A SONG FOR ASSATA >>>
DISKORDIA is back!
We dive in another social dissident's life that serves as an inspiration to musicians and all round cultural players. Such is the life of Assata Shakur, just recently priced $2mil. by the FBI.
The former black panther has been living a dissident life in Cuba since the 80s and this is her word (from an article from 2016 http://rollingout.com/2016/11/26/castros-death-mean-assata-shakur/):
In the rest of Diskordia we examine why Frank Ocean slipped Endless on the side and tricked us into listening to Blonde only, a quite weak attempt at following-up Channel Orange.
*** After a short break I am back on Kanal 103 Tuesdays 6-8pm. New and old music and sounds of the dissidents. In the meantime, I visited some new and old places and neighborhoods and people >>> airports are cities too. Except there is a strict hierarchy, based on so many things. The one codifying our experience on the travels is based on our point of origin (passport) and point of arrival (boarding pass). The "nicer" these two are, the nicer the experience. I've been on both ends and the arbitrarity is ridiculous because I am always the same person.
Listen here::: http://radio.spodeli.org/kanal103/
DISKORDIA is back!
We dive in another social dissident's life that serves as an inspiration to musicians and all round cultural players. Such is the life of Assata Shakur, just recently priced $2mil. by the FBI.
The former black panther has been living a dissident life in Cuba since the 80s and this is her word (from an article from 2016 http://rollingout.com/2016/11/26/castros-death-mean-assata-shakur/):
“My name is Assata (‘she who struggles’) Olugbala ( ‘for the people’) Shakur (‘the thankful one’), and I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the US government’s policy towards people of color. I am an ex-political prisoner, and I have been living in exile in Cuba since 1984. I have been a political activist most of my life, and although the U.S. government has done everything in its power to criminalize me, I am not a criminal, nor have I ever been one. In the 1960s, I participated in various struggles: the black liberation movement, the student rights movement, and the movement to end the war in Vietnam. I joined the Black Panther Party. By 1969 the Black Panther Party had become the number one organization targeted by the FBI’s COINTELPRO program. because the Black Panther Party demanded the total liberation of black people, J. Edgar Hoover called it “greatest threat to the internal security of the country” and vowed to destroy it and its leaders and activists.”
In the rest of Diskordia we examine why Frank Ocean slipped Endless on the side and tricked us into listening to Blonde only, a quite weak attempt at following-up Channel Orange.
*** After a short break I am back on Kanal 103 Tuesdays 6-8pm. New and old music and sounds of the dissidents. In the meantime, I visited some new and old places and neighborhoods and people >>> airports are cities too. Except there is a strict hierarchy, based on so many things. The one codifying our experience on the travels is based on our point of origin (passport) and point of arrival (boarding pass). The "nicer" these two are, the nicer the experience. I've been on both ends and the arbitrarity is ridiculous because I am always the same person.
Listen here::: http://radio.spodeli.org/kanal103/
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