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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 8. Mars 2006
/ Time Line March 8, 2006
Version 3.5
7. Mars 2006, 9. Mars 2006
03/08/2006
Kvindernes internationale
kampdag.
Teksten på forsiden af Kvinner er generel for kvinder i alle
lande og alle kulturer.
Litteratur: Terp, Holger: Kvindesagen.
03/08/2006
PRESS RELEASE: 8 March 2006 (Sonny Ochs)
By: Christian Bartolf
Sonny Ochs signed the “Manifesto against conscription and the military
system” on 7 March 2006. For many years, Sonny Ochs has organized
tribute concerts and song festivals to keep the memory of her brother
Phil Ochs alive and encourage young US American folk song artists to
dedicate their skills and energy for the causes of Peace, Righteousness
and Justice. Throughout her life as a teacher, she has written reviews
for journals and magazines, she has given lectures and radio shows for
the progressive folk music audience.
“It's always the old to lead us to the war / It's always the young to
fall / Now look at all we've won with the sabre and the gun / Tell me is
it worth at all?” (“I Ain't Marching Anymore”): Phil Ochs (9.12.1940 –
9.4.1976), born in El Paso, Texas, was a “singing journalist”, a protest
singer who had studied journalism at Ohio, went to New York, wrote and
sang topical songs for Civil Rights, for workers in their Labor Struggle
and against the US Vietnam war, the US military interventions and the
repressive and destructive system of the military, the monetary and the
manipulation by mass media.
Phil Ochs, who followed the folk song tradition of Woody Guthrie and
Pete Seeger, had been one of the great young talents of the New York
Greenwich Village artist scene during the Sixties. He contributed many
of his songs for the famous Broadside Magazine, and his first three
records “All the News That's Fit to Sing” (1964), “I Ain't Marching
Anymore” (1965) and “Phil Ochs in Concert” (1966) created his reputation
as one of the most energetic song poets of his time. He became worldwide
famous for his great songs "There But For Fortune", "I Ain't Marching
Anymore", "Draft Dodger Rag" and “Crucifixion" (with an outstanding
orchestral version). During his extensive travels around the world, he
was once strangled by those who attacked him. His voice was severely
damaged, he suffered psychologically from depressions and ended his life
- after more than 35 years - in 1976.
Phil Ochs's fire of protest had burnt brightly for many years, he had
filled concert halls with solo concerts, he had publicly unmasked the
war criminals, politicians, militarists and industrialists, and he had
performed with dedication in order to strengthen the conscience, the
courage, the dissent and the compassion of his young disobedient
contemporaries. He supported the political opposition forces throughout
America and bravely demonstrated freedom and independence of Thought,
Speech and Song.
See the webpage with Phil Ochs' lyrics:
http://www.cs.pdx.edu/%7Etrent/ochs/lyrics.html
See the webpage of Sonny Ochs:
http://www.sonnyochs.com
03/08/2006
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