My Burma Story: By moe.’s Al Schnier
[Editor’s note: There will be some special guests at this weekend’s moe.down in Turin, NY. Priests and other members of the Burmese community, who fled oppression in their country and resettled in nearby Utica, will be on hand to enjoy the festivities, share their stories, and screen a documentary about their experience. In addition, representatives…
Interview: Paul Diaz Of Tree Sound Studios
The list of clients who’ve recorded at Paul Diaz’s Tree Sound Studios starts with Aerosmith and ends with Usher. In-between are literally hundreds of rock, rap, folk, and r&b acts who’ve availed themselves of this Atlanta facility’s blend of state-of-the-art recording technology and environmentally conscious outlook. In addition to his studio complex, Diaz also oversees…
Phish Doc ‘We Enjoy Yourself’ Screens
Phish fans, traffic slavery, and mud unlimited (not necessarily in that order) are the themes of We Enjoy Yourself, Chris Pepino’s sweet new documentary about Phish’s not-so-final 2004 fandango in Coventry, Vermont. Pepino keeps his camera on the crowd as the band wraps up its summer tour in Camden (where Trey announced that traffic was…
Health Care And The ‘Young Invincibles’
Are young people – 30% percent of whom are uninsured, according to the Commonwealth Fund – being written off in the health-care debate due to assumptions that they consider themselves “invincible?” Craig Berger unravels this meme in a Future Majority post, “Youth Not Turned Off By Health Care, But By Tone of Debate.” Our generation…
Interview: Ani DiFranco
Ani DiFranco‘s Red Letter Year begins with a psychedelic New Year’s Eve party and ends with one of the loosest and liveliest New Orleans jam sessions you’ll ever hear. In-between, the prolific musician-activist muses on current events, love, insecurity, and her new role as parent amid arguably the most beautiful and sophisticated arrangements of her…
Carbon Credits And The Bankers Who Love Them
So you think the health-care debate is complicated? Wait until you try to understand carbon credits. The only thing I took away from economics professor Nance Folbre’s post on The New York Times‘s Green Inc. blog is that while I suppose I’ll have to hunker down and come to grips with the Waxman-Markey bill’s “cap-and-trade”…
Bill Moyers On Obama’s Health-Care Problem
The esteemed journalist Bill Moyers was on “Real Time With Bill Maher” Friday night, where he elegantly laid out the frustrations progressive voters are experiencing with the Obama administration, especially with regard to health care and the war in Afghanistan. Watch his half-hour interview (split into three parts) here, here, and here. A sample of…
Dancing About Politics: Trey Anastasio, Dr. John, SMAP
Links we’re in like with: The Boston Herald interviews Dr. John. “Did Katrina make you a political artist?” asks Jed Gottlieb. “I’ve been at that political stuff since the second record I made,” replies the Night Tripper, adding, “People outside of New Orleans have no idea what it’s like in the city. Half the population…
Former Health-Insurance Flack Tells All
It took him twenty years, but the former head of corporate communications at Cigna, one the country’s largest insurance companies,has had a radical change of heart regarding his industry. In various interviews and in front of a Senate panel, Wendell Potter has courageously revealed the lies and deceptions behind the insurance industry’s massively funded campaign…
Farm Aid Fighting Factory Farming
Farm Aid teams up with Headcount each year to register concertgoers to vote at our annual Farm Aid concert. But Farm Aid is about much more than incredible music. Started in 1985 by Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young (Dave Matthews joined the Board of Directors in 2001), Farm Aid’s mission is to keep…