Archive for 'culture'

Review: The Unfinished Revolution: Voices From the Global Fight for Women’s Rights [#Feminist Friday]

Reading the Forward by journalist Christiane Amanpour and the Introduction by editor Minky Worden, I was concerned by what struck me as a very bourgeois perspective from both, and worried that there was some border line Arab bashing in the Intro. But even in the midst of what I was worried about as potential Arab [...]

Ontario: Red Caravan Tour Fundraising [Saturday #Culture]

Join musical artists Amai Kuda, lal, Brixia Bloodbeard, and Sonny B as they embark on a journey making stops in Windsor, Maynoooth, London, Sudbury and more sharing their messages of social justice, anti oppression and personal stories. The Red Caravan tour is supported by the R3 Collective. We are group of queer, Indigenous and racialized [...]

Three Kings Event for Cuban 5 and Puerto Rican PPs

Join us as we celebrate the 54th anniversary of the Cuban revolution anniversary and the 70th Birthday of Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera! Saturday January 5, 2013 @ 6pm (Reception) 7pm (Cultural program and dance party). Venue to be announced. A cultural/political evening of celebration and solidarity presented by The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign [...]

Support the Freedom Archives [Saturday #Culture]

Your support has made this an international breakthrough year for the Freedom Archives! Many of you have sent in contributions, thanks! We are approaching our year-end goal, but need still your help. Our film, Cointelpro 101, made its way to England, Hawaii, South Africa and Puerto Rico as well as many communities and film festivals [...]

Review: Hamas: From Resistance to Government by Paola Caridi [Saturday #Culture]

Acknowledgments, a Foreword and Emotional Prologue  give you a basis for understanding where Caridi is coming from, especially as student of Paolo Spriano, historian of the Italian Communist and participant in the Italian armed Resistance to Nazism and Fascism during World War II (WWII), and an Italian living in the Middle East. In the first chapter [...]

Review: Detroit: I Do Mind Dying (New Edition)

A Study In Urban Revolution Foreword by Manning Marable, by Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin, 2012 Haymarket Books, Third Edition. This is the most comprehensive account I know of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and like minded organizations both in Detroit and around the U$ in the 1960s and ’70s.  In Manning Marable’s Foreword, [...]

SpeakSudan Callout to Youth [Saturday #Culture]

SpeakSudan’s first publication aims to reach out and form a collective voice of opinions, dissenting or not, on East African youth and allies in diaspora. It is an effort to find commonality amongst a large, diverse and tremendously talented group of people. We will attempt to provide a space, physical and emotional to dissect, understand [...]

Calez – “Malcolm X” [Saturday #Culture]

Twenty bucks to the first person who can pinpoint the relationship to some of this content with the title of the song? Anyone? Anyone? No co-sign at several points, but always good to see Malcolm’s face in the culture.

Uptown XO’s “#Occupy DC” [Saturday #Culture]

Diamond District’s Uptown XO puts together visuals for his soul-infused track. Debut solo release coming in October. [youtube mfqQTtAeLmk]

NYC: El Regreso de los Dinosaurios Screening [Saturday #Culture]

The Abrons Arts Center is proud to present the group exhibition El Regreso de los Dinosaurios, a cross-section of contemporary visual culture in Mexican society through the lens of the recent presidential election. A video program of documentary shorts from The VICE Guide to the Elections, directed by Bernardo Loyola and produced by VICE Mexico, [...]

Review: “Girls Like Us” by Rachel Lloyd [#Feminist Friday]

Imagine, if you need to imagine, growing up in a home with an alcoholic mother, one who swallows pills while you’re right in the room. Rather than ask for help, she encourages your young, teenage self, to go out clubbing, so she, unbeknownst to you, can commit suicide. This is the world in which Rachel [...]

Las Cafeterias’ “La Bamba Rebelde” [Saturday #Culture]

Not many tracks rock the familiar rhythm of Ritchie Valens’ “La Bamba” and reference Arizona racism as well as the Zapatistas, amid L.A.’s Homeboy/Homegirl Industries, but Las Cafeterias do. They’re even offering the song for free download. [youtube 9xv-FjbXaqk]

Saturday Radical Culture: NATE & CYCLONIOUS – AYE LAMMA

NATE & CYCLONIOUS – AYE LAMMA

Saturday Radical Culture: Big Cakes-Gonna Be A Change

Big Cakes new video, Gonna Be A Change

Book Review: “Love and Struggle: My Life In SDS, The Weather Underground And Beyond” by David Gilbert

I am one of the two hundred or so of today’s activists who started writing David Gilbert after seeing The Weather Underground.  I actually saw it a number of times before I wrote, and even that was actually after I found out his memoirs were going to be published.  I think the strength of Love and Struggle compared [...]

Akala-Find No Enemy [Saturday #Culture]

Akala on Saturday Radical Culture!

A Call For Papers!

Black Camera invites submissions for a special issue or section of a future
issue devoted to Haile Gerima’s Black Radical Tradition On Screen: African
Cinema of Liberation at Home and Abroad.

Lowkey, Akala, Saul Williams, and M.K. Asante On Hip-Hop! [Saturday #Culture]

Saturday Radical Culture!

Black The Ripper, ”WAKE UP!” [Saturday #Culture]

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Rethinking The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, As A White Liberal Consumer Product!

Dr. Greg Thomas provides a much needed radical critique of Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow. . .