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debcoop commented on the blog post Persistent Complaints of Sexism in Obama White House
It wasn’t Rahm. Rahm wasn’t involved in his campaign at all. Rahm had nothing to do with the selection of his campaign apparatus. He did.
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debcoop commented on the blog post Persistent Complaints of Sexism in Obama White House
There was not one woman on his initial campaign team. Dunn came on at the very end of the primary. Not one. That was telling. But in the heat of the primary against Hillary the wagons were circled around this issue. People refused to look at it without clearly.
In the stimulus plan the very first thing cut, with a personal phone call from the president himself to Henry Waxman were family planning monies. Look at the the relelgation of the issue of abortion rights in the health care bill. Women were told that they should not get in the way of something more important.
Eventually it catches up to you.
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debcoop commented on the blog post Labor Day Roundup, September 5, 2011
Actually the extra one you chose, is exactly the one I would have put first. Here’s another version by Natalie Merchant, beautifully sung.
Which Side Are you? Written during the caol strikes in Harlan County.
Which Side Are You On?” is a song written by Florence Reece in 1931. She was the wife of a union organizer for the United Mine Workers in Harlan County, Kentucky. In 1931, the miners of that region were locked in a bitter and violent struggle with the mine owners. In an attempt to intimidate the Reece family, deputies hired by the mining company illegally entered and searched the Reece family home. Sam Reece had been warned in advance and escaped, but Florence and their children were terrorized in his place. That night, after the men had gone, Florence wrote the lyrics to “Which Side Are You On?” on a calendar that hung in the kitchen of her home. She took the melody from a traditional Baptist hymn, “Lay the Lily Low”, or the traditional ballad “Jack Munro”. Florence recorded the song and it can be heard on the CD Coal Mining Women.
Reece supported a second wave of miner strikes circa 1973, as recounted in the documentary Harlan County USA. She and others perform “Which Side Are You On?” a number of times throughout.
The song is referred to by Bob Dylan in the song “Desolation Row”.
