Labor Day: Phil Ochs sings about IWW activist and songwriter Joe Hill
Since today is Labor Day, a national holiday set aside on first Monday in September to pay tribute to the economic and social contributions of workers, we thought we’d feature this film clip of folk...
View Article“Out Demons, Out!”: The October 1967 March on the Pentagon
Our new contributor Pat Thomas — author of Listen, Whitey! the Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975 and the forthcoming Did It! From Yippie To Yuppie: Jerry Rubin, An American Revolutionary, both...
View ArticlePussy Riot at Dismaland: This new politically-charged video is dedicated to...
Have a look at this awesome new politically-charged music video for Pussy Riot’s “Refugees In” — with lyrics like “Bombing people out of homes / We want peace, not fucking drones” -- which includes...
View ArticleThis dump is closed on Thanksgiving: Arlo Guthrie’s satirical “Alice’s...
We’re pretty sure you’ve probably heard about this one before, but fifty years ago, on November 25, 1965, folksinger Arlo Guthrie — just eighteen at the time, the son of the legendary Woody Guthrie —...
View Article“Positive Force: More Than a Witness”: Robin Bell’s documentary on “30 years...
Positive Force: More Than a Witness, award-winning videographer Robin Bell’s 2014 documentary on “thirty years of punk politics in action” — now streaming on Night Flight Plus — tells the story of the...
View Article“This Is Not America”: David Bowie’s somber Reagan-era movie theme was one of...
“A little piece of you, the little peace in me…will die…” sings David Bowie in “This Is Not America,” the theme song for John Schlesinger’s 1985 Cold War spy film The Falcon and the Snowman. The video...
View ArticlePatti Smith’s protest anthem “People Have the Power” was a poetic exhortation...
“Rock n’ roll lyrics are the poetry of the masses,” Night Flight’s Pat Prescott says in our “Poets of Rock” special — which originally aired on July 15, 1988 — before telling us how, since the Sixties,...
View Article“Revolution In The Head”: Provocative L.A. band Rage Against The Machine &...
You’ve probably noticed the words “revolution” and “protest” being used a lot more lately, and for good reason, so we thought we’d take a look back at Revolution in the Head: Rage Against the Machine...
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