#casey jarman

[zestbooks]

Death: An Oral History.

[clarityandchaos]

The thing that got me about Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson was when his mom said that he didn’t think he was going to live, anyway. She said she was always trying to get on him about going to school and doing his homework and graduating and all that. And he didn’t really think he was gonna have a life. […] I was like, damn. People don’t know how much our kids are worth, and they don’t care. But his friends knew. When you would see those images on the news about what was happening in Ferguson, those were kids. On Twitter and Facebook, they were like, “Meet me at my grandma’s house.” You would see kids talking about getting batteries and keeping their cameras going and getting water. What I remember about Ferguson is that when the police put a curfew in place, the kids went on boycott. They stayed outside, and they were building tents and camps. This was for days. They were streaming what they were doing outside, and they were organizing. They were ordering food and connecting online and communicating with people. They’s kids! Everybody’s connecting communities to give them resources to stay outside. It lasted months. Every time something happened, they had the communication line. It was going through the buzz. Kansas City might’ve just sent water one time, but now Kansas City is a buzzline. If somebody tweets in Ferguson, it’s gonna tweet in St. Louis and tweet in Chicago. Beautiful. That’s what made it go: The kids were pushing it and everybody else couldn’t ignore it because they were calling for help.

My Journey to Activism and Black Lives Matter   Teressa Raiford tells Casey Jarman how she became an activist, community leader, and talks about he community experience of death that is at the core of the Black Lives Matter movement. Must read. 

[zestbooks]

“It turns out that when you invite people to walk through that darkness with you--when you ask them to meditate on death openly, without any particular destination in mind--they can serve as bright flashes.”--Casey Jarman, from Death: An Oral History (out in October).

[lpspdx-blog]

XAIPETE! The ever magnanimous (for now) Mr. Jarman of the Willamette Week wrote this about our BILLY CALLOUS cassette release show at the Kenton Club with Moodring and Curious Hands on 4/14/2012: [TOO MUCH ROCK] ...LPS plays undeniably raw rock that seems based almost entirely on whim. As such, the band recently finished not one but two new records. The first is Billy Callous, which presents LPS as an angular post-punk/post-grunge outfit with candy-coated New Wave tendencies. The second is the yet-to-be-released Seduce Yourself, which the band describes as "a highly (some would say excessively) produced glam rock record." (The single leaked track from the disc, "Push," sounds more like Squeeze than Queen to me, but either way, I'm happy.) There are plenty of good musical ideas at work here, and considering that LPS intends to release a grand total of five records before 2012 is out—each an entirely different beast—chances are that you'll like something this band does."

http://www.wweek.com/portland/event-100117-last_prick_standing_moodring_curious_hands.html