A three-part report on the migration crisis at the US-Mexico border (Part III scheduled to be released this year). Each part accompanied by a video summary.

"The Disappeared report series is collaborative project between two Tucson-based organizations, La Coalicion de Derechos Humanos and No More Deaths. [...] . Our research goals are transformative: to expose and combat those US government policing tactics that cause the crisis of death and mass disappearance in the borderlands."

Some background on Dickens' concern for the plight of English working conditions.

I'm a fan of Mischief Brew and Erik Petersen, and I just discovered this tribute to his life and music. From the video description:

"Opening with Stan Rogers' The Mary Ellen Carter, The Folks Show on 88.5 WXPN invited the friends and family of Erik Petersen of Mischief Brew to the show to play some covers pay tribute to him. Show opens at around the four minute mark. Songs are interspersed with reminiscing, talk of inspirations, and exactly what you'd expect from this kind of thing.

"Hosted by Ian Zolitor; also present are Erik's partner Denise, his brother Chris, bandmate Shawn, and others."

A song about living in the USA.

Just discovered this anarchist folk punk duo.

It's still good.

TIL about pedestrianism, a precursor to today's ultramarathon and competitive long-distance hiking.

Good interview with Mark Bray on Democracy Now! in which he does the important work of correcting the liberal media's pronunciation of antifa (seriously, while I'm sure there's a lot of regional variation in pronunciation, every time I hear anTEEfa I can't help but think the speaker is an uninformed pundit (like "Black Block Anarchist" after Seattle '99). Amy Goodman even changed her pronunciation at the end of the clip, because she's a pro).

Part 2 is here: https://www.democracynow.org/2017/8/16/part_2_antifa_a_look_at

He also has an article up on the WaPo website called "Who are the antifa?": https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/08/16/who-are-the-antifa/

Good footage of the racist march and rally in Charlottesville, includes interviews with Christopher Cantwell and some of the other Fascists involved.

This episode of Wisecrack's 8-Bit Philosophy tries to distinguish between haters and real cynics.

This guy linked to my article on Joe Hill in the description of his video analysis of PewDiePie's name.

If I had just known that back in November, I never would have voted for Trump.

"What is PC but a verbal form of gentrification?"

An interpretation of South Park (season 19) as a commentary on the connection between neoliberalism and identity politics.

A Fistful Of Vinyl on KXLU​ recorded Pat The Bunny​ singing some songs and put them on youtube! The whole set is good. I think my favorite is the one after this one. But this one is pretty good too.

A nice documentary by a guy who walked from Oregon to New Hampshire to join the Free State Project.

"Since 2000, more than 27,000 migrants and refugees have died attempting the perilous journey to Europe. With an unprecedented number of people breaking through its heavily barricaded borders in 2014, the EU continues to fortify its frontiers."

This documentary includes footage from almost every vantage point (and impressively edited together) during the Oka crisis in 1990 which I had never heard of before (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oka_Crisis).

Two more documentaries on the standoff:

• Acts of Defiance (http://www.nfb.ca/film/acts_of_defiance/)
• Rocks at Whiskey Trench (https://www.nfb.ca/playlists/alanis-obomsawin-retrospective/viewing/rocks_at_whiskey_trench)

Good footage and an accurate portrayal of what it is to thru hike. Somewhat cheesy narration.

I thought this video was a good presentation of something that sounds so silly on its face ("anarcho-monarchism"). I'll always have a fondness for Distributism because it was reading GK Chesterton in high school that first got me interested in anti-capitalist thought. I've since realized that the libertarian socialist traditions make Distributism superfluous. But while I'd rather they keep their bourgeois families, kings, and popes to themselves... I'd be happy with three acres and a cow.