The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #65727   Message #1084994
Posted By: MAG
02-Jan-04 - 09:14 PM
Thread Name: Opinions please: Protest Singers
Subject: RE: Opinions please
One younf reservist I know is trying real real hard to get out of it. She is of the generation that didn't yet understand the War Machine and how perpetual it is.

Now that young Americans are dying the enlistment rate is going to plunge, and then we'll see. I imagine the re-up rate will sink, too.

There is a reason I was singing Zeke Hoskin's "Freedom Toast" at every song circle in my vicinity. Humor with a point. Put Zeke on your list and no, he doesn't get any air time either.

At one song circle where I sang the song Hank Kramer was also. I greatly admire his singing and playing, and I also hate his politics.
(From his time in special ops: "Rio Coco is muddy and wide, alleluia; Sandinistas on the other side...")

The protest songs just need to be better than the flag-waving crap.

Pete Seeger's whole life is a shining example.

Oh, and all us boomers were coming of age in the 60's and    70's. We will ALWAYS be the pig in the python.