Editor’s Note: The following announcement was issued by #MusiciansForPalestine on May 27, 2021.
Mondoweiss occasionally publishes press releases and statements from organizations in an effort to draw attention to overlooked issues.
May 27th at 9:00am EST marks the launch of #MusiciansForPalestine, a letter from more than 600 musicians that says, “we speak together and demand justice, dignity and the right to self-determination for the Palestinian people and all who are fighting colonial dispossession and violence across the planet.”
Support comes from artists from the Palestinian diaspora including Belly and Anwar Hadid. A-Trak, Black Thought and Questlove from The Roots, Cypress Hill, DJ Snake, Julian Casablancas, Juliana Huxtable, Majid Al-Maskati, Mustafa the Poet, NARCY, NoName, Patti Smith, Run the Jewels, Serj Tankian of System of a Down and Thurston Moore are also among the signatories to the call, which adds:
Following Up With the Mazda Heroes
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In 2020, Mazda recognized 50 community-minded problem solvers who dedicated their time and energy to brightening up a gloomy year. These Mazda Heroes were awarded new Mazda MX-5 Miata models for demonstrating what the automaker calls “challenger spirit.” Here’s a look at where a few of these Mazda Heroes are today.
Invisible Hands
When the pandemic struck New York City, NYU student Healy Chait wanted to do what she could to help homebound seniors and immunocompromised people experiencing food insecurity. After searching for an non-profit organization that helps these individuals and not finding such a charity Chait decided to start one. She founded Invisible Hands, an organization that delivers groceries to people in need.
Like other COVID response efforts, Mudrick’s started small: one sunny Saturday, she and her husband, Ross, posted flyers around their block, inviting any neighbors who needed groceries to call Ross’ personal cell. Then, they took to Instagram, and translated the flyer to other languages. Other neighbors soon started posting flyers, too, and some added other offers, like to pick up a prescription, or give a ride to a doctor’s appointment, or lend a friendly ear to anyone feeling lonely.
A few weeks later, the Mudrick husband-and-wife duo “operationalized” those small gestures into the now two-thousand-plus-strong Astoria Mutual Aid Network (AMAN), a community best described by its simple slogan: “Neighbors give help. Neighbors get help.” What was once a pop-up grocery-delivery-service has become a wraparound community safety net to make sure everyone in Astoria has access to food, friendship, clothes, toys, tablets, translations, hygiene supplies, and other essential
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One of the useful functions of the latter book, in particular, is that it brings force and clarity to one’s prior knowledge of the dangers of right-wing libertarianism, or more generally anti-government and pro-“free market” thinking. In fact, this sort of thinking is an utter catastrophe that threatens to destroy everything beautiful in the world. I know that sounds like an absurd exaggeration, but it’s not. What with society and nature teetering on the brink, it’s the literal truth. I suppose the reason leftists don’t always take right-wing libertarianism as seriously as it deserves despite their deep awareness of the evils of capitalism is simply that it’s embarrassingly easy to refute. It’s a childish, simplistic, vulgar hyper-capitalist ideology that, once you examine it a little, quickly reveals itself as its opposite: authoritarianism. Or even totalitarianism, albeit privatized totalitarianism. Noam Chomsky, as usual, makes the point eloquently: