FBI files on Highlander Folk School

Subject: FBI files on Highlander Folk School
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Jun 02 - 12:00 AM

I stumbled across this fascinating site on the "communistic activities" (sic) of Highlander Folk School brought to light through an FOIA action. I don't know how many of you are familiar with the Highlander Folk School, and it's place in US folk music history, but it was pretty considerable.

http://foia.fbi.gov/hfschool.htm

Subject: RE: FBI files on Highlander Folk School
From: Guessed
Date: 17 Jun 02 - 09:56 AM

only the paranoid survive - Gordon (Intel) Moore.

Subject: RE: FBI files on Highlander Folk School
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Jun 02 - 04:44 AM

Be sure to take a look at this site (click) about the Highlander Folk School. Also take a look at this thread (click).
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: FBI files on Highlander Folk School
From: CarolC
Date: 18 Jun 02 - 05:00 AM

Interesting, the kinds of things some people consider subversive...

The center's social concerns include civil rights, community empowerment, cultural diversity, economic democracy, environmental justice, global education, labor rights, leadership training of youth and adults, sexual discrimination and women's rights.

Subject: RE: FBI files on Highlander Folk School
From: Banjer
Date: 18 Jun 02 - 06:08 AM

Shades of McCarthyism!!!! Heaven forbid anyone should strive for cultural diversity, women's rights, environmental justice, civil rights.....etc. This is probably part of the reason 9/11 happened, our law enforcement agencies are so busy trying to bust good organizations and folks that they overlook the real bad guys.

Subject: RE: FBI files on Highlander Folk School
From: GUEST,John Hernandez
Date: 18 Jun 02 - 03:34 PM

Here's what the website says: "The Highlander Folk School, located in Monteagle, TN, was founded by Don West, District Director of the Communist Party in North Carolina, and Miles Norton, Director of the Commonwealth College." Actually, HFS was founded by Don West and Myles Horton. So much for FBI intelligence gathering capabilities!

Subject: RE: FBI files on Highlander Folk School
From: Art Thieme
Date: 18 Jun 02 - 08:52 PM

Reading this---seeing the character and actual assassination of Highlander revealed now here on the www--- makes me sick and fed up with exesses perpetrated, supposedly, in our interest. That was true when Hoover did it and it is true when Ashcroft does it.

The American nation should be, but never has been, above these activities. Reading the name J. Edgar Hoover in these documents and seeing his manipulations exposed as he hounded some fine people at Highlander and elsewhere as they tried to correct the excesses of Capitalism and other various warped institutions in the U.S.A., shows me that we are correct in questioning vehimently the seeming recent loss of certain constitutional rights since the World Trade Center was attacked.-------

ALSO: Arthur Anderson and Enron's exesses prove to me that the Robber Barons of the last two centuries are still with us. To allow the corporate exesses out there to continue -- to allow CEOs and and common thieves in so MANY OTHER AS YET UNDISCLOSED corporate debacles to walk away with their extra billions of dollars while the individual American states go bankrupt as a result of all these tragic machinations, is an actual crime against the people greater than many more W.T.C. tragedies. The real impacts of these and corporate scandals on the way, will possibly prove, yet again, that the Industrial Workers Of The World were correct when they said in their Wobbly Preamble that (and I paraphrase) "The people and the bosses have practically nothing in common."

We need to be certain that we strip them, somehow, of the cash they've stolen. Make them pay it back. Make the wealth of the greedy redistribute in a meaninful way----and give them jail time for being the thieves that they are. A National Endowment For The People might be a way to start.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: FBI files on Highlander Folk School
From: michaelr
Date: 18 Jun 02 - 09:01 PM

"The center's social concerns include civil rights, community empowerment, cultural diversity, economic democracy, environmental justice, global education, labor rights, leadership training of youth and adults, sexual discrimination and women's rights."

Seems to be the same sort of concepts that's bothering the current administration...

Michael

Subject: RE: FBI files on Highlander Folk School
From: Banjer
Date: 18 Jun 02 - 09:45 PM

Bravo!! Well spoken Art...

Subject: RE: FBI files on Highlander Folk School
From: Hrothgar
Date: 19 Jun 02 - 04:06 AM

Must have earned J. Edgar a lot of Brownie points with the RIGHT people.

Subject: RE: FBI files on Highlander Folk School
From: Mark Clark
Date: 19 Jun 02 - 11:14 AM

Way to go Art!

“We worked to build this country mister,
While you enjoyed your life of ease,
You've stolen all that we built mister,
Now our children starve and freeze.”

and

“My name is Tom Cranker and I'm a jolly banker,
I'm a jolly banker, jolly banker am I...”

We really do have nothing to lose but our chains.

      - Mark