Songs For Our Times-Build The Resistance-The Rolling Stones’ “Street-Fighting Man (or Woman)”

Songs For Our Times-Build The Resistance-Playing For Change- Bob Marley's "One Love"       

During, let’s say the Obama administration or, hell, even the Bush era, for example  we could be gentle angry people over this or that notorious war policy and a few others matters and songs like Give Peace A Chance, We Shall Overcome, or hell, even that Kumbaya which offended the politically insensitive. From Day One of the Trump administration though the gloves have come off-we are in deep trouble. So we too need to take off our gloves-and fast as the cold civil war that has started in the American dark night heads to some place we don’t want to be. And the above song from another tumultuous time, makes more sense to be marching to. Build the resistance!

    


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Intro

From The Archives- What is Armistice Day? Prior to its designation by Congress in 1954 as Veterans Day, November 11 was known as Armistice Day. World War I – known at the time as “The Great War” – officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919.

What is Armistice Day?

Prior to its designation by Congress in 1954 as Veterans Day, November 11 was known as Armistice Day. World War I – known at the time as “The Great War” – officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919. However, fighting ceased seven months earlier when an armistice or temporary cessation of hostilities, between the Allied nations and Germany went into effect on the eleventh day of the eleventh month. For that reason, November 11, 1918, is generally regarded as the end of “the war to end all wars.” In recognition of the significance of that date, in 1926 Congress resolved that “this date should be commemorated with thanksgiving and prayer and exercises to perpetuate peace through good will and mutual understanding between nations.”

Statement of Purpose

We, having dutifully served our nation, do hereby affirm our greater responsibility to serve the cause of world peace. To this end we will work, with others

§  To increase public awareness of the costs of war;

§  To restrain our government from intervening, overtly and covertly, in the internal affairs of other nations;

§  To end the arms race and to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons;

§  To seek justice for veterans and victims of war;

§  To abolish war as an instrument of national policy.

To achieve these goals, members of Veterans For Peace pledge to use non-violent means and to maintain an organization that is both democratic and open with the understanding that all members are trusted to act in the best interests of the group for the larger purpose of world peace.

Smedley D. Butler Brigade (Ch. 9)

P.O. Box 320683

Boston, MA 02132

www.smedleyvfp.org

vfpsmedley@gmail.com

www.facebook.com/smedleyvfp/ 

Armistice (Veterans) Day For Peace

November 11, 2018

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Samual Adams Park

Boston Massachusetts

“War is a racket.
A few profit. The Many pay.”

Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, USMC

 

Dulce et Decorum Est 

BY WILFRED OWEN

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,

Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge.

Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots, But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;

Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots 

Of gas-shells dropping softly behind. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! An ecstasy of fumbling

Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, But someone still was yelling out and stumbling

And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,

As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams before my helpless sight,

He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in,

And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;

If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,

Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest

To children ardent for some desperate glory,

The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est

Pro patria mori.

                                                                                          

                     Armistice Day For Peace Program            

                                                                                                               

 November 11, 2018

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

   Samuel Adams Park

      Boston Massachusetts

Leftist Marching Band/Boston Area Brigade of Activist Musicians

(BABAM)                                                           Bring Us Together Music

Dan Luker, Smedley Butler,                                 Welcome
VFP Coordinator                                                   

Al Johnson, Smedley Butler, VFP                         Opening Words 

Doug Stuart, Smedley Butler, VFP                      What Is Armistice Day?

Pat Scanlon, Smedley Butler, VFP                       Words of Peace From Sev Bruyn        

David Rothhauser, Smedley Butler, VFP              I, Too. Was A Gangster For Wall Street  

                                                                                                                                     

Leftist Marching Band/BABAM                            Musical Interlude

Ray Ajemian  MIC Committee                             Raytheon Project

Bob Masters–Smedley Butler, VFP,                     Vietnam Experiences

Ralph Madsen, Smedley Butler< VFP                   The Band Played Waltzing Matilda

John Schuchhardt, Member, VFP Chapter 45        House of Peace   

Webb Nichols, Smedley Butler, VFP,                    poetry selections

U.S. Army, Vietnam veteran  

Ralph Galen, Smedley Butler,                              Closing Words

VFP Supporter                                                   

Leftist Marching Band/BABAM                          Musical Wrap-up

Many thanks to the City of Boston for use of Sam Adams Park

From The Archives -What is Armistice Day? Prior to its designation by Congress in 1954 as Veterans Day, November 11 was known as Armistice Day. World War I – known at the time as “The Great War” – officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919.

What is Armistice Day?

Prior to its designation by Congress in 1954 as Veterans Day, November 11 was known as Armistice Day. World War I – known at the time as “The Great War” – officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919. However, fighting ceased seven months earlier when an armistice or temporary cessation of hostilities, between the Allied nations and Germany went into effect on the eleventh day of the eleventh month. For that reason, November 11, 1918, is generally regarded as the end of “the war to end all wars.” In recognition of the significance of that date, in 1926 Congress resolved that “this date should be commemorated with thanksgiving and prayer and exercises to perpetuate peace through good will and mutual understanding between nations.”

Statement of Purpose

We, having dutifully served our nation, do hereby affirm our greater responsibility to serve the cause of world peace. To this end we will work, with others

§  To increase public awareness of the costs of war;

§  To restrain our government from intervening, overtly and covertly, in the internal affairs of other nations;

§  To end the arms race and to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons;

§  To seek justice for veterans and victims of war;

§  To abolish war as an instrument of national policy.

To achieve these goals, members of Veterans For Peace pledge to use non-violent means and to maintain an organization that is both democratic and open with the understanding that all members are trusted to act in the best interests of the group for the larger purpose of world peace.

Smedley D. Butler Brigade (Ch. 9)

P.O. Box 320683

Boston, MA 02132

www.smedleyvfp.org

vfpsmedley@gmail.com

www.facebook.com/smedleyvfp/ 

Armistice (Veterans) Day For Peace

November 11, 2017

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Samual Adams Park

Boston Massachusetts

“War is a racket.
A few profit. The Many pay.”

Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, USMC

In Flanders Fields

John McCrae

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

It is believed that the death of his friend and former student, Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, was the inspiration for the poem written by Major John McCrae, a surgeon attached to 1^st Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery. Helmer was a popular young officer in the 1^st Brigade who, on the morning of Sunday, May 2, 1915, left his dugout and was killed instantly by a direct hit from an 8 inch German shell in the second week of fighting during the Second Battle of Ypres. Lieutenant Helmer was buried later that day. In the absence of a chaplain, Major McCrae conducted a simple service at the graveside, reciting from memory some passages from the Church of England’s ‘Order of Burial of the Dead.’

Major John McCrae

The next day, sitting on the back of an ambulance parked near the dressing station just a few hundred yards north of Ypres, McCrae vented his anguish by composing a poem. In the nearby cemetery, McCrae could see the wild poppies that sprang up in the ditches in that part of Europe, and he spent twenty minutes of precious time scribbling fifteen lines of verse in a notebook – what would become one of the most memorable war poems ever written.

Armistice (Veterans) Day For Peace

November 11, 2017

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Samual Adams Park

Boston Massachusetts

PROGRAM

Leftist Marching Band/Voice Opposition             Bring Us Together Music

Dan Luker, Smedley Butler,                                 Welcome
VFP Coordinator                                                   

Doug Stuart, Smedley Butler, VFP                      Opening Words-What Is Armistice Day?

Pat Scanlon, Smedley Butler, VFP                       David Spinney, Presente

                                                                           This program is dedicated to his memory 

Paul Atwood – VFP, Marine Corps,                     U.S. Foreign Policy

peace activist, professor U/Mass-Boston              “The Crisis On The Korean Peninsula”

                                                                                                                                     

Leftist Marching Band/Voice Opposition              Musical Interlude

Ray Ajemian, Smedley Butler, VFP                     100th Anniversary Of World War I-Lessons

Bob Masters–Smedley Butler, VFP,                     Vietnam Experiences

Vietnam Veteran, Doctor-101st Airborne

David Rothhauser, Smedley Butler VFP              Jihadi Girl - poem read by Al Johnson

Webb Nichols, Smedley Butler, VFP,                    poetry selections

U.S. Army, Vietnam veteran  

Juston Eivers, Smedley Butler,                             Closing Words

VFP Secretary                                                    

Leftist Marching Band/Voice Opposition             Musical Wrap-up

Many thanks to the City of Boston for use of Sam Adams Park

As The 100th Anniversary Of The Armistice Day 11/11/1918 at 11 AM Commences-Some Creative Artists Who Fought/Died/Lived Through The Nightmare That Destroyed The Flower Of European And American Youth -Ernst Kirchner

As The 100^th Anniversary Of The Armistice Day 11/11/1918 at 11 AM Commences-Some Creative Artists Who Fought/Died/Lived Through The Nightmare That Destroyed The Flower Of European And American Youth -Ernst Kirchner 

By Seth Garth

A few years ago, starting in August 2104 the 100^th anniversary of what would become World War I, I started a series about the cultural effects, some of them anyway, of the slaughter which mowed down the flower of the European youth including an amazing number of artists, poets, writers and other cultural figures. Those culturati left behind, those who survived the shellings, the trenches, the diseases, and what was then called “shell shock,” now more commonly Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) which is duly recognized, and compensated for at least in the United States by the Veterans Administration in proven cases reacted in many different ways. Mainly, the best of them, like the ordinary dog soldiers could not go back to the same old, same old, could not revive the certitudes of the pre-war Western world with it distorted sense of decorum and went to what even today seem quirky with moderns like Dada, Minimalism, the literary sparseness of Hemingway, and so on. I had my say there in a general sense but now as we are only a few months away from the 100^th anniversary of, mercifully, the armistice which effectively ended that bloodbath I want to do a retrospective of creative artistic works by those who survived the war and how those war visions got translated into their works with some commentary if the spirit moves me but this is their show-no question they earned a retrospective.

As The 100th Anniversary Of The Armistice Day 11/11/1918 at 11 AM Commences-Some Artists Who Fought/Died/Lived Through The Nightmare That Destroyed The Flower Of European Youth -Otto Dix

As The 100^th Anniversary Of The Armistice Day 11/11/1918 at 11 AM Commences-Some Artists Who Fought/Died/Lived Through The Nightmare That Destroyed The Flower Of European Youth -Otto Dix  

By Seth Garth

A few years ago, starting in August 2104 the 100^th anniversary of what would become World War I, I started a series about the cultural effects of the slaughter which mowed down the flower of the European youth including an amazing number of artists, poets and other cultural figures. I had my say there in a general sense but now as we are only a few months away from the 100^th anniversary of, mercifully, the armistice which effectively ended that bloodbath I want to do a retrospective of artistic works by those who survived the war and how those war visions got translated into their works with some commentary if the spirit moves me but this is their show-no question they earned a retrospective