Thanksgiving Dinner 44 years ago.
Joey Skaggs, with the help of friends, students from the School of Visual Arts, and Abyssinian Baptist Choir, created a stark portrayal of a Thanksgiving feast at the United Nations Plaza on Thanksgiving Day.
From the Vault: Joey Skaggs’ 1979 Wall Street Shoe Shine
Dime for a shine? Fuhgeddaboudit!
In 1979, Joey Skaggs, SVA students and friends, make a statement about runaway inflation by charging ten times more than normal for a luxury shoe shine on Wall Street for workers who easily made ten times more than the average person.
Check out the story behind the Wall Street Shoe Shine here.
Joey Skaggs interviewed by Mark Borkowski about creative dissent on BBC Radio 4
OUTRAGE INC, an audio documentary by Mark Borkowski, aired on BBC Radio 4, August 23, 2025:
“From Suffragette arsonists to soup on sunflowers – why the stunt still matters.
Legendary publicist Mark Borkowski takes a no-prisoners look at the history of the protest stunt – the noisy, theatrical interventions that have rattled the establishment for over a century.
With fascinating examples from the BBC archive and interviews with Led By Donkeys, The Centre for Political Beauty, Joey Skaggs, The Yes Men, veteran activist Jamie Kelsey Fry and Clare Farrell from XR.”
“We criminalise the political stunt at our peril. It is a crucial art form that is impossible to ignore”, Mark Borkowski, The Guardian, 20 Aug 2025.
Listen to the full documentary on BBC Radio 4 (only available in the UK). For others, the interview is above.
Trump’s Military Parade (Revisited) in Action, June 14, 2025
On Saturday, June 14, 2025, a defiant crew of true patriots took to the streets for Trump’s Military Parade Revisited—marching from Trump Tower to Bryant Park in Manhattan to join the No Kings rally.
Their counter-parade stood in stark contrast to the authoritarian spectacle unfolding in Washington, D.C. that same day. Wearing Trump masks and singing “Happy Birthday to me,” they mocked the narcissism of a president whose agenda is corrupt, anti-American, delusional, and designed to dismantle democracy and divide the nation.
Rain or shine, show up. Speak out. Resist. Democracy depends on it.
