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Street Sweeper Social Club

March 7, 2010
By FN Brill

“Off the breaking backs of others/Where you got all your bucks/Till we make the revolution I just hope your life sucks” Street Sweeper Social Club is an American rap rock supergroup, formed in Los Angeles, California in 2006. The band primarily consists of guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and vocalist/emcee Boots Riley...
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They’re not the world…

February 16, 2010
By FN Brill

A classic subversion of “We are the world” by the Houston band Culturcide. As Utah Phillips said, “Change the words so they make more sense.”
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Television – Drug of A Nation

January 14, 2008
By FN Brill

From Michael Franti and the Disposable Heroes:  
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Live Aid – another lesson from history

August 25, 2007
By SPGB
Live Aid – another lesson from history

Twenty-two years ago today Bob Geldof asked “..why do people starve on one side of the world while on the other people are paid not to produce food, or “surpluses” are allowed to rot? He said that no-one had yet answered that question for him satisfactorily..” Well, in an article titled ‘Politics of Live...
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THIS LAND IS THEIR LAND

November 21, 2005
By Stefan

You must have heard the song by Woody Guthrie: “This land is your land, This land is my land, … “ It should be, but in fact it isn’t. Many millions of working people own no land at all. Those who are a bit better off own the small plot on which their house stands — a...
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