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DA Carter of Spectacles. Producing music, performing poems. Radio, records & rhymes.Presents FBi Radio theme show TrackSuits & word-art event Loose Leaf Literature.  @daspex on the tweet machine.  Let's be friends. 

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Giggles. TONIGHT: Rapid Response Team (www.tinyurl.com/PACTRRT) SAT 27 JUNE: Spaceport 2 @ Gaelic Club Upstairs w/ @cooking_with_caustic, Lord St, Relevent & @deepsea_lights 4th JULY: Spex & @thedoubleshadows & Bones Jones & Little Hart & @elsa_isabella at Roxbury Hotel.

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Next Rapid Response Team show 8pm Saturday 13th June. Sign up at www.tinyurl.com/PACTRRT to get FREE entry to secret location of our show we're creating right now in less than 48 hours in response to current events.

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This is the lovely stage I graced at Subsonic this afternoon. View of the river, beautiful humans getting amongst it.

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PACT Rapid Response Team Assemble! 1st response this Saturday! #pactrrt #rrt #spectrumnow

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Honoured for Spectacles to be a late addition to this incredible lineup for an important cause. Tuesday 10th March @ Red Rattler, Marrickville.

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Very proud to present Spaceport Two: relaunch on Friday April 10 with @jenhiphop. Quality evening of beats & rhymes at Gaelic Club.

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New #lyric #video up: No Regrets America (NRA). spectaclesmusic.com

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Noice shot of me doing my thing at Red Rattler on Sat by @shotbynedal #sydney #poetry #bw

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Sweat Collectors going in at The Sly Fox for #rockthegate

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UPCOMING SHOWS NOVEMBER / DECEMBER

Hello! I've had my head down working towards a number of great shows coming up this weekend and beyond! If you're around any of these wonderful events, it would be great to see your face. SUNDAY 23rd NOVEMBER - ROCK THE GATE, Enmore Rock the Gate Conscious Hip Hop @ The Sly Fox Sunday 23rd November Spectacles are playing a hiphop set as a duo at 7.30pm at the Sly Fox. I'm doing a solo set at 6pm at the Warren View, at Art Party & Rock the Gate. Rock the Gate is a huge street festival against fracking. SATURDAY 6th DECEMBER - RED RATTLER, Marrickville. I'm immensely proud to be part of an incredible lineup of spoken word and musical performers for A NIGHT AGAINST DISCRIMINATION - Anthony Anaxagorou Sydney Show at the Red Rattler. SUNDAY 7th DECEMBER - SUBSONIC I'm performing solo at 2.30pm on the Chilled Market Stage at Subsonic Music Festival. Really psyched to be part of something so massive with so many artists I love.

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Complaint to Press Council Regarding Mark Latham's piece "Why Left Feminists Don't Like Kids"

I loathe ragebait. Most of the times I simply ignore it, but sometimes it's too horrific not to take action. But often responding with criticism circulates the piece more, increases pageviews, which simply adds to the incentives for media outlets to produce more inflammatory bullshit. Mark Latham's moronic piece today is so stupid, so dangerous, that I think the best response is to make a complaint to the Press Council for violating its own Statement of Principles. Feel free to use these points in your own complaint to the Press Council about Latham's piece. In the future, if you find a piece that warrants it, make a complaint. Hopefully media outlets feel more of a consequence than more hits. ====================================================== Mark Latham’s piece, “Why Left Feminists Don’t Like Kids” breaches the Press Councils Statement of Principles, specifically number 6:

6. Avoid causing or contributing materially to substantial offence, distress or prejudice, or a substantial risk to health or safety, unless doing so is sufficiently in the public interest.

Mark Latham's piece broadly criticises Lisa Pryor particularly, and apparently women generally, for taking anti-depressants if they have children. Below are a number of direct quotes from the article.

> I felt depressed myself, at the thought of a Fairfax columnist describing one of life’s great responsibilities, the raising of infant children, as requiring “neurochemical assistance”.

> Why do people like this have children in the first place? How will the children feel when they grow up and learn that they pushed their mother onto anti-depressants?

> My lifestyle has never been more satisfying. Whether it’s my daughter’s smile, my eldest son’s Aussie irreverence or the belly laughter of my youngest son – these are my anti-depressants, every hour, every day. What is Pryor going on about?

> At a personal level, it’s also cowardly: popping pills as an easy way out, instead of facing up to the responsibilities of adulthood.

Leaving aside the deep idiocy of Latham's central thesis, these comments directly impugn the use of anti-depressants by Pryor, or any young mother or parent. At a time when removing the stigma of discussing and treating mental health issues should not be more obvious, Latham and the editors of the Australian Financial Review have seen fit to publish swingeing attacks on an individual, a class of women and parents generally for using prescription anti-depressants. These statements could clearly create offence, distress and a risk to the mental health of individuals. There is no public interest justification for these ignorant, dangerous and loathsome statements that criticise parents taking medication for depression. I'm not sure Mark Latham has the emotional or intellectual capacity to understand the magnitude of shame he should feel for these statements, but perhaps at least a response from the Press Council about this matter for breaching your Principles could bring some professional embarrassment to the editors at the Australian Financial Review who clearly taken leave of their better judgement. DA Carter

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Righteous noise on the weekend. #sydney #innerwest #warehouse #music

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DA Carter Bio

DA Carter is a musician, street performer, poet & broadcaster from Sydney. He's obsessed with rhymes, records and radio. DA has toured 13 countries featured on stages of all shapes and sizes from the Ponte Vecchio in Florence to the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York, squats in Berlin to art installations in the depths of the Nevada desert, from unconventional spaces such as warehouses, backyards and train carriages to the Annandale Hotel, The Factory Theatre and Sydney Theatre back home. He's performed his unique blend of loops, beatbox, spoken word and improv at Center Camp Stage at Burning Man Festival 2013 & 2014 in Nevada, at the National Young Writers Festival 2014 in Newcastle, at Sydney Fringe Festival 2014, Subsonic Festival 2014 and Rock the Gate 2014, Regrowth Festival 2013 & Landfest 2013, 2011 & 2009. He was a NSW Finalist of the Australian Poetry Slam in 2013. DA performs solo and with a four piece hip-hop band called Spectacles.

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This handsome talented fella features in the next Spectacles clip. #spex #music #video #still

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According to this #sketchy #selfie I'm happier than usual, which is accurate.

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The Tits-McGee of rap, @buck65 dances as a Centaur at the Basement last night.

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Jonathon Davis #artparty #sydney #poetry #now