De Gedachten zijn Vrij * Free Speech: Guitar Army : John Sinclair and the White Panthers * Mon. 18, Tue. 19 & Wed. 20 May [2015-19]

Guitar Army: John SInclair and the White Panthers

SCHEDULE & PLAY-LIST
MONDAYS 16:00 > 20:00 hrs CET ; TUESDAYS 16:00 > 20:00 hrs CET; WEDESDAYS 12:00 > 16:00 hrs CET

MONDAYS: 16:00 hrs, TUESDAYS  12:00 and 16:00 hrs, WEDNESDAYS 12:00 hrs
GUITAR ARMY
John Sinclair; author, poet, and activist, spent the sixties embracing the ideal of love and peace, and drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. He was a jazz poet, founder of the Detroit Artists Workshop and manager of the MC5. With the release of the first MC5 album also came the declaration they had formed the White Panther Party, in support of the Black Panther Party and in opposition to the U.S. Government. The rerelease of his book Guitar Army”  came with a cd feat. MC5, John Sinclair, Allen Ginsberg, Up, excerpts from meetings and discussions of the White Panther Party, Bobby Seale, etc.

MONDAYS: 17:00 hrs, TUESDAYS 13:00 and 17:00 hrs, WEDNESDAYS 13:00 hrs
FOUR DEAD IN OHIO
CSN&Y Ohio b/w Cost of Freedom, American Dream, Military Madness * Buzzsaw LIP tv yv 45 yrs ago *  ROD STEWART: Street FIghting Man * ROLLING STONES: Street FIghting Man (Ya-Ya’s Out) * STEPPENOLF: Draft Register * THUNDERCLAP  NEWMAN: Something in the Air LP version * Anti Vietnam Montage * TOM PAXTON: Lyndon Johnson Told A Nation *  P.F. SLOAN: Eve of Destruction * THE MONKS: Monk Time * THE FUGS: Kill For PEace * GRAHAM NASH: Chicago * CNN TV 30th anniversary  pt1 *

MONDAYS: 18:00 hrs, TUESDAYS 14:00 and 18:00 hrs, WEDNESDAYS 14:00 hrs
BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE
PETER LAFARGE: The Ballad of Ira Hayes, Drums, White Girl, I’m An Indian (WAR PATH) ** JOHNNY CASH: Apache Tears, Vanishing Race (BITTER TEARS) ** COCHISE: Die Indianer sind noch fern ** THE FEARSOME BRAVE: Shamanic Chant no. 5; Yeha Noha ** GENE McDANIELS: Parasite, for Buffy (Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse) ** BUFFY ST. MARIE: interview, Indian Cowboy, Now the Buffalo’s Gone, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Up Where We Belong) ** JOHN TRUDELL: Religious vs Spiritual **

MONDAYS: 19:00 hrs, TUESDAYS 15:00 and 19:00 hrs, WEDNESDAYS 15:00 hrs
VARIOUS ARTISTS: 1 MEI + 1 MAY:
SONGS OF STRUGGLE AND STRIFE **

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GUITAR ARMY
John Sinclair; author, poet, and activist, spent the sixties embracing the ideal of love and peace, and drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. He was a jazz poet, founder of the Detroit Artists Workshop and manager of the MC5. With the release of the first MC5 album also came the declaration they had formed the White Panther Party, in support of the Black Panther Party and in opposition to the U.S. Government. The rerelease of his book Guitar Army”  came with a cd feat. MC5, John Sinclair, Allen Ginsberg, Up, excerpts from meetings and discussions of the White Panther Party, Bobby Seale, etc.

FOUR DEAD  IN OHIO
Kent State University, Ohio, 4 May 1070: 67 bullets fired in 13 seconds killed four and wouded 9 students

De soldaten draaien zich 180° om en vuren zonder verwittiging in de menige studenten. Vier sterven ter plaatse, negen anderen worden gewond – waarvan één levenslang verlamd blijft. Kent State University,  4 mei, 45 jaar geleden. De dagen daarna zwelt het protest tegen de oorlog in Vietnam nog sterker aan en gaan de meeste universiteitscampussen dicht. Enkele weken later, vatten Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young hun ongeloof en woede over deze moordpartij samen in het beklevende nummer “Ohio”. Als toppunt van cynisme, weigerden veel Amerikaanse AM-radiostations het nummer te draaien.

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We’re finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio

Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?

(written by Neil Young, fully copyrighted, reproduced for informatuon purposes)

Engraved on a plaque near the sidewalk north of the memorial are the names of the four students killed and nine wounded on May 4, 1970. The plaque reads, <b>”In loving memory of: Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and William Schroeder. Respectfully remembered: Alan Canfora, John Cleary, Thomas Grace, Dean Kahler (paralyzed for life), Joseph Lewis, Donald McKenzie, James Russell, Robert Stamps and Douglas Wrentmore.”

Mijn column in De Wereld Morgen:
http://community.dewereldmorgen.be/blog/eddybonte/2015/05/12/hell-no-we-wont-go

BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE

By the end of the 19th century, most North American peoples and tribes had been wiped out: their culture destroyed, their land confiscated, their environment industrialised. They were the Bad Guys. Anyone who has ever played cowboy and Indian knows the Indian must loose. Later, they were  confined to reservations. In the 60s, singer-songwriter Peter La Farge – of Indian descent –  reminded us of this forgotten homicide.
“During the early and mid-’60s, Peter La Farge occupied a special niche in contemporary folk music as the first politically aware Native American to attract serious attention. He was dead before the age of 34, but managed to make a vital and unique contribution to the early-’60s folk revival. It was around this same time that La Farge began concentrating more on music as well, especially song-writing, and he found his way to the folk music community in Greenwich Village. He was spending time with the likes of the young Bob Dyan, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Dave Van Ronk and veteran political minstrel Pete Seeger. He  was unusual — a Native American in the beat Mecca of lower Manhattan — and his songs were welcomed for the power of his words and his message”. (Source: www.artistdirect.com)
Radio 68 plays La Farge, Johnny Cash (whose album “Bitter Tears” is in defence of the Native Americans and features many of La Farge’s songs), Buffy Sainte-Marie (of Indian descent as well), Gene McDaniels, German band Cochise. Interviews with Buffy Sainte-Marie and John Trudell.

PROTEST SONGS: SONGS OF STRUGGLE AND STRIFE, cd 1:
1.Pete Seeger – Where Have All The Flowers Gone? 2.Joan Baez – All My Trials 3.Woody Guthrie – This Land Is Your Land 4 Cisco Houston – Deportees 5.Ramblin’ Jack Elliott – Talking Dust Bowl 6.Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry – Better Day 7.Bob Miller – Bank Failures 8.The Almanac Singers – Talking Union 9.Josh White – Uncle Sam Says 10.Odetta – Gallows Tree (Gallows Pole) 11.Guy Carawan – This Little Light Of Mine 12.Earl Robinson – Black And White 13.Ramblin’ Jack Elliott – 1913 Massacre 14.The New Lost City Ramblers – How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live 15.Big Bill Broonzy – Black, Brown, And White 16.Bob Hill – Pity The Downtrodden Landlord