Tag: protest
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RC 383: Cha Cha Charles / House Proud
Royal Blood is in the air – from that band to musically eviscerating King Charles III and his Coronation with some Royalty Free Music, after we Cha Cha Cha our way around Eurovision, kick off Pride month and pay tribute to Tina Turner who sadly recently died. She was a legend. Disco, punk, hiphop, indie…
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RTJ4 Drops Early
Good news in dark times, Run The Jewels (El-P and Killer Mike) have released their fourth Run The Jewels album early as a download. It’s free, but I strongly suggest you click ‘Add to Cart’ and then donate to the Mass Defence Program given all the mass arrests and horrifying police brutality in the US…
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RC 322: Success is Survival
Sometimes it snows in April, sometimes it’s a heatwave, and sometimes it’s a global pandemic! And I wanna live, I wanna love, I wanna shake shake shake survival, I wanna fly, I’m gonna dance til I die..or until the Reaper comes for me. (or doesn’t record my vocals and corrupts the project file #insidenerdjoke). A…
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Jonathan Pie @ Extinction Rebellion
Love this video from the excellent Jonathan Pie, and completely on the money. For the record I support Extinction Rebellion – their stunts and actions are really good, and they have I think a fairly wide support. Yes some people found it difficult to travel in London, but really people don’t have the right to…
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Jeremy Corbyn
I’ve heard a lot of crap about Jeremy Corbyn recently…he’s got an uphill struggle against the Murdoch press machine, as well as the spiteful Blairites who bailed on him (I have one phrase: ‘Bye Felicia!’ for Chuka U-Turn Umunna and Jamie ‘Who?’ Reid) and the mostly ambivalent Guardian (who interestingly is benefitting from gentrification as…
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Artistic Protests in Hong Kong
As part of the Umbrella Movement aka Occupy Central in Hong Kong, there have been amazing shots of artworks and symbolic gestures in the streets. Here is a video from CNN-HK of some of the artworks, and it reminds me of other ad-hoc Occupy spaces, how quickly people reclaim the space to make something creative,…