Dr. Stephen Ferguson and Xan West joined us this week to drop important criticism of I Mix What I Like! A Mixtape Manifesto. Far more importantly the discussion went beyond a mere book to broader issues of radical theory and practice in the liberation struggles of race, class, gender and sexual orientation. For more on West and to read her…
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Russell Simmons Still Ain’t Hip-Hop and He Ain’t No Occupier Either!
The experience of the last five weeks shows that Wall Street “occupiers’ fear of liberal co-optation is fully justified.” Media mogul and debit card finance capitalist Russell Simmons escorted Kanye West and Al Sharpton into the Zuccotti Park occupation mix, in yet another attempt “by the soft liberal Left to co-opt anything that has any…
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