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1. Jeremy Corbyn offers hope for the arts

   ourselves as political beings. How many people do you know were partially radicalised by an album like The ... excitement and mobilised thousands of young people new to politics and seasoned Labour members alike. And as ... a different vision of the role that art and arts education play in society, and to take a decidedly political ...

2. Occupied Western Sahara: A rare look inside Africa's last colony

   her album “El Aaiun on Fire” (“El Aaiun Egdat”). This is a  Democracy Now!  special, “Four Days in ... Moroccan authorities during his years spent as a political prisoner. HMAD HAMMAD:  [translated] They linked ... Sahara: Africa’s Last Colony.” [break] AMY GOODMAN:  That is Sahrawi singer  Mariem Hassan  from her album ...

3. Capturing the feel of a new movement

   political content and flavour also — and manage to capture the wide spread of views from the more moderate ... explicitly political ("The struggle must continue and the resistance will survive" runs the ... chorus). Since it first came together three years ago, Kinetic has sought to give its music political ...

4. Action updates

   the compilation CD performed to help launch the album, and money raised through donations, CD sales ... detention of Dita Sari and other political prisoners. A meeting of AMWU women has endorsed the campaign to ... committee endorsed a motion calling on the Indonesian government to free all the political prisoners which ...

5. NOFX: fun-loving hedonists to radicals

   radicals. Before The War on Errorism, as they explain in the album's liner notes, NOFX were not known ... for expressing political views, but "maybe it's time that we are". The band says it is ... NOFX and made them interested in the world and politics. The first was the stealing of the US ...

6. Redefining the protest song

   recorded two albums on the outskirts of Harare and then fled to Britain, gaining political asylum in 2006. ... politically, and many protest singers very much associated with maligned communism, such as Cubans Carlos ... — environmental, political, social — we might be in need of protest singers more than ever. But music’s infatuation ...

7. Carlo’s Corner: Where can we get whatever drugs Clive Palmer is on?

   without a doubt, one big question in Australian politics in 2014. And that is: What drugs is Clive Palmer ... formed a political party and ran for prime minister.” “Really? What on Earth did I do that for?” “Well ... got this new boat. Also, how do you feel about dinosaurs?” This is what politics in this country has ...

8. Write on: letters to the editor

   communal violence, political repression, etc. Surely these issues have as great a political imperative for ... support for immigrant refugees it appears politically defeatist to see emigration as a solution to ... is an album of memories that needs to be saved lest we forget the injustices foisted on members of ...

9. Raise up Anti-flag

   Religion. One of the punk bands at the forefront of this rebellious, musical-political movement is the band ... interview' with ex-Rage Against the Machine guitarist, Tom Morello. Morello states that politics is about ... support from, but who know little about politics. He is angry and articulate. In April 2004 he wrote an ...

10. Stand-up comic of the revolution

    Riley Over 20 years ago in our shared, boldly political household, we took our icons seriously. To live ... I am.'" — is pure Brucean wit on target. His approach to politics and his humanism transcended the usual ... reissue four of the Fantasy albums recorded between 1958 and 1959. Volume II contains recordings that ...

11. The funky voice of Maori pride

    politics. She began singing to help pay her way through law school, but "half way through I began to ... demystifying the law or showing people the real history of colonisation in New Zealand". This political ... number two on the NZ charts, also carried a strong political theme. "It's all about how black ...

12. Live Blog: Week of frontline action to #StopAdani

    91������̳ Facebook Page and the Front Line Against Coal Flickr album. Monday 18 September, 6:40pm Meet ... to ensure Adani and its political backers don't get away with plans to build Australia's ... political channels to stop this mine, but it is clear that those things alone are unlikely to succeed in ...

13. Scream against the Armenian genocide

    For the uninitiated, System of a Down are notable for their political commitment. In 2003, they ... front, System of a Down plays songs across the range of their albums, with all manner of styles — heavy, ... slow with Armenian melodies and politically-charged. The weaving in of their live performance with the ...

14. Sir Bono: the knight who fled his own debate

    Hotel. He asked what I'd been working on. I said "the premise that celebrity politics has been ... asking only that it be delayed until U2 finished recording its next album. I kept it public via RRC and ... busy preparing the banalities he'd blare on the new album. In the wake of the new depression ...

15. Native Ryme bring heritage to hip-hop

    human spirit means the album veers from dark, heavy subjects and radical politics to party tracks and ... 60,000 years, it doesn't matter that your debut album has taken a mere 18. "We've always ... know," says C-Roc, whose rap group, Native Ryme, are only just releasing an album a generation after he ...

16. The moral case against downloading music for free

    somebody rips a couple of mp3s off our album and listens to them on their computer speakers and then says ... they don’t like our album, guess what? They haven’t fucking listened to our album and fuck 'em! ... "Torchbearers of anti-corporate punk, Sonic Youth, signed on to release an album through the Starbucks’ record ...

17. Musicians band together to release CD for refugees

    choked by what appeared to be the weight of public opinion against, and political commitment to stop, ... contributed brilliant, moving, heart-rending and powerful songs. Some were taken off existing albums, some ... happening in "our name". Changes must be made to both popular opinion and political intent. There ...

18. John Pilger: Why we must prosecute war criminals

    Dr Ginan Ghalib Hassen, a paediatrician, kept a photo album of the children she was trying to save. ... business. The WHO is not an organisation that likes to get involved in politics.” Recently, Hans von ... the kabuki theatre of Westminster politics, the faraway violence of “our values” is of no interest. Do ...

19. Fuck the flag

    In addition to writing political songs, the band also has an activist focus. "It's very ... or not. In the end nothing worth getting has ever been gotten without a good political discussion and ... change can happen." [Anti-Flag's latest album, A Benefit for Victims of Violent Crime, was ...

20. Fuck the flag

    In addition to writing political songs, the band also has an activist focus. "It's very ... or not. In the end nothing worth getting has ever been gotten without a good political discussion and ... change can happen." [Anti-Flag's latest album, A Benefit for Victims of Violent Crime, was ...

21. 8 Mile: It's all about class

    Crazy insane, or insane crazy?" — Eminem These words were rapped by Eminem on his latest album. It ... because someone uses sexist language doesn't mean they can't make a coherent political ... political analysis. [For a different perspective on the film, check out Kathy Newnam's review in GLW ...

22. The Petrograd of the West

    extraordinary industrial and political militancy in the west of Scotland in the second decade of the 20th ... officers carrying out the orders of the British government. Here, as elsewhere on the album, Hulett ... Rebuild and fight on cry the ghosts of Red Clyde. This collection represents the art of political song at ...

23. In defence of reggae's 'overworked themes and topics'

    Garnett (Bobby) Pottinger. On the album they are joined by some of the leading lights of the seemingly ... musically talented and politically progressive people are continuing to swim against the stream. It's ... performer to use their music as a means of expressing political ideas or criticising social ills. This view ...

24. Music, business and righteous bards

    almost a million albums and continues to refuse offers to sign with major labels. A few years ago, back ... 100% of the profit for themselves. In my time in the music business — as political singer- songwriter, ... uncompromisingly political CD, The Bottom Line. Other veteran performers, such as Irish singer-songwriter Andy ...

25. Billy Bragg — this machine bombs Belgrade

    Bragg's current tour is to promote his new album Mermaid Avenue, made up of previously un-released Woody ... a political songwriter", he said ad nauseam on Triple J, "I'm an honest songwriter". ... That's not quite true. Bragg still has politics; they've just changed. From an early 1980s alignment ...

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