position:folk singer

Hated by the Right. Mocked by the Left. Who Wants to Be ‘#Liberal’ Anymore ? - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/magazine/hated-by-the-right-mocked-by-the-left-who-wants-to-be-liberal-anymore.html

For the committed leftist, the ‘‘liberal’’ is a weak-minded, market-friendly centrist, wonky and technocratic and condescending to the working class. The liberal is pious about diversity but ready to abandon any belief at the slightest drop in poll numbers — a person who is, as the folk singer Phil Ochs once said, ‘‘10 degrees to the left of center in good times, 10 degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally.’’

Mais le NYT, liberal par excellence, n’est pas tout à fait d’accord, d’où le commentaire de « naked capitalism » :
▻http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/07/links-7617.html

The idea that today, liberals and conservatives are two flavors of neoliberal seems to elude The Grey Lady.

Trial of former Chile military officer for murder of #Víctor_Jara opens in Florida
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/13/victor-jara-trial-former-chile-military-officer-florida

A Chilean army officer accused of murdering the popular folk singer and political activist Víctor Jara in the first days of Augusto Pinochet’s 1973 CIA-backed coup d’etat goes on trial in a Florida courtroom on Monday, a landmark moment in his British widow’s four-decades-long fight for justice.

The Girl from Rangoon - Song dedicated to Aung San Suu Kyi.
By Douglas Gattini, Chilean Folk Singer.
►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1eLM7zCppo&feature=share

Pete Seeger Takes OWSers on a Singing March—Watch Video | AlterNet
►http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/684510/pete_seeger_takes_owsers_on_a_singing_march--watch_video

Pete Seeger Takes OWSers on a Singing March—Watch Video

Last night after a concert on the Upper West Side, folk singer and progressive hero Pete Seeger, age 92, his grandson Tao-Rodriguez Seeger, Arlo Guthrie and others led a singing march in support of Occupy Wall Street that culminated in an “occupation” of Columbus Circle with a sing-along of Seeger’s classic protest songs.

There’s a great deal of amateur video circulating on the internet of course, and much of it is good enough to be inspirational and moving. Seeger has been absolutely instrumental in maintaining, creating, and inspiring the American protest song playbook—and the more than 1,000 marchers raised their voices in song as homage.

92 ans !
#musique #jaimelesvieux