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Kicking It

Watch the whole 90 min film at full screen resolution over at Hulu.com. In the summer of 2006, while the football world’s attention was focused on Germany, thousands of players around the globe were training hard and competing to be part of another World Cup … The Homeless World Cup. It had been a wild [...]

side effects of clear cutting

“George Bush doesn’t care about black people”

In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Albert Camus argued that artists bear a moral responsibility to engage politics with their art. He challenges artists to “create dangerously” and use creation as a medium for social criticism. There is some honest, heartfelt, critical music coming out of Katrina’s aftermath. The Legendary K.O.’s “George Bush doesn’t care [...]

we should be ashamed

The last time images like this, images from the United States, hit the international news, the Civil Rights movement of the 50s really picked up momentum. The U.S. was publicly embarassed to have the truth of its racist, classist government policies exposed so clearly and so openly. I can’t help but think that emergency response [...]