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Sometime early on in my discovery of YouTube I thought to search on Woody Guthrie. I found this one forty-five second clip, which noted that it was
[o]ne of the two surviving film clips of Woody Guthrie performing. This one is from 1945. The other, with Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, is already on YouTube.
Somehow I […]
Friday, November 10, 2006
Pete Seeger’s Vietnam era song is no less current today.
For a personal tribute to the veteran in my family, see Winter. 1969.
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Sunday, February 19, 2006
The Black Commentator’s Margaret Kimberly notes that Halliburton has won yet another multi-million dollar government contract—this one to build “temporary detention facilities” in case of an “immigration emergency.”
The contract may also provide migrant detention support to other U.S. Government organizations in the event of an immigration emergency, as well as the development of a plan […]
Thursday, December 29, 2005
[In 1919,] Blacks were damned as Wobblies, socialists, Bolsheviks, or anarchists simply for agreeing with ideas that went beyond political orthodoxy. Even black nationalist (and anticommunist) Marcus Garvey received the communist label because he rejected the subordinate “place” of African Americans. Some blacks, like Chandler Owen and A. Philip Randolph, editors of the socialist […]
Monday, September 5, 2005
[The following is a large excerpt from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s closing address to the seminar, “The South Thinking Ahead,” at the Highlander Folk School’s twenty-fifth anniversary celebration, September 2, 1957 (Labor Day Weekend), Monteagle, Tennessee. I made previous reference to this speech and the 1957 Labor Day Weekend events at Highlander in this two […]
Well you see it may be that the salvation of the world lies in the hands of the maladjusted. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
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(Part I)
A couple of weeks ago, I read Cenk Uygur’s satire, What Fox News Channel Would Have Done to Rosa Parks. Meditating on the right wing smears of Cindy Sheehan, which were then […]
The excerpt that I recently posted from the Church Committee Case Study on counterintelligence activities directed at Martin Luther King, Jr. provides some of the background for the “Martin Luther King . . . . At Communist Training School” flier I attached to a post about smears and opportunistic defamations of Cindy Sheehan.
On July 12, […]
Headline is from Bob Fertig at Democrats.com. He writes:
In order to trash Cindy, [FOX’s John] Gibson called on Ira Stoll, editor of the rightwing New York Sun and author of “Cindy Sheehan’s Crowd.” Stoll attacked Cindy for working with “extreme groups and individuals”:
Code Pink, Veterans for Peace, and Military Families Speak Out all have representatives […]
Sixty years ago today the US dropped the nuclear bomb called Little Boy over the central part of Hiroshima, killing at least 66,000 people.
In honor of this year’s Hiroshima Day, I am posting this excerpt from my father’s Political Autobiography.
By now the McCarthy period was upon us. The CIO was split and the traditional antagonisms […]
No, damn it. Albert Einstein was a political radical and anti-racist.
When it came to how to handle Einstein’s ashes or his house on Mercer Street, everyone involved meticulously adhered to his wishes. But when it involved his ideas, and especially his concerns about what he called America’s “worst disease,” the fact that Einstein wanted his […]
This is a little dated, but it’s good and Technorati says hardly anyone blogged it. For all my fellow red diaper babies:
Pete Seeger Is 86
by STUDS TERKEL
It is hard to think of Pete Seeger as an elderly gaffer, because the boy in him, the light, remains undimmed. It was sixty-five years ago I first ran […]
I first mentioned William Douthard in passing here. At the right is a flier from a civil rights rally I think my father organized, where William spoke (click on the image to enlarge).
William Douthard was a student demonstration leader in Birmingham, Alabama, which was where he and my father met. To many in the […]
[I never marked the first anniversary of HungryBlues back in March, but I think that gives me occasional license to rerun posts that are more than a year old. What follows is a slightly shortened version my post from this time (on the Jewish calendar) last year. I think I have some more readers since […]
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