#marisa defranco

[pretty-little-fools]

[helloparkerrose]

[usanewstoday-blog]

NightSide – Reactions To The Travel Ban

NightSide – Reactions To The Travel Ban

BOSTON (CBS) – President Trump made headlines last Friday when he signed an Executive Order that banned people from seven predominantly Muslim countries from traveling to the United States, including those coming here as refugees. So far, the new policy has sparked protests around the country, and caused some foreign leaders to speak out against the move. But is all of the pushback a small price…

[saturdaynightmatinee]

CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 6.5 / 10

Título Original: Free Guy

Año: 2021

Duración: 115 min

País: Estados Unidos

Director: Shawn Levy

Guion: Matt Lieberman, Zak Penn

Música: Christophe Beck

Fotografía: George Richmond

Reparto: Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Joe Keery, Lil Rel Howery, Taika Waititi, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Britne Oldford, Camille Kostek, Jamaal Burcher, Bob Gilliam, Matty Cardarople, Owen Burke, Leah Procito, Seán McLoughlin, Janelle Feigley, Ninja, Michael Tow, Lin Hultgren, David Arthur Sousa, Heidi Garrow, Kayla Caulfield, Jose Guns Alves, Brandon Scales, David Morwick, Kenneth Israel, Michael Malvesti, Alyssa Talbot, Adrian M. Mompoint, Anabel Graetz, Jeff Bouffard, Eugene Nomura, Elaine Victoria Grey, Raj Jawa, Cassidy Neal, Marisa Defranco, Ben Bunnag, Colin Allen, Destiny Claymore, Brett Schneider, Michael Balzano III, Lizzie Havoc, Laurie Kwiatkowski, C.G. Alexander, Chris Evans, Channing Tatum

Productora: Berlanti Productions, 20th Century Studios, 21 Laps Entertainment, Lit Entertainment Group, Maximum Effort. Distribuidora: 20th Century Studios

Género: Action, Adventure, Comedy

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6264654/

TRAILER:

[thefrogholler]

Happy Birthday Marisa DeFranco! – keyboardist/vocals – The DeFranco Family – group hits include – Heartbeat, It’s A Love Beat – Abra-Ca-Dabra – 7/23/1954

#musicalbirthdaynotes #thefrogholler #marisadefranco

[diyeipetea]

Budddy De Franco (y II) - Lou Donaldson. La Odisea de la Música Afroamericana (187) [Podcast]

Budddy De Franco (y II) – Lou Donaldson. La Odisea de la Música Afroamericana (187) [Podcast]

Por Luis Escalante Ozalla.

La Odisea de la Música Afroamericana es un programa de radio dirigido, presentado y producido por Luis Escalante Ozalla, autor de los libros Nueva Orleans (1717-1917): Sexo, Raza y Jass y Y se hace música al andar con swing.

En el capítulo 187 de La Odisea de la Música Afroamericana Luis Escalante Ozalla termina con el repaso de la figura del clarinetista Buddy De Franco

[reflexcine]

Sound of metal: un viaje sensitivo por el camino de la aceptación

Sinopsis: Ruben (Riz Ahmed), un baterista del under, pierde rápidamente la audición y debe suspender una gira programada junto a su novia y cantante, Lou (Olivia Cooke). El incidente lo pondrá en contacto con una comunidad de sordos, liderada por Joe (Paul Raci), con la que deberá aprender a adaptarse a su nueva forma de vida y asimilar su condición.

Sound of metal recurre a una gran originalidad para relatar el drama interno de un personaje terco y desfachatado, cuya frustración marca el camino para hacer de la historia algo imprevisible. Probablemente la idea más acertada y mejor ejecutada de toda la película, y quizás una de las que dio origen al proyecto, sea mostrar los sucesos desde la subjetividad más profunda del personaje principal, no solo desde su perspectiva visual sino también auditiva. las dificultades que experimenta Ruben son transmitidas directamente por un gran trabajo en la edición sonora, que sumado a un montaje dinámico que alterna entre planos generales y primeros planos se ofrece un contrato fácilmente asimilable para el público. Estos aspectos técnicos se apoyan, también, en una gran interpretación de Riz ahmed, que con simples gestos y muecas puede demostrar las contradicciones que afronta el personaje en determinados momentos, como desazón, ira, impotencia e ironía; para pasar luego a una violenta expresividad física.

Otro de los atractivos del film reside en en la construcción de este personaje, y cómo sus inesperadas y nuevas condiciones lo acercan hacia un nuevo mundo totalmente ajeno y distinto, el cual se rehúsa a habitar. Él, un adicto que lleva cuatro años limpio y atravesado por una vida nómade producto de las giras de la banda que forma junto a su pareja (que parece ser su único cable a tierra); choca con una comunidad con un ritmo de vida mucho más calmo y simple, y sin comunicación con el mundo exterior. Los valores que ésta predica se verán reflejados en el duro aprendizaje de Ruben, que con continuas contradicciones le resulta difícil decidirse entre asimilar su inminente nueva forma de vida o aferrarse a su pasado rockero. Son estas contradicciones lo que torna su futuro algo difícil de prever, ya que su carácter impulsivo y renegado lo llevan a actuar casi de sorpresa para recuperar lo que tenía, al mismo tiempo que parece adaptarse a las nuevas reglas de juego y a interiorizar los valores compartidos entre sus pares. Si bien el trabajo de Riz Ahmed es el más arriesgado y complejo, también hay que destacar las labores de sus partenaires, que construyen junto a él un universo diferente al hegemónico pero muy realista. Olivia Cooke protagoniza las escenas de mayor carga dramática, y su transformación física dota de una impronta mucho más acabada y oscura del mundo en el que estaba inmerso Ruben. Paul Raci, por su parte, expresa con profunda naturalidad una sordera ya interiorizada y superada, mostrando seguridad en el lenguaje de señas y una solemnidad digna de un líder. Es en la oposición entre estos personajes donde también se refleja esa dicotomía que tanto atraviesa a Ruben a lo largo de la película. Sound of metal propone acompañar de la manera más íntima posible el cambio de hábitos de un personaje singular, que de manera repentina pero verosímil comienza un viaje del que aún no está convencido y del que, al mismo tiempo, no tiene escapatoria.

Ficha técnica

Título original: Sound of metal (2019)

Duración: 120 min.

Dirección: Darius Marder

Guión:  Darius Marder, Abraham Marder

Elenco: Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke, Paul Raci, Mathieu Amalric, Tom Kemp, Bill Thorpe, William Xifaras, David Arthur Sousa, Michael Tow, Marisa Defranco, Lauren Ridloff, Jamie Ghazarian, Chris Perfetti, Hillary Baack, Chelsea Bond

[thisdaynews]

Warren says she's 'with Bernie' on Medicare for All. In 2012, she wanted nothing to do with it.

New Post has been published on https://thebiafrastar.com/warren-says-shes-with-bernie-on-medicare-for-all-in-2012-she-wanted-nothing-to-do-with-it/

Warren says she's 'with Bernie' on Medicare for All. In 2012, she wanted nothing to do with it.

Warren, a front-runner in the 2020 presidential primary, is known today as one of the most vocal champions for Medicare for All in the Democratic Party. But during her first Senate campaign in 2012, she and her aides were pressed on single-payer and dodged the question again and again, according to an analysis of newspaper reports, TV, and interviews with health care reform activists at the time.

“It was frustrating,” Ture Turnbull, former executive director of Mass-Care, a single-payer advocacy group in Warren’s home state of Massachusetts, said of her comments in the 2012 race. “There were multiple times where we would approach her, and that was the standard response.”

Warren’s refusal to embrace single-payer during that campaign came four years after she co-wrote an essay that called it the “most obvious” solution to the nation’s health care woes — though perhaps “politically unacceptable.”

Warren’s remarks in 2012, as well as her more circumspect attitude toward Medicare for All at the beginning of her presidential campaign, has exposed her to criticisms from the left. That could become a liability, particularly if her progressive rival Bernie Sanders contrasts it with his decades-long support for single-payer. The two candidates have agreed to a non-aggression pact, but as Warren has risen in the polls, Sanders and his aides have begun to highlight differences between the candidates.

In an interview with POLITICO, Sanders said no other presidential contender would prioritize single-payer as much as him. “I’m glad that we have other people, in various forms, supporting it. I’ve been on this issue for I don’t know how many years — 20, 30 years, okay?” he said. “It’s been my passion. I believe from the bottom of my heart that healthcare is a human right.”

Warren’s record on Medicare for All has drawn scrutiny from some single-payer advocates. Many activists trust that she is fully on board with the policy and would push for it in the White House as strongly as Sanders, according to a survey of nearly 20 people and organizations that support Medicare for All. But some, including even Warren’s allies, are less certain.

“We know that if Elizabeth Warren is elected president, we’re going to have to work hard to make sure she prioritizes it appropriately,” said Sal Rosselli, president of the National Union of Healthcare Workers, which has endorsed both Sanders and Warren. “We know that Bernie Sanders will because of history.”

Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All in 2020 has proven pivotal. It has won her admiration from progressives who see it as a litmus test, and fueled attacks from moderates who say it makes her “unelectable.” It also appears to have helped her chip away at Sanders’ base: A recent poll of the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire found that more voters who approve of single-payer back Warren than Sanders.

Warren’s previous hesitance toward Medicare for All could give Sanders’ supporters, if not Sanders himself, an opening to attack her as less than authentic. Some of his fans already have gone there on social media. Health care is also a top concern for Democratic voters, and single-payer is fairly popular within the party, particularly among the progressives who are a key part of Warren’s coalition.

“Elizabeth believes Medicare for All should be the law of the land. She has made the case for why consistently and passionately,” said Saloni Sharma, Warren’s national deputy press secretary. “She spent her whole career studying why families go broke, and came to find that one of the top reasons for personal bankruptcies is health crises and medical expenses — even for families with insurance.”

Warren’s aides did not provide a comment on her remarks during her 2012 campaign. It was a vastly different time politically: The “public option,” now seen as the compromise position of Joe Biden, was considered far-left. Fierce backlash against the Affordable Care Act had helped Republicans pick up 63 House seats two years earlier. Brown had won office promising to oppose the bill.

In 2012, Brown tried to paint Warren as a radical who’d usher in European-style, government-run health care. Warren also had a primary opponent,Marisa DeFranco, who called herself the “only candidate in this race who supports single-payer” and chastised Warren for not doing so.

Warren and her staff repeatedly tried to steer questions about single-payer back to the Affordable Care Act.

“I think the urgent question now is whether we’re going to be able to hold on to the health care reforms that just passed,” Warren said in one typical statement that year. “There are a lot of people who want to repeal them. I think we need to focus on protecting them and on finding new ways to lower costs, which are still too high.”

In another example, Warren’s 2012 spokeswoman said “Elizabeth supports the [ACA]” when asked for her position on single-payer.

Braude, the TV host, tried but failed to push Warren off her talking points. “You do support single-payer, do you not?” he asked. Warren replied, “No, what I’ve got right now … ” at which point he interrupted her and countered that she had expressed support for single-payer in the past. She shot back, “Oh! I think you need to go back and take a look.”

Asked thisMarch by CNN’s Jake Tapper whether she backed eliminating commercial insurance, Warren said Sanders’ Medicare for All bill, which she signed onto in 2017, has “a runway for that,” adding later, “I’ve also co-sponsored other bills.” More recently she’s come under fire for referring to Medicare for All as a “framework,” though she reiterated her support for the plan in the same remarks.

Dying activist Ady Barkan, one of the nation’s most high-profile advocates for Medicare for All, interviewed Warren about single-payer in a video released last month. In the Q&A, he said health care reformers had criticized her at the beginning of her campaign for not talking about Medicare for All or being clear about her stance on abolishing private insurance.

Barkan asked Warren in the interview if she was initially hesitant at the outset because, in his view, her approach to dealing with problems generally is “not to dramatically expand the size of the public sector, but to instead heavily regulate private-sector actors and beat down their greed.” Warren said “no,” adding, “I think it was more about focused on transition than on endpoint. But there are areas where markets just don’t work, and a big part of health care is one of those.”

Barkan told POLITICO that Sanders deserves “tremendous” credit for rallying for Medicare for All when it wasn’t popular, but aside from that, “there’s really no daylight” between the two candidates on the topic — and they would both make it a top priority in the White House.

“The country thought Medicare for All was a fringe idea back then,” he said of Warren’s comments in 2012. “It was an entirely different context from now, when we have a majority of Americans getting behind single-payer health care.”

Single-payer advocates appear split on how significant Warren’s earlier reticence is.

“I know either of them, if elected president, would work tirelessly to grow public and legislative support for Medicare For All,” said Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the leading sponsor of the House’s single-payer bill who has not yet endorsed a candidate.

But others predicted Sanders would make it more of a focus than Warren or that there are other distinctions between the candidates on the issue. Single-payer supporters who have endorsed Sanders, in particular, are skeptical.

“She’s an Elizabeth-come-lately,” said Peter Knowlton, general president of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, which is backing the Vermont senator.

It’s unclear if Sanders will draw stronger contrasts with Warren on Medicare for All. For months he went out of his way not to criticize Warren, whom he considers a friend, but last week he went further than ever in explaining how he differs from her.

“Bernie wrote the bill,” said Megan Svoboda, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America’s national political committee. “It’s been his priority for years, and he ran on Medicare For All in 2016. There’s no question that it will be a Day One priority for him. Warren, on the other hand, hasn’t prioritized it in her campaign and therefore likely wouldn’t as president.”

Read More

[feministmajority]

Media Contact for This Release:  Megan Perry, mperry@feminist.org

The Feminist Majority is proud to announce our endorsement of Marisa DeFranco for U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts 6th district.

via Marisa DeFranco

Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority stated: “Marisa DeFranco is a long-time and very strong advocate for women’s rights, immigrants, and children in foster care. She is a tireless worker and leader on a wide range of issues that advance women’s equality. Marisa is a leader that we need in Congress to advance women’s pay equity, as well as immigration reform, LGBT rights, and social justice issues such as ending sex trafficking.”

DeFranco, an immigration attorney for the past 17 years, was named Top Woman of Law by the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and received national recognition by being awarded the National Legal Aid and Defender Association’s Beacon of Justice Award for her pro bono service. She has been a leader in the National Organization for Women, serving as the Vice President of Legislative Policy for Massachusetts NOW. She also served on the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women. Marisa has shown time and time again that she is a strong spokesperson and advocate for equal pay for women, for ending violence against women, for civil rights and disability rights.

Marisa said: “I am honored to have the endorsement of the Feminist Majority. Without pioneers like Eleanor Smeal who fought for women to be recognized as equal under the law, women like me would never have had the independence to pursue our dreams as we do today. The fight continues to ensure women’s rights and equality and freedom, and I am grateful that the Feminist Majority joins me in my fight to speak truth to power and to bring a voice to Congress for justice, for women and for all.”

[pretty-little-fools]

[helloparkerrose]

Heartbeat It’s A Love Beat (1972)

The DeFranco Family

The DeFranco Family featuring Tony DeFranco

20th Century Records

[usanewstoday-blog]

NightSide – All Talk, No Action? BOSTON (CBS) – Last Friday, Donald Trump was officially sworn in as the 45th President of the United States.

[usanewstoday-blog]

NightSide – Your Money BOSTON (CBS) – Bloomberg News Reporter Anne Mostue stops by for a financial year in review and what to look forward to in the new year. Originally broadcast December 29th, 2016

[usanewstoday-blog]

NightSide – Immigration and Terrorism BOSTON (CBS) – Marisa breaks down the current climate of immigration in America and it’s link to terrorism. Originally broadcast December 29th, 2016.

[usanewstoday-blog]

NightSide – Worst Dinner Party Ever BOSTON (CBS) – Now that the holiday season is drawing to a close, we want to know if politics found their way into the conversation at your dinners or parties. Did you avoid it? Did any arguments break out? Originally broadcast December 29th, 2016.

[usanewstoday-blog]

NightSide – Bad Drivers BOSTON (CBS) – Marisa has a few pet peeves about drivers on the road. Do you have any? Are Boston drivers the worst drivers? Originally broadcast December 29th, 2016.