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There’s A Unicorn Riot Goin’ On

By Errol Salamon/The Conversation

On-the-ground views of the protests sweeping the country are vital for understanding who is protesting and why.
Mainstream news media coverage and individuals’ social media posts only go so far – and can focus on violence and disruption.

There’s a grassroots media tradition in the U.S., too, which I’ve studied in my work on media and social movements. The livestreamed, unfiltered video coverage provided by the small staff of the nonprofit media collective Unicorn Riot is the modern heir to a history of on-the-street grassroots video documentary filming of protests and social movements that started in the late 1960s, including unstructured interviews with protesters.

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Posted on June 12, 2020

Racism And The Dawn Of Sesame Street

By Anne Harrington/Undark

In the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, a newly formed group called the Black Psychiatrists of America began to challenge their white colleagues to think about racism in a new way.
Its members had been discussing for some time the possibility of creating an organization that would address their lack of representation within the key bodies of American psychiatry.
But now, as one of these men, Dr. Chester Pierce, later put it, ”We anguished in our grief for a great moderate leader,” and it seemed that the time for moderation on their side was also over.
In Pierce’s words: “As we listened to radio reports and called to various sections of the country for the on-the spot reports in inner cities, our moderation weakened and our alarm hardened.”

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Posted on June 9, 2020

Jonathan Pie On Lockdown, Pt. 7: Back To School

Lessons For Life

“Politics is all about who rules the world for their own personal gain at the expense of everybody else, and how they hoodwink everybody else into letting them get away with it.”

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Posted on June 2, 2020

Armchair Vacation: Chicago!

By Moviecraft

“Hosted by Jack Douglas, America! traveled the United States to cities and places, expertly narrated by Jack Douglas. A fabulous look at Chicago, Illinois. Too much to mention, including a boat ride, State Street, Maxwell Street, The Chicago Fire Academy, Kungsholm Restaurant and it’s miniature puppet opera, Rush Street, Buckingham Fountain, Midwest Buddhist Church festival, Chicago’s Riverview Amusement Park, Chicago Zoological Park, The Art Institute, The Chicago Historical Society, and more. Riverview fans will enjoy the colorful Riverview footage!”

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Posted on May 26, 2020

Seinfeld’s Tired Take On Women And Marriage

By Jill Richardson/OtherWords

If you want to see some mild misogyny disguised as jokes, I recommend Jerry Seinfeld’s new standup special on Netflix, 23 Hours to Kill.
In addition to giving us an observational Seinfeldian take on smartphones, he shares his point of view on heterosexual marriage. His point of view is that women are irrational, overly emotional, nagging shrews, and the men who marry them are unfairly henpecked.

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Posted on May 21, 2020

Jonathan Pie On Lockdown, Pt. 6: Question Time

“What’s With All This Bullshit” Is Technically A Question

“Prime Minister, congratulations on successfully spoffering your inbred genetics to create a future hedge fund manager, how’s your team of nannies putting up with the sleepless nights?”

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Posted on May 11, 2020

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