ACLU Massachusetts sent a link to this this out on Twitter yesterday evening.
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WHISTLEBLOWER - feat. MC Ed Snowden (RAP NEWS 19)
Published on Jun 15, 2013
Rap News 19. It started off as a slow news day, and a routine update on the state of the Free World Order with NSA Director General Baxter. But then the news broke of startling revelations from the fearless paladin of adversarial journalism, guardian of civil liberties, journalist Glen Greenwald, concerning a shadowy spying program called PRISM. Who is behind these revelations, and how should we view them? How will the Authorities, and the Corporations implicated, respond? Join Robert Foster for a whirlwind summary of the events in this ongoing saga...
- Written & created by Giordano Nanni & Hugo Farrant in a suburban backyard home-studio in Melbourne, Australia - on Wurundjeri Land.
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*IMPORTANT LINKS:
- For outstanding journalism follow Glen Greenwald on Twitter: https://twitter.com/... and via the Guardian: (copy and paste) www. guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/series/glenn-greenwald-security-liberty
Also check out Edward Snowden's original video (by awesome film maker Laura Poitras): /watch?v=5yB3n...
Here are the articles containing Snowden's leaked documents: (copy and paste) www. guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data
www. guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-boundless-informant-global-datamining
And for those who weren't around in 1992: Informer, by Snow: /watch?v=NtILxBszyf8
*CREDITS:
- Beat: 'The Product' - by Jake One: /watch?v=6-DueMTmW5w
- Reworking of Snow 'Informer' by Able8 -- an awesome beatmaker http://www.soundcloud.com/... -- who graciously agreed to debase his usual style for us in this episode.
- Snow(den) 'Whistleblower' vocals by Ming Lang. (All other vox by Hugo)
- Mark Zuckerberg performed by Louis Gundermann.
- Video and music editing by Giordano
- Images/artwork and website design by our Photoshop ninja Zoe Tame: http://www.visualtonic.com.au
- Greenwald special effects by our Rap News fx-wizard, Jonas Schweizer.
- Props to Zoë Umlaut for creating Greenwald's shield of rights and pen-sword, and to Gilles Gundermann for the armour.
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- Thanks to Lucy for shoot assistance!
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