5.4.9 Full Circle Find The Cost Of Freedom Four Dead In Ohio Fuck Corpo Media

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May 4th, 2009 how many years has it been since Kent State, how many young don't know what we're on about?
39 years. 4 dead. A college campus. That era's illegal war that wasn't called a war. The National Guard.

The photo.



The unending struggle that pits family against family in the name of empire that isn't called that.

The anguish of the peaceful who seek to protect the warriors from unecessary harm.

The struggle of the workers who have no control over how their toil and blood is spilled.

You are invited to listen to the following, in the spirit of time, transition, the power of art, the perpetuation of a struggle that is human and decent and neverending -- and if you don't come back that's all right, too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi7XdtfN3Qg
Sprinsteen honoring Pete Seeger on his 90th birthday, preamble to Tom Joad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi7XdtfN3Qg

Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Party Celebration, Springsteen singing Tom Joad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtiTsVvH6Do

What are today's 6th graders listening to? NOW 39? American Idol? ClearChannel Clear Across America and Beyond?

I remember my friend's brother's record collection and hearing and reading the words:

Daylight again, following me to bed
I think about a hundred years ago, how my fathers bled
I think I see a valley, covered with bones in blue
All the brave soldiers that cannot get older been askin' after you
Hear the past a callin', from Armegeddon's side
When everyone's talkin' and noone is listenin', how can we
decide?

(Do we) find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground

Mother earth will swallow you, lay your body down
Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground
Mother earth will swallow you, lay your body down
(Find the cost of freedom buried in the ground)

Stephen Stills

*

And my preadolescent self thought, "You can DO that?"

And heard the rude screech of skronching sketchey guitar scribing:

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.

Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?

Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.
Neil Young


The ongoing battles between this generation or that, both and all of which need be setting their sites on the corporate coopting of media, communications on every level, hijacking the commingling of ideas in an open society and phony, truncated history that divides and conquers.

We have met the enemy and he is media.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDq36YD1ESM

If You Want To Sing Out lyrics
Well
if you want to sing out
sing out.
And if you want to be free
be free.
'Cause there's a million things to be.
You know that there are.
And if you want to live high
live high.
And if you want to live low
live low.
'Cause there's a million ways to go.
You know that there are.

You can do what you want.
The opportunity's on.
And if you find a new way

you can do it today.
You can make it all true.
And you can make it undo
you see.
Ah
it's easy.
Ah
you only need to know.

Well
if you want to say yes
say yes.
And if you want to say no
say no.
Cause there's a million ways to go.
You know that there are.
And if you want to be me
be me.
And if you want to be you
be you.
Cause thee's a million things to do.
You know that there are.



PEACE TRAIN (Cat Stevens)

Now I've been happy lately
Thinking about the good things to come
And I believe it could be
Something good has begun
I've been smiling lately
Dreaming about the world as one
And I believe it could be
Something good's bound to come

For out on the edge of darkness
There runs the peace train
Peace train take this country
Come take me home again

Peace train sounding louder
Ride on the peace train
Hoo-ah-eeh-ah-hoo-ah
Come on the peace train
Peace train's a holy roller
Everyone jump upon the peace train
Hoo-ah-eeh-ah-hoo-ah
This is the peace train

Get your bags together
Come bring your good friends too
Because it's getting nearer
Soon it will be with you
Come and join the living
It's not so far from you
And it's getting nearer
Soon it will all be true

Peace train sounding louder
Ride on the peace train
Hoo-ah-eeh-ah-hoo-ah
Come on the peace train

I've been crying lately
Thinking about the world as it is
Why must we go on hating?
Why can't we live in bliss?

For out on the edge of darkness
There rides the peace train
Peace train take this country
Come take me home again

Peace train sounding louder
Ride on the peace train
Hoo-ah-eeh-ah-hoo-ah
Come on the peace train

Come on, come on, come on the peace train...

[Hardrada]

1. Thanks for remembering this.

I recall how traumatic it all was. And how, ultimately, Nixon didn't win this little domestic war he had.

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2. we

we are the children, we are the commingling, we are the overlooked perspective b/w the cliches of either/or

:grouphug:

[WCGreen]

4. It as Governor Jim Rhoads who set the Ohio National Guard on the

kids at Kent State.

What oust people don't know is that the same NAtional Guard Unit was deployed for two weeks at Ohio State under constant pressure from the students. The demonstrations were much more violent and far more angry than the ones at Kent State. Those kids in uniform should have been rotated out. They should have never been there after what they had just gone through at OSU.

It may have been Nixon's War but this was certainly Rhoades' battle.

[omega minimo]

5. look how much they care

:grouphug:

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3. I carry a Coach purse Vintage from the Thrift Store and Americans are So Fuckin Clueless

:hi: :yourock: