Rising Tide North America

Gil Scott Heron, Rest in Peace. You will not be able to stay home, brother. You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out. You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip, Skip out for beer during commercials, Because the revolution will not be televised.

By Rising Tide North America May 28, 2011 May 28, 2011 Facebook

Gil Scott Heron, Rest in Peace. You will not be able to stay home, brother. You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out. You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip, Skip out for beer during commercials, Because the revolution will not be televised.

Gil Scott-Heron, Voice of Black Culture, Dies at 62
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Though often called the “godfather of rap,” Mr. Scott-Heron preferred to call himself a “bluesologist,” drawing on blues, jazz and Harlem Renaissance poetics.

Another Mountain Slated for Mountaintop Removal! We Say "Hell NO!"

By Rising Tide North America May 27, 2011 May 27, 2011 Facebook

Another Mountain Slated for Mountaintop Removal! We Say “Hell NO!”

Appalachians Celebrate Ison Rock Ridge and Protest the Mountain’s Pending Demise « It’s Getting Hot.
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Ison Rock Ridge is a mountain in southwest Virginia under attack by coal companies seeking to blow the top off of it for seams of coal. Today in Appalachia, VA, 50 Virginia residents and Mountain Justice activists marched through the town to celebrate Ison Rock Ridge and protest it’s pending demise.