drew dellinger - planetize the movement

Song of the Day: MJ in his hey

"Human Nature" live, 1987.

that dude can sing and dance!

i LOVE the move he does @ :48 secs, just as he says "four walls won't hold me tonight." the sheer genius and brilliance of the movement speaks of art's transcendence.

click-and-join-the-movement

After watching "Freedom Riders," I was reminded that I dislike it when corporations, NGOs, and "conscious" folks play loose with phrases like 'join the movement!'. Buying a product, subscribing to an email list, or forwarding a video is not joining the movement. People lived and died and bled for the movement. Let's not be glib with that term. Show some respect.

Song of the Day

 Pretty sweet!

Sad but true.

U.S. in a nutshell: People cheer when Carlos Santana speaks the truth through his guitar; people boo when he speaks the truth about racism.

Quote of the Day

"I write because of my fundamental faith in the transformative power of narrative; not in the notion that simply by telling stories one might come to transformative truths, but rather that in unearthing the silences of the past we are necessarily involved in understanding the forces by which those silences were created and are maintained."

--Jennifer Morgan,

in Why We Write: The Politics and Practice of Writing for Social Change

MLK Quote: 100% Real and Raw

"The black revolution is much more than a struggle for the rights of Negroes. It is, rather, forcing America to face all its interrelated flaws: racism, poverty, militarism, and materialism. It is exposing evils that are rooted deeply in the whole structure of our society. It reveals systematic rather than superficial flaws, and it suggests that radical reconstruction of society itself is the real issue to be faced."

--Martin Luther King Jr. (1967)