![]() Donate WE CAME UP SHORT.Īnd we hope you might consider pitching in before moving on to whatever it is you're about to do next. We really need to see if we'll be able to raise more with this real estate on a daily basis than we have been, so we're hoping to see a promising start. The only investors who won’t let independent, investigative journalism down are the people who actually care about its future-you.Īnd we hope you might consider pitching in before moving on to whatever it is you're about to do next. The reality, for these next few months and next few years, is that we have to start finding ways to grow our online supporter base in a big way-and we're optimistic we can keep making real headway by being real with you about this.īecause the bottom line: Corporations and powerful people with deep pockets will never sustain the type of journalism Mother Jones exists to do. So we urgently need this specific ask, what you're reading right now, to start bringing in more donations than it ever has. And even though there's zero cushion to miss the mark, we won't be all that in your face about our fundraising again until June. That means we're going to have upwards of $350,000, maybe more, to raise in online donations between now and June 30, when our fiscal year ends and we have to get to break-even. We just wrapped up a shorter-than-normal, urgent-as-ever fundraising drive and we came up about $45,000 short of our $300,000 goal. It effects a conversation.”īy signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from Mother Jones and our partners. “That is what attracted us to this video. With art the job is to come up with a parable, a metaphor, or an idea about reality, and put it forward to hopefully affect some sort of thought about it,” El-P says. “With art the job is not to be an accurate reporter of things that are happening. “If you are a cop, being the extension of tyranny in some cases, it has to be a tremendous weight on you, if you are a person of good moral character.” If you are a minority in this society, you carry this fight every, single, goddamn day,” he says. “People are frustrated and tired, and that is what this video symbolizes. But he explains that the video seeks to highlight a different aspect of the issue. Mike admits that he’s gotten some negative feedback from people who think “Close Your Eyes” doesn’t show the power imbalance and overpolicing he had protested. Louis stage on the night of the Ferguson grand jury decision in November made headlines. Run the Jewels has been outspoken on social justice issues before. You don’t know which side you are on,” Mike says. You don’t know if you are going to make it or not. When AG described it to me, he said, ‘Mike, it is like purgatory.’ It is almost worst than a hellish existence because you don’t know if you are going up or down. Let’s make it uncomfortable.’ And that is something that, with me and Mike-it just felt right.” Mike elaborates on the video’s imagery: “If you look at me, Zack, and El, we are kind of just like spirits of some sort, just walking through this barren thing. “He said to us, ‘Let’s not avoid the uncomfortableness of this whole thing,'” El-P says. ![]() In a statement released with the video, Rojas said that he’d wanted to make “a film that would ignite a valuable and productive conversation about racially motivated violence in this country.” The characters’ struggle, he explained, is meant to be seen as a metaphor for the futility of violence.Įl-P says he and Killer Mike instantly liked Rojas’ vision for the video. Rojas, known for his innovative commercials and videos for artists such as Jack White and Portugal. The song pairs an infectious beat with catchy, politically charged rhymes. ![]() “Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck),” features former Rage Against The Machine singer Zack De La Rocha, who joins Run The Jewels members El-P and Killer Mike in the beginning of the video. The latest music video from the hip-hop duo Run the Jewels presents a new perspective on racially-based police brutality. Music starts to play as the story starts to unfold: A white cop and a black man are caught in an equally matched, endless struggle against one another. Slowly, he looks up, and appears to have an epiphany. Sun shines through open windows as he tries to catch his breath. Three men silently stalk an abandoned neighborhood. A train whistle sounds in the distance and suddenly, we see another man.
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