Thursday, 28 June 2012

George Osborne branded a coward after Tory minister's Newsnight disaster

Saving lives and the asylum seeker debate

Corpses pile up

Six issues missing from the asylum seeker debate

A small fairy tale about a girl who wishes to get more rhythm and wishes to dance. When suddenly....
Music: Acid Pauli aka Martin Gretschmann
Directed by optische-bank aka Martin Carstens
Main actors: Elsa Petit & Christa Pasch
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Wes Montgomery - Boss Guitar, The Art Of Wes Montgomery

Jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery plays and is introduced by Ronnie Scott in this british TV program, May 1965.

Wes Montgomery - Guitar
Stan Tracey - Piano
Rick Laird - Bass
Jackie Dougan - Drums

Four On Six (Montgomery)
Full House (Montgomery)
Here's That Rainy Day (Van Heusen)
Twisted Blues (Montgomery)
Intro and end melody is the West Coast Blues, also composed by Montgomery

Workers of the World, Awaken! - Joe Hill

From the ninth edition of the I.W.W. Songbook:

Workers of the World, Awaken!
By Joe Hill

Workers of the world, awaken!
Break your chains, demand your rights.
All the wealth you make is taken
By exploiting parasites.
Shall you kneel in deep submission
From your cradles to your graves?
Is the height of your ambition
To be good and willing slaves?

Refrain:

Arise, ye prisoners of starvation!
Fight for your own emancipation;
Arise, ye slaves of every nation
In One Union Grand
Our little ones for bread are crying.
And millions are from hunger dying;
This means the end is justifying,
‘Tis the final stand.

If the workers take a notion,
They can stop all speeding trains;
Every ship upon the ocean
They can tie with mighty chains;
Every wheel in the creation,
Every mine and every mill,
Fleets and armies of the nation
Will at their command stand still.

Join the union, fellow workers,
Men and women side by side;
We will crush the greedy shirkers
Like a sweeping, surging tide.
For united we are standing,
But divided we will fall;
Let this be our understanding—
“All for one and one for all.”

Workers of the world, awaken!
Rise in all your splendid might;
Take the wealth that you are making,
It belongs to you by right.
No one will for bread be crying,
We’ll have freedom, love and health
When the grand red flag is flying
In the Workers’ Commonwealth.

Wednesday, 27 June 2012

Happy Birthday

Today in labor history, June 27, 1905: The Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the "Wobblies," is founded at a 12-day convention in Chicago. The Wobbly motto: "An injury to one is an injury to all."
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Face To Face With Allen Ginsberg (1995)

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