Revelations: This Is Not America (Or Maybe It Is)
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Revelations: #Vote!
News from the American Composers Forum November 2016 Steve Heitzeg’s VOTE Celebrates Democracy ACF recently received this postcard from composer Steve Heitzeg. With a premiere of this work under his belt and Election Day coming up, we thought there would be no better time to feature this piece. Though this piece…
Revelations: Migration
Terns follow record warm temperatures in ‘shock’ migration to north of Alaska Eyebrows would be raised if American crocodiles, found on the southern tip of Florida, decided to relocate to New York’s Fifth Avenue or Moroccan camels suddenly joined the tourist throng outside Buckingham Palace in London. Yet this is…
Revelations: While Rome Burns….
Global warming continues; 2016 will be the hottest year ever recorded “We know the world is warming – no factor can explain it aside from human emissions of greenhouse gases. Despite this, people who deny the basic facts of climate change have tried to argue that the Earth is either…
Revelations: “A Clown in the Moonlight is not Funny..”
Insane clown posse: hysteria in the US reaches a fever pitch “…..Clown Lives Matter. When that crass echo of the protest movement over police killing unarmed black men triggered an avalanche of protest on social media and personal attacks against the organizer, who identifies herself on Facebook as Nikki Sinn,…
Revelations: John Lennon 10/9/1940
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Revelations: “Planet Earth is Blue, and there’s Nothing I can do..”
A Pale Blue Dot Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies,…
Revelations: Endangered
Andy Warhol’s Psychedelic Endangered Animals – in pictures The Grey Parrot and the Race against Africa’s Wildlife Extinction The precipitous decline of the African grey echoes what is happening to hundreds of other plant and animal species, including the African elephant, the tiger, rosewood trees, pagolins, banggai cardinal fish and…