Friday Nite Videos -- Feb 7, 2014

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Portrait of a Haitian Graffiti Artist. What Did You Learn in School Today? Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Woody Guthrie Sez What Songs He Hates.

Jerry: A Portrait of a Graffiti Artist

In January 2014, Nomadic Wax released a new short on the Port-au-Prince-based graffiti artist, Jerry Moise Rosembert to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the Haitian earthquake. 
 

What Did You Learn in School Today?

Pete Seeger sings Tom Paxton's song live on the "Tonight In Person" Show (1964). 
 
I learned that Washington never told a lie.
I learned that soldiers seldom die.
I learned that everybody's free.
And that's what the teacher said to me.
That's what I learned in school today.
That's what I learned in school.
 

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

Perhaps Pete Seeger's best known song, composed shortly before Pete was cited for contempt of Congress in 1956 (373 to 9) for refusal to cooperate with HUAC. Pete and Arlo Guthrie here perform it live at Wolftrap. Where Have All the Flowers Gone has been performed in at least 25 languages.

Woody Guthrie Sez What Songs He Hates

Woody Guthrie's declaration about songs that tear people down, and songs that give people strength. Studs Terkel with Pete Seeger, Judy Collins, Arlo Guthrie, and Fred Hellerman. An excerpt from a 1976 PBS tribute to Woody Guthrie.

Jumpstarting the Vote in North Carolina

Chris Kromm Institute for Southern Studies
Operation Jumpstart plans to carry out a thousand "projects" across North Carolina by Election Day: trainings, forums and other outreach to people and groups needing help to navigate the state's bewildering -- and potentially intimidating -- laws that aim to restrict voting rights.

Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Rights, and the Legacy of Massive Resistance

Abigail Perkiss National Constitution Center
The Oklahoma legislature may consider a bill to end government licensing of marriage entirely. The bill, which is part of a broader strategy to avoid same-sex unions throughout the state, calls to mind efforts by lawmakers in the 1950s to undermine federally-mandated desegregation by shutting down public schools in the American South.