“At the beginning, when this was the seat of power between the election and the inauguration, it felt subversive to stand here and hold a book. (…) It still feels like contested space. But now, instead of protesters, it’s occupied by Secret Service and law enforcement.”Jeff Bergman, who stages readings in the public spaces of …
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“If I shut my eyes, I can still feel the fire from those days. And if I open my eyes, I still see the fires all around me. I didn’t like the way the world was, and I believe that there need to be some changes about the way the world is.”John Carlos won bronze …
Hardcore band United Nations released a ferocious protest song that is basically the sound ringing in my head as I watched Donald Trump’s Inauguration. The song is available on their bandcamp, and all proceeds will be donated to the ACLU and Planned Parenthood. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Burn, Gender Binary, Burn: Against Me! Turn North Carolina Show Into Protest
A while ago, when rock’n’roll behemoths like Bruce Springsteen canceled their respective North Carolina shows in a sign of protest against that state’s anti-anti-discrimination bill HB2, Against Me! and particularly frontwoman Laura Jane Grace announced that they would play their show in Durham, but would turn it into a form of protest. And they weren’t …
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Mavis Staples: ActionWhat a terrifying time to rise our voices / But see I’m not left with minimal choices / I gotta put it into action / Doing it A too Z / Until I set myself freeMavis Staples is one of the greatest gospel, soul and R’n’B singers. With her family’s group. the Staple …
Jamila Woods – blk girl soldier (Direct link to soundcloud)This is so good and so timely. A day after Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the US, a day that this year was the stage for #BlackLivesMatter protest action, Jamila Woods, a vocalist and poet from Chicago, released this track. The song connects music to protests, both …
Live from New York! A racist piece of shit! A chant by protesters during a march yesterday against Donald Trump hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’.
Selma
What a stunning, important, moving, magnificent film. It might have not won the Oscar, but it will surely enter collective cultural memory and countless syllabi. The entire ensemble of actors and actresses was great, lead by a brilliant David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr. Great directing and cinematography, too. For me, the “4 little girls” …
illbeoutback: If you’re protesting abortion, the Supreme Court says you can get right in women’s faces and scream at them on their way into the clinic. Because freedom of speech. But if you try and protest the murder of a black man, you get tear gas fired at you.
Well, while I am here I’ll do the work – and what’s the Work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow. Allen Ginsberg. I stumbled upon this quote on the East Cameron Folkcore website. In the mood the world is putting me in, I’m really, really looking forward to their set at …
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