Palestinian Rapperz

Some fight with guns, others with art and culture.

Anthony Farfalla
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08 Mar 2010
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Hip-hop was born of resistance. From its origins in the Bronx to police brutality in Compton, to shantytown riots in Haiti, hip-hop has long been the voice of the oppressed. And though mainstream American hip-hop may have largely degenerated to a celebration of expensive liquor and luxury cars, a new generation of Palestinian rappers are wielding words as they were intended: as weapons against violence, oppression and sweeping social injustice.

Commentary

I, Designer

It’s the way we design that traps us.

Jonty Langley
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05 Mar 2010
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13 comments

Photo by Rob Hogg

Design is increasingly defined commercially. Not just because the most creative minds of our generation are devoting their talents to shifting consumer goods from shelves but in the very way we design. We are led to believe that we simply cannot design without the latest proprietary software, which is packaged and marketed with brand identities more closely aligned with religious visions or Platonic ideals than with the properties it possesses.

Article

Socialism Versus Capitalism

Capitalism is very good at creating a void in people’s psyches.

Li Onesto
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05 Mar 2010
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18 comments

Image by John Ritter - ritterillustration.net

Bai Di grew up in socialist China (before capitalism was brought back after Mao’s death in 1976) and participated in the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). She is a coeditor of the book Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era and is the director of Chinese and Asian Studies at Drew University. Revolution correspondent Li Onesto interviewed Bai Di in February of 2009.

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