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Today in counterculture history (05/03) * 1
    #14392995 - 05/03/11 05:39 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

  • 1919:  Pete Seeger is born




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Peter "Pete" Seeger (born May 3, 1919) is an American folk singer and an iconic figure in the mid-twentieth century American folk music revival.  A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably their recording of Leadbelly's "Goodnight, Irene," which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950.  Members of The Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, he re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, and environmental causes.

As a song writer, he is best known as the author or co-author of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?," "If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)," (composed with Lee Hays of The Weavers), and "Turn, Turn, Turn!," which have been recorded by many artists both in and outside the folk revival movement and are still sung throughout the world. "Flowers" was a hit recording for The Kingston Trio (1962), Marlene Dietrich, who recorded it in English, German and French (1962), and Johnny Rivers (1965). "If I Had a Hammer" was a hit for Peter, Paul & Mary (1962) and Trini Lopez (1963), while The Byrds popularized "Turn, Turn, Turn!" in the mid-1960s, as did Judy Collins in 1964. Seeger was one of the folksingers most responsible for popularizing the spiritual "We Shall Overcome" (also recorded by Joan Baez and many other singer-activists) that became the acknowledged anthem of the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement, soon after folk singer and activist Guy Carawan introduced it at the founding meeting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960.


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  • 1971:  The largest mass arrest in US history takes place when 7,000 anti-war protestors are taken into custody




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The 1971 May Day Protests were a series of large-scale civil disobedience actions in Washington, D.C., in protest against the Vietnam War. These began on May Day of that year, continued with similar intensity into the morning of May 3rd, then rapidly diminished through several following days.

Members of the Nixon administration would come to view the events as damaging, because the government's response led to mass arrests and were perceived as violating citizens' civil rights.

Monday May 3

The U.S. government put into effect Operation Garden Plot, a plan it had developed during the 1960s to combat major civil disorders. While protesters listened to music, planned their actions or slept, 10,000 federal troops were quickly moved to various locations in the Washington, D.C. area. At one point, so many soldiers and Marines were being moved into the area from bases along the East Coast that troop transports were landing at the rate of one every three minutes at Andrews Air Force Base in suburban Maryland, about 15 miles east of the White House. Among these troops were 4,000 paratroopers from the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division. Troops from the Marine Barracks lined both sides of the 14th St bridge. These troops were to back up the 5,100 officers of the D.C. Metropolitan Police, 2,000 members of the D.C. National Guard and federal agents that were already in place. Every monument, park and traffic circle in the nation's capital had troops protecting its perimeters. Paratroopers and Marines deployed via helicopter to the grounds of the Washington Monument.

Protesters announced that because the government had not stopped the Vietnam War they would stop the government and told troops, many of whom were of similar age, that their goal was to prevent the troops from being sent to Vietnam. In response troops were rotated frequently. While the troops were in place and thousands held in reserve, the police clashed with members of the May Day tribe. The Yippies engaged in hit and run tactics throughout the city, trying to disrupt traffic and cause chaos in the streets. Politicians were harassed by protesters. President Richard Nixon, who was at the Western White House in San Clemente, California, refused to give Federal workers the day off, forcing them to navigate through police lines and May Day tribe roadblocks. Most commuters who tried arrived at their jobs, despite being delayed somewhat. Federal Employees for Peace held a rally in Lafayette Park.

While the troops secured the major intersections and bridges, the police roamed through the city making massive arrest sweeps and used tear gas. They arrested anyone who looked like a demonstrator, including construction workers who had come out to support the government. By 8 am 7,000 protesters had been arrested. The city's prisons did not have the capacity to handle that many people thus an emergency detention center surrounded by an 8-foot-high (2.4 m) fence was set up next to RFK Stadium. No food, water, or sanitary facilities were made available by authorities but sympathetic local residents brought supplies. Skirmishes between protesters and police occurred up until about mid-day. In Georgetown, the police herded the protesters and onlookers through the streets to the Georgetown University campus. The police then engaged in a back and forth with the protesters outside the university's main gate on O Street, lobbing tear gas over the gate each time they pushed the crowd back. Other forms of gas were used including pepper based and one that induced vomiting. Police helicopters also dropped tear gas on the university's lower athletic field where protesters had camped the night before. Numerous people were severely injured and treated by volunteers on campus. By afternoon the police had suppressed the disruption efforts and the protesters had mainly dispersed.

Next several days


Smaller protests continued resulting in the arrests of several thousand more, bringing the total to 12,614 people, making this the largest mass arrest in U.S. history.

Aftermath


Conspiracy charges against May Day tribe leaders were dismissed. Out of the 12,000 demonstrators arrested most were released without charges and 79 were eventually convicted.[9] The ACLU pursued a class action suit brought by thousands of detained protesters and ultimately the US Congress, recognizing the illegal nature of the arrests, agreed to pay a settlement to those arrested, making them some of the only citizens in US history to receive financial compensation for violation of the constitutional right of free assembly.

Richard Helms, who was Central Intelligence Agency director at the time, said "It was obviously viewed by everybody in the administration, particularly with all the arrests and the howling about civil rights and human rights and all the rest of it...as a very damaging kind of event. I don't think there was any doubt about that."


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Re: Today in counterculture history (05/03) [Re: Learyfan] * 1
    #14393213 - 05/03/11 07:30 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Haven't heard of him, but now I have :smile:

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Re: Today in counterculture history (05/03) [Re: memes]
    #14395123 - 05/03/11 04:08 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

:cool:  He had a hit with "Little Boxes" from Weeds in 1962! 






"Little Boxes"





"Where Have The Flowers"




"We Shall Overcome"













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    #16175440 - 05/03/12 05:44 AM (11 years, 9 months ago)

"Turn Turn Turn"















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    #18206946 - 05/03/13 07:58 AM (10 years, 9 months ago)

"If I Had A Hammer"















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    #19935223 - 05/03/14 07:56 AM (9 years, 9 months ago)

Here's the trailer for the Pete Seeger documentary called The Power Of Song.  You should see it. 


















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    #21629643 - 05/03/15 11:20 AM (8 years, 9 months ago)

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    #23182974 - 05/03/16 05:45 AM (7 years, 9 months ago)

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    #23183076 - 05/03/16 06:49 AM (7 years, 9 months ago)

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    #25181207 - 05/03/18 05:48 AM (5 years, 9 months ago)

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Mayday 1971: Most arrests in US history

More than 200,000 protesters and veterans converged on the US capital to demand an end to the war in Vietnam forty years ago on May 3, 1971.

“The idea was to shut the city down because the war wouldn't stop,” said Eddie Becker, a documentarian who filmed the protests. “The only way to stop the war was to stop the government, and that was by putting your bodies on the road and blocking traffic.”

Protesters blocked roads with cars, trash cans and their own bodies in order to prevent government employees from getting to work across Washington and at the major bridges and roadways leading into the city. Becker was filming protesters blocking Washington’s Dupont Circle.

Police used tear gas and clubs to disperse protesters. Then President Richard Nixon called in the military and paratroopers landed at the National Monument. Retired Lt. Robert Klotz was a police captain working the protests that day.

“Later, the 82nd airborne came in with helicopters, and I was assigned as the liaison with the commanding general,” Klotz said.

But the protests lasted throughout the day, with more than 2,000 people arrested before 8 a.m.

“People were trying everything to end the war and nothing would end it. So this was one of those last ditch efforts and in a sense, it was almost like an Indian tribe. The image of Mayday was Sitting Bull. Sitting Bull was part of a massacre, so for us it was that last stand of dignity, of trying to end the war. And people were willing to put their lives on the line to do it,” Becker said.

With insufficient jail space to keep them, police brought protesters to U Line Arena and a practice field used by the Virginia Redskins outside of Robert F. Kennedy Stadium.

“We had made plans as to where we were going to keep prisoners, U line Arena was one place, the Redskin practice field, which was down by RFK stadium, was another; there were several places where you could put a large number of people and that's where they were taken when they were arrested,” Klotz said.

More than 7,000 protesters were arrested on May 3, 1971 alone—the largest number of arrests in US history.

“It was incredible,” Becker said. “You could see when the police waded into the crowd with the sticks and their mace and all of a sudden everyone starts dancing everyone starts standing together. It was the same spirit here as where they had incarcerated people—a practice field like this—where people had to deal with finding food, keeping warm and keeping spirits up.”

“From that people went back to their communities and spread the word around, it was the legacy of that whole experience. It was the last big antiwar demonstration and it was the beginning of the end for the war,” Becker said.

Both Klotz and Becker say they haven’t seen the magnitude of protests—and that pressure brought to bear on government—since Mayday, despite America’s decade-long war in Afghanistan and eight year presence in Iraq.

“Maybe it has to do with an all-volunteer army, where people are not drafted into the service anymore. There are less people affected by those wars than were affected by the previous wars,” said Klotz. “In Afghanistan, I don't know why but you're just not getting the numbers we used to get for those kind of demonstrations.”

Adam Kokesh, the host of Adam v. The Man on RT and a war protestor himself said Americans today simply do not protest like they used to.

“It’s very different because of the actions the government has taken to suppress decent in this country,” he explained. “We have the best repression money can buy.”

The mentality in the US has changed, people are still dissatisfied and upset at government – but because the government response has changed, people are less apt to protest.

Freedoms are under threat – speech, assembly, press – all are under attack. Recently in Illinois police used sound cannons to disperse non-protesting, non-threatening students holding a party. Police are cracking down, people are afraid and do not want to deal with possible consequences.

“Right now we’re seeing that the politicians are going to do whatever they can to suppress decent,” Kokesh said.

He explained American leaders want to keep an illusion in place that the American people not upset with what they are doing as leaders.


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    #25969490 - 05/03/19 05:28 AM (4 years, 9 months ago)

Pete Seeger would have been 100 years old today!

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    #25969600 - 05/03/19 07:03 AM (4 years, 9 months ago)

That May Day protest shit is crazy.  You know...everything that’s happening now. Smart phones and social media distracting everyone. Fake news and superficial media.  It’s all a tool to keep us from ever joining together and doing that type of shit ever again. Because they know they can’t win in those types of situations. How great it is to be at war against your own civilization and have the masses be completely unaware they are at war with their own government while they lose everything.  Completely unaware, comfortable and content in their distractions.

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    #26645900 - 05/03/20 12:34 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Because of your use of the phrase "fake news", I have a feeling we're on opposite sides of the political spectrum.  But I agree that it would be nice if people could mobilize like this these days.  However, with COVID-19, people couldn't get together even if they wanted to unfortunately. 










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    #27291413 - 05/03/21 04:09 AM (2 years, 9 months ago)

50th anniversary of the largest mass arrest in American history today.









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