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In reply to the discussion: Joan Baez diffuses right wing protest at Idaho concert. [View all]bayareaboy
(793 posts)41. I learned more from Joan Baez and her friends in 10 days at Alemeda County Jail...
Last edited Sun Mar 15, 2015, 02:31 PM - Edit history (1)
I was jailed in an anti-war demonstration in Oakland in the 60s.
I was sitting down the row about 5 or 6 bodies from Joan. Then after a day or so we all took the big bus to the jail and my bunk mate was Vik lovell, the guy who turned Ken Kesey on to LSD. We had some great meetings about peaceful demonstrations form folks like Ira Sandpearl.
Visiting day was pretty OK as well, with Martin Luther King showing up and shaking hands and asking how we felt about the war.
I have never learned more about myself or the good folks around me as those 10 days.
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Yes, a pure voice, then and now. I got to see PP&M 2 or 3 times. That generation of folk...
Hekate
Mar 2015
#13
Soldiers are the most damaged by the blood thirsty war mongers ordering them to fight false wars.
Fred Sanders
Mar 2015
#11
Oh, Grammy, you actually got to be at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival?! I am in awe and envy...
Hekate
Mar 2015
#14
You might also enjoy the dvd of the C.S.N.Y. anti-war tour a few years ago. Available on Netflx
Hoppy
Mar 2015
#22
This is a good reason to not allow one issue to taint your view of someone.
Thinkingabout
Mar 2015
#26
I learned more from Joan Baez and her friends in 10 days at Alemeda County Jail...
bayareaboy
Mar 2015
#41