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https://archive.org/details/DemocracyNowNormanGFinkelstein

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I write about this program in my forthcoming book on identity politics, cancel culture, and academic freedom.  The Smothers Brothers broke the blacklist of Pete Seeger.  Here’s the song Seeger sang on the program.  I can still see that night in my mind’s eye:

Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) was the U.S. president during the war in Vietnam. He was very tall.  You’ll figure out the rest.  Now even Bernie Sanders is dragging us into the Big Muddy, except this time it might be nuclear annihilation.

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I started last night a 1,000-page biography of Rosa Luxemburg that I first read a half century ago.  The author reports that Rosa’s artistic tastes were highbrow conventional.  She didn’t go for popular-proletarian literature and music.  Still, I believe that if Rosa attended this concert, she would — despite herself — be singing along with the rest of us.

Though the road be rough and rocky,
And the hills be steep and high,
We can sing as we go marching,
And we’ll win that one big union by and by.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVc0wBLri1A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3LpWsFMTMs

(My former webmaster, the one and only Sana Kassem, has begun a new chapter in her life.  May she yet again flourish!)

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