Anne Feeney tours Texas
Every Spring, Texas is favored by a whirlwind tour by folk and labor singer Anne Feeney. She travels by car through the state, north to south, to the famous Kerrville Folk Festival. Coming and going, she hits the major cities for impromptu concerts. No venue is too large or small.
The Men of Watergate
My husband was a supporter of the World for practically all his life. He died Nov. 9, 1999. He wrote poetry. While going through our files, I came across this poem, one I did not know. As I read it, it occurred to me that he was saying something 30 years ago that could be applied to our American scene today. – Charlotte Podolner
4th of July reading: Revolutionary women
Book Review Glory, Passion, and Principle: The Story of Eight Remarkable Women at the Core of the American Revolution, by Melissa Lukeman Bohrer, Atria Books, 271 pp., $24
Weikko Jarvi quiet working class hero
Over 100 people gathered in Superior, Wisc. June 1 to pay respects and celebrate the life of Weikko Jarvi, who was described at the service as “a quiet, working class hero.” He died May 29 after a lengthy illness.
Review roundup
Book review: Capitalist haircut Movie Review: Suppose you knew? Music Review: A clear bold call to the sleeping giant
Looking for truth in all the wrong places
What is true? This is the question troubling Rose, the main character in the Jules Feiffer play, A Bad Friend, which opened June 9 at New York City’s Lincoln Center Theater.
Howard B. Silverberg: Fighter for peace and equality
BALTIMORE, Md. – Howard B. Silverberg was remembered at a memorial here June 1 as a giant of a man with big hands and big feet. But his niece, Ruth Caley, told the crowd, that “biggest of all was his heart,” never so true as when he was standing up for working people, the poor and the oppressed.
Making a movie against all odds
Review The Suppression of Salt of the Earth: How Hollywood, Big Labor, and Politicians Blacklisted a Movie in Cold War America, by James L. Lorence, University of New Mexico Press, 256 pp, $21.95 To many older progressives, activists, union organizers, socialists and communists, the story of how the movie Salt of the Earth came to be, its production and blacklisting, is a cherished something to be told and re-told.
The floating zoo
Review Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Harvest Books, 336 pp., $14 Life of Pi by Yann Martel is a sensational tale of a boy, his religious beliefs and his zoo animals in a lifeboat. It is where Dr. Doolittle meets The Old Man and the Sea.
What the U.S got away with
Review An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King, by William F. Pepper, Verso, 320 pp., $25 William Pepper’s book An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King makes us realize that extra-judicial executions such as those carried out by the Colombian military and their proxies, the paramilitaries, are not exclusive to South America.
