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April 11, 2024

Tidbits – Apr 11 – Reader Comments: Arizona Abortion Ruling-Make America ‘Great’ Again; Gaza Killings; Lavender AI Machine; Dental Health; Bob Dylan: With God 0n Our Side; Teach Palestine; Deborah Meier; Legacies of War on Terror; Wagner Act, NLRB

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Reader Comments: Arizona Abortion Ruling-Make America 'Great' Again; Gaza Killings; Lavender AI Machine; Dental Health; Rural America; Bob Dylan: With God 0n Our Side; Teach Palestine; Deborah Meier; Legacies of the War on Terror; Wagner Act and NLRB

April 4, 2024

Tidbits – Apr4 2024 – Reader Comments: Demand Ceasefire, Stop Killing Civilians; Israelis Threatened by Ceasefire?; Worse Than Dobbs?; the Black Scholar Journal: Legacies, Futures of Black Radicalism-Apr 6&7; Celebrating Pittsburgh’s Anne Feeney-May1

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Reader Comments: Demand Ceasefire, Stop Killing Civilians; Why Do Israelis Feel So Threatened by Ceasefire?; Worse Than Dobbs?; The Black Scholar Journal: Legacies and Futures of Black Radicalism-Apr 6 & 7; Celebrating Pittsburgh’s Anne Feeney-May 1

February 10, 2024

Troubadour of 1960s New Left Is Celebrated in New Exhibit at Woody Guthrie Museum

Jeremy Kuzmarov Covert Action Magazine

The Woody Guthrie Museum has done a public service spotlighting Ochs’s career. Phil Ochs’s biting commentaries remain resonant in an era where the U.S. government provokes wars overseas and sends young men to fight and die on dubious grounds.

February 2, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | February 2, 2024

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We Grown Now | Movie. The Story of a Global Favorite: El Condor Pasa. Legal Weed Is Being Ruined by Corporate Greed. As SCOTUS Hearing Looms, an Update on Trump Disqualification. Why I Stay: Living Inside the Ruins of my Gaza Home.

The Story of a Global Favorite: El Condor Pasa

February 2, 2024

Paola Hermosín reveals the origins of this song, now performed worldwide in hundreds of versions, in the Peruvian miners' struggles

January 26, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | January 26, 2024

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The Verdict Is In: Trump Must Pay $$$. Animation: Trump Asserts Absolute Immunity. UAW Endorses President Biden. Origin | Movie. Have You Been to Jail for Justice? | Song.

Have You Been to Jail for Justice? | Song

January 26, 2024

Israeli draft resister Tal Mitnick repeated the lyrics of this song by Anne Feeney as inspriration for his refusal to serve in the army attacking Gaza

January 13, 2024

Judy Collins Talks Resolutions, War, and Keeping It All Together

Ray Roa Creative Loafing

"We need a song that transcends the moment instead of leaving us to have to live in that feeling of despair and horror and hunger and human suffering,” Collins said.” We have to be given something to lift us over that and through that.”

September 15, 2023

Friday Nite Videos Special | 6/24/2023: Songs of Solidarity

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Rockin' Solidarity Forever. Victor Jara | Manifiesto. Writers' Guild of America Strike Song. GmacCash | On Strike (UAW). Lisa Simpson's Union Strike Folk Song | Dan Cribbs. Paul Robeson | "Joe Hill". Why Auto Workers Are Striking.

Victor Jara | Manifiesto (with English Subtitles)

September 15, 2023

The last song Victor Jara ever wrote. The great Chilean singer/songwriter Jara was killed in the Santiago Stadium 40 years ago, on Sept. 15, 1973.

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