"Take the Power Not the Pipe" is a short review of "The Hidden Apparatus Is At Us", where 100 Bay Area artists and performers contributed to a series of events, exhibits, peformances, screenings, and forums, to address the 'War on Drugs' campaign as a vile, war on people. "The Hidden Apparatus Is At Us" was not curated, but rather assembled from a call of contributors, which resulted in a lack of focus within this expression of activist art. Many pieces "included signifiers of violence like guns, knives, animal traps, hypodermic needles, and urine," to symbolize the corruption of government power.