Healthcare
[Promo Video] TRD (Tobacco Related Deaths) PSA
“Mo Iqbal, explores the negative practices in the marketing of cigarettes and the depiction of smoking in the media in his film TRD (Tobacco Related Deaths), starring actor, Matt Littler, actress Carly Stenson, as well as singer, Natasha Hamilton.”
[this is a PPC thing courtesy Goviral network and Smoke & Mirrors]
[Promo Video] The Machine (PSA)
“The Machine, written by student, Michael, emphasizes just how powerful bright vending machines can be in attracting young people to purchase cigarettes and other tobacco related products.”
[this is a PPC thing courtesy Goviral network and Smoke & Mirrors]
[Promo Video] Trailer for the Movie Don’t Fall For It
“Joe Washington’s film, Don’t Fall For It highlights how the tobacco industry targets potential new smokers and creates a rallying cry for young people to take a stand against the tobacco industry.”
[this is a PPC thing]
[News] DJ Kool Herc Needs Help with his Medical Bills!
Via the UK’s Guardian:
“DJ Kool Herc, one of the founding fathers of hip-hop, is allegedly “very sick” and cannot afford hospital treatment. The man who invented breakbeats is without health insurance and needs help, his friends say, to pay for surgery.
“[He] who we call the father of hip-hop, Kool Herc, is not doing well,” DJ Premier revealed on his Sirius XM radio show this weekend. “Since he’s very sick and has no insurance … [he] needs to pay his bills so he can get out of hospital.”
Kool Herc, real name Clive Campbell, was an integral figure in early hip-hop, developing DJ techniques and encouraging breakdance culture. But although he was a major influence on artists such as Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa, Kool Herc was a DJ, not a record producer, and did not score any hits. Consequently, Premier said, the 55-year-old cannot afford surgery.
DJ Kool Herc’s condition has not been disclosed.”
CLICK HERE to read the full article.
This is crazy! I wouldn’t have had a career doing what I did if it wasn’t for this guy! In fact, If, anyone who made a living in the hip hop game over the past couple decades, would never have been able to do that had it not been for the creative genius and innovations of Clive ‘Kool Herc’ Campbell.
Donations for Kool Herc can be sent to: Kool Herc Production, P.O. Box 20472, Huntington Station, NY 11746.
[UPDATE (2/1): dude had kidney stones??! I mean not to downplay that because I’ve actually had them too and even minor incidents can be painful like a muh-f-kcer, but I kind of feel like dupe for even having done this post now…]
[via Davey D]
Lessons from Portugal: A Look at the Fallacy of the ‘War on Drugs’
Maybe the answers are in Portugal (see the video above) and (not what you think), the Netherlands.
Related:
– Op-Ed by Fernando Henrique Cardoso (former president of Brazil, 1995-2002): The war on drugs is lost. [Toronto Star]
Hit the jump for Reason TV’s interview with author, Glenn Greenwald who wrote a Cato Institute policy paper titled, Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies.