Protest Music Protest and topical music including comedy. We're interested in the history of protest music, for instance labor songs, civil rights songs, anti war songs. We also feature contemporary protest music and we particularly want to hear your protest songs. This is an open group. Please join and post your diaries. If you want to help manage the group message me and I'll make you a BlogEditor. Of course Protest Music is on topic. But it doesn't have to be both. Protest or Music. Protest is on topic. Music is on topic.

R.I.P. Ray Manzarek

Sad, sad day today.  On top of all the tornado devastation, Ray Manzarek has passed away.   : (

Chick Corea/Wynton Marsalis Live

Simulcast starts at 8PM ET tonight and features the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra doing songs from the Chick Corea Songbook with Chick, Wynton and guests.  The first two nights have been great sound and video and I know many jazz inflected Kossacks will not want to miss this.  Just follow the link.... http://chickcorea.com/...

Hellraisers Journal: IWW strikers sing on their way to jail after mass arrest.

You..ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.                                                       -Mother Jones Wednesday May 20, 1903 Chicago, Illinois - 12,000 Restaurant Workers Prepare to Strike 12,000 restaurant workers stand ready to go out on strike unless their employers grant certain concessions. The workers are demanding that wages be increased by 20%, and that hours be reduced to 10 hours on weekdays and 6 on Sundays. The strike will include all those employed in area restaurants: cooks, waiters, and general kitchen help. Barkeepers, chambermaids and porters will join the strike. Charles Kiesler, President of Hotel and Restaurant Employees' Alliance Local No. 330, has just returned from the union's national convention in Philadelphia. He brought back word that the national leaders of the union will stand behind the strike. SOURCE http://select.nytimes.com/... Tuesday May 20, 1913 Paterson, New Jersey - I.W.W. Strikers Sing on Their Way to Jail Eighty strikers were arrested yesterday as they tried to walk the picket line at the Price Silk Mill. The strikers were protesting the re-opening of the mill with scabs. About 2500 strikers arrived at 7 o'clock in the morning, half of them boys and girls who were not yet out of their teens. Of those arrested, twenty were women, many of them young girls. In the afternoon, Recorder Carroll handed out his usual sentence of $5.00 or 10 days in jail. The strikers do not have $5.00 and must, therefore, serve the 10 days in jail. Patrol wagons were required to make several trips in order to transfer all of the prisoners to the county jail. On each trip the strikers could be heard shouting and singing on their way to jail. SOURCE http://select.nytimes.com/...

After The Frivolity Of The May 14 Jersey City Mayoral Election-Time For ♪Music & Monty Python

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. Gandhi Hi Joe♥ Jersey City, NJ Council Runoff Elections Are June 11, 2013 Residents have until May 21, to register to vote in this election. ♥Solidarity Team Healy♥ For Jersey City Polling Place Locations, Voter Registration And Other Voting Info Call The Office of the City Clerk 280 Grove Street Jersey City, NJ 07302 Telephone: (201) 547-5150 Or Call The Hudson County Board of Elections (201) 369-7745, 7746, 7747, 7748 or 7749. USA.gov Registering to Vote and Voting Frequently Asked Questions ie Absentee Voting, Questions for Uniformed Services/Family Members, Questions for Overseas Citizens and many more. Voting Info New Jersey Voting Information NJ Division Of Elections I still say that Jersey City Councilman Steven Fulop's organization waged a mean campaign in this mayoral election. Mayor Healy seems to be taking this all in his stride. So; I say fine, lets see what Fulop has. Some of his ideas sound like they're, not that bad. Fulop's kinda dumb though. All that mud slinging wasn't necessary to get elected. He already had enough votes from Downtown (Jersey City). So Fulop made a big jerk out of himself for nothing, by not stopping his pundits and associates from pursuing the line of abuse against Mayor Healy. No matter how many big mouths keep repeating this reprehensible unsubstantiated, unverifiable story(s) about Mayor Healy; it still is, only innuendo and rumor. The continued; re-telling, of an almost ten year old story, is not news nor journalism. For anyone who doesn't know this (supposed) story I don't think you'd even care to. I have no link here because I'm so sick of it myself. (You can just enjoy the videos instead). If you do want to; just google Jersey City, NJ Mayoral Election. IMO, Wanting to win an election doesn't justify, or make these abusive tactics right, or make it correct behavior. As a woman, I object to the sexist treatment of Mayor Healy. It's called; victimizing the victim, ie like Healy (who was obviously a victim of political foul play back in 04'). Just because, one assumes that they themselves, are better, does not make activities like the defamation of a fellow Democrat's character, any kind of appropriate behavior/attitude, for any liberal or progressive Democratic agenda. It's no joke. Yesterday I read that one or more students sent racist messages to an African American student who is running for a school election. Saint Peter's Prep, (no less). See nj.com Select Hudson County. We have to stop the personal ignorance and unrealistic expectations; that, like, "all's fair as long as we get what we want" type of thinking. It's not. Politicians should run their campaigns based on their ideas, plans and merits Not, tabloid media techniques! This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land Hip Hop Style ga* Words For Today narcissistic obfuscate Suffragette/Woman's Suffrage ☮☮☮ CeaseFire 1603 W Taylor St MC 923 Chicago, IL 60612 312-996-8775 The Campaign To Stop The Shooting, uses a public health model to stop shootings and killings, with a combination of Science and Street Outreach to track where violence is heating up and then cool the situation down. "Spread The Word, Change The Thinking." Support The Campaign The Struggle Never Stops Tupac Jersey City New Jersey Sues In Federal Court To Stop spectra's natural gas [transportation] pipeline U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services USCIS will secure America’s promise as a nation of immigrants by providing accurate and useful information, granting immigration and citizenship benefits, promoting an awareness and understanding of citizenship. Contact Customer Service Center 1-800-375-5283 1-800-767-1833 (TDD for the hearing impaired)  Call this toll-free number to receive nationwide assistance for immigration services and benefits. Forms Green Card And More Info National Immigration Forum FB This same bunch; Fulop supporters, they have the nerve to knock Mayor Hague! (Democrat), Jersey City, in office as Mayor, May 15, 1917–June 17, 1947. Mayor Hague built Margaret Hague Hospital, (named after his Mother) and treatment was free to anyone who couldn't afford to pay. The Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform (ILIR) News ♥♥I Was Born; A Suffragette, A Democrat, And A Union Maid♥♥ You can't fool me, I'm a College Graduate! How to Apply for Financial Aid and Scholarships That's all I have to say about this subject. Except, that it's time for them all to shut up about it! Note to Jersey City Mayor Elect Fulop, You won the election. Learn how to win gracefully. Now get to work and start cleaning up the crime in Jersey City.

Theme Song for a New Vision

Yesterday, OPOL posted a diary calling for a fundamental change in our society, and our way of thinking.  I would like to propose a theme song.  It is from an Old Time/Bluegrass band called Old Crow Medicine Show, but like OPOL, commonly known by an acronym, OCMS. http://youtu.be/... That's all I've got...short and (I hope) sweet.  Gotta go adjust the valves on my bus now, while it is still cool.

[Update 5/14/-11pm] Jersey City NJ Mayoral Race Turns Mean-Innuendo/Lies Directed At Mayor Healy!

Mayor Healy lost the Jersey City Mayoral election. By around 6,000 votes. Only one City Council Seat was decided and there will be a runoff election to decide the winners of the other eight Wards. Opponents of Mayor Healy waged the meanest campaign ever. And it worked. Psychological pressure is big in NJ. It's true there are crooks (although why I cannot figure out, they all already make great salaries), but where are there not crooked politicians? Mayor Healy is not one of them. He was a Jersey City Prosecutor and a Judge. That's all I have to say; except, I'm watching and will expect Mayor Elect Fulop to fulfill all his campaign boasts. Old NJ saying; "Be Careful What You Wish For, You Just Might Get It". [Updated 5/14/13] Today's the big day, Jersey City's Mayoral Election. Meanwhile, the opposition's political shenanigans directed at Mayor Healy continue right up to the minute. ♥ Solidarity For Jersey City Polling Place Locations And Other Voting Info Call The Office of the City Clerk 280 Grove Street Jersey City, NJ 07302 Telephone: (201) 547-5150 Or Call The Hudson County Board of Elections (201) 369-7745, 7746, 7747, 7748 or 7749. Online Voter Information Verify Your Voter Registration Status Incumbent Mayor Healy's rival for the Office of Jersey City Mayor; is Councilman, Steven Fulop. The Fulop Campaign has tried every gambit, in the battle to win the vote. Word out; is, that Fulop is a big fan, of public school privatization and vouchers (and I'm not talking about the worthwhile small local community run charter schools we often see, that are good). I'm talking about the large corporate owned charter schools. There's no place for corporations in our public school system, except in a textbook. Statistically; over all, charter schools have proven to be failures. It's said, that Fulop and his business associates want to close Snyder High School and School 41 immediately. Snyder High is a good school. It's the kids who need help. They need better educational materials. Like new text books for starters, drug, alcohol and anti-violence programs, and extra curricular activities keep them off the streets.   How many more and what schools would be next? Jersey City doesn't need a bunch of charter schools. A few are more than enough. And there are probably quite a few already. No Way! Jersey City Schools need better federal and state funding, not being bought up by big business. Then they'll stick all the Snyder Kids in Lincoln HS. Ir's a nightmare scenario, the overcrowding there would be in whatever public schools that still existed. With the same amount of Federal funding as we have now.   Not to forget to mention, all the employees that would lose their jobs, being displaced by these corporations being able to hire anyone they want, at less wages too probably. And I'm not even going to go into Councilman Fulop's rather clueless,  unrealistic ideas concerning reorganizing Jersey City's Police Force. ie Hiring auxiliary rent-a-cops and more. On that note, ♪I republish this one more time. Jersey City; Be Smart, Vote for you own best interests. Vote Team Healy. First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win. Gandhi Talk is cheap, on the part of people like Mayoral Candidate Fulop.  Old NJ saying, put up or shut up. I haven't heard of any real plans or ideas to improve Jersey City from Fulop, so guess he doesn't have any. This is why he just knocks Healy. Incumbent Jersey City Mayor Healy is The Best. Totally, And He Has A Lot Of Patience. Healy's; honest, tough, smart, kind, conscientious and what Jersey City, New Jersey needs. Editors Note The only reason I am even continuing to repeat this unsubstantiated supposed "politics as usual in NJ" story, is because it's plastered all over the NJ news anyway. I find the accusations and derogatory slurs against Mayor Healy's good name, to be an atrocious act of political chicanery. It's a form of Psychological manipulation (a type of social influence that aims to change the perception or behavior of others through underhanded, deceptive, or even abusive tactics). IMO, It borders on extortion. Jersey City's Mayor Healy, is a very nice man and I believe that someone should support him and set the story straight once and for all.   Alternate Title-It's Getting Low Down And Dirty In Jersey City, New Jersey. Is this bid rig nonsense, all Fulop has? Nobody believes Mayor Healy would be a crook. Or involved in corruption, like the bid rig, Dweck affair.   Healy was (Appointed Chief Judge of the Jersey City Municipal Court in 1991 and reappointed to second term in 1995 And Assistant Prosecutor for the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office from 1977-1981). Meanwhile; everyone accusing him, is a teatotaler and a virgin.   Being from Bayonne, one town away from Jersey City, I keep track. I was born in Jersey City, Margaret Hague Hospital. My Mother was born and raised in Jersey City 100 years ago. These kind of tactics will really destroy the public's opinion of Fulop. It has mine. The Argument Clinic Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life. Define yourself. Harvey Fierstein The Revolution Is Still On! Words for the day hearsay superimposition ♥♥♥ga*

♫Jammin♪ Back To The 80's And Right Through To Summer♫ Music♥ Got A Song?

Never Swim When There's No Life Guard! The Greater Newark/New York Fresh Air Fund Sends Children To Summer Camp Sign Up Your Child Jango Social Radio/Videos Free music-internet radio that plays what you want! Hi Joe♥ Natural Insect Repellent Plants And Pesticides For ♥All My Friends In New Jersey, New York And Everywhere♥ Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Your children are so hungry that they don’t know how to smile

40 50 years ago Bob Dylan recorded the Ballad of Hollis Brown (August 7, 1963), the story of a South Dakota farmer out of work and desperate. It is a story as contemporary today as it was then, with 25% (or more) of children in this country in poverty and going hungry This interpretation of the conditions of the working class by a 22 year old kid from the North country is unmatched in its simplicity, two chords and the setup of each verse by repeating the first line. When I was much younger I learned this song from my Bob Dylan Songbook (which I still have), and as I recently got a banjo and was flailing around on it learning chords and scales, the tune emerged out of my muscle memory. So I am relearning it. Below are the verses with my own tidbits of commentary.

The Daily Music Break: Paul Robeson

Cross-Posted at THE DAILY MUSIC BREAK, the site that features good music regardless of era or genre. Please visit. Here is the beginning of Encyclopedia.com’s profile of the multi-talented Paul Robeson, one of the most important figures — musical and otherwise — of the twentieth century: Paul Robeson—singer, actor, civil rights activist, law school graduate, athlete, scholar, author— was perhaps the best known and most widely respected black American of the 1930s and 1940s. Robeson was also a staunch supporter of the Soviet Union, and a man, later in his life, widely vilified and censored for his frankness and unyielding views on issues to which public opinion ran contrary. As a young man, Robeson was virile, charismatic, eloquent, and powerful. He learned to speak more than 20 languages in order to break down the barriers of race and ignorance throughout the world, and yet, as Sterling Stuckey pointed out in the New York Times Book Review, for the last 25 years of his life his was “a great whisper and a greater silence in black America.”Born in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1898, Robeson was spared most of the daily brutalities suffered by African Americans around the turn of the century. But his family was not totally free from hardship. Robeson’s mother died from a stove-fire accident when he was six. His father, a runaway slave who became a pastor, was removed from an early ministerial position. Nonetheless, from his father Robeson learned diligence and an “unshakable dignity and courage in spite of the press of racism and poverty.” These characteristics, Stuckey noted, defined Robeson’s approach in his beliefs and actions throughout his life. (Continue Reading...) The above video of of Robeson singing Ol' Man River in Showboat -- which was written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II -- is the best known clip of Robeson.  Below, Robeson sings Vi Azoy Lebt der Kayser? (How Does the Czar Drink Tea?). The song, sung in Yiddish, satirizes Czarist Russia. More information, including a translation, is provided here and here.

We Have a Dream: Farmworkers Organize for Justice

Picking tomatoes in Immokalee, Florida, home of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW). Photo: Courtesy of CIW.                                          By Tory Field and Beverly Bell                                     Part 13 of the Harvesting Justice series For decades, farmworkers – the more than one million men and women who work in fields and orchards around the country – have been leading a struggle for justice in our food system. They have been building awareness and mobilizing the public, successfully securing some rights, higher wages, and better working conditions. Today, a recent string of victories by the farmworker group Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), together with the steadfast work of other groups, have taken the movement to a whole new level. The United Farm Workers (UFW), founded in 1966 by Dolores Huerta, César Chávez, and others, launched the modern-day farmworker movement. They brought their struggles to national attention by leading boycotts against grape and lettuce growers. Consumers around the country banished grapes and lettuce from their grocery lists, forcing growers to raise wages and to improve labor conditions. Since then, farmworkers have used work stoppages, hunger strikes, marches, union negotiations, and boycotts to win substantial improvements. No longer is it commonplace for crew leaders – those who round up workers and manage the crew – to beat workers, for example, or for farms to aerially spray pesticides in fields while people are working in them.

Hairy Larry blogs internet music promotion at Blow Your Own Horn Email Hairy Larry Copyright by Larry Heyl and Vivian Heyl