“Hope Is the Thing with Feathers” Democracy Now interview with Rhiannon Giddens
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Rights Action highly, strongly, movingly, etc., recommends watching this Democracy Now interview with Rhiannon Giddens. Tying many issues together in a heart-felt, humble, plain-speaking way, Rhiannon, summarized perhaps in this statement, spoke to much of what Rights Action believes in and chips away at:
“And it’s like, if we don’t pull our struggles together, if we don’t connect the struggles together and the overall larger patterns of extraction, the larger patterns of colonialism, the larger patterns of empire, the larger patterns of massive moneymaking—if we don’t connect those dots between the struggles, we are never going to get anywhere.”
Watch: https://www.democracynow.org/2026/9/18/hope_is_the_thing_with_feathers
Democracy Now: “Rhiannon Giddens has had a wide-spanning career, including her time with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, an old-time Black string band, and her work as a musical consultant on Ryan Coogler’s landmark film Sinners. She won a Pulitzer Prize for music in 2023 for her opera Omar about Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar in Africa who was sold into slavery in the 1800s. Her new album, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, comes out on Friday.”
If you appreciate this interview, please re-share, … and then get back to chipping away, connecting all the dots and struggles.
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Rights Action urges folks to diversify news sources as an antidote to the oftentimes propagandistic reporting coming from government and corporate media in the U.S. and Canada. Gray Zone, Democracy Now, DropSite News, Real News Network, CounterPunch, Intercept, Canadian Foreign Policy Institute, Breach, rabble.ca, Orinoco Tribune, Al Jazeera News (for Palestine related reporting)
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Honduras Solidarity Network: www.hondurassolidarity.org
Friendship Office of the Americas: www.friendshipamericas.org
NISGUA (Network in Solidarity with People of Guatemala): www.nisgua.org
GHRC (Guatemalan Human Rights Commission): www.ghrc-usa.org
Breaking the Silence: www.breakingthesilenceblog.com
PLATAFORMA CANADA-Guatemaltecos Exiliados por Terrorismo de Estado, https://www.facebook.com/GuatemaltecosExiliadosCanada
CISPES (Committee in Solidarity with People of El Salvador): www.cispes.org
CRISTOSAL https://cristosal.org/
Share El Salvador: https://www.share-elsalvador.org
CRISPAZ: https://www.crispaz.org
Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition: https://www.nicasolidarity.com
Friends of Latin America: www.friendsoflatinamerica.org
Friendship Office of the Americas: www.friendshipamericas.org
Peace Brigades International-Canada: www.pbicanada.org
Common Frontiers Canada: www.commonfrontiers.ca
Mining Watch Canada: www.miningwatch.ca
Mining Injustice Solidarity Network: www.mininginjustice.org
Mining Justice Alliance: www.miningjusticealliance.wordpress.com
World Beyond War: www.worldbeyondwar.org/canada. www.worldbeyondwar.org/
Venezuela Analysis: https://venezuelanalysis.com/
Venezuela Solidarity Network: www.venezuelasolidaritynetwork.org
Belly of the Beast Cuba: www.bellyofthebeastcuba.com/
Cuban Americans for Cuba: www.cubanamericansforcuba.org/
Canada Network on Cuba: www.canadiannetworkoncuba.ca/
Canadian Foreign Policy Institute: www.foreignpolicy.ca
Alliance for Global Justice: www.afgj.org
CODEPINK: www.codepink.org
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