Photos & Media
Here are just some of the mischievous exploits we've been part of, and what others wrote about them.
Osama Bin O'Reilly issues a fatwa on San Francisco
On November 25th, San Francisco was put on a Code Red Terror Alert after Osama Bin O'Reilly was spotted scoping out Union Square Park and the Coit Tower.
"And if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead." - Bin O'Reilly Fox New's Radio Factor, 11/08/2005 http://mediamatters.org/items/200511160016
More photos at http://www.basetree.com/photos/osama-bin-oreilly.html
National Lampoon's White House Vacation
This skit received an honorable mention on chronwatch.com, a website devoted to ridding the San Francisco Chronicle of communists.
"In one distasteful display, a man and woman wearing George Bush and Condoleezza Rice masks danced around with a 'George Bush Loves Black People' sign." http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=17070
Of course there is nothing distasteful about the President, Vice-President and Secretary of State all continuing their vacations while New Orleans sat under 6 feet of water.
Halliburton Exposed!
Cheney (Jeff) flashed his oil derrick and no bid contracts to shareholders, traffic, protesters and the cops at Halliburton's 2005 Shareholders meeting.
Bill (McGruff the Corporate Crime Dog) and Keith (Cheney milking the Iraq war Cash Cow) two mental healthcare providers with the Texas Outpatient Clinic of the Ronald Reagan Home for the Criminally Insane at the 2005 Halliburton Shareholder's meeting in Houston, Texas. The Cash Cow was made by Robert Bart, a high school art teacher in Houston (with the help of Houston activists).
Torture U Cheerleaders at CACI
Meanwhile back in SF, Ruth and another member of the newly established Silicon Valley Ronald Reagan Home for the Aged and Gifted, more simply known as the Reagan Hags, joined with Walden to lead cheers as Alberto Gonzales, Rush Limbaugh and George W. at an office owned by CACI (a private contractor who has been performing interrogations / torture in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo).
Arnold Juices Up
Jennifer, Walden and Jeff make an appearance at the headquarters Johnson & Johnson in San Francisco during a rally of California nurses.
Watch the movie at www.indybay.org/uploads/inoculation050512sasi.mov
2nd Anniversary of the Iraq War
The Ronald Reagan Home for the Criminally Insane celebrates the second anniversary of the Iraq War with our Abu Ghraib Fraternity Party. To see other fine photos of Rummy, Condi, W, Gonzales and Rush Limbaugh from that day go to http://www.basetree.com/photos/iraq-war-year-two.html
The Reagan Home's antics went out on the AP. Read the story that appeared on KRON News here.
The Abu Ghraib Frat Party
A big thank you for everyone's generous donations to help send the Reagan Home's own Jeff Grubler to the Inauguration in Washington DC.
The Village Voice calls the Abu Ghraib Frat Party "Political theater par excellence": http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/coronation/archives/000675.php
http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/coronation/archives/000683.php
Protest at Union Station where the Republicans were having their "Freedom
Ball" from Znet:
Click here.
Scroll down to "Later in the day, protesters gathered
near Union Station".
From Alternet.org: http://www.alternet.org/story/21051/
Senator Boxer Stands up for Democracy!
Senator Boxer was the one Senator to join the House Congressional Black Caucus in contesting the flawed and fraudulent election of 2004.
The Republican National Circus
The Ronald Reagan Home for the Criminally Insane returned from its trip to NYC. About a half million people turned out to protest the Republican National Circus on Sunday, August 29th, and many of them were treated to our very own Republican Freakshow. Click here for the whole story.
This just in, finally some good news from Iraq
Halliburton and Bechtel are making a sh*t load of money!
Republicans Gone Wild
Show us you're corporate tits, Dick!
War Profiteers
'War Profiteers': Five Protesters Arrested at Halliburton Meeting
The Ronald Reagan Home for the Criminally Insane hogged the spotlight at the Halliburton Shareholdersá meeting – A photo of our Corporate Pigs in paradise even made Time Magazine.
SF Bay Guardian Local Heroes: Jeff Grubler
Best Of The Bay 2003 (SF Bay Guardian, June 2003) "Eventually, Grubler and his artist and activist friends would find many manifestations for their art – from Mobile Masterpiece Theater to the current Ronald Reagan Home for the Criminally Insane – targeting politicians from Rep. Tom Lantos and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (or Frankenstein, as they've dubbed her) to national leaders, and drawing lots of press coverage along the way. "It's very important that we ridicule the hell out of the powers that be, because it gives the people strength," Grubler said."
This War Has Nothing To Do With Oil
Condoleezza Rice, Bush's National Security Advisor and former director and board member of Chevron, seen here counter demonstrating against anti-war activists who blocked the entrances to Chevron's world headquarters in San Ramon, CA on April 14th, 2003. After the demonstration Rice was shuttled by helicopter to the Chevron super oil tanker the "Condoleezza Rice" where she met with U.S. funded Iraqi opposition leaders and oil executives to discuss eliminating Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and bringing democracy to the Iraqi people.
Scientists Discover Missing Link
Scientists Discover Missing Link between Mr. Saddam and Mr. Usama (Muslim WakeUp!, February 14, 2003) – "Ringleader Jeff Grubler and his expert crew presented the evidence to startled and amused shoppers at the swank Union Square in the middle of a busy Saturday afternoon. Bush Senior gave weapons, training and warm fuzzies to both Saddam and Usama during the 80s. If he were a Pakistani student rather than an oil tycoon, he would be locked up for any one of those crimes."
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz howls "war on Iraq"
City
Protestors Keep Up Steady Noise (San Pablo Avenue Times, December
7, 2002)
"The figure howled at passersby and pawed hungrily at
a sign reading, "War for Oil." "Paul Wolfowitz
is one of the main architects of our new war on Iraq,"
Jeff Grubler said through the rubber mask. "He's been
pushing for this war long before September 11 and tried to
use the anthrax scare and weapons of mass destruction to push
it."
U.S.
official says diplomacy must be backed by might (The San Francisco
Chronicle, December 7, 2002)
The Chron covered the Wolfowitz speaking event and the protest
in both the hard copy and the online version they placed our
pictures side by side. You know this had to piss him off.
California
Dreaming? (BBC Radio, December 24, 2002)
A piece on the anti-war movement in California. Starts by
covering the Wolfowitz protest and interviews the werewolf
himself.
Senator Frankenstein
Senator Frankenstein claims that due to her seat on the Senate Intelligence Committee she is privy to information that Californians do not have and that is why she went against her constituents wishes and voted for war. Well if that's true then why did Bob Gramm (D-Fla.), the Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee vote against Bush's war? Also how come Nancy Pelosi voted against the war and she's the ranking Democrat of the House intelligence Committee?
Bill O'Reilly Apologizes For Believing In And Promoting Iraq Lies
Well known host of the Fox News program The O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly, apologized to the nation during a speech and book signing in San Francisco on Nov 20, 2003, saying he no longer trusts president Bush.
The apology was prompted by statements O'Reilly made earlier this year that he would apologize to the nation and never trust Bush, or the Bush administration again, if weapons of mass destruction were not found in Iraq. (Continued here...)
War in the classroom
War in the classroom (San Francisco Chronicle, March 28, 2003) – Oakland teacher Elena Aguilar took most of her seventh-grade humanities class on an unusual field trip to San Francisco on Thursday to pack health supplies for Iraqis. Along the way, her 30 or so students marched up and down Market Street carrying large photos of Iraqi children and accompanied by a rolling loudspeaker blaring the simulated sounds of jet fighters, bomb blasts and crying women. "I wanted my students to understand that protest is not just violent but can be creative," said Aguilar, of ASCEND, a small, arts-oriented public school in Oakland. Aguilar arranged her class trip with the help of Jeff Grubler of the National Network to End the War in Iraq. The local activist handled the warlike sound effects and acquired the parade permit.
Iraqi WMDs Abducted By Aliens!
The Reagan Home Is There!
Protesters battle heat to boo Bush (San Francisco Chronicle, June 28, 2003) - "Some of the 1,000 or so demonstrators who turned out to boo President Bush in Burlingame had unusual approaches, such as Scott Handleman, left, who dressed as an alien to protest the war." (Chronicle photo by Elizabeth Mangelsdorf)
Smarty Marty
Taking aim at a weapons manufacturer (San Francisco Chronicle, Wednesday, April 23, 2003) - See pictures of Smarty Marty at last week's protest at the Lockheed Martin building in Silicon Valley!
UN BS Inspectors
United Nations BS Inspectors Demand Access to President Bush's Palaces and Dick Cheney's Bunkers
Past Media Coverage
Shoe Shopping (Palo Alto Weekly, September 10, 2003) - Pedestrians enjoying a Saturday stroll down University Ave. got quite an eyeful when they spottedLynn Cheney - a.k.a. Mrs. Dick Cheney - on a shopping trip. Bay Area activists staged a protest against the VP's wife and her connection to Lockheed Martin, the defense contractor based in Sunnyvale. "But there is one catch," saidJeff Grubler, who helped organize the protest. "The Mrs. Dick Cheney that showed up was me in drag. So we were protesting against our own Lynn Cheney impersonator."
A San Francisco, des antiguerre solitaires (Libération [France], April 8, 2003) - Cagoulés, foulards avec impression de drapeau américain, les manifestants arrivent, portant un matelas qu'ils posent au milieu de la rue. Une jeune femme déguisée en Donald Rumsfeld (le ministre de la Défense, ndlr) s'allonge sur le matelas et interpelle les journalistes : Venez au lit avec moi ! allusion aux journalistes embedded,c'est-à-dire incorporés dans les unités de l'armée américaine en Irak. Débarrassez-vous de votre objectivité, invite la fausse Rumsfeld. La guerre, c'est trés chic, c'est comme un jeu vidéo.
SF anti-war protesters smash symbolic windows (San Francisco Chronicle, April 3, 2003) - 'We smashed Microsoft Windows discs,' explained Jeff Grubler of a small anti-war group calling itself "Think Different Anti-Censorship Collective." He said the affinity group, which is linked to a much larger network called Direct Action to Stop the War, has been working for years to bring greater public awareness to the suffering of Iraqis due to the Persian Gulf War and subsequent international sanctions.
War in the classroom -- teachers' lesson plans vary (San Francisco Chronicle, March 28, 2003) - Oakland teacher Elena Aguilar took most of her seventh-grade humanities class on an unusual field trip to San Francisco on Thursday to pack health supplies for Iraqis. Along the way, her 30 or so students marched up and down Market Street carrying large photos of Iraqi children and accompanied by a rolling loudspeaker blaring the simulated sounds of jet fighters, bomb blasts and crying women. Aguilar arranged her class trip with the help of Jeff Grubler of the National Network to End the War in Iraq. The local activist handled the warlike sound effects and acquired the parade permit.
High-profile Washington ties of investment firm make it a target of protests (San Francisco Chronicle, March 27, 2003) - "We wanted to target corporations that are profiting from this war," said Jeff Grubler, a bartender from San Francisco who picketed outside Carlyle's offices in the Transamerica Pyramid on Monday. "The people who are going to benefit from this war are George Bush's friends, his dad and then himself, when he inherits the money."
Protests Shift to Firms (Common Dreams, April 9, 2003) - Anti-war demonstrators are turning away from the widespread protests that disrupted San Francisco last week and are instead using smaller actions focusing on the government and businesses that contribute to the U.S. war effort, activists said Monday.
Protest moves to D.C. -- by phone (San Francisco Chronicle, February 26, 2003) - And even though Lantos hasn't budged, Bay Area activist Jeff Grubler sees signs of hope among his constituents. Grubler and fellow guerrilla theater activists have called attention to Lantos' views by parading outside his San Mateo office dressed as U.N. "B.S. detectors," or cavorting with Lantos' face on an inflatable doll. Grubler said the protests "have had a huge effect on people in the district. A lot of people have come up to me and said they didn't know he was pro-war."
Hug a Jew: Jeff Grubler (Muslim WakeUp, March 3, 2003) - Since 1991 there's been a blackout in the media. Everyone knows the name of Saddam, but nobody knows the fate of the Iraqi people. So what I try to do is to figure out ways to bring the reality of the Iraqi people to Americans. I have created phony products , organized guerrilla theater , and used standup comedy--anything I can to make the Iraqi people less invisible.
Creative Activism (San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 20, 2002) - Every night there are a lot of plastic bottles left in the bar. So I decided to recycle them and make my own drinking water called Sludge - Iraqi drinking water. The bottles were filled with murky water with bits floating inside. I did product promotions for the water on the street. I'd say, "Hi, would you like a free bottle of sludge?" People started laughing and looking for a camera.... I was able to start a conversation about how the U.S. bombed the Iraqi water supply, and they have been unable to rebuild it, and over one million people, mostly children, have died from treatable diseases like cholera and typhoid.
S.F. rally protesters decry war with Iraq (Contra Costa Times, October 27, 2002) - One protester, Jeff Grubler of San Francisco, went one step further in expressing his dismay to Feinstein's vote. Calling himself "Senator Dianne Frankenstein," Grubler mocked the senator by wearing a woman's business suit, rouge and lipstick, with the upper half of a Frankenstein mask covering his hair. "I don't give a damn what you think," he told passers-by. "I voted for war."
Anti-War Protest Get Louder in California (Washington Post, October 14, 2002) - In all the years he has spent on street corners, talking himself hoarse trying to convince the world that war is hell, Jeff Grubler has never been so popular. Life has become one big anti-war rally. Last Wednesday, Grubler, a volunteer with the American Friends Service Committee, agreed to lead a rally of 200 students at the University of California, Berkeley. On Thursday, he joined 200 people on a march to the Federal Building here to protest the congressional resolution authorizing President Bush to attack Iraq. On Saturday, Grubler spent a good part of the day sifting through a mountain of e-mails about upcoming anti-war events. Today, he led a teach-in at Stanford University.
Californie, lot pacifiste dans un océan de patriotisme (Liberacion, October 26, 2002) - A la veille des marches nationales, Global Exchange, une organisation des droits de l'homme de San Francisco, mobilise ses forces. Jeff Grubler, 34 ans, barman la nuit, militant le jour, ne dort plus. Reprenant la tradition des happenings, il manifeste dans les rues déguisé en inspecteur des armes biologiques. Je me sens personnellement responsable des morts en Irak à cause des sanctions et de notre politique criminelle, déclare-t-il. Et il était déjà contre la guerre du Golfe ou les bombardements en Afghanistan ú Notre réaction au 11 septembre, c'est de bombarder le pays le plus pauvre ! ú il pense que l'Amérique ne devrait pas intervenir dans des guerres civiles (comme en ex-Yougoslavie).
Bay Area Gears Up for Anti-War Protests (KPIX, September 26, 2002) - "There's a war coming up, and we're going to do everything we can to get out the word that there are alternatives," said anti-war activist Jeff Grubler. "If Iraq is Arabic for Vietnam, then the dissent movement will grow."
Dialing for DiFi (SF Examiner, April 25, 2002) - Standing in front of the hushed crowd, activist-comedian Jeffrey Grubler worked the scene. He held a bag containing donations and dialed the number for Feinstein's office in Washington, D.C., as a drum rolled softly in the background. "Yeah, hi," Grubler said into his cellphone. "I would like to make a donation to Dianne Feinstein, but see, I don't want it to go to just anything. I don't want it to go into a home-demolition fund." The beat of the drum intensified. People cheered. "I want it to go to a plane ticket so she can go to Jenin to investigate human rights violations. Is that possible? I think she hung up," Grubler told the assembly.
Best Roving Theater with a Conscience (SF Bay Guardian, July 28, 1999) - You're sipping a latte outside a busy North Beach café. A woman in Muslim garb carrying a swaddled bundle screams out, "My baby is dying; somebody please help me!" One of her cohorts whips out a sign depicting dead children, sticks a flyer in your hand, and flees faster than a purse snatcher. This hit-and-run street activism is the M.O. of Mobile Masterpiece Theatre, an outfit dedicated to raising consciousness about the impact of the United Nations' economic sanctions against Iraq. "The sanctions are genocide. Using starvation and illness as weapons of warfare is illegal, insane, and inhumane," says Jeffrey Grubler, one of the group's organizers.