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Chalkupy Gallery

FJP — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 02:47:24 +0000

IN THIS POST : Chalkupy slideshow; New York Times Magazine article featuring our chalkupy in Oakland; CBS helicopter footage of our chalkupy in LA; and other links for more pics and news on FJP’s chalk art!

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The Chalkupy slideshow below is a collection of photos documenting the political chalk art we’ve made with the help of our community and random passers-by.

Email info@FreshJuiceParty.com to find out about our next community chalk party –political & playful chalking, music, open mic, food, fresh juice & camaraderie!

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Click the pic below for the New York Times Magazine article featuring FJP’s Chalkupy:

Peter Bohler for The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/magazine/oakland-occupy-movement.html?pagewanted=all

Click the vid below for news chopper footage of FJP’s chalkupy in LA:

Click HERE for HELICOPTER VIDEO FOOTAGE of our LA chalkupy — from the local CBS affiliate!

LA TIMES article

Huffington Post article

Southern California Public Radio blog

Press Release August 9, 2012 FRESH JUICE PARTY is proud to chalk in solidarity with OCCUPY LA and CHALK WALK! They’ve called a “Global Day of Action to Chalkupy” on August 9th. FJP will host a contingent from the bay area who will travel to Los Angeles to participate in this peaceful, all-ages event. Among FJP’s group is 2012 Vice-Presidential candidate, CINDY SHEEHAN! And we’ll be chalking alongside our friends, CODEPINK!

FRESH JUICE PARTY is prepared to challenge the notion that “sidewalk chalk is graffiti” on 1st Amendment grounds (pun intended). This is an issue that’s been arising around the country in recent days as political candidates make their fundraising rounds, and political chalk art is doused by kowtowing city officials.

FRESH JUICE PARTY’s weekly Chalkupy in Oakland’s Oscar Grant Plaza shares the spirit of LA’s Chalk Walk: Opening up a public space for all members of the community to come together to have their voices heard – regardless of age, race, physical ability, artistic skill – and to have fun, and get creative and messy with art. We all have a vested interest in seeing that political chalking (as we established with Oakland Police Department in this video) is not misconstrued as vandalism; it is protected speech and it is art.

Pepper Sprayer VIDEO

Fresh Juice Party — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 20:32:43 +0000

Video by Fresh Juice Party

From UC Davis to Black Friday, here’s a new craze that’s sweeping the nation…

Lyrics:
If you want to demonstrate in California
That’s great but don’t say I didn’t warn ya
You can have a sit-in or make a stand
But you may have to take a bath in cayenne
There are cops in cars and cops on bikes
There are cops misbehaving like Officer John Pike
Spraying faces like the Mousselini of graffiti
Just a habanero hero with no love or pity
Mama raised her son up cool
Mama told me to stay in school
Well here I am, trying to show some scruples
Now I got red shit burning my pupils
Standing in the rain, wet and freezin’
Trying to make these damn cops listen to reason
They just want to redden my complexion
But I’m already seasoned to perfection
Please officer
Please don’t protect me no more
Hey pepper sprayer
Just let me sit here on the floor
Please Mr. policeman
Please don’t serve me right now
Hey pepper sprayer
I’m not on the menu any how
You’re making a grown man cry
Just look me in the eye
instead of turning my face into a vindaloo
in case you didn’t know, that’s a spicy red stew
It gives me indigestion
To see what’s become of this nation
It makes my broken heart burn
When things take such an ugly turn
Please officer
Please don’t protect me no more
Hey pepper sprayer
We got a cleanup in aisle four
Please Mr policeman
Turn your attention over here
To these pepper sprayers
I fear their holiday cheer
Black Friday shoppers
You need protection it’s true
From pepper sprayers
Who don’t like shopping with you
Black Friday shoppers
Camping in the parking lot
Beware the pepper sprayer
She thinks it’s worth the crap she bought

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FJP sings at General Strike rally in Oakland!

Fresh Juice Party — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:23:52 +0000

November 2, 2011

Oakland shuts down the port! We were thrilled to be part of the day’s events. FJP played during the morning’s rally at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater. After a rousing day of marches and rallying, Oakland successfully shut down the port in a massive show of solidarity.

FJP sings at the Make Banks Pay march

Fresh Juice Party — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:06:06 +0000

September 29, 2011

Fresh Juice Party debuts “Occupy Wall Street” in the streets of San Francisco at the Make Banks Pay march. Joined by hundreds of other protesters, FJP members took to the streets and sang in supprt of Occupy movements rising all over the world.