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gay persons of color: Watch: Holly Elle – "Freak" music video
Holly Elle is a Canadian independent recording artist based out of Nashville, Tennessee, who in 2010 became extremely disturbed by the media coverage of one teen suicide after another in the United States. As she wrote to me, “It consumed my thoughts d…
Continue readingThe Adventures of Diva Rachel: 30 Years On: Bob Marley Still Matters
Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war and until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the color of a man’…
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Original Song #27: Walking
I was walking todayAnd I passed a manA man I know named HarryWho always wishes everyone well I was walking with a womanNot just anyoneBut the only one The only one I care to know I wanted to jump ten miles Straight up in the skyI wanted to write right
Continue readingArt Threat: A voice of African resistance and exile – Review of Mama Africa
An new doc on Miriam Makeba shakes with revolution.
Continue readingArt Threat: Harper Bloody Harper – The Harper Song by John Roby
Take a moment to enjoy a cathartic laugh and watch Toronto composer John Roby’s rousing performance of his latest ditty.
Continue readingArt Threat: Paint and piano reflect Mideast resistance – Uprising by Sundus Abdul Hadi & Stefan Christoff
Uprising is a mixed-media painting by Sundus Abdul Hadi in collaboration with her sister Tamara Abdul Hadi’s photography, in which her flying figures grace the work. Visuals go hand in hand with Stefan Christoff’s piano composition.
Continue readingArt Threat: Monday Music: Duet for Abdelrazik – MP3 features cellist Rebecca Foon and Stefan Christoff on piano
We invite you to download this exclusive duet performance featuring celebrated cellist Rebecca Foon and pianist, community activist and Art Threat contributor Stefan Christoff.
Continue readingLate Friday Night Ode To … The Future (Again)
Yet another war, another election campaign (Canada), Christian fundamentalists posing as Conservatives doing everything they can to impose their religious views and beliefs (Canada and USA), so-called liberals/progressive/democrats cowering or triangul…
Continue readingFeminist Mom in Montreal: Eliot dances along to the guitar marathon
My son Eliot dancing along to his Grandpa Duane’s 48 hour guitar marathon. The guitar marathon is still going on for another 10 hours and you can watch the live stream here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/duane-r…Duane is raising money for the Camp Tr…
Continue readingFeminist Mom in Montreal: Eliot dances along to the guitar marathon
My son Eliot dancing along to his Grandpa Duane’s 48 hour guitar marathon. The guitar marathon is still going on for another 10 hours and you can watch the live stream here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/duane-r…Duane is raising money for the Camp Trillium Childhood Cancer Support Centre.
Continue readingFeminist Mom in Montreal: Eliot dances along to the guitar marathon
My son Eliot dancing along to his Grandpa Duane’s 48 hour guitar marathon. The guitar marathon is still going on for another 10 hours and you can watch the live stream here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/duane-r…Duane is raising money for the Camp Trillium Childhood Cancer Support Centre.
Continue readingFeminist Mom in Montreal: 48 hour guitar marathon
Webcam chat at UstreamThis is a live stream of my step-dad Duane’s 48 hour guitar marathon. He is playing his guitar for 48 hours to raise money for the Camp Trillium Childhood Cancer Support Centre. This is happening right now. If you’re in Ontario an…
Continue readingFeminist Mom in Montreal: 48 hour guitar marathon
Webcam chat at Ustream This is a live stream of my step-dad Duane’s 48 hour guitar marathon. He is playing his guitar for 48 hours to raise money for the Camp Trillium Childhood Cancer Support Centre. This is happening right now. If you’re in Ontario and in the Haldimand-Norfolk area
Continue readingFeminist Mom in Montreal: 48 hour guitar marathon
Webcam chat at Ustream This is a live stream of my step-dad Duane’s 48 hour guitar marathon. He is playing his guitar for 48 hours to raise money for the Camp Trillium Childhood Cancer Support Centre. This is happening right now. If you’re in Ontario and in the Haldimand-Norfolk area
Continue readingLate Friday Night Ode To … Peaceful Democratic Uprisings
Back there last Saturday, I wrote the following:As we applaud our Tunisian and Egyptian brothers and sisters, let us keep firmly in mind that it is they whom are bravely uprising in order to win their birthrights of freedom and liberty that are the bon…
Continue readingLate Friday Night Ode To … Right Wingers And Climate Change
Item 1 (emphasis added):Climate change: Rising waters threaten North Carolina
The sea that sculpted North Carolina’s coast, from its arc of barrier islands to the vast, nurturing sounds, is reshaping it once again.
Water is rising three times faster …
Continue readingLate Friday Night Ode To … Teh Self-Righteous Stoopid
I stand against censorship – period.
You don’t like the nature of a show on a specific TV channel? Change the damn channel.
You don’t like the lyrics of a song on a radio station? Don’t listen to it by changing the station or by shutting off the damn…
Continue readingLate Friday Night Ode To … The Future
The future: truly, the undiscovered country, the final frontier.
And still we will be facing up against our own demons.
Thus I give you Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier:
Come what may – keep on rockin’, folks!
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