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Oscar Awards: White Elephant in the Room
Mar. 5 | by Saswat Pattanayak Its not about Viola Davis not winning the Oscar. What’s murkier is the psychoanalytic dependency of Academy elites on their colonial legacies: The Queen, the King and now the utterly despicable Thatcher! The rejection of “The...
Party for Your Right to Freedom! Peta Lindsay and the PSL for President!
Mar. 2 | Peta Lindsay, Yari Osorio and Eugene Puryear from the Party for Socialism and Liberation joined Sese and the rest of us for a spirited discussion of their bid for the U.S. presidency in the upcoming 2012 elections. We discussed the role of electoral...
Flawed Lens – Movie Promises to Distort Bob Marley’s Image
Mar. 1 | A new documentary about the ‘popularized‘ life of Bob Marley is set to be released in theaters (and Video On Demand) on April 20, 2012. But based on an interview with the film’s Scottish director, Kevin MacDonald, it seems the film will...
MEDIA and the (IM)POSSIBILITY OF DEMOCRACY: A Call to Action
Feb. 17 | As a follow up and response to his keynote address on the state of mass media and journalism Robert McChesney sat down this morning with Jared Ball for a discussion of that address. This all was part of the Center for American and World Cultures Robert...
Hip-Hop Nation: Mixtape Revolution? Review and Response!
Feb. 8 | The following review was first published February 6, 2012 by LeftTurn Magazine by Xan West. With permission of the magazine we’ve republished the review here with a response to the review by the book’s author. Stay tuned for future...
Venezuela: Revolutionary Democracy’s Peaceful Rostrum
Jan. 11 | Thoughts on Chavez’s attempts to extend his time in power, and the alleged suppression of opposition party organizing. by Marco McWilliams Venezuela is not the wild, wild west, and the democratically elected president, Hugo Chavez, is, by no definition,...
Of Mixtape Emancipatory Journalism and Black Power
Dec. 29 | A review of I Mix What I Like! has just been published in India’s magazine of “Critical Reflective Journalism,” Kindle. It begins, “In an era marked by endorsements and visibilities, approval ratings and democratic victories,...
Human Rights – A Vital Global Movement
Dec. 16 | Think globally and act locally has never been more appropriate and resonant than it is today …the basic fight for equality and justice for the poor, the vulnerable, racial minorities, women, the disenfranchised and the occupied is still relevant...
