The Largest Minority

December 5th, 2008 by Manila Ryce

A classic. Enjoy.

December 2nd, 2008 by Manila Ryce

What is television teaching kids these days? That’s not how you bake a cake! Outrageous.

November 26th, 2008 by Manila Ryce

We need less Joe Six Pack and Joe the Plumber and more Joe Metro.

November 18th, 2008 by Manila Ryce

This dude mixes in an excellent rendition of the Rob Base classic “It Takes Two” along with some other familiar tracks.

September 9th, 2008 by Manila Ryce

During the Open the Debates Rally we held in Denver during the DNC, Tom Morello sang this original version of Woody Gutrie’s “This Land is our Land”. Held on the same night as other big Democratic events in Denver, such as Bill Clinton speaking, Ralph Nader still managed to attract a crowd of about 4,000 people (the majority of the audience is behind the cameraman), but the event would not be seen in any of the major newspapers the next day.

August 10th, 2008 by Manila Ryce

An old classic from Rx2008.

August 5th, 2008 by Manila Ryce

The youth of America don’t need Hope. We need Rage.

This music video was directed in 2000 by Michael Moore when he had a bigger set of balls. It highlights the lack of choice Americans had between Gore and Bush (thank God all that’s changed). The video ends with a quote from Ralph Nader: “If you’re not turned on to politics, politics will turn on you.”

The song’s sequence of “Who controls the past now controls the future/Who controls the present now controls the past/Who controls the past now controls the future/Who controls the present now?” Is based on a series of thoughts by Winston, the main character in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, about the fact that the Big Brother controls the past and therefore controls the present and future. Others have interpreted these lyrics as a statement against revisionist history, and how the secrets that politicians keep from the public can greatly affect the future.

August 4th, 2008 by Manila Ryce