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Friday Nite Videos -- January 15, 2016

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Get Up Stand Up | Live in Brazil. The Legend of Bernie Sanders. Fortunate Son -- Creedence Clearwater Revival. The Great Of The Union. Oscars' Voting Is Biased Toward Bland Movies.

Fortunate Son -- Creedence Clearwater Revival

Written by John Fogary, 'Fortunate Son' was released by Creedence Clearwater Revival in 1969. It has remained a popular for its denunciation of hypocritical militant patriotism.

Friday Nite Videos -- January 8, 2016

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Birthers Target Ted Cruz. Bernie Sanders: Wall Street Reform. Tracy Chapman - The Times They Are A Changin'. Dry Up or Drown - Evan Webb and the Rural Route Ramblers. Don't Let Donald Trump Fool You: Rightwing Populism Is the New Normal.

Friday Nite Videos -- January 1, 2016

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Playing for Change: Pemba Laka. Fewer Police Killings in 2016? 'Make America Great Again.' Why Mormons Identify With Syrian Refugees. Noam Chomsky Endorses Bernie Sanders.

Playing for Change: 'Pemba Laka'

PFC shares their newest Song Around The World, “Pemba Laka,” a joyful song that will bring a smile to your face to begin the new year.

'Make America Great Again'

Dwain, from Mullets Over America, sings the anthem "Make America Great Again" 'bout the general awesomeness of Donald J Trump.

Leningrad, Shostakovich and the Music of Transcendence

Ron Jacobs CounterPunch
The story of the 872 day Nazi siege of Leningrad, the humans who survived it, and the more than one million who died, the story told in Shostakovich’s Seventh symphony, is one of humanity’s greatest and most heroic tales ever. Always Russia’s city of the arts and music, Leningrad is also a city of revolution. Daunted and desperate, the spirit of Leningrad’s residents is really the ultimate determinant of its survival. Shostakovich’s symphony rallied his fellow citizens.
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