Dollars & Sense co-editor Amy Gluckman appeared on Your Call, a show on radio station KALW. Appearing with Amy was Lawrence Pintak of Arab Media and Society and Glenn Ford from Black Agenda Report. Amy discussed what is being left out of economic news coverage and was great (as were Pintak, discussing the fall of […]
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The Constitution was
A noble piece of paper
With free society
Struggled but it died in vain
And now Democracy is ragtime on the corner—unemployed
And I’m hopin’ that it rains
Been a hopin’ for some rain
But it just don’t look like rain
I’ve seen the robins
Perched in barren treetops
They’re watchin’ last-ditch racists marching across the floor
Just like peace signs that melted […]
Gil Scott-Heron - Winter in America (live) [8:23m]:
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
When I was reading Daisy’s post about Pfc. LaVena Johnson, I got stuck on one of the details. The indications of possible rape and other physical violence and murder all were troubling enough. But then there was this one detail (originally posted by Anne):
Indications that someone attempted to set LaVena’s body on fire
I immediately hear […]
Billy Hoilday, "Strange Fruit" (1939) [3:14m]:
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Ben Chaney, younger brother of slain civil rights worker James Chaney, was one of my interview subjects for my recent article in The American Prospect, “Belated Justice for Civil Rights Era Crimes.” I spoke with Ben over the phone on June 4, 2007, two days after his mother Fannie Lee Chaney was buried next […]
Ben Chaney interviewed by Ben Greenberg [10:46m]:
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The Beatles were my first musical obsession. When I became a fan of the Beatles in middle school, I collected every recording, poured over every liner note, read biographies, studied the lyrics, listened to the solo projects . . .
It was the first time I’d gotten into music like this. I think it was around […]
Everyone - John Lennon [1:43m]:
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Really, he said that. Article at the link says more than 25,000 FEMA trailers are still in service in Mississippi.
Judge give me life this mornin’ down on Parchman Farm (2x)
I wouldn’t hate it so bad, but I left my wife in mourn
Oh, goodbye wife, all you have done gone (2x)
But I hope some day, you […]
Bukka White, "Parchman Farm" (1940) [2:42m]:
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From the NY Times:
A grand jury in Alabama handed up an indictment on Wednesday in an obscure killing that helped inspire the historic Selma-to-Montgomery march in 1965. The case is the latest in a series of belated prosecutions of crimes from the civil rights era.In February 1965, a black farmer, Jimmie Lee Jackson, 26, […]
Rita Schwerner Bender - Crimes of the Civil Rights Era - Harvard Univ. - 27 April 07 [0:30m]:
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