Democracy Now! Headlines 11-14-2014 [Amy Goodman & Juan González] Gorbachev says world is on brink of new Cold War [Bettina Borgfeld] Rave New World: How the Fall of the Berlin Wall Changed Techno Forever [Martin Guttridge-Hewitt] Big Bank Hank, an Early Star of Rap, Dies at 58 [Jon Caramancia] Big Bank Hank: ‘Rapper’s Delight’ and the Sugarhill Gang’s revolution [Randall Roberts] Sugar Hill Gang “Rapper’s Delight” (1979) #RIP Big Bank Hank #Classic #OldSchool #HipHop #Rap #Disco #70s #80s #vinyl #twelveinch uncredited …
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Democracy Now! Headlines 11-7-2014 [By Amy Goodman & Juan González] Cops Arrest 90-Year-Old Advocate and Clergy For Scary Crime of Feeding the Hungry [By Abby Zimet] In Gaza, Palestinians turn destruction into artistic protest [By Mariam Elba] Capitalism is the Legitimate Racket of the Ruling Class – Al Capone [By Snowball] Maximum Progress on the Minimum Wage [Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan] Democracy Now! – New GOP Majority Backs Amnesty for Corporate Tax Dodgers, But Not Undocumented Immigrant Workers Democracy Now! – Matt Taibbi and …
By Steve Kearse Racism’s greatest power is its ability to drastically simplify the world. Through racism, literally all things – clothing, behaviors, desires, needs, potentials, friendships – become ordered and recognizable, “obvious” and apparent. Racism provides answers by making the world unquestionable. Given this alarming power, the fundamental task of all anti-racist work is to deny this contrived simplicity and undermine it, exposing the unrelenting complexity of the world and refusing to accept anything less, anything simple. There are many ways …
Democracy Now headlines 10-24-2014. [Democracy Now] “If we run and they kill us so be it but we have to run now.” Six months ago, 276 Nigerian schoolgirls were kidnapped by Boko Haram. The handful who escaped that night have never told the full story of their ordeal — until now. [Matter] The Worth of Black Men, From Slavery to Ferguson [NY Times] Ferguson, Asian America, & Performative Solidarity: Showing Up, Staying Shown – By PaKou Her. Cross-posted from 18 Million Rising. [Angry Asian Man] HuffPost Live …
This is a half hour documentary about a young Afghan women named Soheila. To settle a conflict, she was bartered by her father, Rahimullah, to another family when she was five-years-old. When she turned 16 she was suppose to marry a 67-year-old man, becoming just one of his several wives. The trading of female babies to become wives is described in a New York Times article that featured the film: The practice is known as baad, in which young girls …
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