After a year of doing the weekly posts “On The Scope” and “Around The Way” I noticed how the music, art, culture, film, politics and news in our TMG posts was starting to overlap each other, 2014 was a wacky year. I had a talk with editor Tracy Jones and we decided to revamp our weekly post to reflect the intersections of seemingly different worlds we’ve been observing, to juxtapose and highlight overlaps in music, art, culture, film, politics and …
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DJ Zesto! aka Zest Rock aka Zesto Pesto aka Zesti Pesti, representing Middletown, New York, former member of The Stolen Music Imprint, presents “The Pleasure Principle,” off his self-produced album “The New Laughing Gas.” He was last featured on Super Chron Flight Brothers’ 2010 album Cape Verde (Backwoodz Studioz). It’s been a blazing minute since homie put something out, but his talent lives outside of time’s illusion. His last official effort was the 2005 single “Multi-Billion Dollar Negro” off The Dudes EP (Shadetek Records …
Democracy Now! Headlines 12-19-2014 [Amy Goodman & Juan González] Obama and the Beginning of the End of the Cuban Embargo [Amy Goodman] Democracy Now! – Assata Shakur: What Does New U.S.-Cuba Pact Mean for Exiled Black Panther Wanted in New Jersey? Petition to Pardon Assata Shakur [change.org] These American Fugitives May Be Hiding Out in Cuba – Other Political Exiles in Cuba [Meghan Keneally] 9 things the Sony hack has taught us about Hollywood [Tim Walker] Crimethinc Podcast #32: White …
Democracy Now! Headlines 12-12-2014 [Amy Goodman & Juan González] READ: Senate Committee’s Report on the CIA’s Use of Torture [Amy Goodman & Juan González] Senate torture report confirms CIA had ‘black site’ at Guantánamo, lied to Congress. Are they still operating it? [Xeni Jardin] America Is Built on Torture, Remember? [Noah Berlatsky] Fighting for the Climate in the Heart of the World [Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan] Democracy Now! – Pipe Dreams? Labor Researchers Say Keystone XL Project May Kill More …
This past Saturday on December 6th, 2014 I had the opportunity to attend the local All Tribes San Francisco Chapter of the Universal Zulu Nation’s community event “Meeting Of The Minds.” It was a six hour session of sharing, learning, building with Hip-Hop heads, community organizers, activists talking about what’s going on in the community here in San Francisco, and making connection to the national, global social-political-economic conditions going on right now. When I came through the doors of the …
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