Interesting. Are usually hear the song with all the revolutionary verses.
Nevertheless it is a revolutionary song. If this land was made for you and me,
but the empire builders colonial settlers and bankers on it well it doesn’t
encourage revolution but it certainly suggests it’s necessary.
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On Jan 22, 2021, at 6:26 PM, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Melanie just told me who she is. No wonder I didn't know. I don't watch
stuff on TV. She thought that she wasn't appropriate for that kind of song.
She also thought it was not great to have it follow right after the Star
Spangled Banner. . I think that singing, "This Land Is Your Land" when the
nation's capitol is an armed camp is an insanity.
Miriam
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Jennifer Lopez.
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George H. Smith “It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain,
emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how
comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear. Anyone who claims, on the
one hand, that he is concerned with human welfare, and who demands, on the
other hand, that man must suspend or renounce the use of his reason, is
contradicting himself. There can be no knowledge of what is good for man
apart from knowledge of reality and human nature, and there is no manner in
which this knowledge can be acquired except through reason. To advocate
irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.” ―
George H. Smith, Atheism: The Case Against God On 1/22/2021 5:34 PM, Miriam
Vieni wrote:
Who sang it?
Miriam
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You missed a really great performance of this land is your land.
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On Jan 21, 2021, at 10:34 AM, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I listened to the poem which, I think, was probably excellent. My problem
is that I don't really do well with most poetry. I also listened to Richard
Wolff on The Socialist Program Podcast episode for last night. I'd tried to
understand that very complicated economic article by Jack Rasmus which I
posted yesterday, with little success. But I did understand Wolff who said
that if Biden doesn't do something for working people like FDR did when he
was elected, there'll be no economic recovery and we'll most likely have a
Fascist elected in response in 2024. Well, he didn't say that exactly about
2024, but that's what he was intimating. Biden's secretary of state is
supporting Juan Guido in Venezuela, saying he is the lawful president of
the country. Biden is not abolishing student loans, just reducing some of
them slightly. I heard a detailed review of all these presidential edicts
that are supposed to be so wonderful. Guess what? They're not. Most of it
is just as awful as I thought it would be. And why are all these people
saying that this is our great opportunity to move Biden to the left? He was
elected without giving an inch to the left wing of the Democratic Party.
Why do they think that now, suddenly, they have power?
Miriam
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Agreed. These "cookie cutter" speeches are part of all elections.
They are presented for future generations, like FDR's Fireside chats.
It's rare that we are presented a speech that stands head and shoulders
above us all. The few clips I listened to were mediocre at best. I even
tried listening to the reading of the "official poem" by the youngest poet
ever to present at an inauguration. I got about halfway through it. It's
time we all began to write our elected officials and tell them that now
that all the Pomp and Ceremonies are done and done, it is time for action.
And we need to spell out the sorts of actions we mean. Otherwise we are
staring at another block of years that merely mimick the Clinton and Obama
years.
This election serves as a warning. If our American Corporate
Empire(ACE) does not open its purse strings and provide some real gains for
the Working Class, the next presidential election might well be our last.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/20/21, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I haven't watched the ceremony. I never do, nor do I watch
presidential debates. It's all theater and pageantry as far as I'm
concerned, just propaganda to keep the masses in line. But one of my
Washington Post headlines tells me that in his speech, Biden pleads for
national unity.
Here
we go again. Is he out of his mind? All that talk about unity and
bipartisanship by Obama helped get us here. It would be nice if
these politicians would be honest for a change and call out the
people who are causing conflict. I don't want to see new terrorism
laws as Biden has already promised, but it would have been nice if
they'd used the laws and procedures that already exist against white
people for a change. If I were younger, perhaps I would be as
optimistic as some of those young leftists who keep writing about
how now we have an opportunity to move Biden to the left.
Miriam
