A Sense of Doubt blog post #2008 - Swing Down Sweet Chariot - Musical Monday for 2008.17
I was going to share this mix last week. I have been play testing it (which means listening to it and adjusting tracks and order) all week. My plan was to share the mix with lots of pictures of the protests, mostly the recent ones and mostly in Portland, which is not quite my new hometown, but it is very nearby and feels like my people, my tribe, my place.
I added some text, but mostly, I wanted the pictures to tell the story.
The mix is somewhat of a mix and has moments of insouciance. I like that. I do that kind of thing on purpose.
But the majority of the mix focuses on race, racism, and BLACK LIVES MATTER.
There's even a song called "I Can't Breathe" that ends the mix.
The fight is not won, the change is not seen, the battle goes on.
Black lives matter because for so long it seemed like black lives did not matter.
Make your voice heard.
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| https://www.pdxmonthly.com/news-and-city-life/2020/08/the-complicated-rise-and-swift-fall-of-portland-s-wall-of-moms-protest-group |
By Saturday, August 1, long after the national media had moved on from the Wall of Moms story, a Facebook post went up announcing that Barnum had formally been fired from the organization, for “violations of social policies.” The group’s newly appointed Black leader, Antoinette Rootsdawtah, a Black woman from California who was recruited via Facebook, asked for time to sort through the situation, adding that the group plans to “address the anti-Blackness. As of now we are supporting and lifting Black voices.”
Still, despite new leadership, members are divided and asking that the organization be dissolved due to what some consider irreparable damage due to the harm caused by unacknowledged anti-Blackness.
“People who joined this group who weren’t Black joined it for the proximity to whiteness and their comfort level with that,” says Rachelle Dixon, a Black Lives Matter chapter founder and Portland-area farmer. “As a new organizer you need to understand that there are things you don’t know and the reason why you want Black leadership is to show you where the minefields are. Because they are out there and you already stepped on them. And it’s not like your voice isn’t valuable but it’s that you came in on a conversation 400 years into the conversation and then the narrative changed.”
In the aftermath of it all, a third “Mom” group is on the horizon to launch this week, made up of local Black moms and allies who are looking to show up for Black Portland and the protest community and will work alongside local groups that offers resources and educational support to local activists.
“We are taking lessons from the messiness of the Wall of Moms,” says Chase, one of the organizers. “We are calling ourselves “Mom Bloc.” For me and the moms that I’ve been talking with we just want to take care of our community. I think the one thing Bev did tap into that was really powerful was how much we can accomplish when we come together. I mean it sounds kind of cheesy, but in a week all of these moms came together with their skills and their passions and their areas of focus and built an infrastructure with no guidance from Bev. So then in the group there were moms who wanted to donate money, who wanted to donate supplies, who wanted to donate time. So we want to tap into that passion and those resources and funnel that level of support and engagement towards organizations in Portland that are taking care of the Black community.”
THE MIX VIDEO PLAYER POD
Swing Down Sweet Chariot - Musical Mix for 2008.17
[1] Funkadelic .....Swing Down, Sweet Chariot"...
[2] Tanerelle - Continuum
[3] Teenear - Free (Official Music Video)
[4] Janelle Monáe - I Like That [Official Music Video]
[5] Beyoncé BLACK PARADE (Official Audio)
[6] Sly & The Family Stone - Everyday People (Official Video)
[7] Erykah Badu - Back In The Day (Puff) live
[8] Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove (1978)
[9] Body Count - No Lives Matter (official video)
[10] De La Soul - Me Myself And I
[11] black hole sun | soundgarden | acoustic cover ft. jennah bell | stories
[12] Pomplamoose - Bulletproof
[13] Sly & The Family Stone - Stand! (Official Audio)
[14] Gil Scott Heron - We almost Lost Detroit
[15] Killah Priest - The Winged People - The Psychic World Of Walter Reed - [Official Music Video]
[16] Arrested Development – People Everyday - 3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of
Arrested Development
[17] Boogie Down Productions - My Philosophy
[18] Public Enemy - Rebel Without A Pause
[19] Public Enemy - Brothers Gonna Work It Out
[20] Little Ann - Deep Shadows
[21] Ann Peebles - Trouble Heartaches & Sadness
[22] Charles Bradley - The World (Is Going Up In Flames)
[23] Sweet Honey In The Rock, James Horner - Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around
[24] Billie Holiday - "Strange Fruit" Live 1959 [Reelin' In The Years Archives]
[25] The Roots w/ Erykah Badu - You Got Me - 7/23/1999 - Woodstock 99 West Stage (Official)
[26] Tanerélle - Nothing Without You
[27] M.I.A. - "Bad Girls" (Official Video)
[28] Sudan Archives - Nont for Sale
[29] Tanerélle - A Trip Through Space to Clear My Mind
[30] The Roots - The Next Movement (Official Music Video)
[31] Common - The People (Official Music Video)
[32] Funkadelic-(Not Just) Knee Deep
[33] Pharrell Williams - Freedom (Video)
[34] Keedron Bryant - I Just Wanna Live (Official Music Video)
[35] Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come (Official Lyric Video)
[36] Deitrick Haddon - I Can't Breathe (MUSIC VIDEO)
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/512233-riot-declared-in-portland
Police in Portland, Ore., declared that a protest outside a law enforcement building Saturday evening had become a riot and made numerous arrests after officers and police vehicles were allegedly hit with rocks and other objects.
A statement on the police bureau's website indicated that further details concerning the number of arrests and charges would come in a later update but noted that several people had been arrested.
"Portland Police announced to the crowd that its conduct constituted a riot and ordered people to leave to the west. People in the crowd persisted in throwing rocks and other objects," officials said. Photos posted by police on Twitter showed a large rock that officers claimed had been thrown by protesters and glass bottles as well as minor damage to a police cruiser.
Police added that two Portland officers were treated for injuries sustained when they were hit by thrown objects, including one that was allegedly thrown by an individual in a crowd of people wearing press badges or other articles of clothing identifying themselves as members of the media
"Officers reported having rocks, frozen eggs, glass bottles, and frozen water bottles thrown at them. Officers reported people were shining green lasers at them, which is against the law in Oregon. Somebody spray painted over a security camera on the Penumbra Kelly Building," read the police statement.
Protests in Portland have gone on for months over the deaths of Black Americans during encounters with police, including George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Many of the demonstrations have remained peaceful, though the city became the focus of national attention after videos emerged of protesters being detained by federal law enforcement agents in unmarked vans, resulting in the protests swelling in size and intensity.
The city's mayor, Ted Wheeler (D), has yet to comment on Saturday night's arrests on social media or in a press release, and a request for a statement from his office was not immediately returned.
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| https://www.voanews.com/usa/race-america/us-authorities-say-18-portland-protesters-face-federal-charges |
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| https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/oregon/articles/2020-06-08/20-arrested-in-portland-oregon-other-protests-peaceful |
‘I’m Not Here for
Fucking Clapping.’ Scenes from a Portland Protest
In Portland, another progressive city with
famously racist cops, George Floyd’s murder strikes a nerve
In downtown Portland, the graffiti splattered on the stone walls and plate glass of the federal courthouse lays bare the pain of a city not unlike Minneapolis: predominately white and liberal, yet policed by a force that is notoriously racist, and, in Portland’s case, under federal supervision for excessive use of force.
The spray paint is a rainbow of blacks and blues and pinks and purples: “ABOLISH COPS,” it says. “FUCK 12”; “COPS ARE TERRORISTS”; “ACAB”; “STOP KILLING BLACK MEN”.
One tag, in red paint, reads, “REST IN POWER BIG FLOYD,” honoring the 46-year-old Minneapolis father George Floyd, whose video-taped killing, by police who kneeled on his body and neck until the breath left his body, lit the fuse on a nationwide uprising.
The explosion here included the smashing of windows and lighting of small fires at the neighboring Multnomah County Justice Center, a law enforcement complex that houses the sheriff’s office, courtrooms and a jail. The facility is now cordoned behind chain link fence and guarded by white officers in tactical vests. In this dystopian moment, the words of the slave owner George Washington, engraved in stone above the street, take on Orwellian dissonance: “The due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government.”
How one of the whitest cities in the US became the centre of Black Lives Matter protests
Seyi Fasoranti, a chemist who moved to Oregon from the East Coast six months ago, has watched the Black Lives Matter protests in Portland with fascination.
A sea of white faces in one of the whitest major American cities has cried out for racial justice every night for nearly two months.
“It’s something I joke about with my friends,” Mr Fasoranti, who is Black, said over the din of protest chants this week. “There are more Black Lives Matter signs in Portland than Black people.”
Loud advocacy has been a hallmark of Portland life for decades, but unlike past protests over environmental policies or foreign wars, racism is a more complicated topic in Oregon, one that is intertwined with demographics and the state’s legacy of some of the most brutal anti-Black laws in the nation.
During 56 straight nights of protests here, throngs of largely white protesters have raised their fists in the air and chanted, “This is not a riot, it’s a revolution.”
They have thrown water bottles at the federal courthouse, tried to pry off the plywood that protects the entrance and engaged in running battles with police officers through clouds of tear gas. In recent nights, the number of protesters has swollen into the thousands.
Damany Igwé, 43, a bath products salesman who is Black and has taken part in dozens of the protests, says white crowds have shielded him from police, all the while yelling “Black power!”
“I feel the most protected that I ever have in my city,” Mr Igwé said during a Wednesday night protest that lasted well into Thursday morning. “White people can’t understand what we’ve been through completely, but they are trying to empathise. That’s a beginning.”
Of the 35 cities in the United States with populations larger than 500,000, Portland is the whitest, according to census data, with 71 per cent of residents categorised as non-Latino whites.
Oregon’s relative homogeneity — the state is three-quarters white compared with neighbouring California, where white people make up 37 per cent of the population — was not accidental.
The state was founded on principles of white supremacy. A 19th-century lash law called for whipping any Black person found in the state. In the early part of the 20th century Oregon’s Legislature was dominated by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
THE YEAR IN NUMBER: 2008
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/2008.html
Cost Of Living 2008
How Much things cost in 2008 Average Cost of new house $238,880.00Average Income per year $40,523.00
Average Cost for house rent $800.00
Average New Car: $27,958.00
Cost of a gallon of Gas $3.39
US Postage Stamp 42 cents
What Events Happened In 2008
Switzerland - Large Hadron Collider
Technology
- Sony’s Blu-ray HD format now has about 70 percent of the new high-definition market and is expected to win over the rival format, HD DVD.
- Apple sells the new ultra-thin MacBook Air notebook that is less than an inch thick and turns on the moment it's opened.
- Microsoft attempts to buy Yahoo for $44.6bn
- Europe's space laboratory, Columbus, docks with the International Space Station, on June 4th
- Honda begins selling it's zero-emission, hydrogen fuel-cell powered vehicle The Honda FCX Clarity.
- US Missile Strikes a US Spy Satellite Falling From Its Orbit proving it's missile defense system works.
- Chumby released a tiny computer enclosed in a stuffed leather pillow with a 6-inch LCD touch-sensitive screen which shows pictures, news headlines, games, incoming e-mail from the Internet.
Popular Culture 2008
- Writers strike against Hollywood studios, networks and production companies demanding a percentage of revenue instead of a fixed fee for Internet content. The strike lasted for nearly 3 months and a compromise agreement is reached. The strike meant many popular TV programmes were affected including talk shows.
https://www.rferl.org/a/Year_In_Review_Top_10_News_Stories_2008/1362453.html
Barack Obama was unknown to most of the world just a year or so ago.
As "Time" magazine said in awarding Obama its "Person of the Year" honors, "He has come to dominate the public sphere so completely that it beggars belief to recall that half the people in America had never heard of him two years ago."
Much of the rest of the world was even less familiar with the politician with the "funny name," although he was drawing considerably more attention by July 2008.
On November 4, voters in the United States convincingly backed the first-term senator from Illinois in his bid for the White House, making him the country's first African-American to be elected president.
Now comes the hard part -- ending the war in Iraq, as he has promised to do; ramping up the fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan; and confronting the financial crisis that has devastated large sections of the U.S. -- and global -- economy.
Which bring us to the No. 1 story of 2008, as voted by RFE/RL editors, correspondents, and broadcasters.
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Various family photos.
I CUT MY HAIR
In August of 2008, I lost my job at WMU under dubious circumstances as detailed here:
Gazette article about WMU firing and some thoughts
Review the entire blog to get a sense of what happened. I am not sure I know even now twelve years later.
I started drawing unemployment and made it halfway through an apocalyptic YA book, which I really should finish.
I started blogging weekly.
UNTIL an event in late 2008 changed my life forever and my series of significant relationships ended with THE ONE, which I will detail tomorrow as 2009 was THE YEAR.
This job, lost it, not sure why.
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And as usual, I play Ultimate.
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2008.17 - 10:10
- Days ago = 1872 days ago
- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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