Says he could never cue what they. Find never. A just the fashions Chinese didn t critics needed the songs a song just as true tonight as they the struggle who carried. Those struggle we will. Win the soul move freedom rings out loud from the valleys and from here to us where people stand up full of the rights Phil Ochs He s with us do Phil Ochs inspire. Us to. Yes he dies this is Dick flax this is the culture protest. And tonight we re going to observe 2 anniversaries connected to 2 of the foremost troubadours of the last half century political we conscious troubadours if you will and the 1st is obviously Phil Ochs. Billy Bragg we just heard him sing a tribute song to Phil Ochs memory Phil Ochs was born assembler 191940. He died at a very young age he died at age 35 he committed suicide. And next year will mark a anniversary of that as well as he rounded off the 80th anniversary of his birth. Phil Ochs was not the most well known of the remarkable group of singer songwriters who came
There s great value in this depository of American history arguably alternative American history and history that s not normally stressed or told but it s real it s there and of course we re living in a historical period with Trump. And his world of illusion and fake news and and alternative facts. Well there s a whole bunch of fact. It is a very strange time to be living in and I must admit when the facts are laid out and then you get an over 100 page publication by the Republicans that say none of this exists like they did it like it s like it doesn t exist they don t see what they don t want to see and they see a lot of stuff that doesn t exist and yes in the archives we have irrefutable in context recordings from historic figures in context that is essentially a Smithsonian or Library of Congress of sound going back to 1900 there s no collection like it in the United States and maybe the world because we were rolling reel to reel tape machine since 1909 and that s right but. The v
Thanks. That firm keep e.f.t. Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles This is rising up on Ali and I m your host son on legal hot car we re online at rising up what s on Ali dot com In today s news headlines House Republicans have released their own report on the impeachment inquiry to rebut the official report from committees that was shared with members on Monday the Republican Party s $123.00 page report which was obtained by media outlets claims that quote the evidence presented does not prove any of these Democrat allegations and none of the Democrats witnesses testified to having evidence of bribery extortion or any high crime or misdemeanor House Intelligence chair Representative Adam Schiff denounced the report as having been written for quote an audience of one and he added that it quote ignores voluminous evidence that the president used to the power of his office to pressure Ukraine into investigating his political rival by withholding military aid and a White House meeting the presi
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With your lips was washed by joining a sergeant 20063 years after Bush and Cheney commanding the illegal catastrophic war against Iraq in 2003 Julian is a computer genius he invented a way for publishers like Wiki Leaks to receive truth telling information anonymously the 1st bombshell he published in 2006 was the Iraq war logs he got them from whistleblower Chelsea Manning who was then in the military they showed a video of American soldiers in a helicopter committing a war crime by gunning down and executing a number of Iraqi civilians to Reuters journalists and several children then they chuckled about it the photo of the murders is shown on the book s cover this week furnished by Chelsea Manning was devastating to the United States other whistleblower Leaks followed the government became relentless in trying to close down Wiki Leaks Margaret culture is a long time civil rights attorney in New York City track Ali is a British social scholar and author we are speaking to him in Lond