This is a very different version than the ones that I’m most familiar with: the spare unaccompanied vocal delivery of Ralph Stanley as featured in the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? or the Gullah version of Bessie Jones re-imagined by TangleEye. This version, by the group Ranky Tanky, also has roots in the Gullah tradition, but it’s taken in a different direction. The trumpet (Charlton Singleton) just melts my heart! [Read more…]
Feeding Kids in San Diego – 1 In 6 Children In San Diego County Are At Risk Of Hunger | Video Worth Watching
The Times of San Diego reports that the local non-profit Feeding San Diego (a member of the national Feeding America organization) released a study revealing thet nearly 380,000 people in San Diego county (11.7% of the total population) are food insecure. That includes 127,280 children under the age of eighteen, or roughly one out of six children in San Diego County. The study uses data from a number of sources, including the Department of Agriculture and the Census Bureau. [Read more…]
May Day in Puerto Rico: Police Attack Anti-Austerity Protesters with Pepper Spray & Tear Gas | Video Worth Watching
Disaster capitalism hits Puerto Rico. PROMESA, the board appointed by Congress to oversee Puerto Rico’s economy, is calling for, among other things, the privatization of the school system and a 10% cut to pensions. On May Day citizens turned out to protest. From the streets of San Juan we have a report filed by Democracy Now! correspondent Juan Carlos Dávila. [Read more…]
How Russian Trolls Weaponized Your Social Media Feed | Video Worth Watching
Vox’s Danush Parvaneh pulls together recent reporting on how Russian trolls weaponized social media and interviews Darrell West of the Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution to present a picture of the dynamics of the disinformation campaign. [Read more…]
Migrants Seeking Asylum Arrive At U.S.-Mexico Border | Video Worth Watching
MSNBC reports that: Over 100 Central American migrants are seeking asylum from violence, hoping to cross into the United States following a grueling journey. The Trump administration has ordered homeland security officials to prevent their entry. NBC’s Miguel Almaguer reports from the scene in Tijuana, Mexico. [Read more…]
Parov Stelar – The Sun (feat. Graham Candy) | Video Worth Watching
For some reason the weather for the last few days has me thinking of summer. Maybe that’s why this tune from a lens ad has gotten stuck in my head … [Read more…]
Romain Thiery – Requiem for Pianos | Video Worth Watching
Photographer and pianist Romain Thiery accompanies his own remarkable images of abandoned pianos in his Requiem for Pianos series. More behind the story at BoingBoing. [Read more…]
Jena Friedman: It’s Been a Rough Time for Men Lately | Video Worth Watching
This segment originally aired on CONAN back in February, but somehow it seems as if it’s timely again. “You guys have had a rough couple of weeks …” [Read more…]
Why Build a Lynching Memorial? | Video Worth Watching
Today, April 26th, a new museum and memorial is opening in Montgomery, Alabama, on a site where enslaved people were once warehoused. It is a project of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) and the museum and memorial are dedicated to the memory of more than 4400 victims of racial lynchings between 1877 and 1950.
But why build a lynching memorial? EJI believes that publicly confronting the truth about our history is the first step towards recovery and reconciliation. A history of racial injustice must be acknowledged, and mass atrocities and abuse must be recognized and remembered, before a society can recover from mass violence. [Read more…]
The Bookmobile – a StoryCorps True Story | Video Worth Watching
From the StoryCorps YouTube webpage:
At eight years old, Storm Reyes was already working full time with other migrant farm workers in the fields outside Tacoma, Washington. One day, a bookmobile arrived and brought her new worlds—and hope.
StoryCorp’s mission is to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world. [Read more…]
About That Caravan in Mexico … | Video Worth Watching
About that caravan in Mexico …
Back on April 1st, Trump tweeted that [it’s] “Getting more dangerous. “Caravans” coming. Republicans must go to Nuclear Option to pass tough laws NOW. NO MORE DACA DEAL!”
So who are these people that so terrify Trump? For ten years the organization Pueblo Sin Fronteras has been working with Central American refugees and migrants to provide humanitarian aid. This year one effort Pueblo Sin Fronteras is making is to help the migrants tell their own story. Here is a brief video made several weeks ago at the beginning of April. [Read more…]
Supernova Women — Restorative Justice, Legal Weed and the California Cannabis Enterprise | Video Worth Watching
From the HuffPost YouTube web page:
The Oakland-based collective Supernova Women is working to inform, support, demonstrate and advocate on behalf of communities disproportionately affected by the war on drugs. Their aim is to push local government to create more opportunities for people of color and those convicted of cannabis-related offenses in the early stages of a booming industry.
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