Sergio

https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/ajugofpunch.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clancy_Brothers

• Source: https://eastbaypunkda.com/s/east-bay-punk-digital-archive/item/6112
• about the author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Backwords
• author's blog: https://acebackwords5.wordpress.com/

There was a post on !mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world called "Lemmy is losing the war against reddit. How do we change things?" Looks like it was removed but there were a couple good discussions there. In a discussion with (I think it was) @hendrik@palaver.p3x.de we came up with this.

Sicko is a 2007 American political documentary film by filmmaker Michael Moore. Investigating health care in the United States, the film focuses on the country's health insurance and the pharmaceutical industry. Moore compares the for-profit non-universal U.S. system with the non-profit universal health care systems of Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Cuba.

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On December 13, 2024, in the aftermath of the Killing of Brian Thompson, which renewed public criticism of the health insurance industry, Moore uploaded the entirety of Sicko to YouTube on his official channel,[13] arguing for health care reform as a "solution that does not involve any violence".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicko

Regarding "Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah", Daniel Martin-McCormick, in a review for Pitchfork, commented: "By allowing soulful prettiness alongside more vicious passages, Sanders opens the album up, connecting the dots between joyful communion and unflinching catharsis. A squalling solo toward the end of the side sounds like a cry from the deepest, most tortured part of his soul, but it's supported by an unerringly mellow piano accompaniment... It's a moment of deep vulnerability in a genre can often devolve into macho blowing contests."

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Writing for Treblezine, Jeff Terich remarked: "Jewels of Thought... heightens the juxtaposition of Sanders' more mellifluous compositions against his most radical. Its first side, 'Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah,' begins with a plea for peace and a vocal delivery from Leon Thomas that's nearly as far-out as Sanders' saxophone is on its flipside. Yet ultimately this composition—a soulful call for understanding and love—is among Sanders' most hypnotic grooves, a breathtaking 15 minutes driven largely by Lonnie Liston Smith's stunning piano...."

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In a review for Aquarium Drunkard, M. Garner wrote: "Smith's playing is bright, easy, lyrical, and, perhaps most importantly given the level of questing going on around it, familiar. On... 'Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah,' he gives Sanders a spruced-up base from which to launch, but Sanders seems just as happy to follow his pianist. The two play around one another cheerfully, each occasionally departing to take a solo trip through the sky before returning to the ground. Around them, the song develops with the same natural grace. Even as Sanders trills and Roy Haynes and Idris Muhammad count out counter-rhythms, a feeling of mutual wonder permeates the playing."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewels_of_Thought

The Giant Spider Invasion (1975) is the subject of today's "monsterdon" viewing over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching Sunday, Dec 15, 2024 at 9pm ET / 8PM CT, which is 2am Monday UTC
• then follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary

How to watch:

• youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvFqGG2BIqY
• also "tubi"? tubi is some kind of platform with ads tho
• someone claims they'll be streaming it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time

The Giant Spider Invasion ... follows giant spiders that terrorize the town of Merrill, Wisconsin and its surrounding area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giant_Spider_Invasion

In the year 2057, a greedy CEO takes control of the Earth, and it's up to his rebellious daughter and a cyberpunk hacker to save mankind.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20918378/

• the link from above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe88RsahSsA
• another link, this is the one I watched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fEsMHphNZc but looks like it's only available in Canada, United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, and United States of America (the other one is unrestricted)
• I think this is the link if you want to pay to watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53flivF9GNI
• some behind-the-scenes video from the moviemakers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbC_sh5McBM
• the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScbUCkG-Kuo

A fireman takes an unexpected course of action when a man whom he's been ordered to testify against, after being held up at a local convenience store, threatens him.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1925431/

Back in the 80s and 90s there was this cartoonist called Ace Backwords who would give out his cartoons so you could reprint them for free. He did a lot of them about counter-culture topics, so if you had a newsletter or zine and you needed content, a lot of times you'd put in an Ace Backwords cartoon. (this was just before the internet era, so you had a lot more newsletters and zines.)

Ace Backwords quit cartooning in the early 2000s. Now he "sleeps rough on the streets" in Berkeley (San Francisco area) and blogs about his feral cats, homelessness, and memories of living a counter-culture life.

I got this cartoon from his blog and cleaned up the contrast a bit, see the original here: https://acebackwords5.wordpress.com/2024/06/19/609/

Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Backwords

People's Park in Berkeley, California is a parcel of land owned by the University of California, Berkeley. Located east of Telegraph Avenue and bound by Haste and Bowditch Streets and Dwight Way, People's Park was a symbol during the radical political activism of the late 1960s.[3][4][5][6] Formerly a park, the site is now under construction for new university student housing and homeless supportive housing.[7]

While the land is owned by the University of California, People's Park was de facto established as a public park on April 20, 1969, by local activists.[8] On May 13, University Chancellor Roger W. Heyns announced plans to construct a soccer field on the site, leading to a confrontation two days later between protesters and police on May 15.[9] Known as "Bloody Thursday", police used tear gas and opened fire on the protesters to quell the riot, resulting notably in the death of James Rector.[9] In 1984, the city of Berkeley declared it a historical and cultural landmark.[10]

In 2018, the university published a plan to build 1,100 new units of student housing and 125 units of supportive housing for homeless people on the site, but a small contingent of activists delayed those plans through opposition including protests,[11][12] lawsuits,[13][14] sabotage of construction equipment,[15] and trespassing on the site.[16] The housing plans were backed by the Berkeley City Council, Mayor Jesse Arreguin, Berkeley's California Assembly representative Buffy Wicks and California Governor Gavin Newsom, and a majority of UC Berkeley students.[17]

Pending a judgment in a legal challenge to the university's housing plan, the park was closed off in early January 2024, when construction workers and police surrounded the park with a 17-foot high wall of shipping containers to prevent trespassing.[18] On June 6, the California Supreme Court unanimously ruled in the university's favor, allowing construction to proceed.[19][20][21] Consequently, construction officially started on July 22.[22]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Park_(Berkeley)

As the youtube description explains, the first minute and a half of the video is from a different performance earlier that year.

"Ignorance is at an all time high!"