Coverage of ways in which people are desperately trying to fight the commodification of our minds, bodies and souls by reinventing the arts in the image/soundscapes of a new world that is not only possible but well on her way.
“One Hundred Years,” Steve Bloom’s epic poem of triumph and tragedy, commemorating the centenary of the Russian Revolution of 1917, is debuting today (October 7 2017) in a collaborative effort by thirteen websites in seven countries.
This video was inspired by the convocation of Ecosocialist activists who met last year up in the hills of Monte Carmelo outside of Caracas, Venezuela.
An oratorio/Sunday school lesson, with composer/pianist Sarah Saul, choreographer Peggy Brightman and Moving Spirit Dancers, musical directors Michael Zsoldos and Mark Nelson, and puppet designer Wayne Thompson.
A poem in Spanish dedicated to the revolutionary legacy of maroons.
Some thoughts on the fall of a regime, by Kanya D’Almeida, Colombo, January 19, 2015
Juan José Escalona Betancourt and Juan Ramón Escalona Betancourt, twin brothers, known throughout the community as “los morochos,” live in a small house on the mountainside above Monte Carmelo. For the occasion of the Congress of Biological Diversity, they produced a remarkable document, titled “Sanare Ecosocialista”
Almost three years ago to this day, a group of artists gathered together in a wildly colorful apartment in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, to discuss the prison industrial complex.
A poem written in 1982 by Hugo Chávez Frías.
A poem by Leigh Brownhill.
A poem by Haroldo Salazar.
This essay by Joel Kovel is a revised version of a lecture at St. Mary’s Church in Harlem, 2008.
A poem by Kanya D’Almeida.
A poem by Kanya D’Almeida.
