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Definitive Figures: Upcoming Femme Dance Festival in New Orleans (audio/mpeg 13.7MB)
Kezia Vida speaks with Donna Costello and Maritza Mercado-Narcisse about the upcoming Definitive Figures Festival in New Orleans which focuses on individual and partner performances based on the experiences of women are female-identified people....
Posted: Fri, Feb 23, 2018 11:41am PST
Paper Monuments : History Unbound (audio/mpeg 27.5MB)
Paper Monuments is a series of opportunities, events, and interventions that combines public pedagogy and participatory design to expand our collective understanding of New Orleans and answer the grounding question: What is an appropriate monument to the city of New Orleans today?...
Posted: Fri, Feb 2, 2018 3:44pm PST
Monique Verdin Speaks about Fossil Free Fest in NOLA & Her Current Work in Prospect 4 (audio/mpeg 14.2MB)
WTUL News and Views spoke to Monique Verdin about the upcoming Fossil Free Fest in New Orleans the first week of April, which is currently calling for solutions for the environmental crisis facing the Gulf South. She also spoke to us about her current photo exhibition in Prospect 4 that includes photographs from the past 20 years of her family, members of the Houma nation living in the bayous of Southern Louisiana....
Posted: Fri, Jan 26, 2018 7:34am PST
News and Views: Interview with Tabitha Mustafa about the New Orleans Palestinian Film Festival (audio/mpeg 21.8MB)
The 3rd annual New Orleans Palestinian Film Festival will take place Friday-Sunday November 3-5. We sat down with festival co-organizer Tabitha Mustafa to discuss this year's program....
Posted: Wed, Nov 1, 2017 7:06am PDT
Wolfenstein II: Punching Nazis [New World Order - Ministry] Trailer (video/mp4 21.3MB)
New Wolfenstein II trailer featuring Ministry's hit single 'New World Order'...
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2017 3:41pm PDT
Sites of Resistance in New Orleans (audio/x-wav 270.0MB)
Sue Mobley, Public Programs Manager at Tulane School of Architecture's Small Center for Collaborative Design, joined WTUL News and Views to talk about the Small Center's upcoming exhibit, Sites of Resistance. The exhibit explores geographies and histories of social change in New Orleans and intends to reframe the narrative of New Orleans as a city with a dominant role in intense organizing, legal strategy, labor struggle, and civil rights activism....
Posted: Mon, Sep 11, 2017 4:49am PDT
Statement on Repression of Juggalos
With recent events raising the profile of the Juggalo community, many activists are beginning to realize how the government’s being capable of labeling a group a “gang” without any accountability or due process is an important issue for revolutionaries to engage in....
Posted: Mon, Sep 4, 2017 6:17pm PDT
Private Security patrols for artwork in Kansas City, Missouri (video/mp4 126.8MB)
A disturbing video illustrating the sub-contracting of police duties in the public sector to private security firms. In this case they have identified visual artwork as cause for contact. 5 minute video. Contains GRAPHIC content....
Posted: Sun, Aug 27, 2017 5:51pm PDT
Arrested for Visual Art and Protest: Total Eclipse Of Our Rights (video/mp4 16.3MB)
The arrest of Alex Skelton and Joff Jones on day 4 of their "ILLEGAL ART" protest in Boulder, Colorado....
Posted: Mon, Aug 21, 2017 8:21pm PDT
Day 3 Illegal Art Protest: Cracking the System? (video/mp4 69.8MB)
Day 3 of protests resulting from the original story found here: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/08/16/18801573.php
3 minute Video....
Posted: Sat, Aug 19, 2017 10:31pm PDT
Day 2: Illegal Art Protest (video/mp4 121.3MB)
Day 2 of protests resulting from the 0riginal story found here: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/08/16/18801573.php
5 minute Video....
Posted: Sat, Aug 19, 2017 10:19pm PDT
Illegal Art Protest: Day 1 (video/mp4 297.1MB)
Day 1 of protests resulting from the original story found here: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/08/16/18801573.php
12 minute Video....
Posted: Sat, Aug 19, 2017 10:04pm PDT
Public Display of Art ILLEGAL in Boulder, CO: The ‘Behind Closed Doors’ Investigation (video/mp4 143.9MB)
Contact from a Boulder police officer and a follow up conversation with city employees confirms that the showing or selling of art is illegal in public in Boulder, CO. 11 minute video....
Posted: Wed, Aug 16, 2017 7:29am PDT
Audio postcard from Louisiana Books 2 Prisoners (audio/x-wav 57.4MB)
Books 2 Prisoners sends books of all kinds to people incarcerated across the Deep South, and for almost every package delivered, they receive letters asking for more....
Posted: Wed, Aug 9, 2017 6:20am PDT
Despite Artists' Opposition, Israeli Government-funded Show Starting at Lincoln Center
An Israeli government-supported theater initiative begins tonight at Lincoln Center, despite a protest letter signed by over 80 artists. The Lincoln Center performances are taking place against a backdrop of heightened Israeli government repression of Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation in the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, and revelations that 43 Senators hope to implement a law that could make it a felony for Americans to support similar boycott protests against Israel....
Posted: Tue, Jul 25, 2017 11:07am PDT
Intersectional Community Organizing for Social Justice Roundtable, March 2017 (audio/mpeg 45.7MB)
Panel on intersectional activism in New Orleans...
Posted: Mon, Jun 5, 2017 7:11am PDT
Anne Hillerman: Song Of The Lion- A Legacy Series
A review with mystery writer/author Anne Hillerman's new novel- SONG OF THE LION...
Posted: Wed, May 3, 2017 7:01pm PDT
Albert Woodfox: "Freedom Is A State Of Mind"
The A3 Coalition has just published the latest issue of their newsletter, detailing Albert Woodfox adn Robert King's latest travels, plus a new Kickstarter campaign for the US release of a new UK documentary film about the Angola 3 entitled "Cruel and Unusual." The newsletter is reprinted here in full....
Posted: Mon, Apr 17, 2017 1:33pm PDT
Imprint of Hope Are Making Iraq Great and Beautiful
In addition to decorating the city’s walls, Imprint of Hope also paints orphanages, nurseries and public buildings, including a children’s cancer hospital....
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2017 2:45am PDT
Interview with Dj Jaffe - Focusing on Reforms for Untreated Serious Mentally Ill People (audio/mpeg 26.5MB)
Dj Jaffe - Author of Insane Consequences: How the Mental Health Industry Fails the Mentally Ill - is a mental health advocate unafraid to speak the truth about the realities of untreated serious mental illness. He has been called radical by some and a gadfly by others but there is no doubt that his words resonate with many families unable to help their sick loved ones because the mental health system is completely dysfunctional....
Posted: Tue, Mar 21, 2017 7:24pm PDT