Diatribes

Authentic Human communication is constantly drowned beneath the deafening racket of an inhumane and insane multinational corporate system. This system dominates our collective reality. Behind every advertisement – a baton; behind every “new and improved” product – a canister of teargas; behind every T.V. show- a tank; behind every newspaper – a prison cell; and behind every textbook – a graveyard. The classroom, the chat room, the bedroom, the church, the psychiatrists couch, the cash register, the answering machine, the office, the bar, the jail- these are all spaces in which we are confronted with our incapacity to speak.

But perhaps the most glaring expression of our voice-less-ness is in the streets.

The streets speak the language of money, and so our official options are either to speak this language as well, or shut our fucking mouths.

Street writers are among those whose expression enjoys more than just the system’s options.

We are street writers. We are not particularly special. We will explore our freedom. You wouldn’t know that we are street writers if you met us.

We are a lot like you. We are just people with anger, and passion, and hope, and vision, just like you. We create graffiti as a means of speaking and acting towards a free society; the kind of society that you, and me, and us could actually live in together. We only know so much, but our work is excited to share our truth. We are sharing this publication with you because if you want to create graffiti as well, we would like you to do an excellent job. If you are going to create graffiti, we hope that it is brilliant, bold, strategically done, and enjoyable!