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17 Jun 02 - 12:00 AM (#731229) Subject: FBI files on Highlander Folk School From: GUEST 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. |
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17 Jun 02 - 09:56 AM (#731412) Subject: RE: FBI files on Highlander Folk School From: Guessed only the paranoid survive - Gordon (Intel) Moore. |
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18 Jun 02 - 04:44 AM (#732046) Subject: RE: FBI files on Highlander Folk School From: Joe Offer 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- |
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18 Jun 02 - 05:00 AM (#732052) Subject: RE: FBI files on Highlander Folk School From: CarolC 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. |
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18 Jun 02 - 06:08 AM (#732078) Subject: RE: FBI files on Highlander Folk School From: Banjer 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. |
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18 Jun 02 - 03:34 PM (#732394) Subject: RE: FBI files on Highlander Folk School From: GUEST,John Hernandez 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! |
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18 Jun 02 - 08:52 PM (#732609) Subject: RE: FBI files on Highlander Folk School From: Art Thieme 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 |
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18 Jun 02 - 09:01 PM (#732613) Subject: RE: FBI files on Highlander Folk School From: michaelr "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 |
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18 Jun 02 - 09:45 PM (#732634) Subject: RE: FBI files on Highlander Folk School From: Banjer Bravo!! Well spoken Art... |
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19 Jun 02 - 04:06 AM (#732764) Subject: RE: FBI files on Highlander Folk School From: Hrothgar Must have earned J. Edgar a lot of Brownie points with the RIGHT people. |
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19 Jun 02 - 11:14 AM (#732949) Subject: RE: FBI files on Highlander Folk School From: Mark Clark Way to go Art!
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