[Peace-discuss] Fw: An American hero & the need for the 2nd Amendment

[C. G. Estabrook]

It's worthwhile to point out - against class-collaborationist identity politics 
("What color are the rich kids?") - that racism served class oppression, not the 
other way around.

I get awfully tired of those brave fighters against racism (the racism, that is, 
of the petite bourgeoisie & working classes) whom one finds in academia and the 
'political class' (the 20% of the population who've been to good universities).

When you do the program, make sure you record it so that it can be put on the
web (and FB!).  Far more people will hear it that way than through WEFT.



On 4/25/10 6:30 PM, unionyes wrote:
> Also Carl,
>
> I just remembered that there was a parallel movement during the same time
> period ( 1964 -68 ) in Monroe North Carolina, led by an ex-army veteran named
> Robert F. Williams. He was forced to flee the country however for almost ten
> years, living in Cuba and broadcasting a radio program with a high powered
> transmitter into the Southern U.S called " Radio Free Dixie ". There is a
> film that documents this story called " Negroes with Guns ", which we hope to
> broadcast sometime in the future on Labor's View TV.
>
> Thanks to Jim Eyman for educating me on this piece of ignored and censored
> history.
>
> David J.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "unionyes" <unionyes at ameritech.net> To:
> "Peace-discuss" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> Sent: Sunday, April 25,
> 2010 6:24 PM Subject: Fw: [Peace-discuss] An American hero & the need for the
> 2nd Amendment
>
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "unionyes" <unionyes at ameritech.net> To:
>> "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 6:11
>> PM Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] An American hero & the need for the 2nd
>> Amendment
>>
>>
>>> Great article Carl !
>>>
>>> Interesting enough, Bogalusa La., was the center of violent gun battles
>>> and massacres between 1905 and 1925 during attempts to organize the mixed
>>> race, but predominately African American, Timber and Mill workers into
>>> Unions. The first attempt was by the IWW and then later the Carpenter's
>>> Union ( UBC ). On Nov. 22nd 1919, five Carpenter's Union Organizers were
>>> murdered in Bogalusa by 20 members of a local vigilante group which was
>>> funded by the Great Southern Lumber Company and composed of local
>>> businessmen, supervisors for the Great Southern Lumber Company, and local
>>> law enforcement, all of whom belonged to the Klan. Although there were
>>> several witnesses, none of the vigilantes were convicted of course. A
>>> monument was proposed by the AFL-CIO ten years ago commemerating this "
>>> Bogalusa Massacre ". I am not certain if it was ever built.
>>>
>>> David J.
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "C. G. Estabrook"
>>> <galliher at illinois.edu> To: "peace discuss"
>>> <Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 5:46 PM
>>> Subject: [Peace-discuss] An American hero & the need for the 2nd
>>> Amendment
>>>
>>>
>>>> Anent some comments of mine about opposing the use of armed force in
>>>> America in 1775 - and even more in 1861 - it was asked if there were
>>>> any circumstances under which I would support armed insurrection.
>>>> Robert Hicks seems to me to provide a noble example:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/us/25hicks.html?ref=obituaries
>>>>
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