In honor of #laborday I’ve put together a small sampler playlist of some #proworker folk music, including #PhilOchs @davidrovics, #UtahPhillips, #PeteSeeger, and #WoodyGuthrie. I hope you enjoy!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2lEvvXwdIFSOtJbpmrjbn8?si=Lus9g8w8T-ukXRQdDHLsNA

"Here's to the state of Donald Trump" song, written and recorded when he was still in office (oh, let it never be again) freshly uploaded to my NEW Daisybrain Video channel.

https://youtu.be/NKm-jXq8SO0
#politicalparody #philochs #trump #politicalfolkmusic

Polyrical Podcast 163 - Heat | Dropkick Murphys

#DropkickMurphys
#SineadOConnor
#IndiaArie
#PhilOchs
#DrSuresUnusualPractice
#steveonpoint
#LeonRosselson
#Lowkey
#theinterrupters

#Music #PoliticalMusic #Heat #ClimateCrisis #podcast

https://movingtrainmedia.com/polyrical-podcast/p163-heat-dropkick-murphys

About those suburban Democrats #PhilOchs sang about… https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/wealthy-liberal-suburbs-economic-segregation-scarsdale/674792/ https://youtu.be/0nFvhhCulaw

Ok, we need someone to do a cover of Phil Ochs' "Here's to the State of Mississippi" dedicated to the state of Florida....
#PhilOchs #fascism #racism #xenophobia #florida

I'm with #PhilOchs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nFvhhCulaw

#WhiteModerate #CentristsAreTheRealDanger
#liberal #DemocraticParty #MLK #fauxwoke #fauxprog #NotAllies #Ken #Karen #whitesupremacy #whitesupremacist #systemicracism #mainstreamers #unsafeatanyspeed #PlantationNation #music #folkmusic #history #Truth #reality #uglytruth #unconfortabletruth #inconvenienttruth #bigotry #racistUSA #LesserEvilRemainsEvil
#AreYouEnablingWhiteSupremacy?

@pink.williams@tiktok.com

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRWrdRkP/

Love me, I'm a Liberal

Pink Williams' updated rendition of Phil Ochs' classic.

#liberal #liberalism #folk #music #FolkMusic #satire #PhilOchs #PinkWilliams #politics #uspol

Ringing of Revolution

#PhilOchs

In a building of gold, with riches untold
Lived the families on which the country was founded
And the merchants of style, with their vain velvet smiles
Were there, for they also were hounded
And the soft middle class crowded into the last
For the building was fully surrounded
And the noise outside was the ringing of revolution

#Music #PoliticalMusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa6Ex4Shxes

One-Sided Friendship, AmeriKKKan Style

Dilemma: How do I reach a self-described "progressive" who speaks, votes, & bullies the "uppity" like MLK's #whitemoderate?

How do I ask them why USians who quote #MLK and do service for his birthday become ENRAGED when a #POC, as #DrKing did from a Birmingham jail in1963, talks about the obstructive reality that well-meaning whites (or so they say) have been to us for more than 400 years?

SICK of bowing and scraping to protect the feelings of those who simply don't think or truly care about the real-life reality of daily suffering endured by the working-poor service class, particularly if those unlucky Have-Nots are Black or brown. Do they care about their inferior, less privileged friend? If so, only conditionally. "Be smooth and whitelike, er, CLEAN like Obama, so you fit in, but know you'll never be accepted or equal. Yes, existence is hell, the daily microaggressions will push you to an early grave. But don't show them that. They won't like it and and they only care that YOU care about THEM. Just smile and serve them and look like you're enthusiastic. Make sure THEY get what they need and say how great THEY are."

Yuck. Hard as hell to be melanated in a white country.

Now, there are nice people among the Unwarranted Default and some want nice things for the lessers. Some have really good intentions to make things peaceful (negative peace), in the "Negroes and mulattoes, don't you make waves, now" sense. "We need change, but not too much or too fast, we can't handle that, and you'll be ok... We'll tell you what's good for you. Now, just keep praising us, being grateful that you're enslaved here, er, a citizen, and voting Democratic! And get to work, I need a latte!"

Karen and Ken's alleged good intentions are nice, and thanks for them, but if you're telling people who don't consider you an ally that you are whether or not they agree, if you're telling them to vote for and praise the very entity hurting them, their family, and their community the same way it has done historically... the very entity promising no one's standard of living will change (as if that is a good thing), I question your intentions and your friendship and decency. Is there any other option?

Update: Replied to the outrage from a "friend" with a ridiculously measured, polite, respectful, reasonable, almost deferential -- omg, that was difficult and humiliating -- response and rebuttal. They responded with "eff off." This is a friend?

Look, fellow POC: If you make a member of the #UnwarrantedDefault nervous, if you don't play your role as they expect and demand, with RARE exception, they will not listen to you, they will not care (or perhaps they will treat you badly because they know deep down that the system is wrong and the question and their complicity with evil will be too overwhelming for them to bear). In most cases, they will insult you or dump you. One way or another, ultimately, they will hurt you. That's how this country WORKS. Happens in one-sided friendships where the societally inferior person doesn't always grok the power dynamic. Happens in MARRIAGES; talk to me about mine. Woe to those who don't submit to the Unwarranted Default. Those you thought were friends will remind you of the pecking order SUPER quickly, even as they are SHOCKED, SHOCKED that you would DARE think such a pecking order exists in the Greatest Imperfect Union on Earth. They mean well, or think/say they do. But they do harm and they will cause pain in order to keep the AmeriKKKan reality that plagues you far away from them. Likely for their own sanity. So protect yourself. Never silence yourself or play Stepin Fetchit. But know that if you do share your honest concerns, a real friend, even if they disagree, won't attack, they will try to understand. They will listen. They will have your back even if they don't agree. And these real friends are EXCEEDINGLY RARE. Proceed with all caution.

Most "friends" will disappoint you in the end cos doing otherwise is too big a lift for them to manage. My parents warned me 50 years ago. Turns out they were correct.

#MLK #navigatingwhitesupremacyforthenonwhite #conformordie #dontmakethemnervous #mindyourplace #illtellyouwhatsbestforyou #nolongeragoodone #plantationnation #CentristsAreTheRealDanger #ListenToPhilOchs #PhilOchs #AreFriendsFriends #CharlieBrownIsOverLucy #GreenPartyOnly #BlackLivesMatter #dilemma #needadvice

Here’s to the state of Mississippi, in countless babies congenital syphilis will you find… with apologies to #PhilOchs

All tragic snark aside, this is what happens when you have crazed right wing zealots who care not one whit about public health, only raiding public coffers to enrich their friends.

What a freaking tragedy. The Governor needs to be in jail.

https://news.yahoo.com/mississippi-hit-900-increase-newborns-150000538.html

Listening to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMeG6dAFqXw

and if you are puzzled as to why people are ok with staying on #twitter well, nothing has changed

#PhilOchs
#FolkMusic
#Protests

RT @ArtHannah73@twitter.com

#philochs #quote

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ArtHannah73/status/1619679522114383873

From SF Bay Examiner, 2018: What do white people really see when they look at #Black people?

https://sfbayview.com/2018/07/what-do-white-people-really-see-when-they-look-at-black-people/

#UnwarrantedDefault #centrist #mainstream #whitesupremacy #whitegaze #whitesupremacist #systemicracism #karen #ken #whitemoderate #democrats #republicans #gop #liberal #philochs #berkeley #CentristsAreTheRealDanger #whitegazekills

#TheMorningLine:

#IvanandAyosha, You Changed My Life
#TheMarKeys, Bush Bash
#PhilOchs, The Party
#FountainsofWayne, Radio Bar
#SteveGoodman, Old Fashioned
#KimWeston, Feel Alright Tonight
#TimEaston, Help Me Find My Space Girl
#KevinCoyne, Wild Eyes

"Oh, I laid down your railroads, every mile of track
With the muscles on my arm and the sweat upon my back
And now the trains are rolling, they roll to every shore
You tell me that my job is through, there ain’t no work no more

Though I laid down your highways all across the land
With the ringing of the steel and the power of my hands
And now the roads are there like ribbons in the sky
You tell me that my job is through but still I wonder why

For the wages were low and the hours were long
And the labor was all I could bear
Now you’ve got new machines for to take my place
And you tell me it’s not mine to share

Though I laid down your factories and laid down your fields
With my feet on the ground and my back to your wheels
And now the smoke is rising, the steel is all a-glow
I’m walking down a jobless road and where am I to go

For the wages were low and the hours were long
And the labor was all I could bear
Now you’ve got new machines for to take my place
And you tell me it’s not mine to share

Though I laid down your factories and laid down your fields
With my feet on the ground and my back to your wheels
And now the smoke is rising, the steel is all a-glow
I’m walking down a jobless road and where am I to go

Tell me, where am I to go"

#PhilOchs - Automation Song

Are there #PhilOchs fans here? Someone mentioned this unrecorded song. Love is a #Rainbow - https://youtu.be/pChwndY9pJw

Is there really no #PhilOchs content on this platform? https://youtu.be/Lwl_MPK9BHY

I must be doing something right as a parent - both my teenage boys drop quotes from Phil Ochs’ “Draft Dodger Rag” into casual conversation. #ParentingFTW #PhilOchs

I made a #piano #cover of Changes by Phil Ochs: https://open.lbry.com/@johanv:5/phil-ochs-changes-cover_2020-05-27-20-57-41:d?r=7Bvi9auq4eypAqeexNhyrLaT5v7BXp8F #music #philochs

In such an ugly time the true protest is beauty
#PhilOchs