Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Ta-Nehisi Coates - Race, Class and Society


Bernie Sanders and the Liberal Imagination
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 24 January 2016   

Why Bernie Sanders Is Right to Oppose Reparations
There are lots of principled reasons that an anti-racist socialist might not favor the policy.
Conor Friedersdorf,  The Atlantic, 25 January 2016

Why Precisely Is Bernie Sanders Against Reparations?
The Vermont senator’s political imagination is active against plutocracy, but why is it so limited against white supremacy?
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 24 January 2016   

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The Case for Reparations
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 24 June 2014  


A Rising Tide Lifts All Yachts
The idea that President Obama has aided poor black people through a broad race-blind expansion of the social safety net deserves some scrutiny.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 3 October 2013  

A Rising Tide Lifts Mostly Yachts
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 17 September 2013  

A Rising Tide Lifts All Yachts
Why class-based social policy doesn't address African Americans' problems
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 14 June 2013  

The American Case Against a Black Middle Class
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 22 January 2013  


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Reviews of Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Text, 152 pp, £10.99, September 2015, ISBN 978 1 925240 70 2


The Anger of Ta-Nehisi Coates
Darryl Pinckney, New York Review of Books, 11 February 2016

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/02/11/the-anger-of-ta-nehisi-coates/

Loaded Dice
Thomas Chatterton Williams, London Review of Books, 3 December 2015
pages 15-18 | 4355 words

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra


Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra - Towards Other Worlds
https://ariyaastrobeatarkestra.bandcamp.com




March of the Idiots by Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra
https://youtu.be/ifo0gy1q-R0

Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra : Re-education, Mis-education
https://youtu.be/iK3slrBs8JY

The Evolution of the Arkestra





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Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra - Towards Other Worlds
https://ariyaastrobeatarkestra.bandcamp.com

March of the Idiots by Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra
https://youtu.be/ifo0gy1q-R0
New album 'Towards Other Worlds' now out on First Word Records!

Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra : Re-education, Mis-education
https://youtu.be/iK3slrBs8JY

JariBu Afrobeat Arkestra
"Mediacracy"JariBu Afrobeat Arkestra Live @shibuya plug

JariBu Afrobeat Arkestra - One by One [Tramp Records]
https://youtu.be/9aRFZvUhaqI


The Cosmonaut Arkestra

The Cosmonaut Arkestra - Crash Landing EP Demo
https://youtu.be/Gqz_TfzMdZg



Emir Kusturica - Bubamara (Sziget 2012)
https://youtu.be/urnaTffbkT4

The Bosnian rock band band was formed in 1981 in Sarajevo. They created a distinctive garage rock sound with folk influences, often featuring innovative production and complex story-telling, sometimes even dark premonitions of war. They went on to record four albums and tour the country extensively, occasionally sparking controversy and even getting into trouble with authorities for their criticism of the socialist system.

Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra - Unza Unza Time
https://youtu.be/Xu_Df-akpfg

Emir Kusturica - Djinji Dinji Bubamara -
https://youtu.be/5NpPRrlMhp0

Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra Live - Bubamara @ Sziget 2012
https://youtu.be/p7KO6a_9VeA

Goran Bregovic - So Nevo Si
Amina, Vaska Jankovska, Yael Badash, Büyük Orkestra ve Koro Eşliğinde..
https://youtu.be/zgKxZ-HSvi8

Gamelan X @ Signal Flow 2012
https://youtu.be/td8PK1DL46I