No Censorship
While other Post Offices censor the artists that participate in their camp - we don't. (Censored Postcard Below)

On the right, you will see the postcard that was banned from the Black Rock City Post Office in 2007.

Like the vast majority of all postcards one could find at any Post Office window, participants -- in this case Lawrence -- worked hard and spent his own time and money to make his art.

That's a good part of the reason why there are two post offices in 2008: one with censorship (the other one), and our censorship-free post office.

After the controversy that set us apart from those that are against the idea of Radical Self Expression, we need your help, we do. (See: http://www.brcpostoffice.com/nocensorship)

Want to help? Send us your email address or go to
http://groups.google.com/group/brcpostoffice to sign up for our group.

 

People representing the other post office continue to support the idea of censoring artists as you will find below:

 

The faulty logic that led to censoring BRC participant artists, in their own words: There is no problem with individuals (whether off-duty Posties or others) being out in front of the BRCPO gifting postcards or whatever with any kind of political, religious, or whatever message (and in fact it would be wonderful if more folks did so, IMHO) but it is not OK to be doing so from the BRCPO windows as this can be easily understood to mean the BRCPO itself is endorsing some views or candidates over others, which is not the case.

 

Our response maintaining a position of radical self-expression: You also realize your line of reasoning on the prohibiting of the postcard is ridiculous, don't you? We take all postcards created and distribute them at our windows. If an individual doesn't want to deal with one particular postcard, she/he can either not distribute that postcard or push that stack to another window. By analogy, no one thinks the art on the playa is an endorsed political position of Burning Man. They know it is the political position of the artist. I supposed if the zeitgeist of the post office was against a particular post card, we could burn the stack. That was not the case with the post card in question. Apparently one conservative business person amongst ya'll decided it was his cause to stop art with an anti-administration message at our camp.