#political-activism

#political-activism

As we've witnessed a genocide unfold before our eyes, there has been deafening silence from so many. Robinson has never been silent in standing steadfast alongside the people of Palestine. The story of the Irish, both in Ireland and in New York City, is at one time a story of oppression, of subjugation and of discrimination - as we know it was on Irish soil that the British Empire developed their colonial project.

A federal judge has blocked RFK Jr.'s dangerous changes to childhood vaccine policy. Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, a former senior CDC official featured on The Advocate's January/February cover, called the ruling "big news" and a win for science and the law.

In 2022, he described the country's defense against the Russian invasion as the tip of the spear for the democratic embrace of dreams, adding, If we allow it to fight alone, our soul as America is lost. That same year, the actor lent Zelenskiy one of his Oscars—the one he won this afternoon is his third—promising to leave it in Kyiv until Ukraine's victory in the war.

"I am! Somebody!" the crowd chanted in the House of Hope megachurch, repeating Jackson's belief that every person matters, no matter their race or economic standing.

This is a difficult time for me. It is very difficult to see just a lot of places that I love being destroyed [and] neighborhoods being bombed. The stress of it is so much. I think a lot of people are not ready to be mobilized or to be planning and thinking about what is next and what to do - just watching in horror.

At its most basic, it's standard action movie stuff: Leonardo DiCaprio plays Bob Ferguson, an ex-revolutionary searching for his missing daughter. But it's also about the unfulfilled promises of protest and rebellion, and what can happen to a movement deferred.

When you have people sleepwalking into an authoritarian regime, it's up to us to sound the alarm. People feel isolated, helpless and hopeless. And when you hear about other people who are just like you taking a stand and representing something that you believe, that gives you not only hope, but it gives you power.

Caitlyn Jenner is an attention w***e who completely betrayed the trans community and has said she is not a spokesperson for the trans community just her own journey. Jenner is vile and a fraud. Does she not realize they make fun of her behind her back and say ugly things?

It is a locus of people gathering and an opportunity to talk to legislators and to be in DC and try to understand for someone like me, that doesn't work in politics, who is not involved in policy work and organizing what is the texture of this stuff here?

Sometimes, as with Dawn Porter's documentary When a Witness Recants, which follows three exonerated men who were framed by the police for the murder of a Baltimore high school student, it served to tie their movies to the current political reality, which lit up phones in darkened theaters with news of the killing of Alex Pretti. Sometimes it was just taking advantage of the spotlight,

Running from 15 January to 22 February, the as-yet-untitled show includes works from across four decades of Ai's career. Among them are his large-scale Lego works based on famous artworks, including versions of Surfing (After Hokusai) and Water Lilies, a reinterpretation of Monet's triptych of the same title. To mark his India debut, he will also show new Lego works based on Pichwais, intricate cloth paintings depicting devotional Hindu subjects, as well as homages to the country's storied Modernist painters V.S. Gaitonde and S.H. Raza.

San Francisco's status as the epicenter of the '60s countercultural movement is well-documented, but it was not limited to just the city itself. Its elements spread into nearby cities like Berkeley, Oakland, Fairfax all of Marin County, really and even outside the Bay Area to places like Monterey and Big Sur. As gonzo journalist Hunter S.Thompson once wrote in his book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: There was madness in any direction, at any hour.

Like me and some others, Victor has discussed and written about the Islamist and neo-fascist threat facing both parties and our country and its spread throughout the world, continued Levin. We are not alone in our deep concern about what is happening. But I often wonder, why are there not many more voices, people who I know and have known for years, who've been outspoken about other threats to our nation, speaking out now?

In this time of unrelenting, often unprecedented cruelty and lawlessness, I'm grateful for readers like you. So many of you have taken to the streets, organized in your neighborhood and with your union, and showed up at the ballot box to vote for progressive candidates. You're proving that it is possible-to paraphrase the legendary Patti Smith-to redeem the work of the fools running our government.

In this time of unrelenting, often unprecedented cruelty and lawlessness, I'm grateful for readers like you. So many of you have taken to the streets, organized in your neighborhood and with your union, and showed up at the ballot box to vote for progressive candidates. You're proving that it is possible-to paraphrase the legendary Patti Smith-to redeem the work of the fools running our government.

"going to get the message or they're going to get voted out."

Recorded at one blistering London live show in April 2024, Libertine collaborated with Chilean guitarist Eva Leblanc, reimagining tracks from Libertine's back catalogue including ones from her time singing with 1970s anarcho-punk pioneers Crass. Produced by Crass founder Penny Rimbaud, it treads a path between performance art, experimental music and earth ritual; with her strident operatic tones, Libertine sounds like a soothsayer foretelling an apocalypse.

When the far-right activist Tommy Robinson emerged from a London courtroom this week after a judge cleared him of a terrorism charge, he gave thanks to the man he said had bankrolled his defense. Elon Musk, I'm forever grateful. If you didn't step in and fund my legal fight I'd probably be in jail, Robinson said. Thank you, Elon.

Taking another bite of his foot-long sub, he figured that it must be the wind picking up. Then he saw the monkeys. Dozens of them were streaming over a tall metal fence at a compound owned by Alpha Genesis, one of the country's biggest breeders of primates used in scientific experiments. Swinging from the overhanging branches and darting through the woods, the animals were heading toward a nearby housing project, their pink faces lit with glee.

In a world full of noise, hear the love choir sing/Together in unity, we're reclaiming our wings,

Margaret Atwood is doing her grocery shopping in her local supermarket in Toronto, and it is taking longer than usual. This is not because The Handmaid's Tale author turns 86 this month, but because she is checking the provenance of every item before it goes in her trolley: California satsumas out; Canada spuds in. Atwood is a passionate environmentalist, but at the moment she is more worried about boycotting anything that comes from over the border in the US than air miles.

We have to live with it forever, so I felt like maybe we should give input on what we like and do not like. Maybe the wolf will pull off her head and it will actually be grandma. That's not going to happen, but I like to grab onto some optimism.

The work of Claire Fontaine is filled with rich and complex objects and images whose status and meaning is constantly in flux. There are jokes. There is a handwritten text in watercolour, copied out again and again, freeing the writer from the injustices of their ancestors (I AM FREE, it concludes). There is work riffing on Marcel Duchamp's moustachioed and goateed Mona Lisa, swapping his ribald but puzzling 1919 caption LHOOQ with LGBTQ+.