New hip-hop tackles white privilege
As a kind of update to a heavily-trafficked list of decent white rappers I posted a while ago, I want to shout out two new songs directly addressing white (and light skin) privilege and its…
Collected readings
Upside Down World – Rural Revolution in Colombia Goes Digital – 30 seconds ago Friends of America Rally: Bull Shit Brigade | Fluxview, USA – 11 hours ago Iraqi shoe thrower Muntazer al-Zaidi inundated with…
Mid-week reading
Justice for Aizze! Defend an Immigrant Worker Unfairly Victimized by Starbucks | Twin Cities Starbucks Workers Union – 2 hours ago The Hankyoreh: Police arrest 64 Ssangyong Motors union members The Field: Too Cute by…
No more kids jailed at Hutto!
I don’t think that any of the hundred individuals who marched in protest under the blazing sun six weeks ago thought this would happen so soon, which makes the news all the more exciting. Immigrant…
Weekend reading
YouTube – Honduran Immigrants Speak Out on The Coup In Their Country – yesterday The Ruckus Society ยป Open Letter to Allison Chin – yesterday Iran frees 140 political detainees from Tehran prison after wave…
Weekend reading
Fresh content soon. In the meantime, here’s some of what I’m reading that you might not have seen elsewhere. NAACP Hypocrisy at 100th Anniversary Celebration Apple’s image may be tarnished by poor factory conditions Afghan…
Video: Under The Hood cafe a refuge for disaffected veterans
On this Memorial Day, let’s honor those vets speaking out against war and struggling with its aftereffects too. Here’s a superb short film about a new G.I. resistance cafe outside Fort Hood, released two weeks…
Obama expands program checking immigration status at local jails
From the Washington Post, via Vivirlatino. The Obama administration is expanding a program initiated by President George W. Bush aimed at checking the immigration status of virtually every person booked into local jails. In four…
Audio: Howard Zinn takes on America’s “good wars”
I got the chance to interview Howard Zinn three years ago, in a sparse hotel room near the University of Texas campus. It was a cloudy day and with the lights turned off, the room…
Illustrated Essay: “Responsibility to Protect” in Haiti
Isabel Macdonald examines how a new humanitarian doctrine, one that’s been embraced at the highest levels of the United Nations and U.S. government, has been applied in Haiti. At the Indypendent →
