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Tonight's music features Luther Tucker, a protege of Robert Jr. Lockwood who went on to record many sessions with Chess records and performed mostly as a sideman for many more well-known blues musicians. Tucker's work with Little Walter is particularly noteworthy and worth seeking out.
Luther Tucker - Mean Old World
"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor."
-- Thomas Jefferson
News
Pulitzer-Winning Reporting Duo Don Barlett and James Steele on "The Betrayal of the American Dream"
Horses used against demonstrators in ninth day of Anaheim protests
Anaheim police arrested nine demonstrators, at one point using horses against protesters during a march, during the ninth day of protests over police shootings Sunday.
The Orange County Register reported that more than 200 protesters took part in the demonstration, which forced some street closures as they marched toward Disneyland before converging on police headquarters. Among them were members of the Occupy Wall Street movement, one of whom filmed officers using horses to move people back toward the sidewalk. ...
OC Weekly also reported that officers reacted angrily when some protesters tried to document at least one of the arrests.
“While two officers handcuffed the suspect, other cops rushed up, formed a perimeter, pointed rifles directly at the faces of photographers, snarled and screamed, ‘Back up!’” R. Scott Moxley wrote on the weekly paper’s blog.
Violent disputes over indigenous lands increase across Brazil
Violent disputes over indigenous land have been growing across Brazil, sparking heightened militancy by native tribes angered by broken promises of compensation and slower government registrations. ...
The indigenous peoples are fighting to protect their resource-rich lands from invasions or encroachment by huge cattle ranchers, industrial-scale farmers, illegal gold miners and loggers.
In this huge country, one percent of the 191-million-strong population controls 46 percent of the cultivated land.
The indigenous population faces murders, death threats, lack of health care and education, and delays in registering land ownership.
Peaceful Protest Over Tar Sands Takes a Violent Turn in Burlington VT
A Sunday tar sands protest in Burlington, Vermont turned violent when riot police shot protesters with pepper spray and rubber bullets.
Hundreds of activists were demonstrating against a proposed tar sands oil pipeline that would extend across northern New England gathered at the Burlington Hilton where the 36th annual conference of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers was being held.
Protesters created a "human oil spill" over the possibility that tar sands oil from western Canada might be shipped across Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.
Just before 5 P.M., a smaller group of demonstrators attempted to block buses transporting the conference attendees to dinner, prompting police dressed in riot gear to open fire on the crowd.
Wisconsin Oil Spill: Enbridge Energy Reports Incident
The U.S. pipeline safety agency launched an investigation on Saturday into an oil spill in Wisconsin on Enbridge Inc's network that briefly shut much of the company's pipeline system feeding Canadian crude to the U.S. Midwest.
Enbridge's 318,000 barrel per day Line 14 pipeline, which carries light sweet Canadian crude to Chicago-area refineries, was shut on Friday after an estimated 1,200 barrels of oil were leaked, and the Canadian company said on Saturday it did not have a restart time for the pipeline yet. ...
The cause of the spill, which occurred almost two years to the day after another major spill in Michigan on a different section of the system, had yet to be determined but repairs on Line 14 -- part of the Lakehead pipeline system -- were expected to begin later in the day. ...
The incidents have caused furor just as the company seeks approval for its C$6 billion Northern Gateway pipeline to Canada's West Coast from Alberta amid staunch opposition from environmental groups and native communities that warn against oil spills on land and in coastal waters.
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin'
National Debt? There's No Such Thing
The Perversion of Scholarship - by Chris Hedges
A Little Night Music
Charlie Musselwhite, Luther Tucker, Bobby Murray - Roll Me Mama
Louis Myers, Luther Tucker, Dave Myers, Al Duncan and Honey Piazza - Tribute Little Walter - Mean Black Spider
Louis Myers, Luther Tucker, Dave Myers, Al Duncan, Rod and Honey Piazza - Tribute Little Walter - Crazy 'Bout You Baby
Jimmy Rogers, Louis Myers, Luther Tucker, Dave Myers, Al Duncan, Rod Piazza and Honey Piazza - You So Sweet
Eddie Taylor w/ Luther Tucker - Bad Boy
Jimmy Rogers, Luther Tucker & James Cotton - Walking By Myself
Little Walter (w/Luther Tucker) - It Aint Right
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