Every week, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 42-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith.
In the 1960s, protests were against pollution, the war and the establishment, which meant capitalists and the government. Now that I’m on the old side, I think I’m supposed to be quiet to give young people their kick at the can, except that apparently 30% of them are disillusioned with democracy, showing a greater openness for authoritarianism, under which the demise of the environment will accelerate, while progress made on human-rights issues is eroded.
It would appear that all voices of dissent are necessary to resist what is happening everywhere as disinformation bolsters far-right agendas either little by little or in bombastic displays of power.
“Is This You?” from The Family Swan (Kill Rock Stars, 2002) (download):
