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Democratic Rep. Brandon Dillon speaks truth 2 power 2 huge applause.

 ”right to work is the exploitation of a loophole in federal labor law that allows workers to be represented by a union but no pay or that union in anyway, it forces unions to work for free which bleeds them of money and destroys their ability to represent workers effectively… in other words, its a tool for the GOP to minimize union political power.” -Zane Corriveau

if it weren’t for unions,we would still have 10 year olds on the assembly line with no disability when they get injured. of course there has been corruption…but see the bigger picture….and “look for the union label”-lady miss kier….www.ladykier.com

Fontella Bass has died.
All of her obits are describing her as the “Rescue Me” singer, the ‘Rescue Me” singer, the “Rescue Me” singer, the singer of “Rescue Me”, who is best known for her hit “Rescue Me”.
Annoying, but also exemplary: the media reduces everything it reports.
This is a big problem, because people are not simple, and so they shouldn’t be simplified. Simplified people are missing their important parts. 
Perfect example of the harm done via media reduction is what’s happened to Martin Luther King.
MLK’s “I Have A Dream” speech is a great speech, very uplifiting, but it was not the only speech he made. The thoughts contained in that speech were not his only thoughts. They are certainly not his most interesting thoughts. They are definitely his least controversial. 
In fact the reason the media repeats that particular speech over and over ad nauseum - as if its the only thing that defines him - is because its so harmless. There’s nothing disagreeable, challenging or controversial in it at all (anymore). 
But his other speeches , if given today, like when he calls America the “greatest exporter of violence in the world” or when he demands massive, forced wealth redistribution from the rich to the poor - these things would get him labelled a traitor and a communist today! or even worse - maybe they’d call him an occupier.
The point being, MLK didn’t just have one dream, he had many.
And the dreams people don’t know about are just as worthy, and were just as important; but they haven’t come about because the media has reduced them out, of life and existance. dreams deferred and denied!! 
and that’s not right, and we need to defy it.

anyhoo back to Fontella Bass.
So what, she had a big hit with “Rescue Me”. So what. Just cause something made a lot of MONEY doesn’t mean that it has VALUE. This is an affliction of capitalism: capitalism tricks people into thinking that Money=Value, that Price=Worth. No, No.

ESPECIALLY in regards to ART.

Fontella Bass was not one-hit wonder, she was an artist. And a pioneer. She co-wrote “Rescue Me” but was denied songwriting credit - and corresponding royalties - but the label. I guess they figured a black woman, doubly powerless at the time, wouldn’t fight back and demand what was hers but she did. She did fight back. And when she did finally get songwriting credit for that song, the first royalty check they gave her was so inadequate that she tore it right up and threw it back in their face!

She was labelled a troublemaker by the labels and her career sufferred for it. She didn’t have as many “hits” as she could have. She isn’t regarded as having as a “successful career” as the other soul singers of her era.

But the fact is, she set a precedent when she demanded credit for the art she created and the proper proportion of the moneys it generated. 
Every singer/songwriter and recording artist of vagina or color who followed and got those things easily owes Fontella Bass a giant debt of moral gratitude. 

In very real terms Fontella Bass has had a very successful career.
She was working for morality, not money; demanding the money that was hers certainly, but willing to sacrifice it to do what was right.

(Its another thing the media does when it comes to social evolution: they water Martin Luther King down while at the same time, exaggerating his importance. MLK was important, yes, but as important for social justice & evolution are the stands taken, principles kept, and sacrifices made by ordinary, everyday people.
Change doesn’t happen from a leader down. 
It happens from the people up.
The leaders bouncing along on a crest only look like they’re leading a wave.
People have the power. They really do.
But its not in the interest of the heirarchy for people to know this, so the opposite lesson is taught in schools.)

Bring the Bass back!

Hits and sales are irrelevant to artistic worth; and in fact, the more something sells, and the more money it generates, the less interesting its likely to be as all its edges have been sawed off for mass consumption.
(creators young and old, remember this! ~~> water need never be used as a downing agent.)

So I end my presentation of the end of Fontella Bass with what I perceive as her masterpiece: 
"Breathe", a slow paced, six-minute long dirge without a single hook in it. Rhianna would have no idea how to sing a song like this.

This was a collaboration between Fontella Bass and the Cinematic Orchestra, released in 2002.
Yes, 2002. In fact I think Fontella Bass reached her peak in the early 00s, not that you’d know that she even had a career then from reading her obits.

"Breathe."
Not a complicated song, nor is it fast paced.

This is not the sound of pop music;
This is the sound of a woman preparing for her own death.

It is not a “hit”. It is art.

Breathe | Cinematic Orchestra featuring Fontella Bass
http://youtu.be/P4527VthBJ0


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Fontella Bass, ars gratia artis. because sparks in the dark are just as hot, the fires they light, just as great. we speak your name.

WRITTEN BY: Derrick Kardos

https://www.facebook.com/derrick.kardos

“They made us many promises,but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did.” -Chief Mahpina Luta aka Red Cloud(1822-1909) Indigenous people point their bows and arrows at a police helicopter flying over the occupied barrier of …

“They made us many promises,but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did.” -Chief Mahpina Luta aka Red Cloud(1822-1909)

Indigenous people point their bows and arrows at a police helicopter flying over the occupied barrier of the Belo Monte Dam’s construction site in Vitoria do Xingu, near Altamira in northern Brazil June 15, 2012. (via Best photos of the year 2012 | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters) and windupbirdchronicle:

“So, why do people bring Pine trees into their houses at the Winter Solstice, placing brightly colored (Red and White) packages under their boughs, as gifts to show their love for each other and as representations of the love of God and the gift of his Sons life? It is because, underneath the Pine bough is the exact location where one would find this ‘Most Sacred’ Substance, the Amanita muscaria, in the wild.”
–James Arthur, Mushrooms and Mankind
The Amanita muscaria is the red and white magic mushroom that grows almost exclusively beneath Pine trees. Their main psychoactive ingredient is ‘muscimol,’ as well as trace amounts of DMT, an entheogen naturally produced in the brain’s pineal gland. The pinecone-shaped pine-al gland is an organ that produces the same DMT found in this pine tree fungus, and much more.

When the shaman went out to gather the mushrooms, he would wear an red outfit with either white trim or white dots, in honor of the mushroom’s colors. And because at that time of year the whole region was usually covered in deep snow, he, like everyone, wore tall boots of reindeer skin that would by then be blackened from exposure. He’d gather the tree-dried fly agarics and some reindeer urine in a large sack, then return home to his yurt (the traditional form of housing for people of this region at that time), where some of the higher-ups of the village would have gathered to join in the solstice ceremony.

But how would he get into a yurt whose door was blocked by several feet of snow? He’d climb up to the roof with his bag of goodies, go to the hole in the center of the roof that acted as a chimney, and slide down the central pole that held the yurt up over the fireplace. Then he’d pass out a few ‘shrooms to each guest, and some might even partake of some of the ones that had been hung over the fire. Clearly, this idea of using the chimney to get in and pass out the magic mushrooms (and other goodies) had sticking power. Interestingly, even as late as Victorian times in England, the traditional symbol of chimney sweeps was a fly agaric mushroom — and many early Christmas cards featured chimney sweeps with fly agarics, though no explanation of why was offered.


http://www.endalldisease.com/magic-mushrooms-and-the-origin-of-christmas-is-santa-a-mushroom/

http://inhabitat.com/santa-and-the-shrooms-the-real-story-behind-the-design-of-christmas/



the original material girl!  I’m not sure what possessed me to visit his museum/bar  when I was in vegas , as i was never a fan of his music, but always a fan of his smile and campy over -the-top shine . He made millions of elderly ladies in horn rim glasses smile even harder. I’m glad I visited it ,as the museum  was clearly falling apart and today is in foreclosure . nothing like bankrupt bling to make you feel something.  I remember a huge piano shaped bar with a room above with double sided glass  so he could cruise his own niteclub and chose whomever up to his private V.I.P. . he seems shy and so i don’t know how much he sat watching  his fans and how much he actually interacted. my imagine runs wild like one of his crazy classical interpretations with the possibilities. - lady Miss kier …..wwww.ladykier.com

Live to Give and stand up for what’s right….treat those as they’ve treated you and doin’ it w/ style never hurts . Lady kier here before your eyes….Members of a First Nation in northern British Columbia have evicted sur…

Live to Give and stand up for what’s right….treat those as they’ve treated you and doin’ it w/ style never hurts . Lady kier

here before your eyes….Members of a First Nation in northern British Columbia have evicted surveyors working on a natural gas pipeline project from their territory, seized equipment and set up a roadblock against all pipeline activity.thanks for the post:snowyowlwhitecotton - lady miss kier