Tea Party Rhetoric

Wow - just read a very well written and frightening editorial in the Post. Maybe you read it also? If not, I'd suggest it. Its a reminder to us, in this age of Tea Party virulence that words can, and do, kill ordinary Americans, as they did in Kent State. To continue the theme, we find it also in Birmingham Alabama in 1963, in the death of Matthew Shepherd, and in tons of other horrible events.

How does one join in the fight against such dangerous ignorance? All through my lifetime, I've believed that words and songs were one venue with which one might raise consciousness. I've heard Dad preach often unpopular social justice sermons every Sunday of my life. I've grown up inspired by the challenges of Peter, Paul, and Mary.

BECAUSE ALL MEN ARE BROTHERS
Bach/Glazer- Amrita Music Corp. ASCAP

Because all men are brothers wherever men may be
One Union shall unite us forever proud and free
No tyrant shall defeat us, no nation strike us down
All men who toil shall greet us the whole wide world around.

My brothers are all others forever hand in hand
Where chimes the bell of freedom there is my native land
My brother's fears are my fears yellow white or brown
My brother's tears are my tears the whole wide world around.

Let every voice be thunder, let every heart beat strong
Until all tyrants perish our work shall not be done
Let not our memories fail us the lost year shall be found
Let slavery's chains be broken the whole wide world around