dantethehater@gmail.com 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.
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.”
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.
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!
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.
This music video is a fucking film. Great perspective from a refugee who herself escaped a civil war and genocide that went under the radar of the west.
This video’s 10 years old now but feels more current than ever with the atrocities the US has been committing at their southern border.
I found this young man’s story extremely raw and honest. Our military takes advantage of our alienated young men and uses their physical and mental health like natural resources.
Some context for this video: The US was responsible for more civilian deaths in Afghanistan in the beginning of 2019 than the Taliban.
Here is the archive of his site as well as his barely readable tiny-font-size PDF climate plan.
Below is the extracted file:
A graph of intergenerational wealth. It’s not looking great for Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z 🥵… Big okay Boomer energy.
Here is an article about it, but so many people have written about it.