Friday Nite Videos

Just Cancel the Sequester

May 17, 2013

Alan Grayson personally went to John Boehner's office with 300,000 signatures demanding an end to the sequester - THIS is what happened next.

Everyone But Cheney and Rumsfeld

May 17, 2013

Donald Rumsfeld accuses the Obama administration of promoting a self-serving narrative to fit its Middle East agenda. 

Absolutamente Quilapayun

May 17, 2013

Note from Holly Near: Put out recently by Quilapayun, a Chilean ensemble that lived in exile after the military coup, this youtube shows footage from the 70s as well as honors the young people who are building a strong student movement today to protest the right wing government recently elected in Chile following the progressive leadership of President Michelle Bachelet. I had an opportunity to work with Quilapayun in the seventies and eighties and again when I went to Chile a few years ago. We sang at a men's prison in the northern part of the country.

Wild Women Don't Have the Blues

May 10, 2013

Wild Women Don't Have the Blues shows how the blues were born out of the economic and social transformation of African American life early in this century. It recaptures the lives and times of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters and the other legendary women who made the blues a vital part of American culture. For more information, go here.

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