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“They say the ’60s exploded because the draft directly affected its youth. Doesn’t losing our living spaces, our jobs, our venues, our communities, our culture and our identity directly affect us? …
“I’m talking about getting brutally weird again. I’m talking about doing art that’s beyond co-option. I’m talking about forging new myths. I’m talking about creative resistance that scares the shit out of the rich robots, Sex in the City slaves, stockbrokers, cultural gatekeepers and pigs in power. I’m talking about dangerous expression that’ll make Todd and Ashley think long and hard about moving into the ’hood and exposing their little banker to the new hip warriors of the American night.”
” —This is such an amazing, rousing speech given by Jason Flores-Williams at the closing of CBGB’S ON 9/30/06, published in The Brooklyn Rail (read it in full). It’s also available in The Rail’s 10th anniversary book, Pieces of a Decade, which is a fantastic read.