The Real Pirate Radio: Music's Eternal Influencer
I finally watched this movie the other night on HBO and wanted to research it further. The back story is always better than the movie about, well, Pirate Radio. If this interests you, you'll also enjoy the links below.
Offshore Radio Guide
Hans Knot
Radio Caroline
Miral, directed by Julian Schnabel, is based on journalist Rula Jebreal’s autobiographical novel about growing up as a Palestinian in Israel. It tells the first-hand tale of three women whose lives unfold during the first intifada, the Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation that began in 1987. Highlighting the remarkable work of a Palestinian woman named Hind Husseini – a woman who sacrifices everything to establish a school for refugee Palestinian girls in East Jerusalem and takes Miral in – the book and film show that hope still exists within a world of conflict. Bringing numerous elements of her own life into the story – Jebreal and her younger sister were taken in by Husseini after their own mother committed suicide.
"the real problem is the movie is pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel and it is going to be very difficult to get American audiences excited to see it," said one source.
The "Bible Belt" knows no boundaries. It's a global thing. And as far as the US goes, there is bigotry in the Midwest, the West, the South, and the North.
I guess the South, sometimes called the Bible Belt, got the reputation during the Civil Rights movement when racial discrimination led to non-violent protests, and civil disobedience. It went back to Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, Rosa Parks, desegregating Little Rock (AR),
Greensboro (NC) Sit-In, and more. Had these events happened anyplace else I suspect we would have had the same friction and resistance from while folks, don't you think?
It was in 1960 that the black men took a stand in Greensboro, NC, at a lunch counter in Woolworth's. I was just eight years old and I still remember watching it on television to this day. I was mad at the unfairness of it all and curious to see the opinions of my family and friends.
Most all my family lived in Georgia and they thought segregation was a fine idea. Up until then my family had always been united and supportive on every front. I lived in a place where there were so few black people that segregation seldom came up.
When my uncles spoke their opinions loud and clear at a family gathering my father, the oldest child and respected family patriarch, told them just how wrong they were. It was the first time I felt the family fracturing. It was the first time I realized that there was an "us" and a "them" and I was happy to be on the side of standing up for civil rights and fighting for what was only fair. I may have been one of "them" but that was all right with me.
Square peg in a round hole. That's always been me. Growing up no one else was like me. The older I got I searched them out. I found a few in high school and found tons when I got to college.
I can slide back and forth and mingle with the aliens as one of them but am always glad to get back to my utopian home land where other progressives thrive. People that think like me and act like me and care about the least of us like me.
It can be a lonely place to live at times but when you find someone else who is also like you you will also call it utopia, too.
Thank you for standing up with Daw Suu and standing by the people of #Burma who are unable to stand up and speak out for themselves! Please continue to spread the word and encourage others to do the same to ensure that military junta in #Burma releases her from illegitimate detention on November 13th, where she has spent last 15 years under house arrest…on Wednesday.
If you believe in Peace, Human Rights and Democracy,
If you believe that Nonviolence Resistance is the weapon of the Strong,
If you believe in Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and AUNG SAN SUU KYI…
Then, you must believe in changing your profile picture to our “We Stand With Daw Aung San Suu Kyi” lo...go until November 13, 2010 - and assure 517,760,460 Facebook users do the same!
Please also urge your local, state, national and international leaders/officials to take any possible actions to pressure Burma’s military regime to ensure the release of our Peaceful, Nonviolent and democratically elected leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on November 13, 2010.
In Solidarity,
~Team BGAN (www.Burma-Network.com)
Read all about her on my Aung San Suu Kyi links through the years.
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By STEVE PULIMOOD
Published: September 9, 2010
The artists Justin Lowe and Jonah Freeman have transformed an icon of modernist design into a swinging LSD safe house. And yes, it’s a total trip.
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