MEDIA ROOTS — Los Angeles-based Margot Paez of Insight Out News continues to bring you unembedded, grassroots news that matters to the people, as the corporate media seeks to smear the Occupy Movement and its plain and sincere demands for socioeconomic justice on various levels. After marching in solidarity Monday and Tuesday against the, apparently Federalised, anti-First Amendment police state … Read More
ATOP – MEDIA ROOTS SET 11 by Atop on Mixcloud MEDIA ROOTS – Let’s embrace the harshness of winter, using its solitude to dream of a less troubled future while aspiring peace come the crispness of spring. My eleventh music set for Media Roots Music is dedicated to the qualities of empathy and compassion. As humanity prepares to celebrate the … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS – On Wednesday, November 2, 2011, I documented an incredibly inspirational and monumental event. For the second time in sixty years, Oakland held a general strike that shut down the city– this time in response to the brutal police state crackdown on the Occupy Oakland encampment. Upwards of 20,000 people participated in the strike and march to the … Read More
November 8, 2011 MEDIA ROOTS- As the pro-democracy ‘Arab Spring’ movement spread across North Africa and beyond, Euroamerican imperialists sent a stern message by responding with draconian violence. In Libya, US-NATO forces perpetrated crimes against humanity under the pretext of combating alleged crimes against humanity. President Obama gloated as NATO advanced in Libya, then cheered the brutal assassination of Gaddafi, … Read More
