Category: Art

In the tradition of funk with a message and big props to Fela Kuti and James Brown, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings have a new single out What If We All Stop Paying Taxes?, hosted on the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee site. I’m here to attest these guys and gals are incredible live…

Last night I had the opportunity to celebrate my birthday joining (according to the NYPD) 5000 bike riders in a critical mass bike ride through Manhattan streets. That some 264 riders were arrested is ridiculous – at worst there were some traffic violations of riding through a red light – riders never impeded an ambulance…

President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez is facing a referendum on his presidency on August 15th. Chavez has already fought off one coup attempt (see the documentary The Revolution Will Not Be Televised) by the corporatist opposition who bought the referendum, using falsified signatures on the petition.

Reinterpreting Woody Guthries “This Land”, courtesy of JibJab with more than a touch of South Park influence. Hilarious.

Possibly even better than Fahrenheit 9/11 is “The Corporation”. Containing interviews with CEOs, Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore, Naomi Klein and others, it is really well done. It’s amazing some of the political documentaries which are surfacing this year. The ripple effect these will have as they reach the wider DVD/Video audience could impact the U.S.…

First they came after the Socialists, then they came after the Blacks, then they came after the Immigrants, then they came after the Academics, then they came after the Artists…when is it our turn?

Like Oliver Stone’s film J.F.K, Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 is rapidly becoming the canon for explaning recent U.S. domestic and foreign policy and it’s outcomes. Stephen Rosenthal and Junaid Ahmad’s review of the film investigates deeper, showing Moore to be selective in his damnation, accurately criticising Republican policy while being silent on the equally immoral…

Discourse has a link to Jon Stewart’s debunking of the statements of the VP & Rumsfeld – it’s hilarious.

The Human Rights Watch Film Festival is currently running in New York. One I recommend is Persons of Interest which interviews a number of the 5000 persons detained by the U.S. government and held without charge due to their Arabic/South Asian backgrounds.

I had the opportunity to accompany The Missile Dick Chicks to protest the continuing occupation of Iraq by U.S. forces in Washington D.C.