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Showing posts with label joan baez. Show all posts
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008
here is a letter to yesterday's
san francisco chronicle
BAEZ FOR OBAMA
.............Editor - I have attempted throughout my life to give a voice to the voiceless, hope to the hopeless, encouragement to the discouraged, and options to the cynical and complacent. From Northern Ireland to Sarajevo to Latin America, I have sung and marched, engaged in civil disobedience, visited war zones, and broken bread with those who had little bread to break.
Through all those years, I chose not to engage in party politics. Though I was asked many times to endorse candidates at every level, I was never comfortable doing so. At this time, however, changing that posture feels like the responsible thing to do. If anyone can navigate the contaminated waters of Washington, lift up the poor, and appeal to the rich to share their wealth, it is Sen. Barack Obama. If anyone can bring light to the darkened corners of this nation and restore our positive influence in world affairs, it is Barack Obama. If anyone can begin the process of healing and bring unity to a country that has been divided for too long, it is Barack Obama. It is time to begin a new journey.
JOAN BAEZ ............
a rose is a rose is voting in the primary today, first thing at 6:00 am. she too will be voting for barack obama
BAEZ FOR OBAMA
.............Editor - I have attempted throughout my life to give a voice to the voiceless, hope to the hopeless, encouragement to the discouraged, and options to the cynical and complacent. From Northern Ireland to Sarajevo to Latin America, I have sung and marched, engaged in civil disobedience, visited war zones, and broken bread with those who had little bread to break.
Through all those years, I chose not to engage in party politics. Though I was asked many times to endorse candidates at every level, I was never comfortable doing so. At this time, however, changing that posture feels like the responsible thing to do. If anyone can navigate the contaminated waters of Washington, lift up the poor, and appeal to the rich to share their wealth, it is Sen. Barack Obama. If anyone can bring light to the darkened corners of this nation and restore our positive influence in world affairs, it is Barack Obama. If anyone can begin the process of healing and bring unity to a country that has been divided for too long, it is Barack Obama. It is time to begin a new journey.
JOAN BAEZ ............
a rose is a rose is voting in the primary today, first thing at 6:00 am. she too will be voting for barack obama
Thursday, May 03, 2007
just because someone is a pacifist
did you know they weren't allowed to entertain the patients at walter reed?
i know ms baez (not unlike buffy sainte marie whom i also love) is an acquired taste. i just happened to have that taste. my favorite recording of hers is a cover album (yeah, i have the vinyl) of bob dylan songs called any day now (my favorite being you ain't goin' nowhere. WHICH by the way, when i was playing, i did a fairly mean rendition of)
Joan Baez Unwelcome At Concert For Troops
Singer Was to Perform With Mellencamp at Walter Reed
By Teresa Wiltz Washington Post Staff Write Wednesday, May 2, 2007; Page C01
When rocker John Mellencamp performed for the recovering soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Friday night, a couple of things were missing. He squelched his typically blistering rhetoric against the war in Iraq. Also MIA, as it turned out, was folkie and antiwar activist Joan Baez, who says she was disinvited from the event by Army officials.
In a letter that appears today in The Washington Post, Baez says Mellencamp had wanted her to perform with him and that she had accepted his invitation.................
joan baez
i know ms baez (not unlike buffy sainte marie whom i also love) is an acquired taste. i just happened to have that taste. my favorite recording of hers is a cover album (yeah, i have the vinyl) of bob dylan songs called any day now (my favorite being you ain't goin' nowhere. WHICH by the way, when i was playing, i did a fairly mean rendition of)
Joan Baez Unwelcome At Concert For Troops
Singer Was to Perform With Mellencamp at Walter Reed
By Teresa Wiltz Washington Post Staff Write Wednesday, May 2, 2007; Page C01
When rocker John Mellencamp performed for the recovering soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Friday night, a couple of things were missing. He squelched his typically blistering rhetoric against the war in Iraq. Also MIA, as it turned out, was folkie and antiwar activist Joan Baez, who says she was disinvited from the event by Army officials.
In a letter that appears today in The Washington Post, Baez says Mellencamp had wanted her to perform with him and that she had accepted his invitation.................
joan baez
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