My forefathers, as well as others, fought and served for our rights and freedoms and that included the First Amendment right of Free Speech!
Unfortunately, too many of us feel that our individual voices do not matter and will never be heard. As a result, too many people do not Speak Up or Speak Out!
Personally, I have experienced great frustration over how difficult it is, if not how impossible it is, to obtain the most basic of information related to our rights as American Citizens and Laborers.
Therefore, the goal of this website is to inform people and reassure them, through personal accounts, they are not alone in their experiences and need to be heard!
A juried show & silent auction to benefit the Let Them Be Kids Homeless Youth Fund
"Displaced"
36"x48" acrylic on canvas
Sponsored by Children's Cabinet Reno, Nevada
1996
Pryor Area Arts & Humanities Council Art Show
People's Choice Award
"Precious Moment"--Sold
11"x13" charcoal drawing on paper
SHOW(S) JURIED:
1998
Juried a high school art show at Rogers University (I was one of the three Rogers University Art Student Jurors). Claremore, Oklahoma
ART EDUCATION/TEACHING:
1998
Taught sculpture techniques to a fourth grade Gifted and Talented Class at Claremont Elementary School in Claremore, Oklahoma. I was an art student at Rogers University in Claremore, Oklahoma.
SHOWS COORDINATED/CURATED:
2004
Disenting Opinions 2
Blue Lion Art Gallery
Reno, Nevada
Some of The Artwork I Have Sold:
The big painting in the photos above.
Title: Pain
48" x 48"
Acrylic on Canvas
The painting is textured with nails.
2000/2001
Not Shown:
Silver Gelatin Print-8"x10"-"Moonset over Peavine"-Sold at Student Art Auction-UNR/Reno, NV 2001
(researching which item belongs here)-sold at Front Door Auction-UNR/Reno, NV 2000
Silver Gelatin Print-8"x10"-nude female figure-Sold at Halloween Art Auction-UNR/Reno, NV 2001
Charcoal on paper-11"x13"-"Precious Moment"-Sold at Humanities Art Show in Pryor, OK 1997
Charcoal on paper-11"x13"-"Victorian House"-Commissioned-Pryor, OK 1997
Military Kudos, News & More: Family service, military related news & more.
Science & Technology Matters: The good, the bad & the absolutely absurd. (This section was illegally accessed and my climate information was deleted. I am in the process of replacing this information. Please come back soon.)
Economic Storyboard: Follow the half-truths, the lies and the bouncing dollar.
All Politics: E-mail correspondences from congressmen(women), governors, political organizations, senators the White House and others.
Fight Against Corporate Control: E-mails from various organizations like NELP (National Employment Law Project), information & more.
Health Care Reform~Miscellaneous: Miscellaneous e-mails and links collected in 2010 about health care reform.
Laws & Policies To Know: Local, state, federal, medical...how well do you know the law(s)?
Bad & Criminal Employer Behavior: Who made the list and why. Plus, see what actions have been taken or are being taken against them. See the FIVE labor laws SPHERIS (Now MedQuist) was found to have violated. Watch Out For JUSTIN ADAMS, ANGELA DAVIS & OTHERS!
Bad & Criminal Behavior By Others: Who and what. See what actions have been taken or are being taken. Employers aren't alone with regards to bad and criminal behavior!
Medical System Ratings: See who made the list, how they rated, and why. Andrea Tatro, MD is an Insurance Skank and deliberately commits fraud against patients!
Attorney & Lawyer Ratings: Who, why, and how they rated.
NRS 201-Crimes Against Public Decency...: Working to ban indecent advertising at the street level.
Political & Social Commentary Cartoon Archives: Archive of cartoons previously posted.
My Art Portfolio-A Sample: Art Exhibitions, Shows, Publications, Links & More.
Below are some of my favorite quotes...what are yours?
"The most heroic word in all languages is--REVOLUTION!" Eugene Debs
"It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquiries into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people, of their virtue and good sense." John Adams
"In the abstract theory of our government the obedience of the citizen is not due to an unconstitutional law: he may lawfully resist its execution."
John Quincy Adams
"An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters." Henry Clay, politician
"If the State cannot survive the...agitation, then let the State perish. If the Church must be cast down by the sturgglings of Humanity to be free, then let the American Union be consumed by a living thungerbolt, and no tear shed over its ashes. If the Republic must be blotted out from the roll of nations, by proclaiming liberty to the captives, then let the Republic sink beneath the waves of oblivion, and a shout of joy, louder than the voice of many waters, fill the universe at its extinction."
William Lloyd Garrison
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable and sacred right--a right we hope and believe is to liberate the world."
Abraham Lincoln
"Revolution is the only thing, the only power, that ever worked out freedom for any poeple. The powers that have ruled long, and learned to love ruling, will never give up that prerogative till they find they must, till they see the certainty of overthrow and destruction if they do not! ... To plant--to revolutionize--those are the twin stars that have ruled our pathway. What have we then to dread in the word Revolution--we, the children of rebels! We were born to be rebles--it runs in our blood."
Wendell Phillips
"Full opportunity for full development is the unalienable right of all. He who denies it is a tyrant, he who does not demand it is a coward; he who is indifferent to it is a slave; he who does not desire it is dead. The earth for all the people! That is the demand." Eugene Debs
"If we do not soon bestir ourselves for a bloody revolution, we cannot leave anything to our children but poverty and slavery." Die Arbeiter Zeitung, Chicago labor paper
"We can't have education without revolution. We have tried peace education for 1,900 years and it has failed. Let us try revolution and see what it will do now." Hellen Keller
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"Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty."
Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice
"That circumstances sometimes justify it...(revolution) is not Communist doctrine but an old American belief."
Justice Jackson
"Wherever one goes in this civilized world, one always finds the same set-up. The little man, the man who does the dirty work, the producer is of no importance, recieves no consideration and is always being asked to make the greatest sacrifice. Yet everything depends on this forgotten man. Not a wheel could turn without his support and co-operation. It is this man, whose number is legion, who has no voice in world affairs...he knows that he has been robbed and cheated from time immemorial. He is suffocated with all this bitter knowledge. He waits and waits hoping that time will alter things. And slowly he realizes that time alters nothing, that with time things only grow worse. One day, he will decide to act. "Wait!" he will be told. "Wait just a little longer" But he will refuse to wait another second." Henry Miller
I am currently reading this book and highly recommend it to everyone!
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Catana L Barnes
"There is a political feudalism where a dynasty has the trappings of a parliamentary system but manipulates it for the benefit of the ruling class...Revolution in theTwentieth Century means rebellion against another kind of feudalism...economic feudalism...and the United States should promote democratic revolution against these conditions of economic feudalism."
William Douglas, Supreme Court Jusitice
"They set up the courts; they set up the police; they set up the army; they set up an educational system; they set up the newspaper; they set up all the apparatus to brainwash and to keep in subjugation. If we're going to be free,and we will not be fully free until we smash this state completely and totally...no people in this world have ever achieved independence and freedom through the ballot or having it legislated to them. (They) got their freedom through struggle and through revolution."
William Epton
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without...a rebellion."
Thomas Jefferson
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