The Yang Gang grew larger with Tuesday’s endorsement from comedian Dave Chappelle! https://www.businessinsider.com/dave-chappelle-endorses-andrew-yang-for-president-2020-1 The campaign also announced that Mr. Chappelle will perform two shows in the early primary state of South Carolina later this month, which will benefit the campaign. The shows will be in Columbia on January 29 and North Charleston on January 30. Chappelle …
Don’t forget Puerto Rico. As War Drums blare over the sirens of the impeachment. As this “great” economy continues to leave tire marks and eviction notices on what used to be a middle class, don’t forget the Canaries. The fact we have let Puerto Rico lay to waste is a sign that America, like the …
#Portland2020 I gave this man 5 bucks in exchange for taking this picture. This is Pdx Northwest, a wealthy neighborhood in a town that’s getting more pricey by the day.
People tell me that electing Bernie Sanders is just electing another old White man. OK, tell me the last time we elected a Jewish person as President? How about a person that presents themselves as Agnostic? The world is waiting…because, America doesn’t elect old White men, it elects White Anglo Saxon Protestants. We are not …
This post combines two subjects that I have previously written about: the illegal, illogical and infamous 2003 invasion of Iraq and rock and roll. In late September 2019, Jacques Chirac and Joseph Wilson died one day apart. The former French president led international opposition to the “War on Terror.” He argued that toppling Saddam Hussein …
Is Japan finally embracing a more inclusive definition of what it is to be a Japanese thanks to sport? Japan is a uniquely homogenous country on a planet in which most countries are steadily becoming more and more diverse. Immigrants make up just two per cent of Japan’s population with the majority from Korea and …
No American candidate since Teddy Roosevelt, when he got shot during a speech on the campaign trail, has taken an otherwise knock out punch like Bernie Sanders. It was just a heart attack. Teddy got shot in the chest by an Italian anarchist, when such a thing was all the rage. Teddy spoke for another …
This is not the typical fundraising letter. Check it out. – Mark Erickson Portland Yang Gang Facebook Group Oregon Yang Gang Facebook Group Hello Yang Gang – thank you for your support! It’s been a little over a week since the debate in Detroit, and we’ve already qualified for the next round in September and October. …
PUSSY RIOT – BLACK SNOW: http://xxpussyriotxx.com 1. MUSIC VIDEO 2. SERIES of ACTIONS 3. OPEN LETTER TO PUTIN AND HIS CRONIES + SOLD OUT LIVE SHOW IN ALABAMA ON JULY 11TH TO BENEFIT PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND YELLOWHAMMER FUND SHOW VIDEO FLYER HERE MORE PHOTOS here + VIDEO CLIPS here (all free to use with credit) 1. PUSSY RIOT – ЧЁРНЫЕ СНЕЖКИ …
Tomorrow, June 13th, Chicago White Sox will “commemorate” the 40th anniversary of Disco Demolition Night with a free T-shirt promotion. The announcement – during Pride month no less – has re-opened the discussion around the destruction of a Gay, Black, and Latinx art form at the hands of a primarily white mob led by white …
LIVE SHOW AT BIRMINGHAM’S SATURN ON JULY 11TH TO BENEFIT PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND YELLOWHAMMER FUND WATCH: “I MADE AN ABORTION” HERE (99 jakes track “225” + zeitguised’s textures + edited by nadya pussy riot) ALABAMA SHOW VIDEO FLYER HERE Photo credit: Andrew Boyle – hi-res HERE Pussy Riot announce that they’ll bring their digital protest punk to Birmingham, Alabama’s Saturn on July 11th to protest …
I have been an employee of the Federal government for over 25 years and never planted my arse in a Federally-owned building. Since that arrangement will change in a couple of weeks I have been purging my 10’x10′ cubicle of “institutional knowledge,” various reports, and documents I have not perused in over 15 years. Basically, …
The Eurovision Song Contest (Eurovision) started in 1956. Eurovision is an international song competition held primarily among the member countries of the “European Broadcasting Union.” Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, then votes are cast for the other countries’ songs to determine the winner. At least …
A stitch in time. A report on the crimes of a sitting President, with tales of Porn stars, Russian spies, bribes, and lies, from a time CNN said he would only win if Pigs could fly. An Attorney General “read it” and said he saw nothin’. …I also wrote a really darn cool song before …
Pussy Riot’s member Nika Nikulshina is arrested in Moscow – for no reason – and this is the second time in one month she’s been detained. This time it’s even worse: being detained already for 7 hours, she’s going to spend the night at the police department. Tomorrow starts a period of days-off in Russia, …
Amazon will pay $0 in taxes on $11,200,000,000 in profit for 2018 Amazon not only had all those benefits, it had the benefit of securing a market, building a business for years by not charging sales tax – a huge advantage over the brick and mortar stores it damaged or put out of business. People …
A couple of weeks ago I attended a rally for Andrew Yang who is a 2020 Presidential candidate, a respectable, intelligent man with insightful ideas regarding the fast-approaching tech revolution that I have previously written about on this blog. The crowd was youthful and enthusiastic! Andrew Yang will appear on CNN THIS SUNDAY at 7:00pm …
Christopher Hitchens was a man of staggering genius. One of the bright spots of the blood sucking nature of the interweb wasteland is getting to watch this man work and evolve. You change, the world changes, but History never changes, only the calculation in which we gaze back upon it with prejudice. But whether or …
This was on KEXP two years ago, but it’s even more crucial now.
This is a protest song. I’ve seen this collection of musicians, separately in various bands, more than 50 times over the years. I couldn’t be more proud of Northwest Rockers than I am right now. When the chips were down, this group stood up for something. Give it a listen… Filthy Friends are Corin Tucker, …
Is it a coincidence that Europe is fracturing as the generation of WW2 is fading into graves, burying their hallow points of truth into the boneyards of history? I speak of these times, only months before my father was born in the beginning of the Boom, and young adults look at me like I am …
Colleges and cities have been wrestling as they consider monuments and buildings named on behalf of men who supported and profited from slavery or outwardly displayed racist tendencies in the earlier half of the 19th century and beyond. Tensions and protests have recently intensified across the country. On one side, people do not want to …
Those lazy Corporations just want welfare handouts. If that is “just Capitalism” then so is a welfare mother trying to get the best deal to try to compete in a highly competitive market. It’s a slippery slope. Now all these corporations expect a FREE ride. But that’s just business! Well so is Pimping. And pimpin’ …
Capitalism in America has created social conditions that ills the land. Capitalism in America needs regulation and rethinking. Why does America, the world’s richest country, fare poorly on the “happiness index” whereas the democratic socialist Scandinavians consistently dominate the top five and all four of the Nordic countries rank in the top ten, according to …
Lately we’ve seen this term in every article, think piece, blog, Tweet, podcast, and broadcast. Books are using it in their titles, and it’s being printed on everything from socks to t-shirts. It’s even been co-opted by advertising, to sell products for corporations. But what exactly is a “Badass Woman”? There is no universal, objective definition of …
Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was a leader of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. He would have turned 90 years ago the other day had he not been assassinated. A Baptist minister, Dr. King championed nonviolence and civil disobedience as means to make society welcome …
Growing up in God’s Country The first memory I have of Third Ward Elementary School is the sound of my father shooting his rifle. I had moved to Bradford, Pennsylvania just before I began Kindergarten. I went to Third Ward one summer night for the first time with my Dad. He was a marksman and …
Last week I vacationed alone in Utah, visiting, hiking, and taking pictures at two national parks – Zion and Bryce. Simply put, awesome!! Bryce is known for its odd rock formations called “hoo doos.*” The parks lacked the usual throngs of tourists that naturally visit when the kids are not in school, which enabled me …
My wife Joyce and I are personally saddened by the passing of one of the most honorable and decent men our country ever had serve as its President. I had the honor of performing at his 1989 Inaugural concert Joyce co-produced ‘The Celebration for Young Americans’, his and Barbara’s 50th wedding anniversary celebration, where The …
In Paris, at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, aggressor Germany waived the white flag to end the Great War. The Treaty of Versailles would be signed months later. Over 16 million soldiers and civilians were killed in the first war that relied on modern technology such as …