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Status: Not Logged In; Sign In Video and Audio See other Video and Audio Articles Title: 'We Shall Overcome' The comback of protest songs Source: Boston Globe URL Source: http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ed ... 5/06/we_shall_overcome?mode=PF Published: May 9, 2006 Author: Robert Kuttner Post Date: 2006-05-09 01:45:21 by Morgana le Fay Keywords: None Views: 64810 Comments: 124 ''THIS IS our first gig," said Bruce Springsteen. ''I hope it goes OK." With that, The Boss and his 18-piece Seeger Sessions Band opened their set with a rocking rendition of ''Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep." As an act of solidarity with this doubly ravaged city, Springsteen began his homage to Pete Seeger tour here, at ground zero of everything ruinous about the people who now run our country. The 37th annual Jazz and Heritage Festival was playing to a smaller, whiter crowd than usual in half-abandoned New Orleans. It would be hard to imagine a more poignant or uplifting marriage of musician, impulse, venue, and moment. Lately, musicians as diverse as Neil Young, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Paul Simon, and Ani di Franco have followed the same impulse. This is surely the time and the place. Commentators solemnly billed Hurricane Katrina as the flood that laid bare awkward truths of class and race in America. It did -- for a vivid week, and then we turned away. By a fine accident of timing, I came here for a conference on what Katrina revealed -- and found plenty of surprises. Downtown and the tourist French Quarter, which got priority federal attention, look as if Katrina had never happened. But the outlying scale of devastation is far more extensive, and the federal default of government more staggering, than one could imagine. Of 485,000 people who lived here before Katrina, only about 165,000 remain. New Orleans had high rates of black home ownership. But tens of thousands of homeowners are trapped in a horrific Catch-22 because of cascading federal failures. In huge swaths of the city, basic public services are unrestored, so people can't return to viable houses. Mountains of stinking rubbish -- once the stuff of homes and lives -- lie uncollected on front yards. FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, decided to clear inhabited areas first. It just never returned to pick up the rest. Tens of thousands of homes could be renovated and reoccupied. But instead of making emergency rehab grants or loans, FEMA spends $90,000 per trailer, often parked in front yards, while black mold relentlessly ruins structurally sound houses. FEMA was slow to revise federal flood insurance guidelines. Without federal flood coverage, no private insurance flows and people can't get bank loans. So extensive salvageable areas remain unoccupied. Meanwhile, the 2006 hurricane season arrives June 1, but the levees are restored only to withstand a mild category 2 storm. Filling some of the vacuum left by the Bush default, heroic work is being done by volunteers, from Habitat for Humanity, ACORN, and several churches and trade unions. Many live in a tent city -- which FEMA now plans to tear down June 1. Springsteen toured all this, appalled. He composed two new stanzas to the 1929 song, ''How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?" including, ''[Bush] gave a little pep talk, said I'm with you, then he took a walk." Springsteen elicited loud cheers when he deplored the government's ''criminal irresponsibility." A small plane circled, towing an ''Impeach Bush" banner. New Orleans heroically pulled itself together to bring off this Fest. Held on a racetrack grounds, the fair has nine simultaneous performance spaces going all day, a crafts section, kids' tent, and a food midway where New Orleans's finest chefs serve such specialties as artichoke and oyster soup and gourmet jambalaya ladled from murky oil drums at $5 a bowl. As the field dried out from a drenching rain, I gloriously wandered from Willis Prudhomme and the Zydeco Express to the gospel tent to a medley of everything from brass bands, Dixieland funeral music, back to more zydeco, to blues. By 5:30, when Springsteen strode onto the main stage, following New Orleans legend Allen Toussaint, the sun was shining. Like Seeger's, the Springsteen repertoire included not just political songs such as ''Keep Your Eyes on the Prize," but the whimsical bits of Americana that Seeger loved, like ''(Get Out of the Way,) Old Dan Tucker." And when Springsteen began ''We Shall Overcome," the crowd, both the '60s generation and youngsters who had seen it only on TV joined uplifted hands, swayed, and sang along, without irony. If anyone can reintroduce songs of protest to a new mass audience, making that much-reworked tradition fresh, it is the sunny, exuberant Springsteen. Folk music was, of course, the original popular culture. Sometimes, the borrowings of commercial pop from folk music are cheesy and opportunistic (say, the Byrds' version of Seeger). Other times, the result is a powerful, authentic synthesis, as in the work of Ry Cooder, Bob Dylan, and John Lennon at their best, New Orleans's own Randy Newman, who wrote the original flood anthem three decades ago, ''Louisiana: They're trying to wash us away," and now Springsteen. Like protest music, you never know when protest itself will recur. As Springsteen packed up and our conference began, millions not ''Born In The USA" were assembling across America to declare their dignity as working people and human beings. They also sang. America today is depressing, but music adds energy and spirit to the protest imperative. Song is an inherently collective ritual that reminds us that we are not alone. You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. Robert Kuttner is co-editor of The American Prospect. His column appears regularly in the Globe. Post Comment Private Reply Bookmark Post Comment   Private Reply   Ignore Thread   Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Comments (1-56) not displayed.       .       .       . #57. To: Morgana le Fay (#54) i heard about you way over there. No you didn't. I post as Continental Op everywhere. I picked the name Pontius Pilate for my PL username in order to keep JT's blood pressure stable. Free David Irving!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Free Gotovina!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Free Eric Rudolph!!!!!!!!!!!!!! continental op  posted on  2006-05-10   22:25:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #58. To: Jhoffa_ (#55) I don't even lurk there.. me neither. i called the mod a swine. she is overweight and took it the wrong way. they won't post my stuff now. Morgana le Fay  posted on  2006-05-10   22:25:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #59. To: continental op (#57) No you didn't. I post as Continental Op everywhere. I i have my ways. Morgana le Fay  posted on  2006-05-10   22:26:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #60. To: Jhoffa_ (#56) is ponchy officially bipolar or is he just a kook? Morgana le Fay  posted on  2006-05-10   22:28:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #61. To: Jhoffa_ (#55) I don't even lurk there.. I like a hardcore, free speech forum, you know, some place inhabited by psychos who issue daily threats to your life and limb. I was just discussing old Martin Linstedt with JT, this evening. Old "Lucky" could really keep you on your toes with his predictions of dire bodily harm. Especially as he used to live about twenty minutes drive from me... Free David Irving!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Free Gotovina!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Free Eric Rudolph!!!!!!!!!!!!!! continental op  posted on  2006-05-10   22:28:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #62. To: continental op (#61) some place inhabited by psychos who issue daily threats to your life and limb inhabited by you? Morgana le Fay  posted on  2006-05-10   22:29:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #63. To: continental op (#61) I don't even lurk there.. I'll talk to myself on FU or beg Goldi for redemption before I lower myself to that.. Why do you waste your time? Click Here for the "Jhoffa VS Mudboy Slim official fight thread" Jhoffa_  posted on  2006-05-10   22:30:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #64. To: Jhoffa_ (#63) Why do you waste your time? I get the same enjoyment out of it, as I do from catching poisonus snakes barehanded. Free David Irving!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Free Gotovina!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Free Eric Rudolph!!!!!!!!!!!!!! continental op  posted on  2006-05-10   22:32:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #65. To: continental op (#64) I get the same enjoyment out of it, as I do from catching poisonus snakes barehanded. very Freudian Morgana le Fay  posted on  2006-05-10   22:36:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #66. To: Morgana le Fay (#65) I knew you'd think so. Really, you do have no clue, whatsoever. Free David Irving!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Free Gotovina!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Free Eric Rudolph!!!!!!!!!!!!!! continental op  posted on  2006-05-10   22:37:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #67. To: continental op (#66) I knew you'd think so. odd fantasies like this go hand in hand with your inability to deal with women. it is not hard to see the correlation. a great deal of your irrational anger and hostility is probably just repressed horniness. you need to get layed soon. it won't be possible if you get much older. Morgana le Fay  posted on  2006-05-10   22:45:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #68. To: Morgana le Fay (#67) Listen you yuppie bitch, he was taking schrapnel in Cai-san while you were crapping in your diaper and wiping it on your face.. so there.. HA! Click Here for the "Jhoffa VS Mudboy Slim official fight thread" Jhoffa_  posted on  2006-05-10   22:50:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #69. To: Jhoffa_ (#68) Listen you yuppie bitch, he was taking schrapnel in Cai-san while you were crapping in your diaper and wiping it on your face.. i know, that is why i am telling him he doesn't have much time left. i believe that getting layed will cure his condition. if he gets to old to do it however, the condition will be locked in for life. Morgana le Fay  posted on  2006-05-10   22:53:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #70. To: Morgana le Fay (#69) I think he needs a fifth of Wild Turkey, but that's a non-medical opinion.. Click Here for the "Jhoffa VS Mudboy Slim official fight thread" Jhoffa_  posted on  2006-05-10   22:55:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #71. To: Jhoffa_ (#70) I think he needs a fifth of Wild Turkey, but that's a non-medical opinion.. i didn't think of that. a temporary solution is better than none at all. Morgana le Fay  posted on  2006-05-10   22:58:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #72. To: Jhoffa_ (#70) this is a nice forum. someone should go on yahoo and advertise it more. it needs a few more regulars. Morgana le Fay  posted on  2006-05-10   23:09:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #73. To: Morgana le Fay (#72) Is that how you picked it up? Or do I know you from somewhere, perhaps? Click Here for the "Jhoffa VS Mudboy Slim official fight thread" Jhoffa_  posted on  2006-05-10   23:19:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #74. To: Jhoffa_ (#73) my friend pandora knows christine and zipporah at freedom4um. she told me about this group of forums. Morgana le Fay  posted on  2006-05-10   23:54:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #75. To: Jhoffa_ (#73) pandora and her daughter run a forum so i guess that is how they know christine. Morgana le Fay  posted on  2006-05-10   23:55:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #76. To: Jhoffa_ (#73) i am posting a lot, but i like the politics on postliberty and freedom4um. they are in the middle between the 1960s left and the hard nutty right. i don't really support public aid for a billion illegals but i could never become a free republic fasicist either. in either place you have to tip toe around issues that you don't really support. Morgana le Fay  posted on  2006-05-11   0:00:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #77. To: ponchy poo (#66) good night ponchy! don't get tangled up in the blankets and choke to death when you wrestle your poisonous snake. Morgana le Fay  posted on  2006-05-11   0:26:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #78. To: Morgana le Fay, jhoffa (#67) For the record, catching reptiles is a family tradition and not at all dangerous if you follow the usual precautions. My Grandfather used to supply the San Diego zoo with Texas rattlesnakes. I ought to wear gloves, because there's nothing so filthy as a cornered snake, but there generally aren't any to hand, when I see a snake, so I just grab it. I skinned my last rattlesnake in '90 or '91. Might post some pictures of the various ones I've caught over the years. Snake-catching is a safer hobby than it looks, because even if you are bitten, chances are, the bite will be dry. Hope this clarifies matters, because I didn't mean to make a big deal out of it. Free David Irving!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Free Gotovina!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Free Eric Rudolph!!!!!!!!!!!!!! continental op  posted on  2006-05-11   8:08:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #79. To: Morgana le Fay (#32) "...one hotel told me they fill up within three hours of the route being published." Bikers are a rabid group...MUD Mudboy Slim  posted on  2006-05-11   8:18:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #80. To: Morgana le Fay (#30) "i just graduated and want some time on my own." Enjoy your 20's and use your 30's and 40's to raise the family...that was my wife and I's philosophy and it's worked out well so far...MUD Mudboy Slim  posted on  2006-05-11   8:21:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #81. To: continental op (#29) "...why are you always in your office, posting, then?" I've gotta laptop, dude...MUD Mudboy Slim  posted on  2006-05-11   8:22:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #82. To: Morgana le Fay, continental op (#44) "...your personality wouldn't fit with someone who was young and attractive." Touche'...MUD Mudboy Slim  posted on  2006-05-11   8:24:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #83. To: Jhoffa_ (#55) "...maybe I am a forum tart." Finally some honesty from the GardenVarietyTroll...MUD Mudboy Slim  posted on  2006-05-11   8:27:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #84. To: continental op (#78) I like catching snakes too. No posionous ones around here though. At least that's what I hear. A K A Stone  posted on  2006-05-11   8:31:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #85. To: Mudboy Slim, Jhoffa (#80) Never mind the quarrels. Vital imput needed, as regards this picture... Free David Irving!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Free Gotovina!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Free Eric Rudolph!!!!!!!!!!!!!! continental op  posted on  2006-05-11   8:32:13 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #86. To: A K A Stone (#84) What've you got in your area? In Missouri, it's blacksnakes, gray racers, a very few rattlesnakes, copperheads, milk snakes, king snakes, water mocassins, and of course, gartersnakes... Free David Irving!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Free Gotovina!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Free Eric Rudolph!!!!!!!!!!!!!! continental op  posted on  2006-05-11   8:34:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #87. To: continental op (#86) Im in Ohio. We have mostly black snakes. Some garter snakes too. I've been told that there are no poisonous snakes in this region. A friend of mine told me a ranger told him that. That was back in the 80's though. There could have been some migration. Who knows, i'm no expert. I always just found it fun to catch snakes. I like catching other creatures too. A K A Stone  posted on  2006-05-11   8:37:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #88. To: A K A Stone (#87) I've caught three black snakes this past week. One was a six-footer. They're really active this time of year. Have you got any pictures of snakes, you've caught? Free David Irving!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Free Gotovina!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Free Eric Rudolph!!!!!!!!!!!!!! continental op  posted on  2006-05-11   8:39:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #89. To: continental op (#88) No pictures, sorry. If you want I would like to see some of your pics of snakes. A K A Stone  posted on  2006-05-11   8:40:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #90. To: A K A Stone (#89) I've got a lot of pictures and a couple of videos of my "snakehandling" experiences. I need to get a photobucket account. will post them on your forum, first. Free David Irving!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Free Gotovina!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Free Eric Rudolph!!!!!!!!!!!!!! continental op  posted on  2006-05-11   8:49:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #91. To: continental op (#85) "this picture..." I'm just getting the dreaded red "x", co-op...MUD Mudboy Slim  posted on  2006-05-11   9:02:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #92. To: continental op, Coral Snake (#90) "I've got a lot of pictures and a couple of videos of my "snakehandling" experiences." Wow, you oughtta start up a website, http://CatchingSnakes.com or somesuch...LOL!! Regards...MUD Mudboy Slim  posted on  2006-05-11   9:05:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #93. To: Mudboy Slim (#92) I plan to. I used to have a dog, that I trained to kill snakes. One of my cats was also quite good at it. Free David Irving!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Free Gotovina!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Free Eric Rudolph!!!!!!!!!!!!!! continental op  posted on  2006-05-11   9:07:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #94. To: continental op (#93) Make a video..."When Housepets Hunt Snakes!!" Gotta take advantage of today's economy...these days, folks will spend ten bucks to see two dogs gettin' it on...MUD BTW...I'll be selling MudMusic CDs fer $9.99...LOL!! Mudboy Slim  posted on  2006-05-11   9:19:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #95. To: continental op (#90) I've got a lot of pictures and a couple of videos of my "snakehandling" experiences. good morning poncy! I will pass on the picture of you playing with your snake. Morgana le Fay  posted on  2006-05-11   9:25:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply   #96. To: continental op, JHoffa_, SMOKESCREEN, TLBSHOW, Dakmar, palo verde, A K A Stone, buckeroo, war, ferret mike (#93) Alright, everybody sing along... "Right's Battle Against Left's Whore'd!!" (To be sung to Led Zeppelin's "The Battle of Evermore") The King of Lyin' smugly bows... "Respect the Prez," we're told... "Protests shall cease...he'll be gone soon... Just leave Ol' Slick alone!!" Has the Right lost its mind?! DETHRONE THE WHORE!! Lib'rals kill with great delight... The Right must fight this War... Folks, throw down the gauntlet now... Rest not 'til Slick's DETHRONED!! Side-by-side, we'll FReep and fight... Right shall win this Culture War!! Ohh-oh-ah-oahhhhh... Hey...Dems gotta wonder... How far protectin' Slick they'll go! I'm waitin' fer some Righteous Republicans... To stand up and Re-Impeach Left's 'HO!! The Wisdom of the Forefathers told... "Preserve Equal Justice!!" Imprison Slick 'cuz Law don't care... 'Tween naif or President...No nooooo!! This Country is worth the fight... Truth shall CONDEMN Left's Blight!! Lib'rals enslave folks brown and black... The Med'yuh feeds their dread...ohhhh... Fear is the Lib'rals' Plight... Publik-skewl-ignorantized!!! This World is filled with Good and Bad... How will our children know?! Ohh...now...ohh-oh-ohhh... Orwell, yer book wuz WRONG... Bold FReepers taught me so... Fine time fer an uprise... RE-IMPEACH THE CHI-COM 'HO!! The Pain of War cannot exceed... Waco's burnt stench of Death!! Our drums shall shake the White House halls... Our guitars shall steal Slick's breath!! Fight on...sing fer our Nation...Fight on... VOTE RIGHT...the Left shall fall!! No need for Fear...we'll set things Right... Our Might'll transform the World!! Dance with the FReepin' Right... Sing 'til the mornin' lights!! History looms...be Strong and Bold... We'll bring True Justice back!! Bring it back... At last, Reagan'll be smilin'... At Guv'ment small and nice. We have caged The Butcher of Christians... Sic Semper Tyrannis!!!! Ahhh...ee-eye-ohhhh...ahhh-ah-ahh... Bring it back...RE-IMPEACH...bring it back...then CONVICT... Bring it back...INDICT Slick...bring it back...then CONVICT... Oh now...oh now...oh now...YES, NOW...oh now...oh now...oh now... Bring it back...RE-IMPEACH...bring it back...then CONVICT...bring it back... Ooh now...ooh now...YES, NOW ooh... Ooh now...ooh now...YES, NOW SING IT!! Sing it...sing it...sing it...sing it...sing it...sing it........ Mudboy Slim BTW...7 October 2000...March For Liberty...Washington, DC (Lincoln Monument)...Be there if you still think this Country's worth Fightin' Fer!!! 1 Posted on 09/01/2000 Heh heh heh...you can't have a successful impeachment without...MUD Mudboy Slim  posted on  2006-05-11   9:28:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply         .       .       . Comments (97 - 124) not displayed. Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest

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