Friday, March 28 2003
“Real, Compared to What”: Anti-War Soul
The original version of 'Compared to What' is a powerful example of black pop that wasn't afraid, echoing Audre Lorde, to speak truth to power.
Killing the Primitive
As this first war of the 21st century accelerates, it's important to recall that the confrontation between primitive and civilized cultures is not new.
Monday, March 24 2003
Two Days in Washington
They sign Vs with their hands, cheer at the cars driving by, and gesture at their biggest banner, which reads, 'Neanderthal President.'
Wear a Button All the Time!
Towards the end of the march, some onlookers chanted, 'The whole world is watching!'
In Freedom’s Name
Bush's reliance on freedom as a last-ditch rhetorical smoke screen for dangerous imperial ideology began in the wake of 9/11.
Embedded TV
When war happens live on tv, it's not only the self-declared enemy who gets mad for the camera.
Tuesday, March 18 2003
South by Southwest 2003: A Field Journal: Day Five / Music: You Down With V.I.P.?
Day Five / Music: You Down With V.I.P.? by Tobias Peterson and Terry Sawyer -- Day Two of our daily coverage of SXSW 2003 looks at the buzz-worthy film highlights, the Robert Duvall vehicle Assassination Tango and an Australian caper film entitled The Hard Word.
South by Southwest 2003: A Field Journal: Day Five / Film: Disconnect
Day Five / Film: Disconnect by Tobias Peterson and Terry Sawyer -- Day Two of our daily coverage of SXSW 2003 looks at the buzz-worthy film highlights, the Robert Duvall vehicle Assassination Tango and an Australian caper film entitled The Hard Word.
Iraq and Roll . . .
The United States has become so preoccupied with fighting by The Marquis of Queensberry Rules that it has lost the ability to exhibit ruthlessness and elicit fear in times of combat.
Beating Around with Bush
And now Ronald Reagan's former number two's number one son wants to attack Iraq again, this time for oil or to salvage his old man's pride or possibly even to combat terrorism -- the motivation is about as clear as it has been persuasively articulated.
The Iraqis and the Madman
It is the war of the sated against the famished, the obese against the emaciated, the affluent against the impoverished, the democracies against tyranny, perhaps Christianity against Islam and definitely the West against the Orient.
Material Breach: Against an Absurd War
The idea of a war against Iraq is an absurdity, a blatant and even slightly comical repudiation of the very idea of the 'just war'.
Democracy Or Death
The idea that America is poised to ride into Iraq on a white charger, spreading democracy like fairy dust, is the popular conservative version of the oncoming war in Iraq.
Friday, March 14 2003
South by Southwest 2003: A Field Journal: SXSW vs. American Idol
Day Two of our daily coverage of SXSW 2003 looks at the buzz-worthy film highlights, the Robert Duvall vehicle Assassination Tango and an Australian caper film entitled The Hard Word.
Thursday, March 13 2003
South by Southwest 2003: A Field Journal: Of Hippies, Mummies, and Boys in the Closet
Day Two of our daily coverage of SXSW 2003 looks at the buzz-worthy film highlights, the Robert Duvall vehicle Assassination Tango and an Australian caper film entitled The Hard Word.
Tuesday, March 11 2003
South by Southwest 2003: A Field Journal: Day Two: Hype vs. Buzz
Day Two of our daily coverage of SXSW 2003 looks at the buzz-worthy film highlights, the Robert Duvall vehicle Assassination Tango and an Australian caper film entitled The Hard Word.
Monday, March 10 2003
South by Southwest 2003: A Field Journal
PopMatters kicks off its daily coverage of South By Southwest 2003 with a look at day one of the film festival, the highlights of which are Ron Mann's latest documentary Go Further and The Revolution Will Not Be Televised documenting the efforts of a revolutionary opposed by powerful forces.
Wednesday, February 26 2003
My Black Male Feminist Heroes
It is much more difficult for black men to own up to their backward-ass gender politics, particularly in public, but this is the stance that longtime writer and journalist Kevin Powell took in his brilliantly brave essay 'The Sexist in Me.'
