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women’s march, montpelier VT 2017

 
On the anniversary of the women’s march I would like to share again this compilation of footage, filmed in Montpelier, VT on January 21st, 2017.
 
 
 

 
 
“america wake up the enemy has always been here”
 
 
for mom
video and editing by e. t. perry

title borrowed from Muslim Girls Making Change

Montpelier, Vermont
January 21st, 2017
 
 
 

Molly Marry Me

Untitled copy 2

 

Democracy Now! exclusive

 
 
 
Watch today’s Democracy Now show – MLK speech in London, 1964: https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/15/newly_discovered_1964_mlk_speech_on.
 
 
 

“america wake up the enemy has always been here”

“america wake up the enemy has always been here”
 
 
for mom
video and editing by e. t. perry

title borrowed from Muslim Girls Making Change

Montpelier, Vermont
January 21st, 2017

“Millicent Barnes, age twenty-five, young woman waiting for a bus on a rainy November night. Not a very imaginative type is Miss Barnes, not given to undue anxiety or fears, or for that matter even the most temporal flights of fancy. Like most young career women, she has a generic classification as a, quote, girl with a head on her shoulders, end of quote. All of which is mentioned now because in just a moment the head on Miss Barnes’s shoulders will be put to a test. Circumstances will assault her sense of reality and a chain of nightmares will put her sanity on a block. Millicent Barnes, who in one minute will wonder if she’s going mad.”

 
 
 
am i like the small, ineffectual woman
outside the restaurant?
sweeping up cigarette butts
in bermuda shorts and sunglasses

in a way i envy her
at least she
works hard for her money
sweeping
taking out the recycling
even though her restaurant
always smells like garbage and
is always hot
because it’s on the side street where
they put the dumpsters and
there’s no shade
 
 
 

Exploring Alternatives

if you need me
i’ll be in the nineties
watching Friends
on a television set
at least as wide as it is flat

if you need me i’ll be
a technicolor
dreamboat

if you need me
i’ll be riding backwards
a wizard
a candy-man
a watch-maker

if you need me i’ll be in the nineties
crawling on all fours
or further back
to when movies were black & white
and we all kissed by pressing our mouths together

Halley: I wanted to give you this letter back.

Cliff: (Sighs.) It’s my one love letter.

Halley: It’s beautiful. I’m just — the wrong person.

Cliff: It’s probably just as well… I plagiarized most of it from James Joyce. You probably wondered, why all the references to Dublin.

(Crimes and Misdemeanors, Woody Allen, 1989)