I’m feeling retro …
Bob Dylan’s original version from the Concert for Bangladesh
It’s funny how the audience tries to clap along, but people are stoned and completely out-of-sync with the rhythm.
I’m feeling retro …
Bob Dylan’s original version from the Concert for Bangladesh
It’s funny how the audience tries to clap along, but people are stoned and completely out-of-sync with the rhythm.
Senior citizens disrupting town halls are participating in a corporate lobbyist-driven campaign to prevent the rest of us from acquiring the same affordable, reliable public health care they enjoy.
This is an old article but its title still resonates with irony!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/get-your-goddamn-governme_b_252326
“White privilege is the privilege to insult and deny. White privilege is the privilege of being proud to be stupid. Proud to be murderous. Proud to be vicious.
In the end, white privilege is the privilege of being ignorant with pride and perpetuating institutions, beliefs and systems that codify that ignorance.” Rohn Kenyatta
Unmarked trucks packed with prison-raised cattle roll out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where men are sentenced to hard labor and forced to work, for pennies an hour or sometimes nothing at all. After rumbling down a country road to an auction house, the cows are bought by a local rancher and then followed by The Associated Press another 600 miles to a Texas slaughterhouse that feeds into the supply chains of giants like McDonald’s, Walmart and Cargill.
Some prisoners work on the same plantation soil where slaves harvested cotton, tobacco and sugarcane more than 150 years ago, with some present-day images looking eerily similar to the past. In Louisiana, which has one of the country’s highest incarceration rates, men working on the “farm line” still stoop over crops stretching far into the distance.