Bobby Avey

pianist, composer - Brooklyn, NY

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

I am the only Palestinian American serving in Congress, and my perspective is needed here now more than ever. I will not be silenced and I will not let anyone distort my words.

I’m from Detroit, where I learned to speak truth to power, even if my voice shakes.

[Steven Donziger @SDonziger]

BREAKING: New lawsuit says Norfolk rail's outrageous decision to detonate 1 million tons of cancer-causing vinyl chloride in Ohio created a new chemical warfare gas so deadly it is outlawed by the Geneva Convention.

EPA has not tested for this new gas.
https://t.co/inQpL1FQg1

[Johnny Oberg @JohnOberg]

Worthy of your consideration. 🧡 RT if you agree!

[Johnny Oberg @JohnOberg]

If you wouldn't commit atrocities to a cat or dog, like burning them, mutilating them without painkillers, or confining them for *months* on end, WHY would you pay someone else to do that just because that animal is a chicken, pig, fish, or cow? 🤔

[Johnny Oberg @JohnOberg]

The mass-production of milk turns innocent, gentle cows into industrialized milking machines. 💔

Please choose kindness and select #plantbased dairy instead. #AnimalsOverProfits

[Whirlwind Recordings @WhirlwindRecord]

#OnThisDay in 2014, we released @Bobby_Avey's record 'Authority Melts from Me', an hour-long suite for quintet inspired by Haitian Vodou drumming. Watch the album's atmospheric trailer here: https://t.co/ELQ0xEHIeT

[Earth @earth]

So, you're tired of isolation?

[Ady Barkan @AdyBarkan]

An update on my health.

It’s been increasingly hard for me to breathe on my own, so I’m going to the hospital for a pretty big surgery tomorrow.

I am getting a traecheostomy. Heavy times for our family.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

The world's largest military budgets:

🇯🇵 $50 billion
🇬🇧 $53 billion
🇫🇷 $56 billion
🇮🇳 $58 billion
🇷🇺 $63 billion
🇸🇦 $83 billion
🇨🇳 $168 billion
🇺🇸 $700 billion

What if—just maybe—we led the world not in weapons and war, but in fighting humanity's common enemy: climate change?

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

I continue to be somewhat amazed at the contrast between the rhetoric surrounding climate and the refusal to change meat consumption, given how crucial the latter is for the former. Every Dem candidate speaks in apocalyptic terms about climate but few, if any, talk about meat:

[Johnny Oberg @JohnOberg]

This young calf just wants to drink milk from their mom. But this device prevents that from happening. This is the dairy industry. #DitchDairy

[Johnny Oberg @JohnOberg]

This rescued pig experiencing grass and the outdoors for the first time is everything. Please RT! 🧡 [via @vivacampaigns / @DeanFarmTrust]

[Johnny Oberg @JohnOberg]

Claustrophobic? Imagine being a mother pig. 😤

[Johnny Oberg @JohnOberg]

This poor chicken is shivering out of fear and pain. 💔

Multiply her suffering by 9 billion chickens, and that's modern American animal agriculture.

Don't feel hopeless. Each of us can help chickens like her by leaving them off our plate. TY for documenting, @thesavemovement.

[Johnny Oberg @JohnOberg]

HEARTBREAKING: Sharks often have their fins cut off while still alive, then are tossed overboard.

They can no longer swim, so they sink to the bottom of the #ocean and die slowly of suffocation or are eaten by other predators.

#Shark fin soup must be banned. RT if you agree. 💔

[Johnny Oberg @JohnOberg]

This is called a "spiked muzzle." 😨

It's designed to be so painful for the mother cow that she'll push her baby away to avoid the pain. A perfect example of how farm animals are mistreated in today’s industrial, apathetic system. 💔

[Sam Newsome @samnewsome]

If you want to create beautiful, innovative music that makes a difference, you must also be willing to create horrible music that no one likes. The fear of failure is the surest path to failure.

[Johnny Oberg @JohnOberg]

Why love one but eat the other? 🤔

[Rudresh Mahanthappa @rudreshm]

We rocked it today at the @BMW_Welt Jazz Awards.
Let's see if we make the finals.
@RezAbbasi @Bobby_Avey @RudyRoyston and #françoismoutin