There was a fight between the Rich & Powerful and everyone else. The Rich & Powerful won.

Nothing to see here. Move along.

John Edwards for President — Leadership in the Left direction.

Thanks for sharing a part of your life, Christy.

Missed this one. But I listened to Steve Post all the time. He later surfaced at WNYC, continuing to stir up trouble in the 80s..

Thanks Christy for asking. My Father was a Midwestern automotive factory worker who made less than $100 per week for most of his life. As children of the depression, he and my uncle would often talk politics. I’ll never forget him predicting the country will never be able to withstand a second term of President Nixon in the white house.

wow, what stories, got me to thinking about what activism means.

to me, activism—–comes from anything or anyone that causes or inspires you to act……….

i can honestly say that there are too many stories for me to tell in that area, so i will share the one that stands out.

my gma, born at the turn of the century, from pennsylvania, 8th grade education because she was the eldest of 11 children and had to quit when her mother died, to raise her siblings. her father was a butcher, so, they had food. the last one lived with her while finishing high school when she was married to my ’pop’. that’s how many years she did it. imagine that, doing that during those times…….every single one of them graduated.

i never heard her say a bad word about anyone, EVER, she read, she watched the news and game shows-because she like to see people win, read the newspaper with a fine-tooth comb.

i never heard her complain, she used dialogue to get her point across by stating the obvious and then letting someone absorb it.

she did things anonymously.

she was an fdr democrat.

she lived to be just shy of 100, and she had a rough life, many trials, but a nice life, because of how she lived it.

anything else i would say about where i come from would just be examples of people who taught me by example that–when you can do something, if you can do something, where there is a need, then you DO IT. not whether it’s ’prudent’ but if it needs to be done and you are able, then you do it. that’s how things get better, that’s how things change, by doing……..

thanks for the stories, christy, do this thread again one day.

Wow.

Proud to say I’m a card carrying Wobbly.

Long-haired preachers come out every night,
Try to tell you what’s wrong and what’s right;
But when asked how ’bout something to eat
They will answer with voices so sweet:
CHORUS:
You will eat, bye and bye,
In that glorious land above the sky;
Work and pray, live on hay,
You’ll get pie in the sky when you die.
The starvation army they play,
They sing and they clap and they pray
‘Till they get all your coin on the drum
Then they’ll tell you when you’re on the bum:
Holy Rollers and jumpers come out,
They holler, they jump and they shout.
Give your money to Jesus they say,
He will cure all diseases today.
If you fight hard for children and wife –
Try to get something good in this life –
You’re a sinner and bad man, they tell,
When you die you will sure go to hell.

Workingmen of all countries, unite,
Side by side we for freedom will fight;
When the world and its wealth we have gained
To the grafters we’ll sing this refrain:

FINAL CHORUS:
You will eat, bye and bye,
When you’ve learned how to cook and to fry.
Chop some wood, ’twill do you good,
And you’ll eat in the sweet bye and bye.

Only as an adult did I finally learn the name of it- The Preacher & the Slave, written by Joe Hill in 1911.