Uganda Skate Union Support Shirts & CNN
The Uganda Skateboard Union in Kitintale Uganda has whittled itself out a little place in the hearts of us here at Sparrow. If you are able to, please consider buying one of these t-shirts we made to support their beautiful program that embodies solidarity and hope. One year ago Cassi Amanda Gibson visited their […]
BP’s Greenwashing & Greenpeace’s Rebranding
For those reading this via RSS or on facebook click here to view the full post w/ video. Last week Andy Stepanian of The Sparrow Project wrote an article for The Huffington Post declaring that, “all of BP’s greenwashing can clean up their spill,” and this week that is becoming evident. The article drew […]
Long Beach Swim 4 Humanity Event to Benefit Surfaid International
Much thanks are due to Danny Bobis of Cipher for this contribution, and moreover big thanks are owed to Danny for all the hard work he has put into coordinating this amazing fundraiser in Long Beach. Worldwide, 10 million children die each year from preventable diseases. You can help make a difference by participating in […]
Adham the Father of Sayaaf
Please Check Out Andy Stepanian’s Article this week on Huffington Post, Share It With Your Friends, & Leave Comments on the Huffington Post Blog So That They Will Continue to Pay Attention To This Important Story! “Before Abu-Sayyaf was an inmate in a secretive US political prison called a ‘Communications Management Unit’ Abu-Sayyaf was a […]
Interview with Moby & Miyun Park
A few weeks ago the sparrow project had the privilege to sit down with multi-platinum recording artist and producer, Moby and Miyun Park, executive director to the Global Animal Partnership to discuss their new book Gristle out now through The New Press. Gristle addresses issues ranging from workers rights to animal welfare to the environmental […]
Anti-LNG Earth Week Events
For more info on the Green Expo click here. Long Island says, “NO TO LNG!” With little public review a group of investors proposed the construction of an artificial island 13 miles south of Long Beach that would import and re-gas foreign Liquid Natural Gas (LNG.) The plan is bad for our environment, it poses […]
Leanne Mai-Ly Hilgart of Vaute Couture
Leanne Mai-ly Hilgart, founder of Vaute Couture, the first and only vegan winter coat line on the market sat down with the Sparrow Project this fall for an interview where she detailed her 8 months of fabric research for a vegan alternative to wool that was slim & pretty but ready for a Chicago winter. […]
Speak With It Too
The following video has been circulating around activist communities in the past few weeks, it’s a brilliantly animated typographic depiction of a poem by Taylor Mali. The artist, Ronnie Bruce, made it as a class project over a year ago and later posted on his vimeo page. Without over analyzing, this video is a prime […]
Muzzling A Movement 3/23/2010 NYU
The NYU Student Animal Legal Defense Fund presents “Muzzling A Movement” a speaking engagement with former SHAC 7 prisoner Andy Stepanian, and Dara Lovitz whose book, Muzzling A Movement, on the suppression of speech & first amendment protected protest within the animal protection movement, is due out this summer from Lantern Books. Activist & former […]
50%50 Solidarity Shirts
For those visiting from SuperVegan.com Please be sure to check out our new online store here. It’s exciting news to say that after a lot of saving up money, designing, and signing contracts the Sparrow Project is proud to announce that this Spring 2010 we will be launching a line of benefit shirts, that are […]
Island to Island Opening 1/23/2010
Recently we were hired to make a video short to help promote Brent Gentile’s latest exhibition called Island to Island. All smooth-talking aside, it can hardly be considered work when you are dealing with content as interesting as Brent’s. Merging what some call graffiti with victorian styles Brent Gentile uses ornamental flourishes, stencils & urban […]
Uganda Skate & Solidarity on Girlie Girl Army
“Green” Media Guru Chloe Jo Davis reached out to Nicolette & Cassi Gibson to run a feature on the Skate & Solidarity Project in Kampala Uganda. Please be sure to check out the article on the Girlie Girl Army, leave comments, and thank them for supporting the project. The full article which includes video can […]
Street Heart Benefit, an Inspirational Success
On December 3rd, The Sparrow Project joined Rawthentix.com, Special Sauce and the Guardian Brian Foundation in presenting “Street heART,” a unique benefit art auction aimed at raising awareness & much needed funds for individuals with severe brain injuries, brain cancer, and prolonged brain trauma. What started as an idea shared by Vanessa Diaz of RAW […]
The Invisible, Accidental Records, 2009, (UK)
by Alex Ferzan, Sparrow Media Contributor While overseas on tour with The Urgency this spring, I revisited 15 or so of the larger cities in the UK and Ireland. Regretfully, I can’t say I was reborn. Though I love Manchester, parts of London, Edinburgh and a few other damp and dismal distractions in the region, […]
All Bottled Up
Last Month I posted about the privatization of water through corporate control of municipal water systems. As I mentioned in the previous post, the second way corporations are stealing our water is through bottling. FLOW (For the Love of Water), a documentary which came out in 2008 brilliantly (and frighteningly) lays out the international […]
A Fine Line Between Necessity & Irresponsibility for Rise Against
“I want someone to sit me down and say, what the fuck was up with that?,” says Tim McIlrath, front man to Rise Against, a pop-punk outfit from Chicago. In an interview off the set of the music video shoot for “Re-Education (Through Labor)” the single off their most recent album “Appeal to Reason” (DGC/Interscope) […]
To Write Love on Her Arms Founder, Jamie Tworkowski, Speaks About Hope, Non-Profits, & The Power of a Story
Jamie Tworkowski is the founder of a non-profit called To Write Love On Her Arms aimed at helping high risk young people combat depression, self injury, and addiction by meeting them where they are, online. TWLOHA started as a story and one-off t-shirt with aims of helping to pay for the much needed treatment of […]
Cipher’s Maurice Mitchell Heads Out On A Community Building Tour
Some folks in the music scene can get nostalgic from time to time and reminisce of the, “good old days” when rock was political and it, “meant something.” Cipher is one of those bands that brings back nostalgia far more vivid than the memories of the apple pies grandma used to make. For some it’s […]
Dennis Lyxzen of The (International) Noise Conspiracy on Capitalism, Radical Actions, and Finding Your Own Space to Be Political
The economy seems to be a topic on the mouths of people worldwide. Regardless of which nation, and whatever you want to call it; economic downturn, financial crisis, post-bubble America, or recession, there is no arguing that the economy, specifically capitalism, is a topic that is widely being talked about today. Everyone from pundits on […]
The Re-Branding of Blackwater
Xe Marks The Spot by Debbie Millman In 2007, Blackwater Worldwide, the world’s largest private security company, made the wrong kind of headlines when Blackwater contractors allegedly shot and killed 17 Iraqis in a crowded square in Baghdad. This resulted in protests, congressional inquiries and the Iraqi government refusing to allow the organization to operate in […]
The Corporate Theft of Water
It is essential to all forms of life, covers a third of the earth, makes up over half of the human body and yet I can’t find a way to begin my discussion of water. Maybe it’s for the very reasons I just mentioned. The fact that water is all around us, is us and […]
Death of Def | Birth of Deaf
A piece about music and a business that forgot about it. – by Alexander Ferzan Last night I watched a web version of Joaquin Phoenix’s bizarre interview on the Late Show with David Letterman. I was a little late to the party, so I re-caught it on YouTube.com. After viewing the interview in it’s entirety, I […]
Envy on the Coast & Cipher Say No to LNG
Ryan Hunter of Envy on the Coast Speaks out against the proposed construction, the effects on marine habitats, the toll of fossil fuels on human life & foreign policy & why you should contact Govenor Paterson and tell him to put an end to the proposed LNG island. Envy on the Coast speaks out out […]
Spirit Songs A Musical Taxonomy of the Amazon
“Spirit Songs A Musical Taxonomy of the Amazon” is a documentary that my friends and I are making about healing songs—called icaros–and the shamans of the Peruvian Amazon who sing them. Until recently, these shamans have served for generations as the doctors, pharmacists, psychologists, and priests for the over three million indigenous people that live […]