Tag: Puerto Rico
Screen Grabs: A trek through world cinema to scratch your travel itch
New Brazilian Cinema series, The White Tiger, Mandabi, and films from rural Mexico to Poland, India, and Sudan
For Puerto Rican freedom, MaJo Montijo summons a bomba ‘Huracán’
Oakland musician fights "continuous colonial disaster," including Hurricane María aftermath, with gale-force release.
The biased coverage and real story around Lowell High and school renaming
Attention Chronicle: A lottery for the 'elite' school is neither new nor a radical idea -- and neither is discussing changing the names of schools celebrating racists and colonialists.
ULTIMATE PRIDE GUIDE 2020: The protests, the parties (online), the poignant posters
I've stayed in all Pride Week so far—and I'm already exhausted! Well, I was, until putting together this list of recommendations. Most of them can be done at home...
In ‘Please Don’t Eat the Mangos,’ this Mami has secrets
When Wilma Bonet first read Ricardo Pérez González's script for the play Don’t Eat the Mangos (through March 22 at Magic Theatre), she liked it right away.
“First of all, it’s a story...
Aya De León’s ‘Side Chick Nation’ explores post-Maria Puerto Rico
LIT Aya De León is a writer, activist, educator, spoken word poet and author of the award-winning Justice Hustlers series, including latest installment Side Chick Nation. The Director of June Jordan’s Poetry...
Revolution music: What’s soundtracking protests around the globe?
ALL EARS "If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution," the old anarchist-feminist saying goes. And it's true, every uprising needs a good soundtrack, though we're a long way...
Psychic Eye Records’ new compilation shows darkwave support for TGI Justice Project
For those who would like to wrap themselves up in a Bay Area darkwave shroud to beat the winter chill; Psychic Eye Records just dropped Sacred Spells, a 19-track...
A people’s climate summit
This September, community, political, and business leaders from around the globe will be meeting in San Francisco for the Global Climate Action Summit to discuss the state of climate action...
Poor People’s Campaign marches on Trump’s DC
Well I went down to the rich man’s house- to take back what he stole from me -- take back my dignity, take back my humanity….
There we were --...
