A playlist of leftist songs and other stuff that I like.

Music of the Revolution

Hunger and homelessness plague America's veterans, President Biden is set to sign the infrastructure bill Monday, and Florida's governor considers legal action over migrant flights.

11.11.21 / Hunger and Homelessness Plague America's Veterans

Biden says he'll fight for the filibuster; McConnell seeks an eighth term; and Fauci fires back at GOP senators.

01.12.22 / Biden Says He'll Fight for the Filibuster

Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was resoundingly boo'ed at a Somali singer's concert on July 2nd in Minneapolis, and media outlets are still abuzz about it. 

Many Somali American residents of Congresswoman Omar’s district feel she has pursued an aggressive interventionist policy in Somalia and helped to engineer the defeat of their hugely popular president Mohammed Abdullahi Mohammed, aka Farmaajo.

Ilhan Omar Booed Onstage in Minneapolis

Marcelline Nduwamungu, from the Women's International Network for Democracy and Peace, on how Paul Kagame is Behind M23 Terror in East Congo.

Taylor Report

Kagame must withdraw his M-23 gang from Congo

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UK nurses go on strike, African refugees accuse Europe of racist immigration policies, and Steven Were Omamo, former World Food Program Director in Ethiopia, reports that the Tigray famine story was a false, politicized narrative during the Ethiopian civil war.

KPFK Non-NATO News

Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza prize for peace and democracy goes to John Williams Ntwali(journalist, deceased) and Kambale Musavuli, who has exposed the crimes of M-23 in East Congo.

Victoire Ingabire Prize for Peace and Democracy

Pacifica reporter and host Ann Garrison spoke to Michelle Witte of Sputnik Radio's "Political Misfits" about the US in Somalia, the drought and famine narrative, and South Africa's dilemma regarding Putin's visit for the BRICS conference while under indictment by the ICC.

Sputnik's "Political Misfits" on the US in Somalia and the Horn, and South Africa's ICC dilemma

Scholar, author, and activist Dr. Cornel West recently announced his 2024 presidential campaign. He discussed his platform and decision to be a candidate for the Green Party nomination.

Cornel West Discusses His Presidential Campaign

Black Agenda Report co-founder Glen Ford transitioned on July 28, 2021. This week I’m reporting from Caracas, Venezuela where I’m part of an International Peoples Tribunal on US Imperialism and fact finding mission which will hold a hearing on the issue of US economic coercive measures, commonly known as sanctions, which have been waged against Venezuela by the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations. In honor of Glen’s memory, I will read from a 2019 article he wrote when Donald Trump began his maximum pressure campaign against Venezuela. He titled this piece, “The Racist, Imperialist War Against Venezuela.”

Glen Ford on the U.S. War Against Venezuela

Despite warnings, the Toronto Eritrean Festival was attacked by thugs.

Police came late, did little, and the media jump all over the victims. 

Eritrean events were attacked by the same organization in US, Germany, and Sweden. 

In Toronto the police decision to cancel the rest of the festival, which has been a traditional and popular even for more that 20 years, has handed the attackers a victory on a platter. Be aware, the neo-colonialists have blood in their eyes.

Attack on Eritrean Festival was a classic pogrom

Woody Guthrie was born July 14, 1912.

The Pacifica Radio Archives delves into our collection to find interviews with Woody's wife Marjorie, longtime friend Will Geer, best friend Beth Lomax Hawes along with classic music and interviews with Woody. 
Notes: Up in the piney woods they were makin' moonshine.. dodging the government revenuers who hunted them between the trees like wild game. Each dawn the hollers echoed with the news they had survived another night. These cries were set to music. Blue ridge and blue grass. The voice of the people.


Then they headed for the mines. The coal beneath their homes wasn't going to walk into the daylight by itself. It had to be dynamited loose, hacked out, shoveled out Load by load, man and boy it had to be dragged to the surface.

Down South, meanwhile, it was King Cotton and the chain gang. The songs dripped with sweat this time, and heavy to match the delta heat and boggy fug. At night they plucked the banjo and slapped away the strings of another backbreaking day spent sharecropping another man's land.

Out in Oklahoma, meanwhile, the folks simply fled. Their land stripped to bare dust, they took to the road, to the rails, to the wind. Like yesterday's news, they blew along the byways to the four corners of the nation. Always lookin' for a hand up, sometimes reduced to a hand-out, seeking a melody to match their flat-iron twang, a voice for their homeless lyrics.

Most headed west. One was named Guthrie. Woodrow Wilson Guthrie.

Uprooted from the heartland, Woody would take the pulse of the nation, and set it to the rhythm of the rails. Migrant and restless, hard traveling would tune his senses to the plight of his country and its people. On the anvil of the land he traveled, he would pound the ringing hammer of cold truth and give voice to the very wind that blew them from their homes. From California to New York they were the songs of freedom, and justice... and they would redound from shore to shore.

From The Vault 1 Hour Version: FTV 0442 Woody Guthrie - Better World A Comin'

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For those who didn't hear The Freeholders back in 1989 here's a few tracks from a BBC recording we did.

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From The Vault 1 Hour Version: FTV 0442 Woody Guthrie - Better World A Comin'

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