Something I’ve been meaning to post for a couple of weeks now … I’ve long thought that Monica Kendrick is the best music writer at the Reader and the spot-on writeup she turned in just before Yoko Ono’s appearance at the recent Pitchfork Music Festival only reinforces that notion:
9:00 Yoko Ono
For decades her name […]
Entries Tagged as 'Amnesty International'
Music: Catching Up to Yoko
Posted by Ocelopotamus on July 24th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
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Roundup: Tiny Four-Eyed Turtle Edition
Posted by Ocelopotamus on June 18th, 2007 at 10:21 am
POLITICS: In “Hillary’s Labor Problem,” Joe Conason points out that Hillary Clinton’s top political strategist, Mark Penn, is the CEO of a union-busting law firm. “Having started in a tiny, two-man polling operation in a New York City mayoral campaign, he is now the CEO of Burson-Marsteller Inc., one of the planet’s largest P.R. shops, […]
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Music: Amnesty International’s Instant Karma — The Campaign to Save Darfur
Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 9th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Green Day’s cover version of “Working Class Hero” by John Lennon was released May 1 as the third single from Instant Karma: the Campaign to Save Darfur, Amnesty International’s album of Lennon covers by various artists to raise awareness about the human rights catastrophe in the Sudan. All proceeds from the album will go to […]
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