Woody Guthrie, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, playing a guitar that has a sticker attached reading "This Machine Kills Fascists"
Woody Guthrie sings "House of the Rising Sun"
Not Woody, Not even a goodie...but it's point is well taken.
War is a Racket: Major General Smedley Butler (speech denouncing the military industrial complex. )
*This is a reenactment of a speech given by Butler to the National VFW.
Cindy Sheehan
PRESIDENT OBAMA: GIVE PEACE A MEETING: "President Obama, I know that you are only fulfilling your campaign promises to increase the violence in Afghanistan and Pakistan and I notice that not a significant amount of troops have been withdrawn from Iraq. However, even with your hostile rhetoric and promises to escalate the violence, many people voted for you because they believed you were the peace candidate'...Cindy Sheehan
Steve Earle - Rich Man's War
MLK and Malcom
the conscience and voices of a nation at war with itself.
Eugene V. Debs: An American Revolutionary
Come back, Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman's Mother Earth magazine became a home to radical activists and literary free thinkers around the US.
Noam Chomsky: The foremost mind of our generation
Listen to Noam Chomsky here
Patti Smith is right on! Tell your boss to Fuck the Clock
Listen to "Outside of Society: That's where I want to be!!" " Keep the spirit of rebellion alive!
Lenny - Lenny Bruce speech played by Dustin Hoffman
George Carlin - Religion is bullshit
The Times they are a-changin' - Bob Dylan
.Now more than ever -- We the People are going to take this country back! And this time share it's riches -- with the entire community of the world's people. Because we are ONE!
Leonard Cohen - Chelsea Hotel: Places in the mind -- and in the company of friends
."You told me again, you perfered handsome men. But for me you would make an exception"...Songs like “Chelsea Hotel” will be sung by a thousand voices, in the quiet corners of a thousand empty rooms, amid the simple, easy coming and going of friends, and at the edges of harbors on summer evenings to gathering crowds of mellow strangers and laid back lovers. Come. Sit down, pick up your glass and join us now...(jm)
Consumerism is for the idle rich. Great leaders have high aspirations but simple tastes. Che always smoked the cheapest Cigar's possible, called cazadores.
"I'm not the only one"
.John Lennon's " Imagine":
It's speculated that the early poetry of Yoko Ono inspired John Lennon to write this song. Whatever the driving force, it is unparalleled in its painting a portrait of a Utopian world to which we might all aspire: One without the oppressive ideas of religion, heaven, hell, country, war, material possessions and all those obsessive compulsive notions -- those "memes" -- that cause us repeatedly as a species to self destruct. It's time for all of us to join him in the pursuit of this new world. We are with him, because as he tells us, "I'm not the only one"…(jm)
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