Because trees reflect the peace of birds rebellion

 Art from Imelda Wubben, The Netherlands
Jessica Siemens, Canada
Lisa Perez, USA
Text: GV, Belgium

Het omgekeerde beeld van vrede is de oorlog.
De afgeleide realiteit hiervan is macht aan allen die macht beminnen
als een wreed beginsel omwille van zichzelf.
Wie zich hieraan niet stoort
gelukkig nog
zijn bomen, vogels en sommige mensen op godverlaten of godinvergeten
eilanden, maar zelfs dit wordt een extreem
moeilijke oefening,
haast alsof je leert hoe een hulpeloze haai met een mes
de golven moet klieven voor meer en betere stroomlijning.
Allen oefenen hun stem volgens de geluiden
die zij horen van vogels en bomen en verbannen vissen
maar stemmen niet of niet meer...
of verliezen hun stem in de branding van wat mogelijk nog komen zal.

Ah, de stilte zal zo luid klinken
als de atoombommen op Moruroa of Bikini.

GV
30 April 2012, op de vooravond van mei 1
Opnieuw voor Simonne
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ZOMBIES

From Anonymous, Belgium

Imagining the shapes and colors of peace

 From Erica Durante, USA

Brain cell Rebels 822

From Ryouske Cohen, Japan

Rebel against violence

From Angela Behrendt in Germany

The fake money rebellion

Fluxus Bucks for NEIL, 

LAURA and

ROSE

ANON REBELS in BRASIL

From Anon in Brasil

25 YEARS OF NETWORK RESISTANCE

From Arttower in Germany

I am an anarchist. I am the anti-christ!

Small painted envelope for Cheryl Penn, South Africa

PUNK REBELS, Sex Pistols song

69 REASONS TO OPPOSE DEATH PENALTY, according to a horse that was shot as a misfit!

Small painted envelope for Angela Behrendt in Germany

References: Movies:

They shoot horses, don’t they? (Sydney Pollack, 1969)

The Misfits (John Huston, 1961)

Nous sommes tous des terrorisques ! — with Annette Marx, Jo Hubert, Alain Adam, Guido Vermeulen, Jean-Marie Flémal, Michel Ferrand, Geneviève Halftermeyer-Pawlak and Gorka Samos Ez Dakizue in Estado de México.

From Robert Varlez, Belgium

REBEL HANDS

From Piet Franzen, The Netherlands, forwarded by Diane Bertrand, Canada

Rebel Flowers

From Diane Bertrand, Canada

REBEL to fight cancer

From Amy Irwen, USA

BLUE ZALOP

The rebellion of new invented words, started by Cheryl Penn in South Africa
Contributions by Katerina Nikoltsou, Greece
and Guido Vermeulen, Belgium

ATOMOCRAZIA

http://youtu.be/h8IGFx_tGFo

ATOMOCRAZIA

Video song made after Fukushima by mail artist Franco Piri Focardi, Italy

Some of us are BORN TO RUN, others are BORN TO REBEL

From Jacky Charmouan, USA (title: GV, thank you Bruce B)

Rebel against speed

From Carina Granlund, Finland

REBEL POEM

Large painted envelope by Guido Vermeulen, Belgium
Mailed to Carina Granlund in Finland

In Vietnam

Part 1 and part 2
Collaged and painted large envelope
Front and Back
for LikeTelevisionsNow, USA

The catacombs of the dispossessed

Zine contribution from LikeTelevisionsNow, USA

If we have no charity and no tolerance, we shall never settle our differences, Mahatma Gandhi in 1924

From Alicia Starr, USA

REBEL through the magic of trees

From Sarah Jo Pender, from the Indiana Women’s Prison in Indianapolis

Dear Guido,

I love trees!

Trees are so good to us, giving us oxygen to breathe, cleaning our water, providing shade in their life and shelter in their death.

They give us this paper, the pencil I write words with, and the envelope I painted.

Trees are magical, like all plants, magical little things that grow into magical big things that are essential to so many of us other magical life forms in this amazing, magical universe.

TREES ARE MAGIC.

When I am with trees, big and small, I wonder like a child.

I know the scientific explanations of their life cycles and the processes of their doings.

I have even listened to trees as recorded by a hydrophone as their cells thirsted for water.

Still, no amount of knowledge can evaporate the mist of awe and wonder I feel in the presence of trees.

Trees are our kindred.

They, too, are born to live. And born to die.

In between they are silent witnesses to the magic of the universe.

Happy Earth Day,

Sarah Jo Pender, USA, April 2012

On the case of Sarah Jo:
https://sites.google.com/site/justsarahjo/

and a collage by Ruggero Maggi, Italy

REBEL to RECOMPOSE the earth

From Kerosene, Canada

REBEL SEEDS to plant with JOY

From Sue Hobbs, South Africa

Flower Power Rebel

From Saartje Stiers, Belgium

No rebellion possible without in depth reading

From Anke van den Berg, Belgium

Deconstruct and reconstruct rebellion

From Lubomyr Tymkiv, Ukraine

Rebel Brain cell sheets 821 A/B

From Ryosuke Cohen, Japan

The old man on the bench looking to the sea of freedom

From Robert Wilkinson, REMUE zine Belgium

Le non-lieu du papillon selon Kafka

 From Michel Mnomized,  France

REMUE magazine Belgium

Portrait of a lonely leader with a hat

From Remue zine, Belgium, by ZORAN SPASOJEVIC