Rupa Marya, singer, songwriter, and guitarist for Rupa & the April Fishes, talks to Sampsonia Way about non-English music in the United States, her work on the U.S.-Mexico border, and her dual life as a musician/doctor.
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Hundreds of writers, including Salman Rushdie and Alice Walker, declared their support for the Occupy Wall Street Movement on the website OccupyWriters.com.
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Democracy Now interview with former freelancer at the New York Times, Natasha Lennard, who helped the newspaper cover the initial Occupy protests. Lennard wrote a piece for Salon.com title “Why I Quit the Mainstream Media.”
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Despite visible press affiliation, John Farley, a web editor and reporter for the NYC magazine MetroFocus, was arrested on September 24th at Union Square during an Occupy Wall Street demonstration.
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Novelist Gary Shteyngart answered six questions for us on Occupy Wall Street and shared with us some photos he took of the protests.
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Amiri Baraka, the activist, writer, and a prominent figure of the Civil Right Movement gives us his take on Occupy Wall Street movement.
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