Metabeats feat. Dubbledge - EyeSeeYou (Dope Official Video & Free Download) "Babylon the Great needs someone to Hate"
"IC Codes" - "IC codes are shorthand terms used by the British police in radio communications to describe the apparent ethnicity of a suspect. The codes are based on a police officer's perceived viewof an individual's ethnicity, as opposed to that individual's self-definition." - Wiki
Metabeats feat. Dubbledge - EyeSeeYou (Dope Official Video & Free Download) Track available for FREE download for a LIMITED time here:http://bit.ly/zR7Rhq EyeSeeYou is taken from the forthcoming Metabeats 'Caviar Crackle' LP featuring the likes of Action Bronson, Oddisee, P.L.O, Zeroh, Ralph Rip Shit, Von Pea (Tanya Morgan), Elucid, Chuuwee and a whole lot more. Video Directed, Edited and Composited by Mike Tyler Produced byhttp://www.burningreel.co.uk/ DOP & Colourist: Nathan Mackintosh Hand drawn animation and illustration by Josh Hughes http://www.associatedminds.com http://twitter.com/#!/AssociatedMinds http://www.facebook.com/MindsAssociated
"Brixton has degenerated into a disregarded area inhabited by London's new robot workforce - robots built and designed to carry out all of the tasks which humans are no longer inclined to do. The mechanical population of Brixton has rocketed, resulting in unplanned, cheap and quick additions to the skyline." - More info here
Chad Muska "Keepin' it real" - Part of the problem? G.T.F.O.H.!!!!! Part 7 "Honky's Is Real Right Here" - "Get The F**k Outta Here!!!" Pro Skateboarder & DJ Chad Muska got caught (ridin' Durdy) for a Wack Tag & then proceeds to abuse the diesel security guards in a tirade of N-Word abuse, disguised as Kurt Cobain. Ridiculous video here "Like God damn, yea Duuuuuuude gnarly, fuckin A????!"
"Irmela Mensah-Schramm, 65 years old, an heroine with no muscles nor super powers, armed with a paint spray, and a scraper, daily hunting throughout Germany looking for racist or homophobic graffiti or stickers. Indifference is her worst enemy, and to those, who minimize, she answers: "People who draw a one meter swastika on a wall have to realize what they are doing." - more info here:
PRESSURE GROUP SONS OF MALCOLM TALKS ABOUT THE RACIALLY MOTIVATED SHOOTINGS OF MORE THAN 18 INNOCENT MEN & WOMEN IN MALMO, SWEDEN AND THE MEDIA BLACK OUT, ON PRESS TV
"Unions, MPs and campaigners back 6 Nov antiracist demo Union leaders, MPs and campaigners have signed up to support the national demonstration against racism, fascism and Islamophobia on Saturday 6 November in central London.
The demo has been called by UAF and our sister organisation Love Music Hate Racism, and backed by the TUC, the Muslim Council of Britain." from UAF site
UPDATE: The march will assemble at 12 noon, Malet Street, London WC1 on Saturday 6 November.
A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization And How to Save It By Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed Available to buy here at Pluto Press
We have been following the author/Proffessor Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed's excellent The Cutting Edge blog for quite some time and so suggest anyone interested in this subject to check out his new book.
"It often seems that different crises are competing to devastate civilisation. This book argues that financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages need to be considered as part of the same ailing system.
Most accounts of our contemporary global crises such as climate change, or the threat of terrorism, focus on one area, or another, to the exclusion of others. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed argues that the unwillingness of experts to look outside their own fields explains why there is so much disagreement and misunderstanding about particular crises. This book attempts to investigate all of these crises, not as isolated events, but as trends and processes that belong to a single global system. We are therefore not dealing with a 'clash of civilisations', as Huntington argued. Rather, we are dealing with a fundamental crisis of civilisation itself.
This book provides a stark warning of the consequences of failing to take a broad view of the problems facing the world and shows how catastrophe can be avoided." - Pluto Press
About The Author
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Development in London. He has taught international relations, contemporary history, empire and globalisation at the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex and the Politics & History Unit, Brunel University. His previous books include The War on Truth: Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism (2005) and Behind the War on Terror: Western Secret Strategy and the Struggle for Iraq (2003).
Daughter of Margret Thatcher, Carol Thatcher's recent comments (private or not) about a French Tennis star have offended many people. It has created a strange Twilight Zone world, where some ignorant people are defending Victorian Racist cartoon/logo "The Golliwog". I didn't even it was worth commenting on originally, as Carol Thatcher's bourgeois foolishness, reflects that certain "Tim Nice But Dim" aspect of Upper crust British society that unfortunately, is still alive and well. But then I came across this: (Prince Hall will NOT be amused)
Some people are trying to make light of the subject, the Right-wing press are cynically feigning outrage (the same press that play race fear on a daily basis), and even some so-called "Liberal Press", are using expressions like "attack of the Thought Police". Ex-Thatcher Cabinet member Norman Tebbit claims that it is some kind of secret attack on Margret Thatcher, but that is not only simplistic, but wrong! It is offensive, end of story. Its not amusing or endearing to a huge swathe of the public. It is pathetic (although not surprising) that in 2009 that far-Right groups are rallying to this throwback to the past, and claiming its a cultural icon...
Here is what Floella Benjamin icon, broadcaster and children's campaigner had to say in The Observer Newspaper Sunday 8 February 2009 "The golliwog has been hijacked by racists as a symbolic insult. Those who refer to it as a harmless children's toy should understand its connotations. It was used against me as a child and those saying it certainly weren't smiling. This divisive incident will harm children, many of whom are already suffering racist bullying. The word has now been splashed throughout the media so children have seen the image and will pick up its negative meaning. This affair has resurrected the word and given it a new lease of life, rather than it being consigned to history." Floella Benjamin
This kind of imagery is not just a British tradition. Most of the Colonial Powers reflect the imagery of the people they had exploited, in the product packaging of those peoples natural resources. Just go to the Supermarkets in France Portugal, Italy and you will see negative images of people of colour on Coffee, Sugar, Chocolate products... Progress?
Packaging that reflects the past...
KMD "Who Me?"
All it takes is for one to look at the Racist propaganda directed at the Jewish population of Nazi Germany, to understand that some cartoons can kill...
