By James Lane Live streaming video links appear below the following list of NYC May Day 2012 Actions. 99 Picket Lines Midtown Manhattan Community groups, unions, affinity groups and OWS 8am – Chase Building (NYCC) – 270 Park Ave (@48th St) 8am – New York Times Building (UAW) – 620 8th Ave (@41st St)...
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By James Lane Eljuri’s new album “Fuerte” was released today in the United States and Mexico with the hopes of empowering people to become activists. This socially conscious release is Eljuri’s reflection of what’s going on in the world today and should act as a reminder for people to remain strong (Fuerte) and rise...
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By James Lane Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg resurrected Tupac Shakur to close the first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Sunday night. The Tupac hologram performed “Hail Mary” and “2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted” with Snoop Dogg leaving the audience in awe, and somewhat unsettled, by the technology used...
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By James Lane Over 3,000 people gathered at Liberty Plaza in the pre-dawn hours yesterday morning to defend the peaceful Occupation near Wall Street. The crowd cheered at the news that multinational real estate firm Brookfield Properties will postpone its so-called “cleanup” of the park and that Mayor Bloomberg has told the NYPD to...
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By James Lane What/Who is Occupy Wall Street? Occupy Wall Street is a leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing they all have in common is that they share the mantra “We Are The 99%” that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the...
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By James Lane California based alt/hard rock band Park Lane officially released its first full-length album “Letters from the Fire” yesterday. The release has unearthed new vocalist Carley Coma, who sings on the pulse-pounding, sticks-in-your-head-for-days Letters From the Fire. Carley Coma made quite a name for himself in the late ’90s and early ’00s...
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By James Lane Do not let the headline scare you too much. This article is not about the infectious tropical disease caused by the dengue virus, but instead it’s about the six-member band from Los Angeles who combine Cambodian pop music and lyrics with psychedelic rock. Dengue Fever has been on tour in the...
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By Yvonne Gougelet Swedish-Argentinian musician Jose Gonzalez gained notoriety in America and around the world with his two breathtaking solo albums Veneer and In Our Nature. Jose had the opportunity to leave his studies of receiving his PhD in Biochemistry to tour the World over. Post-World tour, lifelong friend drummer Elias Araya and...
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By James Lane In cities large and small, the union and immigrant movements united in peaceful demonstrations yesterday to fight back together against austerity, racism and cutbacks. Hundreds of thousands of immigrants took to the streets against the anti-immigrant Sensenbrenner bill back in 2006. The powerful culmination that spring was May 1, when –...
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By James Lane On April 20, 2010 an explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon, which drilled on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect killed 11 men working on the platform, injured 17 others and ruptured a wellhead which would create the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. On July 15, 2010...
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