Baghdad Burning

Posted on October 14, 2008

I don’t care what your doing, you need to stop it right now and go read this woman’s blog.  Yes, I’m serious.

It’s an anonymous blog from a young Iraqi woman talking about her life, her hopes, her fears, and the sheer brutality and anti-human horror of life in occupied Bahdad.  I know all the conservative assholes who keep goign on about how “we” are “winning” in Iraq will never take the time to read it – or any of the other accounts from people who’ve lived through the hell our Fuher has engineered – but for the rest of us who continue to go on with our daily lives doing the best we can to get by even though we know there is a horrible crime being committed in our name, for the rest of us it’s incredibly important to stop, shut the fuck up about everything we THINK we know, and just listen.

Baghdad Burning.

Go. There. Now.

Sir! No Sir!

Posted on June 14, 2008

I just finished watching ‘Sir! No Sir!’, an independent documentary about GI resistance to the war in Vietnam and I was absolutely blown away.  It’s by far one of the best, most powerful documentaries I’ve seen in a very long time and if there was any balance in public school curriculum’s it’d be required viewing for every high school student in America.  It’s that good.

Depending on where you are you might be able to find it at your local video rental place, if not I know you can find it on netflicks.  Or you could just buy the film and watch it, i’m pretty sure you can order it from the film maker’s website.   No matter how you get it though, watch it.  Whatever you know or think you know about  the anti-war movement during the vietnam war, I can pretty much guarantee you’ll learn something.

wow.

Desert Sunrise

Posted on May 7, 2008

Live video of Beltaine’s Fire performing ‘Desert Sunrise’ at the Beale St. Bar & Grill in SF.  Big ups to Cory for shooting the video for us.