Paul Robeson, Phil Ochs, Deir Yessin and the Journey of Reconciliation 4/9/09
We honor this day, April 9th, in the history of revolutionary liberation with a celebration of the lives of Paul Robeson and Phil Ochs, a remembrance of the massacre at Deir Yessin in 1948 and the courageous members of the Congress of Racial Equality’s who braved the chain gangs of the racist South to force the desegregation of interstate transportation known as the Journey of Reconciliation in 1947.
A Tribute to Paul Robeson by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Peekskill Outrage
Pete Seeger on The Peekskill Riots
Bayard Rustin On His Work With CORE
Phil Ochs – The Sound Is Now Interview
Music: P. Robe Syndrome by dot|Mental
Let My People Go and Joe Hill by Paul Robeson
I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night by Billy Bragg State of Richard Nixon, Freedom Riders, I Ain’t Marching No More and the Ballad of Joe Hill by Phil Ochs
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Original version broadcast on Thursday, April 9, 2009 8 PM EST on WXOJ-LP 103.3 FM Valley Free Radio Northampton, MA Program length – 1:04:24
