(Photo: SEIU / Flickr)
Robert
Scheer, Truthdig
“Dennis
will be back, you can count on it; he’s on the right side of things.” I recall
those words from a printer in Cleveland who had rented Dennis Kucinich a room
in the back of her plant when that city’s former “boy mayor” was living in
suddenly reduced circumstances. He was as sanguine then as he was Tuesday night
when I spoke with him by phone about his gerrymandered eviction from the U.S.
House of Representatives. Although he had just lost the position he has held
for eight terms, by the end of our conversation he was optimistic and promised
to continue the fight: “I am not about to abandon what I stand for.”
Remembering the Lyrical Populism of Woody Guthrie
Thursday
8 March 2012
by: Jim
Hightower, Truthout | Op-Ed
Where's
Woody when we need him?
In these
times of tinkle-down economics -- with the money powers thinking that they're
the top dogs and that the rest of us are just a bunch of fire hydrants -- we
need for the hard-hitting (yet uplifting) musical stories, social commentaries
and inspired lyrical populism of Woody Guthrie.
This year
will mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of this legendary grassroots
troubadour, who came out of the Oklahoma dust bowl to rally America's
"just plain folks" to fight back against the elites who were knocking
them down.
As we
know, the elites are back, strutting around cockier than ever with their
knocking-down ways -- but now comes the good news out of Tulsa, Okla., that
Woody, too, is being revived, spiritually speaking. In a national collaboration
between the Guthrie family and the George Kaiser Family Foundation, a center is
being built in Tulsa to archive, present to the world and celebrate the
marvelous songs, books, letters and other materials generated from Guthrie's
deeply fertile mind.
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