March 2008

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Kathleen Hanna Never Anticipated The Netroots

Posted by thelumberjackthief on 31 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Music, MP3

Sometimes the manifestos you commit to record in the 90s just don’t stand up to the political realities of the next millennium. Case in point:

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Get Off The Internet:

It feels so 80’s
Or early 90’s
To be political
Where are my friends?

(Get off the Internet!)
I’ll meet you in the street
(Get off the Internet!)
Destroy the right wing
(Get off the Internet!)
I’ll meet you in the street
(Get off the Internet!)
Destroy the right wing

This is repetitive
But nothing has changed
And I’m crazy
Where are my friends

VERSUS

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The Left’s New Machine:

Already, the netroots are the most significant mass movement in U.S. politics since the rise of the Christian right more than two decades ago. And, by all appearances, they are far from finished with their task: recreating the Democratic Party in the image of the conservative machine they have set out to destroy.

Le Tigre - Get Off The Internet (buy)

Interview Mix: Kiehl Christie, A Lens Into The International Flair Of Pop Country

Posted by thelumberjackthief on 22 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Music, MP3