Luna’s dad describes his training aid received by the USSR and how the Vietnamese paid the aid forward by helping their neighbors.
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Strike – Summer Of Haze · CHERNOBURKV (2021)
This song (and the entire album, “48 x 84”) is a bombardment of witch house that shows us the emotional chaos 2021 will surely bring.
The industrial crashes and grating sounds underlying frantic yet confident female vocal tracks is the breath of fresh toxic air we need musically right now.
Former Socialism’s Faults – Hakim (2020)
This is a fantastic video that will give you not only an introduction to past socialist states but also good-faith criticisms of them. These examples will give you plenty of substantive topics to think about and talk about when you discuss Socialism with skeptics.
How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled (NPR, 2020)
NPR wrote a piece in 2020 that revealed oil companies knew plastics were not very recyclable when they began marketing them to US consumers but took measures to imply the opposite. This has lead to unimaginably large amounts of plastic pollution globally in exchange for massive profits to these corporations.
Recycling is not the solution to plastic pollution – Brute (2021)
Plastics industries like fossil fuel companies and Coke + Pepsi need to be held accountable. Our individual decisions on reducing plastic use are good but will never be enough to address the problem to scale.
”If your tub was overflowing, you wouldn’t go get a bucket and mop. You’d turn off the tap.”
Kamelemba – Oumou Sangaré (2017)
For a brief history and background of Wassoulou Music and the legendary Oumou Sangaré, check out this Pitchfork song review.
I loved the feminist elements of the storytelling in this song—true to form for Oumou Sangaré. However, the contemporary choreography is what kept me fascinated.
Manifest – Andrew Bird (2019)
This song and music video feel cathartic, like a breath of reality in the lie we tell ourselves as US citizens. The lyrics are a bit abstract, but it definitely has elements of confronting climate denial, radical politics, and US colonialism.
The name “Manifest” refers to the white supremacist idea of Manifest Destiny that fueled colonialism and genocide in the early days of the US. Hopefully, we can push for a cultural shift that finally dispels that sentiment.
If you enjoy this song, you might like the full album! It’s pretty beautiful and intelligent. It’s been nearly 2 years, and I’m still unpacking some of the lyrics!
Guerra – Residente (2017)
In this stunning music video, the acclaimed globe-trotting musician and activist Residente captures the graphic depravity of war. This video came out around the same time as the mannequin challenge, so it felt like a very poignant comparison being made between the blissful fun lives of western youth and the painful lives of the brown children who suffer as a result of western nations’ histories of plundering.