Johanna Faust, a mixed race Jew, prefers to publish pseudonymously. She is committed: first, to preventing war, ecological disaster, and nuclear apocalypse; last to not only fighting for personal privacy & the freedom of information, but, by representing herself as a soldier in that fight, to exhorting others to do the same. She is a poet, always. All these efforts find representation here: "ah, Mephistophelis" is so named after the last line of Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, whose heretical success flouted the censor for a time.

#OO: The live Stream
At This Time
From #OccupyOakland







from @OakFoSho
[video:http://www.ustream.tv/channel/9636787]


"he's aiming it at you! he's aiming it at you!" (to cameraman, @OakFoSho, who answers, loudly and unafraid)


"PLEASE DO NOT AIM YOUR WEAPONS AT ME! THAT'S ILLEGAL! DO NOT POINT YOUR WEAPONS DIRECTLY ART ME! YOU HAVE TWO THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY ONE PEOPLE WATCHING LIVE!"...explosions... YOU DO NOT WANT TO SHOOT ME! THIS IS A PLACE OF PEACEFUL PROTEST! THE ONLY ONES VIOLATING IT ARE YOU!...."


[to cameraman] "I JUST VIDEOTAPED A COP FIRING A FLASH BANG DIRECTLY AT SOMEONE!" "YES, I GOT IT TOO..."


in background"...is it when you got a paycheck? is that what makes you different?"... "we're nonviolent..." and the cops reading out a warning


"HOMEY [about cop] HAS A SHOTGUN WITH RUBBER BULLETS, THEY HAVE TEAR GAS AND PEPPER PAINT. ONLY A FEW OF THEM ARE SHOWING THEIR NAMES THEY'VE GOT TAPE OVER THEIR NAMES--[at cops again] IS THIS OAKLAND PD?"...someone starts screaming... "THEY JUST SHOT A HOMELESS MAN WITH A RUBBER BULLET.. THEY'RE FIRING TEAR GAS AND PAINT AT US...THAT'S NOT NECESSARY -- STOP AIMING YOUR WEAPON..."














Be seeing you.