November 18, 2013 {vimeo}79294714{/vimeo} Cheers to Esperanza Spalding for writing this song, organizing other prominent musicians to participate, and releasing this video calling for the closure of Guantanamo. Spalding wrote about why…
Category: Cheers
Banksy’s Horses of War Piece, Featuring Audio from Collateral Murder
October 22, 2013 The artist Banksy is doing a month residency on the streets of NYC, with a new installation on the streets every day. On October 9 this image appeared on…
NSA Campus Recruiters Challenged by Students & Others
“I want to know what are the qualifications that one needs to become a whistleblower? Because that sounds like a much more interesting job. I think that ultimately the Edward Snowdens, Bradley…
Flobots: Bradley Manning
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Lupe Fiasco Gets Booted from Inauguration Concert for Criticizing Obama
Cheers to Lupe Fiasco for doing an extended version of his politically charged song Words I Never Said while performing at an Inauguration concert January 20, 2013. The Chicago Sun Times reported:…
The Onion Nails It: “Millions Without Power Following Election”
The satirical newspaper The Onion captured the situation November 7, 2012: WASHINGTON—According to widespread reports, roughly 314 million Americans across the country have been left without any power following Tuesday’s devastating presidential…
We Are All Illegals/Todos Somos Ilegales
Jeers to Arizona for the “let me see your papers” law now in effect. Cheers to the band Outernational for this response: ‘Show Me Your Papers’ law is in effect today! Arizona…
Conor Oberst and Desaparecidos Protest the Crimes of the Government
Conor Oberst has reunited with his band Desaparecidos, speaking out in new songs performed this year against Joe Arpaio, the fascist sherif of Tucson, and for Bradley Manning. In an interview with…
Günter Grass: “the nuclear power of Israel endangers the already fragile world peace”
The controversy over Günter Grass’s poem about Israel and Iran only confirms what Grass was saying: That it’s impossible to criticize Israel without being lambasted. Grass, the Nobel-Prize-winning author of The Tin…
Colbert On Targeted Killing: “Due Process Just Means There’s A Process That You Do”
Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert took on Attorney General Eric Holder’s legal justification for killing American citizens abroad suspected of terrorism, particularly Holder’s argument that "due process and judicial process are not one…