Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Episode III

Despite being on the far end of half-asleep (or at least I know I was), Carter and Jenna managed to bring a pretty fresh episode of Hobo's Lullaby this Monday morning. We heard from Carter about upcoming Students and Workers Unite events while Jenna slept in a corner and sang songs from Les Mis softly to herself while sobbing at the injustice of existence ("Master of the house, quick to catch your eye *sob* nev-*sob*nev-*sob* never wants a passerby to pass *sob* him *sob* by"). Not really. She did complain on the air about non-facilitated meetings, and I'm sure she did something other than that, we just aren't sure what.

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This Week's Playlist:

1. Lyle Lovett- Texas Trilogy: Train Ride
2. The Magnetic Fields- Fear of Trains
3. Ryan Harvey- The Ballad of the Hudson Valley Rent Strikes
4. Ghost Mice- Boy Meets Girl
5. Joni Mitchell- All I Want
6. Bitch & Animal- Black Eyed Girl
7. Son of Nun- Imagination
8. Women- Peep
9. Christine Fellows- Migrations
10. Phil Ochs- Here's To The State of Mississippi
11. Billy Bragg- I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night
12. Uncle Tupelo- No Depression
13. The Weakerthans- Left and Leaving
14. Bread and Roses- Let The Wind and Sea Be My Grave
15. Cisco Houston- The Dying Cowboy
16. Ethan Miller and Kate Boverman- Lonesome Traveler
17. Incredible String Band- No Sleep Blues
18. Iron and Wine- Red Dust
19. Cat Stevens- If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out
20. Reverend Horton Heat- Liquor, Beer, and Wine
21. The Everybody Fields- T.V.A.
22. Sub Urban Defiance Alliance- The Crossroads
23. Bob Dylan- It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train to Cry
24. This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb- R.O.D.A.D.
25. Les Miserables- Do You Hear The People Sing?
(Only Jenna plays musicals on the radio)
26. Kudzu Wish- Unknown Title
27. Patti Smith- Trampin'

This Week's IWW Instigator was: LUCY PARSONS

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Lucy Parsons (1853-1942) was a radical American labor organizer, anarchist (and possibly later also a member of the Communist Party), and is remembered as a powerful orator. She was born in Texas (likely as a slave) to parents of Native American, Black American and Mexican ancestry.

Described by the Chicago Police Department as "more dangerous than a thousand rioters" in the 1920s, Lucy Parsons and her husband had become highly effective anarchist organizers primarily involved in the labor movement in the late 19th Century, but also participating in revolutionary activism on behalf of political prisoners, people of color, the homeless and women. She began writing for The Socialist and The Alarm, the journal of the International Working People's Association (IWPA), which she and Parsons, among others, founded in 1883.

In 1905 she participated in the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World, and began editing the Liberator, an anarchist newspaper that supported the IWW in Chicago. Lucy's focus shifted somewhat to class struggles around poverty and unemployment, and she organized the Chicago Hunger Demonstrations in January 1915, which pushed the American Federation of Labor, the Socialist Party, and Jane Addam's Hull House to participate in a huge demonstration on February 12. Parsons was also quoted as saying, "My conception of the strike of the future is not to strike and go out and starve, but to strike and remain in and take possession of the necessary property of production." (Wobblies! 14) Parsons anticipated the sit-down strikes in the US and, later, workers' factory takeovers in Argentina.

Lucy Parsons died in 1942 in a house fire. The state still viewed Lucy Parsons as such a threat that, after her death, police seized her library of over 1500 books and all of her personal papers.

This week we heard from Dan Schwartz on his travels through the Land of Bad Decisions:

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(visual interpretation shamelessly stolen from explodingdog.com)

Foreign Lands
by Dan Schwartz

I wanted to live in the land of bad decisions. In order to live in the land of bad decisions, you have to make some bad decisions.

I went off to foreign lands for a vacation, mostly around Europe. Every new country is a new opportunity to make a bad decision. You don't know anybody there, and sometimes you don't even know the language. What are they going to do, deport you? And even if they do, you were going back home anyway.

I was arrested after a soccer riot in Spain. They found many, many drugs on me. I am not ashamed.

In France I attempted to beat a man up, but this proved to be difficult. I didn't go to a hospital. I take pride in that.

I tried to have an affair in Luxembourg, but the language barrier kept getting in the way. I don't even know what they speak in Luxembourg.

In Switzerland I ate as much chocolate as I could, as fast as I could. I had to go to the hospital for that one.

Finally in England I wore a shirt that said "AMERICA" in big letters and had a big flag on it and went into the seediest bars I could find. I don't really want to talk about it right now.

I returned home satisfied that Europe was okay and the land of bad decisions is indeed an international place. It has no borders. It is inside all of us.


Check out The Land of Bad Decisions blog project at http://lobd.blogspot.com/


Also, just a reminder:
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Promise to be more awake next week,
Jenna

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