These "shows" were made possible for a short time in the early 90s by 915 E STREET Community Center. Bands would play while food was made available for street people downtown. 915 E operated a Food Not Bombs mobile kitchen while other Christian groups also set up shop at the same spot. This was right down the street from the main San Diego Police station. The area was vacant for many years and eventually succumbed to the proliferation of high cost housing now prevalent in Downtown San Diego. Homelessness has not reduced in the area. In fact, it is now more concentrated at the margins as the high cost housing continues to push street people out of the city center. 915 E STREET was a small storefront created by collective members used to putting on shows at the Ché Cafe (on the UCSD campus) who were committed to creating a space for DIY music and projects in the city center which at that time was still affordable, yet ripe with the contradictions of class society. The community center was inspired not only by the anti-authoritarian spirit of the Ché Cafe, but by the momentum happening in cities across the USA where similar community centers/info shops were being established in the ruins of Capital, just before Capital became interested in these areas again. The reinvention of the "American City" did not happen without a conscious effort to bring the threatened - yet burgeoning -street culture together with the revolutionary spirit of the DIY Punk/Hardcore movement as a force to contend with displacement.
that intro to the last song - prob some people will say it's ahead of its time that young people in '94 were talking about fossil fuels, but political punk rock has always been the soundtrack for progressives, and expressed the outlook that mainstream public opinion eventually catches up to fucking 30 odd years later. fucking love punk
I mean, it's not like none of the stuff he said is exactly new, even if his heart is in the right place. It's just that history continues to repeat itself and people fail to ever learn from it.
The second song is one of my favs. I sent them a letter to see if I could get I'd Rather Be and they sent me one back with a pic Of Jord in a speedo. Time doesn't make it less awkward.
The way that Chris addressed the crowd concerning their choices of where they spend their dollar was interesting. He seemed to have an understanding and empathy that many radicals, especially at that point in their lives, are lacking.
I tried to come up with something insightful to say about this clip but, progandhi doesnt leave holes like that to discuss, in this earlier incarnation this band still seems to hit the nail on the head in its understanding of the state of the planet, its history and whaat appears to be coming next. I still can't believe that Hannah isn't teaching a masters level college course in sociology or following in Chomsky's persuit in linguistics. This band matters, then and especially now. All Praise Progandhi!
This is absolutely awesome!! (I still have my ticket to see them in london at around ‘95 or ‘96 and they pulled out at the last minute. I’ve still never seen them live). Sooooo good to see this 🙌💕
Sickened I don’t still have that 10” EP as I got rid of my original record collection 20 years ago and now keep trying to get stuff back since I started a new one three years ago
Thanks for this. I've been watching this performance over the years and it continues to inform.I love the buzz sound-the chunk bouncyness of the bass , the rawish guitar and the beat, and am as grateful as I ever was for expression for concern of our communities.
@@swampcrypt I never listened to nirvana and it wasn’t technical at all nirvana is like the first thing you learn to play on an instrument nobody learns propagandhi for there first song, therefor best 3 piece ever
"And yes, I recognize the irony that the very system I oppose affords me the luxury of biting the hand that feeds. But that`s exactly why priviledged fucks like me should feel obliged to whine and kick and scream- until everyone has everything they need" Propagandhi - Resisting Tyrannical Government
@@Villan33 if you want to support communism, you will have to give up money to someone to disperse. That money then gets taken and redistributed. There will always be someone that needs to be in control of that money. He can certainly give all his money to help the less fortunate without requiring the rest of us to do so. But he wont.
Fu*king right wing losers. No one cares about your mindless need to have pride in your s-hole country. We want to see capitalism destroyed and this country on 🔥 until right-wing mindless drones are completely marginalized or extinct.
