Word: rastas
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...environmental movement is less about making sure we humans can continue to do important things like fly and drive and spritz ourselves with cans of Evian and more of an excuse to advocate an anticonsumerist, antiglobalization, anti-good-smelling-kitchen agenda. People were living in communes, crocheting their own Rasta hats and conserving office electricity by not getting a job long before they knew it was preventing global warming. So don't pretend that some of this environmentalism isn't about pushing a lifestyle. Somewhere someone is arguing that carbon emissions are somehow reduced by jam bands...
...fatal and God is dead. But Marley covered it all-the sexual, the political, the spiritual-and made all of these concerns seem like the most natural topics to be singing about. He took Jamaica's complicated history-a jumble of such disparate concepts, places and things as Rasta philosophy, Garveyism, pirates, rebellion, guava jelly, and Trench Town - and refashioned it into focused, complex music that was concerned with reality but shot through with magic. He was a musical magic realist, a "Natural Mystic", a man who had visions of Jah, but believed in looking "for yours on earth...
SYDNEY At Christian Dior's new boutique at David Jones, local celebs like Kylie Minogue and Naomi Watts are lining up for the funky Rasta saddle...
WHAT MAKES THIS FESTIVAL SPECIAL? It's a Rasta-ized event. It's a very cultural setting. The atmosphere makes you feel very welcome and very united with the next person that...
...yours, I thought." Benjamin Zephaniah, British Rasta poet and activist, in an essay explaining that he turned down the Order of the British Empire honor because it "reminds me of slavery...