M.I.A. – Borders [VIDEO]

British rapper and Oscar nominee M.I.A., whom you may best know from her bird-flipping 2012 Super Bowl performance with Madonna, addresses the refugee crisis in the video for her latest single. Newsweek reviews:

It’s a visual feat, with striking images depicting hundreds of sullen people perched on boats, scaling fences, walking in the ocean and running across fields, mimicking the often fatal journeys that refugees take in search of a better life elsewhere. Fittingly, the lyrics tackle global issues that have been gaining more and more exposure, both online and on the ground, especially where the contentious issue of refugees and police brutality are concerned. “Borders, what’s up with that?” she asks in the song’s first verse. “Police shots, what’s up with that?”

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