Reposted by Sour Establishment Man
1/ Chiara Padovani is one of the most committed and effective organizers I’ve ever known.
In 3 years (off the side of her desk) she’s done more for her working class community of York South-Weston than most politicians do in 30.
www.chiarapadovani.ca
chiarapadovani.ca
Chiara Padovani for York South-Weston
![2001 was the year that I started getting deeper into music. Sure, I had always liked music and grew up
watching music videos. But now I was reading reviews on AllMusic and posting on message boards (I was
17 and something of a late bloomer in this regard). I remember when year-end "Best of" lists were released
for the greatest albums of 2001 according to critics, featuring acclaimed albums like The Strokes' Is This It,
Bob Dylan's "Love and Theft." The White Stripes' White Blood Cells, etc. But there was one list I recall,
maybe a record store newsletter, that had The Coup's Party Music. At that time, I had never heard of the
leftist hip-hop group from Oakland. The original cover from June 2001 depicted Boots Riley and Pam the
Funkstress blowing up the World Trade Center(!). After 9/11, the band created a second cover for the
album with a flaming martini glass. Boots Riley on the original album cover after September 11:
"There's been a whitewash in the media over the past couple days over what the U.S.'s role in the world is,
and the fact that they kill hundreds of thousands of people per year to protect profit. Now how can I get to
the point where I could be saying that on the world stage, and interrupt the lies that CBS, CNN, NBC, and
everyone is saying? In my view, that [would be] by keeping the cover. Not because I think by looking at the
cover you get all of this message that I'm telling you, but as a way to have a platform to interrupt the stream
of lies that are being told right now.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ikzaawhqdyrfb2qh2yzv6np5/bafkreiahxgnaw6l7gq2hozpagywttg664vicafuaacsrutcuqszxdxt4l4)
