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The Importance of Mass Demonstrations by John Berger
Posted in Politics, tagged Mass, Demonstration, John, Berger, Protest, Riot, Uprise, Revolution on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Story from North America and Love + Solidarity to the Struggle in Honduras
Posted in Film and Video, Music, Politics, tagged Animation, Coup, Honduras, Kirsten Lapore, Spider, The Other, U.S. Imperialism, Zelaya on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Confront the Mouth and its red thirst with this too relevant and brilliant animation.
On the same note, sister, rejoice in this splendid tune.
With the most natural love and solidarity to the struggle in Honduras from New York. Watch this poignant coverage of the coup in Honduras with Amy Goodman.
Talk about Honduras [...]
O, Happy Day: Indian Court Overturns LGBT Sex Ban
Posted in Politics, Sexuality, tagged Constitutional Rights, Delhi, Gay Sex Ban, India, LGBT Rights, Same-sex, Sexual Identity on July 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Check out coverage by the New York Times here with an awesome picture of LGBT activists celebrating. CNN has semi-cool coverage (semi being the too serious look of the reporter, cool being the exhilarating footage of the streets of Delhi packed with people celebrating). Apparently the world seems to be in the midst of a [...]
History is a Weapon: Frederick Douglass and the Fourth of July
Posted in History, Politics, tagged Fourth of July, Frederick Douglass, History is a Weapon, Independence Day, July 4 on July 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
No, Independence Day does not mean the same thing for everyone. Read, what Frederick Douglass has to say about the Fourth of July. Then, watch Brian Jones, read an excerpt from his speech. Happy Chinese Fireworks Day!
La Mano White with Cocaine
Posted in Latin America, Organics, Politics, tagged Argentina, Buenos Aires, Cocaine, La Mano, Marijuana, Pipo Lernourd, THC on July 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On the corner of Jorge Luis Borges and Paraguay in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo at a cafe, I found the most curious magazine. The publication is called La Mano (The Hand) and the April 2009 issue sported, on its cover, a splendid photo of Miles Davis in all of his musical glory. Amongst [...]
The Birth of Queer Cinema
Posted in Film and Video, Politics, tagged Cinema, Queer, Resistance, Technology on September 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Within the excitement of new technologies the taboo of two men dancing together has been suspended to make way for newer art forms and ways of thinking. Certainly, without the presence of a camera such a spectacle would be shunned. This is the composite nature of progress…
New Technology = New Forms [...]
War with Iran
Posted in Politics, tagged George W. Bush, Iran, Isreal, Stike, War on July 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Cause and Effect
Cause – President George W. Bush supports Isreali strike on Iran
Effect – Iran’s Weapon Systems
More than just a few bloody noses…
Netflix Sent me a Bootleg – PROOF
Posted in Film and Video, Politics, tagged Bootleg, Copy, Disc Six, DVD, Fake, Illegal, Netflix, Season 2, Twin Peaks on July 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Now, I am not hoping to get anything from Netflix for this (though I would not mind deleting this blog for a lifetime free membership) but I write this out of disapointment from recieving a bootleg copy of the last disc of the last season of Twin Peaks! Now, this either proves that Netflix is copying their own DVD’s, which would be quite the lawsuit, but most likely it is an impressive customer-made copy. Nonetheless, Netflix has bootleg copies of DVD’s in circulation, which is probably illegal. Anywho, here is my proof.
NYPD Shoots Little Girl Samantha 274 Times in the Face
Posted in Politics, tagged 274 Bullets, Bell, Brutality, Force, Little Girl, Manhattan, New York, NYC, NYPD, Palmer, Police, Racism, Samantha, Sean, Sean Bell, Shooting on May 18, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Under suspicion of selling crack cocaine to toddlers, 3 year old Samantha Palmer was confronted by NYPD at noon on Thursday May 1st 2008 in the South East side of Central Park while she played ball with colleagues. “Samantha barely had time to throw the ball, when out of no where three plain clothes detectives [...]
Thich Quang Duc and the Fuel that Scorched Him
Posted in Politics, tagged Buddhist, Burma, Burmese Monks, Burns, Free Burma, Global Oil, Himself to Death, Oil, Oil Crisis, Prices, Suicide, Thich Quang Duc, Vietnamese Monk on January 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thich Quang Duc, what discipline held him to the flame? His expressionless face! The lightly placed arm on his lap! How would you feel in the presence of such a spectacle?
Photograph by Journalist Malcolm Browne
The Fuel that Scorched Him
What makes the oil crisis so apparent now is that even MSNBC is reporting that [...]
