Mudcat Café message #1584043

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Thread #85502 Message #1584043
Posted By: Abby Sale
16-Oct-05 - 09:15 AM
Thread Name: happy? - Oct 16 (Vietnam War protest)
Subject: happy? - Oct 16 (Vietnam War protest)

October 16-22, 1967:
Anti-Vietnam War protests sweep across the USA, beginning with a massive sit-in to blockade the Oakland Induction Center in California and ending with an all-night seige of the Pentagon in Virginia. The US Department of Justice would eventually prosecute Dr. Benjamin Spock, Rev. William S. Coffin, and three others as the masterminds of this conspiracy!


          And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for?
          Don't ask me, I don't give a damn.
          Next stop is Vietnam.
          And it's five, six, seven, open up the Pearly Gates,
          Well, there ain't no time to wonder why,
          Whoopie, we're all gonna die!
  
                  "Fixin' To Die Rag," Words & music by Country Joe McDonald.
  
  ALSO:
          It takes a real man to say, 'No!
          It takes a real man to say, 'I won't go!'
          It takes a real man to say, 'No!'
          Muhammed Ali ain't gonna go!
          Well it's hell no, we won't go!
          And it's hell no, we won't go!
          And it's hell no, we won't go!
          Well we just ain't gonna go!
  
                  from "Hell No, We Won't Go!," by Barbara Dane