The Other Side of the Pond
The Guardian
Professor Louie What Does It Mean to Be Working Class?
At the People's Voice Café in New York City, the incomparable Brooklyn rapper Professor Louie offers a heavy lesson in class to the 99% in rhythm and rhyme.
More Professor Louie: The Cockroach.
De Blasio's Opportunity: A Local Attack on Inequality
Demos
The truth is that many good ideas for tackling New York's near-record inequality and promoting opportunity are sitting on the drawing board. All that's been missing is a mayor interested in such ideas.
Detainee Abuse in Afghanistan
Unidentified American soldiers watching as Afghans — likely a mix of Afghan National Army personnel and interpreters — torture and interrogate a prisoner.
Friday Nite Videos -- November 8, 2013
Portside
Jon Stewart -- Affordable Horror Story. Liquid Art. Canned Heat -- Woodstock Boogie. Burn: Detroit Firefighter Documentary. Professor Louie -- What Does it Mean to be Working Class?
Affordable Horror Story
The Daily Show
President Obama qualifies his formerly definitive statements regarding the Affordable Care Act, and his opponents lie like motherf**kers about its effects
Liquid Art
A single drop of water at 2,000 frames per second, by Markus Reugels and Ludwig Lehner . Gorgeous!
Canned Heat -- Woodstock Boogie
Blues group Canned Heat performing live at Woodstock, 1969
Burn: Detroit Firefighter Documentary
BURN is a feature documentary about Detroit, told through the eyes of Detroit firefighters, who are charged with the thankless task of saving a city that many have written off as dead. For viewing options, go here.
Where You're Safe From Gun Violence
The New Yorker
Study: Americans safe from gun violence except in schools, malls, airports, movie theatres, workplaces, streets, own home
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