Communiqué from the Kevin McCallister Collective

On the morning of Thursday, January 20th, the KMC dropped a large banner made of nineteen 
upside-down American flags with the words “END EMPIRE” painted upon it. We make this 
statement as an act of resistance against the largest, more dominant military empire 
in history. Since its inception, the United States has aggressively expanded its 
borders, pushing indigenous peoples off their land and destroying the sovereignty 
of other nation-states.

Dropping this banner on inauguration day is not strictly a protest against the Bush 
administration but against a system which allows for the injustices they have 
committed. The illegal and internationally condemned invasion of Iraq is only 
the most recent example of violent expansion, the logical result of power—in 
the red, white and blue guise of democracy— gone hopelessly awry. Thus our 
action is done in solidarity with all of those who struggle globally to resist 
concentrated power; to them we say “Ya Basta!”—“Enough!”—with the hope that we 
have contributed one small piece in the creation of a more humane world.

This is it; don’t get scared now.