{"id":2391,"date":"2016-03-11T09:58:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T14:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2016-03-11T13:25:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T18:25:38","slug":"teddy-bear-catapult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/teddy-bear-catapult\/","title":{"rendered":"Teddy Bear Catapult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As thirty-four heads of state met in Quebec City to negotiate the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), thousands were called to protest and police erected physical barricades and fences to block demonstrators. As organizers debated the best way forward, the Deconstructionist Institute for Surreal Topology (DIST) circulated a satirical booklet \u00a0of creative protest tactics: \u201cFor those who yawn every time they see yet another Black Bloc, the Deconstructionist Institute for Surreal Topology presents this brief list of alternatives, to help spark discussion and inject a bit of creativity and derisive laughter into the mix.\u201d When a sympathetic public figure offered to fund one of the more absurd proposals&#8211; the building of a catapult to counteract the &#8220;fortress&#8221; of the meeting, local artisans agreed. On the day of the protest, members of DIST lobbed teddy bears into the arms of police as others cut down fences and rushed the meeting to protest.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CA_Teddy-Bear-Catapult_Confiscation.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2392\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2392\" src=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CA_Teddy-Bear-Catapult_Confiscation-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"CA_Teddy Bear Catapult_Confiscation\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CA_Teddy-Bear-Catapult_Confiscation-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CA_Teddy-Bear-Catapult_Confiscation-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CA_Teddy-Bear-Catapult_Confiscation-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CA_Teddy-Bear-Catapult_Confiscation.jpg 1986w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>source: http:\/\/beautifultrouble.org\/case\/the-teddy-bear-catapult\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As thirty-four heads of state met in Quebec City to negotiate the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), thousands were called to protest and police erected physical barricades and fences to block demonstrators. As organizers debated the best way forward, the Deconstructionist Institute for Surreal Topology (DIST) circulated a satirical booklet \u00a0of creative protest &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/teddy-bear-catapult\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Teddy Bear Catapult&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":933,"featured_media":2392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[974,976,386,975,977],"coauthors":[362],"class_list":["post-2391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism-and-social-movements","category-public-art-and-spatial-politics","tag-catapult","tag-dist","tag-protest","tag-teddy-bear","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/933"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2393,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions\/2393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}