Tag: American writers
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RC 345: How To Survive A Plague Part 2: We Will Survive
Second part of How To Survive A Plague, and we cover the period 1989-2000 and beyond as the fight for drugs, money and action for the AIDS crisis comes to a crunch, and as Hollywood starts to pay attention (although no straight Oscar-baiting tragic gay tropes here – Peter’s Friends/Philadelphia *cough*). It’s not all doom…
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What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?
Wonderful and timelt video from the descendants of Frederick Douglass, an amazing man, reading his speech about the 4th of July. Very moving and I can see his passion and fire especially in Isadore. – via David Kerlick The bit I find amazing – and this speech has been heavily cut here – is that…
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RC 326: A Big Line In The Sand (Black Lives Matter Pt 1)
Brothers and Sisters…I don’t know what this world is coming to…. My response to the death of George Floyd, the Black Lives Matter protests around the world and is to create a two-parter focusing on radical and revolutionary voices criticising racism, fascism and police brutality. So I pass the mic to celebrate and uplift the…
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Public Enemy Rhythm Scholar mix
Chuck D himself said share this, and I can see why, nice remix of Public Enemy by Rhythm Scholar with RATM-inspired guitar riffs from Sami Turunen and video from TravAlma which is a bit of a history lesson – I’d certainly not heard of Farrakhan and probably Malcolm X til I heard PE records.
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Disco Noir 2: Monster Halloween Edition mix
I’ve been meaning to do a new Dark Electro / Disco Noir mix since I did the last one 3 years ago (was it really that long?). As I’ve gotten more into dubstep, psych garage and surf oddities this is also now reflected in this late edition of Disco Noir 2 – it also has…
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The evolution of empathy
Jeremy Rifkind on the evolution of empathy and some amazing animation/drawing as part of RSA Animate. Thanks to Not-I for the tip. Bonus: Here’s David Harvey on Capitalism and ‘Bait and Switch’ author Barbara Ehrenreich about mandatory optimism in ‘Smile or Die’: