DxE did three protests advocating animal liberation on Saturday, May 23, 2015 in San Francisco. This video shows excerpts from all three protests.
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Video: Watch DxE Protest Rock San Francisco
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Animal Rights Protestors Block San Francisco Street
This past Thursday, Friday and Saturday, I was one of over 100 activists from around the world who were in the Bay Area for an animal rights conference held by Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) and to protest against the abuse and killing of animals for food and clothing.
On Saturday May 23 we held three protests, the last of which was on Geary Street outside Macy’s.
Check out this excellent news coverage by Indymedia:
And check out this Vicious Vegan post about the protest.
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Animal Rights Activists Stand Up For Mother Cows
This past Sunday the Berkeley Organization for Animal Advocacy (BOAA) stood up for mother cows during protests that took place inside two Berkeley markets – Andronico’s and Safeway.
You can read all about it here.
Here’s an excerpt from the Vicious Vegan blog:
It was Mother’s Day, a day when the animal rights groups Berkeley Organization for Animal Advocacy (BOAA) and Direct Action Everywhere (DXE) try to remind the public of the millions and millions of forgotten mothers – the dairy cows who are forced to stand in one spot indoors and be milked and milked and milked for fucking months on end until their udders are bleeding, swollen to the point of dragging on the floor and infected with mastitis. Mothers who frantically search in vain for their newborns who are stolen by humans shortly after birth. Mothers who cry and moan for days and days for their lost babies….
Read the whole post here.
Check out videos I shot of two of the speakers here:
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Video: Sleater-Kinney Live At 9:30 Club, Washington, DC – Feb. 23, 2015 – Entire Concert
At the end of February 2015 Sleater- Kinney performed at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC. NPR broadcast the show and you can still see it.
It’s great.
SET LIST
Price Tag – 0:40
Start Together – 4:36
Fangless – 7:11
Oh! – 10:59
Surface Envy – 14:54
Get Up – 18:02
Ironclad – 21:45
No Anthems – 24:23
Youth Decay – 28:13
What’s Mine Is Yours – 30:57
A New Wave – 36:03
No Cities To Love – 39:48
One Beat – 42:46
Words And Guitar – 45:54
Bury Our Friends – 48:34
Sympathy – 52:20
Entertain – 56:21
Jumpers – 1:01:46
ENCORE
Gimme Love – 1:07:24
Little Babies – 1:10:04
Turn It On – 1:12:20
Modern Girl – 1:15:02
Dig Me Out – 1:17:50
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Audio: Bob Dylan Sings ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’ – May 5, 2015 – Houston, Texas
Previously three full songs – “Things Have Changed,” “Workingman’s Blues #2” and “Stay With Me” – plus some of “She Belongs To Me,” all from Bob Dylan’s show at the Bayou Music Center in Houston, Texas on May 5, 2015, were posted at YouTube.
A few hours ago another song, “Blowin’ In The Wind,” from that show went online.
Here it is:
“Blowin’ In The Wind”:
If you missed the others, here they are:
“Things Have Changed” and some of “She Belongs To Me”:
“Workingman’s Blues #2”:
“Stay With Me”:
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Audio: Bob Dylan Live At The Majestic Theatre, May 7, 2015 – ‘Stay With Me’
One song from Bob Dylan’s performance at the Majestic Theatre, May 7, 2015, in San Antonio Texas.
“Stay With Me”:
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Audio: Bob Dylan Live In NC, April 25, 2015 – ‘Tangled Up In Blue,’ ‘Love Sick’ & 16 More
Here are audio clips from Bob Dylan’s April 25, 2015 performance at the Durham Performing Arts Center in Durham, NC.
Thanks to a fan who uploaded all of these to YouTube we can hear all but one – “She Belongs To Mew” – of the songs Dylan performed that night.
Enjoy!
“Things Have Changed”:
“Beyond Here Lies Nothing”:
“Working Man Blues #2”:
“Duquesne Whistle:
“Waiting For You” & “Pay In Blood”:
“Tangled Up In Blue”:
“Love Sick”:
“High Water (For Charley Patton)”:
“Simple Twist Of Fate”:
“Early Roman Kings”:
“Forgetful Heart” & “Spirit On The Water”:
“Scarlet Town”:
“Soon After Midnight” & “Long And Wasted Years”:
“Blowin’ In The Wind”:
“Stay With Me”:
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DXE, UPC Stand Up For Chickens, Defy Security In San Francisco
A group of animal rights activists from DXE and UPC including myself marched to the San Francisco Ferry Building yesterday to protest the selling of so-called ‘humane meat’ at a market inside the building.
My wife Leslie wrote a great blog post about the action, which includes photos, a video that ends with security guards trying to shut us down and prevent people from photographing and videoing the protest, and more.
Here’s how her post begins:
ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS DEFY SECURITY GUARDS IN SAN FRANCISCO
By Leslie Goldberg
When I heard “You’re all under arrest,” my heart jumped in my throat. I flashed on who-will-take-care-of-the-dog-what-about-babysitting-I’d-promised-I’d-do-tomorrow- and what-about-the-cat-and-what-about-all-the-work-due-for-my-class-this-week- what-if-I-can’t-get-to-my-class.
I’ve never really been in jail before.
It was an “International Respect for Chickens Day” protest. We were in the San Francisco Ferry Building which is a sort of foodie plaza where you can spend all sorts of money on “artisan” cheese, olive oil, nuts, fruit, pricey bread and “humanely-raised” meat.
In fact, it was in front of one of these “humanely raised and cruelly-killed” meat places where two animal rights groups, United Poultry Concerns (UPC) and Direct Action Everywhere (DXE), had joined to cause a disruption.
“HUMANELY RAISED,” shouted long-time activist Hope Bohanec of UPC.
“KILLS CHICKENS” we shouted back.
“ORGANIC,” shouted Hope.
“KILLS CHICKENS,” we yelled.
“SUSTAINABLE” she shouted.
“KILLS CHICKENS,” we yelled.
“FREE RANGE,” she yelled.
“KILLS CHICKENS,” we yelled.
You can read the whole post here.
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Video: Neil Young, Stephen Stills Together – ‘Bluebird,’ ‘For What It’s Worth’ & More
On April 25, 2015 Stephen Stills and Neil Young performed together at the Pantages in Los Angeles.
They performed some classic songs from their past, and some news ones.
There’s a good article about the show here.
Here are videos for all but one of the songs from their acoustic and electric sets.
“Long May You Run”:
“Human Highway”:
“If I Don’t Know”:
“Virtual Here And Now”:
“For What It’s Worth”:
“Bluebird”:
“Mr. Soul”:
“Rockin’ in the Free World”:
Acoustic
Long May You Run (from Stills-Young Band’s Long May You Run, 1976)
Human Highway (from Neil Young’s Comes a Time, 1978)
If I Don’t Know (new Neil Young song)
Electric
Virtual Here & Now (New Stephen Stills song)
Don’t Want Lies (new Stephen Stills song)
For What It’s Worth (from Buffalo Springfield’s Buffalo Springfield, 1966)
Bluebird (from Buffalo Springfield’s Buffalo Springfield Again, 1967)
Mr. Soul (from Buffalo Springfield’s Buffalo Springfield Again, 1967)
Rockin’ in the Free World (from Neil Young’s Freedom, 1989)
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Animal Rights Group Exposes Whole Foods ‘Humane Meat’ Myth
What a scene. Nearly 40 of us standing in front of the meat counter in Whole Foods’ Market Street store (San Francisco) chanting “It’s not food, it’s violence!”
Yes it was a Direct Action Everywhere (DXE) animal rights protest. It took place this past Saturday.
I shot photos and video. My wife Leslie AKA The Vicious Vegan wrote an excellent report on what went down, and the philosophy behind the protest.
Here’s how her blog post begins:
ANIMAL RIGHTS PROTEST CALLS OUT WHOLE FOODS
By Leslie Goldberg
I’ve never yelled inside a Whole Foods Market or in a Safeway or in any grocery store. I’ve never even wanted to. When I’ve walked past (quickly) the neon-lit graveyards they have in the back of these stores, which showcase the dead animals or their chopped-up flesh, I’ve felt a grief and revulsion that makes me quiet.
Yet despite my despair at the obvious animal cruelty that’s taken place, I have to admit I’ve always kind of liked Whole Foods. I like that they have a gazillion different plant-based milks (that taste good); that they have a pretty good bulk section; that the employees are nice; that one of the store’s founders, John Mackey, was persuaded to become a vegan; and I always liked that the checkers would ask me, “Credit or donation?” when I brought in my own bag. I’d get a little warm feeling when I’d say, “donation.”
Yet there I was – pissed and yelling my head off with the other protestors in the meat department of Whole Foods on Sunday: “It’s Not Food, It’s Violence.”
I joined a group of Direct Action Everywhere (DXE) members to protest Whole Food’s truly bizarre, if not Orwellian, $20 million ad campaign: “Values Matter.” The ads feature such slogans as “Know What Kind of Life Your Dinner Lived” or “Choose a Fish, Cook a Fish, Save a Fish.”
Welcome to the house of mirrors world of “humane meat.” Or “sustainable agriculture.” Or “cage free.” Or “cruelty-free food.” Or “grass-fed.” It’s a wonderful dreamy world where the environment is pristine: no water pollution, no climate change, no destruction of wildlife. You can still kill and eat animals and/or consume their secretions and feel good about it. Hell, you can eat animals and save animals at the same time!
Read the whole post here.
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