Volunteers from Halifax mosques join big clean-up in Hebden Bridge .(no sign yet of EDL turning up to lend a hand to help us ...)
Posted by Tony Zimnoch on Monday, December 28, 2015
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
from the halifax mosques.......
Monday, December 28, 2015
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Tuesday, December 08, 2015
one last singer in the land.....
December 19th marks the 75th Birthday of Phil Och.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Ochs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Ochs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill
PHIL OCHS: Live at Salle Claude Champagne, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada; October 22, 1966. This song is from a show long been rumored to have been recorded by the FBI!
Phil Ochs was one the greatest political (or, as he preferred, a topical singer) and songwriter who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism, insightful and alliterative lyrics, and distinctive voice.
He wrote hundreds of songs in the 1960s and ’70s and released eight albums.
The FBI kept Phil Ochs under active surveillance for 13 years.
The introduction of The Freedom of Information Act revealed pages and pages of information on Phil with the FBI labelling him a “communist” with “un-American thoughts”.
Despite the hundreds of pages in his FBI file, the FBI never found that Ochs ever committed any federal crimes. He continued to be under investigation until his death by suicide in 1976.
Ochs performed at many political events during the 1960s counterculture era, including anti-Vietnam War and civil rights rallies, student events, and organized labor events over the course of his career, in addition to many concert appearances at such venues as New York City’s Town Hall and Carnegie Hall.
Politically, Ochs described himself as a “left social democrat” who became an “early revolutionary” after the protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago led to a police riot, which had a profound effect on his state of mind.
After years of prolific writing in the 1960s, Ochs’s mental stability declined in the 1970s. He eventually succumbed to a number of problems including bipolar disorder and alcoholism, and took his own life in 1976.
Friday, November 27, 2015
Friday, November 20, 2015
Jeux sans frontières
"One in ten deaths during the Blitz was a child. Because of a fear that the Germans would use poisoned gas in their bombs people were given gas masks. Children were given brightly coloured gas masks to make them more appealing and fun......."http://www.thekidswindow.co.uk/news/ww2
Hey! http://www.viewfromthisside.com/about/ is an important site for us sepians.Well worth checking out. All my photos this week are from this charmant website.
This is a Sepia Saturday post. "think of caps, or children, or playground games or any of the hundreds of things Sepians like to think of....."
LOU REED, JOHN CALE & NICO
Live at Le Bataclan, Paris, France; January 29, 1972. Very good soundboard.
Hey! http://www.viewfromthisside.com/about/ is an important site for us sepians.Well worth checking out. All my photos this week are from this charmant website.
This is a Sepia Saturday post. "think of caps, or children, or playground games or any of the hundreds of things Sepians like to think of....."
Practically .Visit this site to help children play in Gaza. http://www.hopeandplay.org/
Try and get there before the Israeli's do..........LOU REED, JOHN CALE & NICO
Live at Le Bataclan, Paris, France; January 29, 1972. Very good soundboard.
Friday, November 06, 2015
A one-legged -beggar in Liverpool.Today shook my hand......
(We were there a couple of weeks ago.) Got me a mess of discount tickets from Northern Rail which 'need using. ......
Although we both had the start of Colds (& I had toothache) If not used today....,they would be lost .
So,....... we went to the Bluecoat Museum.
[Not been there since 1976 when i saw a film there with His Drayness .]
It pissed down. Beggars sat in puddles. England's shame.
Outside Job Centre Plus+ a man with one-leg was begging.I gave him(after much searching) a 50p coin. I told him it was all the change I had on me .
He shook my hand. I could have cried as i left him.....a proud man ,who stands taller than i ever will........
This country is a mess......
other photos here.........https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/Other/LIVERPOOL5th-November-2015/
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