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From The Partisan Defense Committee-Free All Class-War Prisoners Now!
From The Partisan Defense Committee-Free All Class-War Prisoners Now!
The Centennial Of The Birth Of Film Actor, Noir Film Actor, Robert Mitchum (2017) -Hats Off!
The Centennial Of The
Birth Of Film Actor, Noir Film Actor, Robert Mitchum (2017) -Hats Off!
Film Critic Emeritus Sam Lowell comment:
No question I am despite my putting myself "out to pasture" more than happy to do a short guest appearance to pay tribute to the centennial of the birth of film actor Robert Mitchum. The headline speaks of a film noir actor although he did many more types of films from goof stuff like the Grass Is Greener to truly scary can’t go to sleep at night stuff like Cape Fear to the pasty/fall guy in The Friends Of Eddie Coyle. But to my mind his classic statement of his acting persona came in the great performance he did in Out Of The Past where between being in the gun sights of an angry gangster played by Kirk Douglas and the gun sights of a gun crazy femme played by Jane Greer damn did he have his hands full.
Yeah, that film kind of
said it all about a big brawny barrel-chested guy who had been around the block
awhile, had smoked a few thousand cigarettes while trying to figure out all the
angles and still in the end got waylaid right between the eyes by that damn
femme. All she had to do was call his name and he wilted like some silly
schoolboy. I like a guy who likes to play with fire, likes to live on the edge
a little but our boy got caught up badly by whatever that scent, maybe jasmine,
maybe spring lilac but poison that he could never get out of his nostrils once
she went into over-drive.
You know, seriously,
that he should have backed off right away when he was snooping for a bigtime Reno
gangster (that before Vegas and Bugsy came down the road) looking for a wayward
dame who took him for some dough, for forty thou, maybe not big money now but
then yes. Should have known that whoever took some dough from a mob guy was in
trouble big time good-looking and smelling or not. Like a later guy said though
take the ticket, take the ride. Yeah, that was a role fit for a guy like Robert
Mitchum. Live hard, fall hard.
More later but check
this little clip out as a sampler.
In Boston July 13th-Workshop - The May Day 2006 general strike and lessons for today
Workshop - The May Day 2006 general strike and lessons for today
The May Day 2006 General Strike
May Day, 2006 witnessed the largest nationwide general strike in many decades. El Gran Paro Americano 2006, involved working people in the millions and shut down workplaces around the country, including the port of Los Angeles, many factories, and small businesses. It was preceded by huge mobilizations in a number of major cities against the criminalization of migrant workers. A workshop is being hosted by Sergio Reyes and John Harris who were central organizers of the May Day General Strike in Greater Boston in 2006. They will describe the mass mobilizations of 2006 and how they were organized, culminating in the May Day General Strike. The workshop will take up developments since the strike and discuss strategic and tactical approaches that can advance the movement today.
Thursday, July 13, 7:00 PM
Encuentro 5
9A Hamilton Place, Boston 02108
(One block from the Part Street T stop on the Red and Green lines)
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In Boston July 18th- Hearing at the State House on Anti-BDS Legislation
Hearing at the State House on Anti-BDS Legislation
There will be hearing on July 18 at the State House on proposed anti-BDS legislation disguised as an "anti-discrimination" bill.
Here’s what we need everyone to do: Come to the State House - Gardner Auditorium early. There will be a long line.
- Sign the letter to the members of the committee that is reviewing this legislation, calling on them to protect our right to boycott, by opposing this dangerous bill.
- Attend the hearing on Tuesday, July 18th, 11:00am (doors open at 10am). The hearing will take place at the Massachusetts State House in the Gardner Auditorium, the largest room in the building! Plan for a long line to get in. Do not bring posters or signs of any kind. We will provide stickers that say “Freedom to Boycott.” We expect major organizations (JCRC, AJC, ADL, etc.) to mount huge pressure in support of this legislation so showing up to the hearing on Tues, July 18th is critical. We hope to pack the hearing room with opponents to the legislation. The hearing will likely go on all day and into the evening, so come whenever you can! Please RSVP to the facebook event, and share it with your networks!
- Submit oral and written testimony: We encourage you all to provide testimony. Testimony can be submitted orally, in writing, or both. Oral testimony does NOT go into the record unless accompanied by written testimony. For this reason, we ask that everyone who wishes to testify provide written testimony whether or not you plan to testify in person.
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If you plan to testify at the hearing, it is critical to arrive at the hearing room by 10:00am to sign up!
Depending on how many people sign up, you may not get called to testify until late in the day, so be prepared for a long day!
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- Lobby your legislators: We will provide packets of information for you to deliver (along with your own written testimony) to your own legislators at the State House that day. Lobbying your own legislators will make an even bigger impact than testifying to the committee because you have the most influence over the elected official who is counting on your vote. Click here to find out who your state legislators are, and how to contact them.
If you have questions about presenting testimony, please contact us at: jvpboston@gmail.com.
Jewish Voice for Peace, Boston
Upcoming Events:
| Anti-Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions legislation hearing at statehouse | Tuesday, July 18, 2017 - 10:00am | Massachusetts State House | Boston | |
| Film screening: "National Bird: Drone Wars" | Tuesday, July 18, 2017 - 7:00pm | Cambridge Library, Central Square | Cambridge |  |
| Information Security and Organizing Workshop | Thursday, July 20, 2017 - 7:00pm | encuentro 5 | Boston |
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In Boston- act-ma] 7/18 David Rovics in concert
act-ma] 7/18 David Rovics in concert
Dean Stephens writes
Join us in our full AC of summer comfort at Community Church of Boston
(Copley Square), for an evening of the most incisive Truth and Justice
songwriting from the People's Troubador, David Rovics. The song that
hits me right now like a ton of bricks, is called "Gaza" :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE3deQK3yLU
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565 Boyston St. (Copley Square) Boston
Here is where you can order advance tickets:
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Join us in our full AC of summer comfort at Community Church of Boston
(Copley Square), for an evening of the most incisive Truth and Justice
songwriting from the People's Troubador, David Rovics. The song that
hits me right now like a ton of bricks, is called "Gaza" :
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In Boston -Why is our government killing thousands of people around the globe they can’t even identify?
Why is our government killing thousands of people around the globe they can’t even identify?
See National Bird, a film about the secret US drone assassination program.
Central Square Library
45 Pearl St, CambridgeTuesday, July 18, 2017, 7 pm
45 Pearl St, CambridgeTuesday, July 18, 2017, 7 pm
Directed by Sonia Kennebeck, this powerful documentary follows the dramatic journey of three whistleblowers who are determined to break the silence around one of the most controversial issues of our time: the hidden U.S. drone war, which has escalated substantially under President Trump.
Plagued by PTSD and guilt over participating in the killing of thousands of faceless people, including children, they courageously decide to speak out publicly, despite the possible severe consequences.
The film also interviews people on the ground in Afghanistan whose families and lives have been shattered by the deaths and lost futures of those who have been injured and terrorized by drones.
After the film there will be a short discussion with suggestions of things we can do to stop this immoral and indefensible form of warfare.
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Veterans committees show how bipartisan Congress can work
Veterans committees show how bipartisan Congress can work
WASHINGTON — Something strange is happening in the staid hearing rooms of the House and Senate veterans affairs committees this summer, though few have taken notice.
As the rest of Congress fights over the health care overhaul and looming budget deadlines, the committees responsible for writing legislation affecting veterans are quietly moving forward with an ambitious, long-sought, and largely bipartisan agenda that has the potential to significantly reshape the way the nation cares for its 21 million veterans.
It could also provide President Trump with a set of policy victories he badly wants.
“It’s a case study in Washington working as designed,” said Phillip Carter, who studies veterans issues at the Center for a New American Security and advises Democrats. “And it’s shocking because we so rarely see it these days.”
The tally thus far is impressive, if not exactly the stuff of headline news: The secretary of Veterans Affairs was confirmed unanimously, the only Cabinet secretary with that level of congressional approval.
Congress quickly passed a temporary funding extension for the Veterans Choice Program, which pays for private-sector health care for veterans facing long wait times at government facilities. Then it passed a bill that makes it easier for the department to hire and fire. The next bit of legislation on the brink of becoming law expedites disability benefits appeals.
This is happening as Congress finds itself stalled by a growing list of priorities that lawmakers had hoped to send to Trump before the August recess. In the case of the health care overhaul, the Senate leadership has even decided to sidestep the committee process that typically sets the pace of legislation moving through the Capitol.
Lawmakers with coveted spots on the veterans committees are quick to acknowledge that caring for those who served the country in uniform has long been largely a bipartisan pursuit.
But ideological differences do exist between the parties on how to care for veterans’ health needs, particularly when it comes to the Choice program, which was hastily written after a 2014 scandal over the manipulation of patient wait times and has proved to be a flawed, if popular, fix.
Whether the latest bout of amity can persist will largely depend on whether lawmakers are able to agree on a way to permanently fix the program, and streamline a half dozen others that send veterans out for private care, before it loses its authorization in January.
But as lawmakers talk about how they will do it, it almost sounds like an idealized version of how Washington works.
“We don’t want to have a fight for fights’ sake. We want to find solutions,” said Johnny Isakson, Republican of Georgia, chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.
The 24-member House committee, which is more ideologically diverse, has its own incentives to compromise. Representative Phil Roe, Republican of Tennessee, its chairman, was by most accounts chastened by harsh blowback to a draft bill floated in April that would have made service members pay to be eligible for G.I. Bill benefits.
The panel’s top-ranking Democrat, Tim Walz of Minnesota, represents a right-leaning rural district. The two men have been working side by side on the committee for nearly a decade.
That both sides remain cautiously confident in the Department of Veterans Affairs secretary, David Shulkin, who also served in the Obama administration, has helped as well.
*Songs To While Away The Class Struggle By-Malvina Reynolds' "The Little Generals"
Songs To While Away The Class Struggle By-Malvina Reynolds' "The Little Generals"
In this series, presented under the headline “Songs To While Away The Class Struggle By”, I will post some songs that I think will help us get through the “dog days” of the struggle for our communist future. I do not vouch for the political thrust of the songs; for the most part they are done by pacifists, social democrats, hell, even just plain old ordinary democrats. And, occasionally, a communist, although hard communist musicians have historically been scarce on the ground. Thus, here we have a regular "popular front" on the music scene. While this would not be acceptable for our political prospects, it will suffice for our purposes here. Markin.
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The Little Generals
Notes: words and music by Malvina Reynolds; copyright 1962 by author. a.k.a. "It's Hard to Get a War These Days."
All the little generals are running out of war,
Oh, my, It's enough to make you cry;
They've all these little khaki colored guns and tanks,
And all the money waiting in the U.S. banks,
But when they start an action, people say "No thanks",
And it's hard to get a war these days.
All the little generals are running out of war,
Oh, my, It's enough to make you cry;
They're sitting on their build-up till they get a pain,
They march the soldiers up the hill and down the hill again,
But logistics they get rusty when they're standing in the rain,
And it's hard to get a war these days.
All the little generals are running out of war,
Oh, my, It's enough to make you cry;
They paddle out to Cuba and get drowned in the bay,1
They start a thing in Laos, but the folks don't want to play,
And even up in Holy Loch, the kids cry, "Go away!"
And it's hard to get a war these days.
All the little generals are running out of war,
Oh, my, It's enough to make you cry;
They take the mighty atom bombs and tie them up with bows,
And Teller puts on perfume so they smell just like a rose,
But they smell like Hiroshima when the fall-out blows,
And it's hard to get a war these days.
Thank Heaven--It's hard to get a war these days.
Malvina Reynolds songbook(s) in which the music to this song appears:
---- [none]
Other place(s) where the music to this song appears:
---- Broadside No. 13 (September 1962)
Malvina Reynolds recording(s) on which this song is performed:
---- [none]
Additional Note:
1. On the lead sheet, this line is "It looked like fun in Cuba but the missiles went away,".
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http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/MALVINA/mr215.htm
This page copyright 2006 by Charles H. Smith and Nancy Schimmel. All rights reserved.
In this series, presented under the headline “Songs To While Away The Class Struggle By”, I will post some songs that I think will help us get through the “dog days” of the struggle for our communist future. I do not vouch for the political thrust of the songs; for the most part they are done by pacifists, social democrats, hell, even just plain old ordinary democrats. And, occasionally, a communist, although hard communist musicians have historically been scarce on the ground. Thus, here we have a regular "popular front" on the music scene. While this would not be acceptable for our political prospects, it will suffice for our purposes here. Markin.
*************
The Little Generals
Notes: words and music by Malvina Reynolds; copyright 1962 by author. a.k.a. "It's Hard to Get a War These Days."
All the little generals are running out of war,
Oh, my, It's enough to make you cry;
They've all these little khaki colored guns and tanks,
And all the money waiting in the U.S. banks,
But when they start an action, people say "No thanks",
And it's hard to get a war these days.
All the little generals are running out of war,
Oh, my, It's enough to make you cry;
They're sitting on their build-up till they get a pain,
They march the soldiers up the hill and down the hill again,
But logistics they get rusty when they're standing in the rain,
And it's hard to get a war these days.
All the little generals are running out of war,
Oh, my, It's enough to make you cry;
They paddle out to Cuba and get drowned in the bay,1
They start a thing in Laos, but the folks don't want to play,
And even up in Holy Loch, the kids cry, "Go away!"
And it's hard to get a war these days.
All the little generals are running out of war,
Oh, my, It's enough to make you cry;
They take the mighty atom bombs and tie them up with bows,
And Teller puts on perfume so they smell just like a rose,
But they smell like Hiroshima when the fall-out blows,
And it's hard to get a war these days.
Thank Heaven--It's hard to get a war these days.
Malvina Reynolds songbook(s) in which the music to this song appears:
---- [none]
Other place(s) where the music to this song appears:
---- Broadside No. 13 (September 1962)
Malvina Reynolds recording(s) on which this song is performed:
---- [none]
Additional Note:
1. On the lead sheet, this line is "It looked like fun in Cuba but the missiles went away,".
* * * * *
http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/MALVINA/mr215.htm
This page copyright 2006 by Charles H. Smith and Nancy Schimmel. All rights reserved.
Monday, July 10, 2017
On The 50th Anniversary Of The “Summer Of Love”- “Hippie Modernism: The Struggle For Utopia” At The Berkeley Art Museum
On The 50th Anniversary Of The “Summer Of Love”- “Hippie Modernism: The Struggle For Utopia” At The Berkeley Art Museum
By Special Guest Social Commentator Alex James
[Recently, under the aegis of my oldest brother Alex, today’s special guest commentator, I have been “commissioned” to do a wide ranging series of writings, sketches really, around the theme of the “Summer of Love, 1967” to be made into a small tribute book in honor of his and his “corner boys” from the Acre section of North Adamsville long departed friend Peter Paul Markin. It was Markin who was the main connection between them and the events which transpired in the Bay Area that long ago and which arguably changed their lives forever. Of if not changed forever put a big kink in the way that they were originally heading. The impetus for the project had come about after Alex had gone on a business trip to San Francisco and almost by happenstance noticed an advertisement on a passing Muni bus for an exhibit at the de Young Art Museum on entitled The Summer of Love Experience. That perked his interest enough to take sneak time from his conference business to attend. And will be the subject of an up-coming sketch. Today’s commentary is along those same lines because not only was the de Young having its version of celebrating that event but over on the East Bay in Berkeley, another center of that summer’s “youth nation” surge, the University Art Museum had mounted an exhibition with the intriguing title-Hippie Modernism; the Struggle for Utopia. Alex jumped on the BART one day after his business was finished up for the day to check this display out. Zack James]
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I am not usually much for writing outside of my business interests or I should say my law practice which is my business interest and leave the biting or witty social commentary to my youngest brother, there were six of us to divvy up the social chores, Zack, who has made a career out of such endeavors. Except events this spring around the almost half-forgotten Summer of Love, 1967 which I, and the rest of the guys I hung around with all through public school, were as Zack said one time “washed clean” by that extraordinary “new breeze” that got a big tailwind from that happening. “Happening” a word very closely associated with all the crazy, goofy, outlandish and in some sad instances pathetic things that went on when we were forced to head west and see what it was all about. Forced by one mad monk of a man, Peter Paul Markin, known as the “Scribe” from junior high school on. A small letter “prophet” unlike a capital letter prophet like Allan Ginsberg who blew Markin away with his Howl in high school which he would recite to us when he was half drunk (or later half-stoned) and which we could have given a fuck about at the time all we cared about was grabbing petty larceny dough, girls, and fast cars not always in that order, after all was said and done, what little good it ever did him in the long haul to “check out the new breeze coming over the land.”
All that will be, or already has been, detailed in the little tribute book we asked Zack to put together with his sketches on those times and our, the surviving corner boys’ remembrances, in honor of Markin. Like Zack said in his introduction I had been in San Francisco for a law conference and was walking up Geary Street and noticed an advertisement for the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park which was presenting an exhibition titled The Summer of Love Experience. I did attend that exhibition and will give my take on that emotional experience shortly. While at that exhibition one late afternoon after the conference was over for the day I overheard a conversation between two old geezers (yeah, like me, like me) about an exhibit over in Berkeley at the University art museum. They didn’t give the title of the exhibition at the time. Had just said it was about hippies. But when I went to look it up it had the title, the very interesting title-Hippie Modernism: the Struggle for Utopia I couldn’t resist before I left Frisco taking that exhibit in on two counts; it was an unusual way to describe a certain modernist artistic sensibility that I think we were trying to create and a very apt way to describe what the whole “seek a newer world” experience (a term Markin used incessantly via Robert Kennedy when it counted) was about, or what we thought we were trying to do. Zack has mentioned in a few of his sketches that we have faced more than forty years of blow-back from the Molochs (thanks Allan Ginsburg’s Howl for that) which show no signs of abating soon for not creating that utopia, or something close to it. He was right as rain on that score.
I have already given Zack notes and paragraphs of information with my take on how we lost dog corner boys from the nowhere Acre section, the dirt poor working class section of North Adamsville, under the whip of one mad monk Markin wound up spending various amounts of time working through the implications of the Summer of Love which kind of brought all the tattered remnants of “youth nation,” and it really was that, at least it is no misnomer to call it that when the sons of working stiffs met up with the scions of the Mayfair swells to give the Molochs a run for their money for a while anyway. What came to mind viewing this Hippie Modern exhibit is how varied the ideas were that we were trying to get people, and frankly “people” then was just shorthand for youth nation for we were in a serious confrontational battle with our parents’ generation and their leaders over these proposed changes. A very unusual time in that respect since generations since have developed their own styles but have not come to blows with their parents’ generations in quite the same way. My three twenty somethings still living at home with seemingly no immediate prospects of leaving to fly on their own against my leaving home as a teenager tell the reader all he or she needs to know about that difference.
Of course a University museum, especially at an elite school which was probably the overall cultural if not political epicenter of the times, is going to highlight some of the ideas and creations which its alumnus or those who hung around the school there produced. And there really was an amazing amount of printed material produced then detailing everything from how to build an environmentally sustainable house to the outer edges of rational social and political theory (think Marcuse, McLuhan, guys like that). The Chinese only half-seriously had called such a movement in their own country in the late 1950s “let one hundred flowers bloom” and in those naïve blessed hippie days there were many more than that number of ides floating around in the space we had created. Whoever could put pen to ink, or to the drawing board had space to work in. Frankly some of the ideas seem today, today when we are not under the influence of strong drugs, sexual desire, or some odd-ball background music which colored most of our thinking back then, crackpot but others are as fresh as whatever Silicon Valley is pressing on the public these days. I had a thought that maybe, just maybe if we had done more organizing around some simple things instead of creating full-blown manifestos for every occasion we might had struck a deeper chord. Maybe though that time, our print-driven time, was the last gasp of print, of literary means of effective persuasion.
The heart of the exhibit though, the part that along with the de Young exhibit pieces got me on the phone, the cellphone, to all the surviving corner boys who went West at Markin’s beck and call were the photographs and poster art that brought back so many memories. I might as well put in here that not everybody went, wanted to go, or could go like Ricky Russo who got wasted in some fucking rice paddle in Vietnam for no good reason and never even had a chance to have Markin work his words on him to go out like he did with the rest of us.
Memories of going with Markin on the road, yeah, the hitchhike road since I had no real dough, both of us with knapsacks and slim bedrolls, grabbing long and short haul rides, sleeping in ravines and in the back of trucks, getting rides all the way from every kind of traveler from hardened truck-drivers who thought we looked like their wayward sons back home who they did not understand any longer to welcome wagon Volkwagen minibuses filled with “freak” who pulled up and cried jump in and getting to the fresh smell of the bay in anywhere between six days and two weeks. What was time anyway once you were on that road. Sleeping in all kinds of communal flops in or near Haight-Ashbury, panhandling or working day labor for food, and smoking and ingesting every kind of drug except maybe booze which had been our natural “high” around the block but which seemed passe out in the new wilderness where we were to be “washed clean” as Markin when he was the beautified saint of our mission used to say. Most strikingly though were the posters and other artwork that at the time were just “commercial” efforts to let people know when a “happening” or a concert was coming up. I was surprised by how grand the artwork was for items that were just then advertisement but turned out to have been genuine works of art as seen as such by their creators. No one can argue against that point now, or should.
I freaked out when I saw a photograph of an old time school bus, what Markin used to call the yellow brick road magical mystery flying carpet, converted to a moving living communal set-up pioneered by max daddy Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters and which travelled up and down the Coast. We had travelled while on the Coast in a caravan like that with a guy named Captain Crunch that one of the guys will talk about in the tribute book who as well as personally knowing Kesey (we had gone to one of those famed be-ins at his La Honda digs) was nothing but the king hell king of our existence for a couple of years. That travelling caravan would be the way we would have gone to this or that concert by the Doors or the Jefferson Airplane at the Fillmore or in Golden Gate Park. Playing for free or a couple of bucks. (I did a double take when I saw those ticket prices beyond the many free concerts by the big name Bay-based bands including one poster which advertised a three day concert for five dollars for the whole thing. Jesus, some things were righteous then when I think I have paid many hundreds of dollars in recent years to go to a Stones concert). Yeah, as Zack said, to be young was very heaven.
The only thing that did not ring true, or was outside our purview, was a section dedicated many photographs of a group of drag queens called the Cockettes (draw whatever conclusion you like about that moniker) and which later morphed into another such group with a different name which I don’t remember. Sure we would see drag queens, “dykes” and “faggots” around the concerts and festivals after all San Francisco even then was a safe haven for same-sex seekers (and other misfits like communists, beat poets, and runaways from North Adamsville and all such places in between). Nowadays in the new sensibility nobody gives a fuck who you love or why, how you want to dress yourself before the world or why but then we sons of the working class had very backward views about the sexually different and those who identified that way. I can remember one time when we went down to Provincetown, Markin included, just to bait the “fags” that made the place then notorious for us straights. But you know you can learn something in this wicked old world as Markin used to say and after “getting religion” as Markin also used to say when we got hip to the world a little better when my son came out of the closet I wish we had gotten to know those “dames” and their hangers-on better because from the photographs some of them looked kind of foxy and probably fun to be around. Yeah, I looked it up, looked up the full Wordsworth quote that Zack is using for the series-the other part applies too-“Twas bliss to be alive.”
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