{"id":1174,"date":"2012-12-06T00:03:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T00:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2026-09-22T11:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T10:50:22","slug":"locusts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=1174","title":{"rendered":"Locusts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/movies\/07_2008\/locusts.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/\/invincible.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/movies\/07_2008\/locusts.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emergence &#8211; Locusts (2008, 233.8MB, 11:19)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From celebrated MC Invincible, a docu-music-video<br \/>\nabout the history of gentrification and capitalism&#8217;s<br \/>\ndestruction of communities in Detroit.<br \/>\nVideo features several local activists, including<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grace_Lee_Boggs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grace Lee Boggs<\/a> and (full disclosure) my good friend<br \/>\nRon Scott.<br \/>\nThis intense collaboration gives me chills every<br \/>\ntime I watch it.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll let the rest speak for itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emergence &#8211; Locusts (2008, 233.8MB, 11:19) From celebrated MC Invincible, a docu-music-video about the history of gentrification and capitalism&#8217;s destruction of communities in Detroit. Video features several local activists, including Grace Lee Boggs and (full disclosure) my good friend Ron &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=1174\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,1,17,24,26,30,37,31,42,22,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-arts","category-community","category-documentary","category-documentary-arts","category-education","category-historical","category-music-video","category-narrative","category-politics","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11407,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/11407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}