September 4th, 2010
Of course, in most of the rest of the world (more than 80 countries–September is used by about six), Labor Day isn’t in September. It’s on May 1. Marginalized in Wikipedia as “International Workers Day,” the real labor day’s date was chosen of the 1886 Haymarket Massacre, which happened in Chicago. The “massacre” was of Read more...
Tags: contemporary labor facts, Institute of Southern Studies, Labor Day history, Land of Hope and Dreams
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July 27th, 2010
Here’s the real point about Shirley Sherrod, from a post to the SNCC mailing list. Ruby Sales is a black activist and theologian who narrowly escaped murder after the Selma-Montgomery March. (The bigot rifleman killed a white theology student instead. The bigot rifleman was then acquitted by an all-white jury.) In case some more Breitbart scum Read more...
Tags: Breitbart, racism, Ruby Sales, Shirley Sherrod, white supremacy
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July 24th, 2010
CINDY BULLENS LIVE on Kick Out the Jams, Sunday July 25 10 AM – Noon Eastern time Cindy Bullens will join me in the second hour to talk about her new album, Howling Trains and Barking Dogs. It’s an exploration of her Nashville songwriting ventures with such collaborators as Radney Foster, Bill Lloyd and Matraca Berg. Read more...
Tags: Cindy Bullens, Kick Out the Jams
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July 24th, 2010
Please Join in A Toast to Genius & Greatness Today, Saturday July 24, at 2:30 Mountain Time My friend Albert Leccese, who designed the best sound systems in rock’n’roll, died last Saturday. We’d had just a nodding acquaintance ’til four and a half years ago, when he developed lung cancer. I helped him find the Read more...
Tags: Albert Leccese
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July 20th, 2010
An Apology for the absence of the Andre Williams Kick Out the Jams show For reasons best understood by Loft channel management, and not by me at all, last Sunday’s Kick Out the Jams show, built around the great Andre Williams and his smokin’, dirty R&B did not air. In its place, aired…standard Loft programming, certainly nothing Read more...
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July 16th, 2010
Andre Williams, genius of filthy greasy genius R&B (Bacon Fat, Jailbait, Twine Time, Shake a Tail Feather, many many many more) came to Sirius Satellite Radio last spring and we did an almost one hour interview. We covered the entirety of his career in general, his struggles with drugs and alcohol, pimping and gambling, in Read more...
Tags: Andre Williams
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July 16th, 2010
What’re we fighting for? “Let us be revolutionaries in such a way that we enhance the circle of life. Let us be revolutionaries so that our children, generation after generation, shall enjoy freedom & a healthy, clean Mother Earth. Let our lives be based in the circle, not some straight line that has a dead Read more...
Tags: Leonard Peltier, revolution
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July 3rd, 2010
DAVE With DION at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Wednesday July 7 I’ll be appearing Wednesday evening at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, talking with education director Lauren Onkey and one of the Hall’s most under-rated (no matter how highly you rate him) inductees, Dion. He’s made a video where he Read more...
Tags: Blackness & Transatlantic Soul, Buddy Holly, Dion, Lauren Onkey, Ritchie Valens, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Terry Stewart, The Big Bopper, Winter Dance Party
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July 2nd, 2010
It’s An “Unprecedented” Oil Blowout–Just Another Lie July 2, 2010 Robert Bea, the Cal-Berkeley engineer and expert on system failures, has a great interview in the current issue of Science News where he talks about the equation, A + B = C that leads to things like the BP gush: “A is important. It’s things like Read more...
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July 1st, 2010
There’s a batch of cherished pictures on my office wall. Most of them are no big deal, artistically, although there’s a noirish Bert Hardy shot that is like a still from a documentary based on Graham Greene and John Le Carre. But the best picture, artistically and topically, is one that arrived totally unexpectedly as Read more...
Tags: Afflatus, Chico Harris, Dick Waterman, Ray Charles
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