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An Occupy Anthem

An amazing story about an Occupy of one in a place of the privileged few, giving voice to the many:

During the gala dinner, renowned Hawaiian guitarist Makana, who performed at the White House in 2009, opened his suit jacket to reveal a home-made “Occupy with Aloha” T-shirt. Then, instead of playing the expected instrumental background music, he spent almost 45 minutes repeatedly singing his protest ballad released earlier that day. The ballad, called “We Are the Many,” includes lines such as “The lobbyists at Washington do gnaw…. And until they are purged, we won’t withdraw,” and ends with the refrain: “We’ll occupy the streets, we’ll occupy the courts, we’ll occupy the offices of you, till you do the bidding of the many, not the few.”

Here’s a video of the song:

And a video of Makana talking about his experience.

You can download the song here.

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Spamalicious 2

When bots try to leave comments that flatter you, you get nonsense such as this:

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A Close Shave

So I edited this video for my GA position at school, which is 12 hours/week working for the marketing department (in addition to my 7 hours for my Teaching assignment). Not great film-making by any means, but it was kind of fun to put it together.

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A Radio Sintesi by FT Marinetti

I’ve been working on a directed study of the avant-garde in the first half of the 20th century and have spent the last 10 week or so reading about the Futurists. I came across a couple of Marinetti’s radio sintesi and decided to make them based on his scripts. This is the simpler of the …

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A New BBC Show to Look Forward To

This looks like it could be a whole lot of fun: Filming starts on new BBC Two comedy The Bleak Old Shop Of Stuff Date: 03.10.2011 Category: TV Ent; BBC Two BBC Two announces that production is underway on The Bleak Old Shop Of Stuff, a new four-part comedy adventure set in the Dickensian world …

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I Am Pro-Choice

There is a new campaign that demonstrates just how prevalent abortions are and why it is an important right for all women. Go here to find out more about the campaign and you can see a few of the videos that women have recorded below. 1 in 3 Intro from Advocates for Youth on Vimeo. …

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