{"id":5777,"date":"2014-07-29T10:45:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T14:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=5777"},"modified":"2014-07-29T10:45:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T14:45:09","slug":"fast-food-oppression-are-you-loving-it-music-video-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/29\/fast-food-oppression-are-you-loving-it-music-video-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fast Food Oppression: Are You Loving It?&#8221; Music Video Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young Oakland artists address issues of food justice, health and well being in this original song and music video, &#8220;Food Justice Oppression: Are you Loving It?&#8221;. The video debuted on <a href=\"http:\/\/musevideo.net\/2014\/07\/new-music-video-coming-july-22-are-you-loving-it\/\">musevideo.net<\/a> on July 22, 2014. <\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"460\" height=\"250\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ghx3EkvLaA8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>The following is an excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/musevideo.net\/2014\/07\/new-music-video-coming-july-22-are-you-loving-it\/\">musevideo.net<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAre You Loving It?\u201d has arrived! Are we really loving fast food oppression?<\/p>\n<p>Young Oakland artists L.L.D.B., Pamela Arriera, and Taiwo Murray collaborated with AshEL SeaSunZ (of the green hip-hop group Earth Amplified) to write the track, using a beat created for the project by FX at Youth Uprising. Oakland video students at KDOL-TV  helped produce the video, which was shot at People\u2019s Grocery in West Oakland.<\/p>\n<p>Four teens wake up from another evening\u2019s sugar bender to find themselves transformed into fast food icons, sugar and burger addicts under the thumb of their nefarious gang leader, Ronald McDonald. Ronald forces them out to the street to sling sugar and chips to the neighborhood kids, sucking them dry of their money and their health. The kids are trapped\u2013 addicted to the fake \u201cI\u2019m Loving It\u201d lifestyle. But when they finally have had enough of Ronald\u2019s controlling ways, the kids leave him behind, and find themselves learning a whole new way of life in the community garden. \u201cAre You Loving It?\u201d is about the real love that\u2019s found by going back to the land and leaving fake food behind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Oakland artists address issues of food justice, health and well being in this original song and music video, &#8220;Food Justice Oppression: Are you Loving It?&#8221;. The video debuted on musevideo.net on July 22, 2014. The following is an excerpt from musevideo.net: \u201cAre You Loving It?\u201d has arrived! Are we really loving fast food oppression? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5777"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5791,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5777\/revisions\/5791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}