re going to church. It’s hard to be painted as a hoodlum when you’re dressed in clean, presentable clothes.

They don’t have to be fancy they just signal the respect for the occasion that you want to transmit to the audience.

4. Make your protest silent. Demonstrate your discipline to the American people. Let signs do the talking.

5. Go home at night. In the dark, you can’t tell the cops from the killers. Come back at dawn fresh and rested.

I have great fear that Trump’s staging with the National Guard and maybe the Marines is designed to clash with anarchists who are playing into his hands and offering him the opportunity to declare an insurrection.

It’s such a waste and it’s only because we haven’t thought things through strategically.

Nothing I thought of is particularly original.

It was all learned by watching the early civil rights protests in the 50s and 60s.

And it was the discipline and courage of African-Americans that drew such a clear line in the American sand that people were forced to take sides and that produced the civil rights act.

The American people are watching and once again if we behave in ways that can be misinterpreted, we’ll see this explained to the public in Republican campaign videos benefiting the very people who started this.

Wake up.

Vent at home.

In public practice discipline and self control.

It takes much more courage."

— Peter Coyote

Zen teacher and author/narrator, with Ken Burns

Note: Carry an American flag. As the administration creates a fake emergency to justify a state crackdown, it's important to honor the values and vision of democracy for which we're advocating.

When the Enquirer came for pics back in 2017, I smiled a big toothy grin and held a big flag as it felt so empowering and good to stand with my adult daughter, pastors, Franciscans, nuns, kids, parents, grandparents and some women from our women's groups for the values we tried to pass on.

After the protest, we sang and marched to a church where we heard poignant witness of immigrants trying to build a better life for their families against insurmountable odds.

Many Marines, National Guardsmen and vets are over on Threads and Substack expressinging their disagreement over being used by this lawless administration.

— Leslie Flood Hershberger

---- Just some thoughts from Peter Coyote. I'm not disputing anything here or even really analyzing. I leave that to you, because I'm sure various users will champion and/or shred every word above, so...you do that. Coyote is kind of a legend among a certain set of mostly older folks, hippies, yippies and conchies etc. He was a Digger and a member of the San Francisco Mime Troupe before becoming a Zen monk. My dad (in his poor Jesuit law student/philosophy professor days in the 1960s-70s) used to go to his Free Store and chat with him on occasion and described him as one of the more magnetic (thus also polarizing, he'd add quickly, firmly) figures of counterculture San Francisco (he certainly liked him better than Jim Jones (he met him exactly once and said he was 'the Slimiest and Sickest Fucker ever and my dad isn't the type to swear at all) Alan Watts or Alvin Toffler).

-- Today’s Daily New Yorker Cartoon, by Guy Richards Smit.

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Bitter Moon, 1992 Roman Polański

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The Legend of Billie Jean Matthew Robbins. 1985

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Bitter Moon

Peter Coyote as Oscar Benton and Emmanuelle Seigner as Micheline (“Mimi”) Bouvier test the limits of their relationship in Roman Polanski’s 1992 movie that tells a tale of extreme, sadomasochistic and, ultimately tragic, love.

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TED: “What the hell is it?”

BARNES: “Whatever it is, it seems to be what this bird was designed to do. Go out into space, and gather things like this up and bring it back.”

TED: “Yeah, but back from where?”

HARRY: “Don’t get too excited, Ted. Turn this thing over, it’ll probably say ‘Made in Korea.’”

NORMAN: “Somehow I doubt that, Harry.”

BARNES: “No doors. No hinges of any kind.”

TED: “I’ll bet you if you put a laser micrometer on this thing you’d find that it was a perfect sphere. I mean perfect, down to a thousandth of an inch. That’s a message in and of itself.”

HARRY: “Really? What do you mean?”

TED: “Well—when Pope Benedict asked Giotto for a drawing to prove his worth as an artist, Giotto drew a perfect circle. Freehand. Perfection. It’s a powerful message.”

BETH: “I know what the Zen masters would say.”

HARRY: “What’s that?”

BETH: “This ball wants to be caught.”

BARNES: “Nah, nobody built this thing looking into their third eye, Beth, they went through a lot of trouble and they didn’t do it for nothing. Something put this thing out there to get picked up and brought back here. Have you forgotten the Trojan Horse? It could be a trap.”

TED: “Don’t you think that’s a little paranoid, Barnes?”

BARNES: “No, I’m gonna put a video camera on this thing and keep an eye on it.”

NORMAN: “Can I ask you something about this reflective surface?”

BARNES: “Yeah, it appears to be mercury, doesn’t it. Except mercury’s liquid at this temperature.”

NORMAN: “No, no, that’s not what I’m talking about. What worries me is that it’s reflecting everything but us. I hate to be the one non-scientist that picks this up, guys. Know what I mean?”

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Emmanuelle Seigner & Peter Coyote in 'Bitter Moon' (1992)

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Kika (1993) Pedro Almodóvar

February 22nd 2025

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Heartbreakers (1984) dir. Bobby Roth

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Hey bitches,

Sphere is on Tubi.

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Tsherin Sherpa's "All Things Considered" painting consists of pale gold leaf, acrylic and ink on two canvases. The new exhibit at Asia Society Texas will be on display until January. (Courtesy Asia Society Texas)

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"Economists estimate that between 1981 and 2021, more than $50 trillion dollars moved from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%." Heather Cox Richardson, Letters from an American 6/7/2024

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peter coyote as romney penhallow in season two of road to avonlea

primetime emmy award nominee for outstanding guest actor in a drama series