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The Return

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NEW YORK, Nov. 1 (UPI)- Broadside, the National Topical Song Magazine, published for 20 years by veteran folksinger Sis Cunningham and her husband, Gordon Friesen (with the help of innumerable volunteers and hangers-on), is back, with 20 pages of songs, poems, articles, reviews, irreverency and bacchanalia every month.

Launched by Sis and Gordon in 1962, Broad­side played an inOuential and important role in 'ffie "folk revival" of the 1960s. Among its frequent contributors were such writers as Julius Lester, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Malvina Reyn­olds, Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger. Although many of the contributors were unknown at the time outside of a small circle of friends, their songs were published because of the inherent good qualities of the music. Broadside was a vital element in the development of these artists, providing them with an outlet for their music and with a forum for the exchange of ideas.

In recent years the publication had declined to an annual. However, with the cooperation and approval of Sis and Gordon, the magazine is being resuscitated. The announcement that Broadside was returning-as a 20-page month­ly-was greeted with great enthusiasm by those who were familiar with its past, and subscriptions and words of support have been received from such diverse corners and Brooklyn, Tokyo, Co­penhagen, San Mateo, Far Rockaway, Monsey and Greenwich Village. (Additional subscriptions, however, are still available.)

This issue contains information about Broadside's past and future, including a state­ment of purpose by Sis and Gordon, to which the new staff adheres. It also contains important news about the BROADSIDE BENEFIT CON­CERT coming on December 7th at 8 PM at the Speak Easy, 107 McDougal St., and about the special Phil Ochs issue coming in December.

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Publisher ....................... Norman A. Ross Editor ........................... Jeff Ritter Contributing Editor ....... Sonny Ochs Poetry Editors .............. D. B. Axelrod

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"I refuse to accept the cynical no­tion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway in­to the hell of nuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and un­conditional love will have the final word in reality. "

Martin Luther King, Jr. Speech accepting Nobel

Peace Prize December 11, 1964

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I knew they'd all succeed or bust I knew by the size of the cloud of dust, I knew by the sound of blisters going "crack", I thought I'd head back to the farm When suddenly someone snagged mY,arm, And there I was .in the middle of a seething pack I was sweating like a fool, I was out of breath, Trying to keep from getting stomped to death I must have been an edifying sight to see I cried, "You folks can jeer and scoff, But my legs are broke and they're falling ofL" And by now you know what they turned and said to rne. (Chorus)

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Published Monthly by: Broadside, Ltd. P.O. Box 1464 New York, NY 10023

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J. c.. Hand Assistant Editor ............ Gordon Grinberg Editorial Board ............. Sis Cunningham

Gordon Friesen ISSN: 0740-7955 Paul Kaplan

COPYRIGHT 1983 Broadside , Ltd.

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SPECIAL ISSUES DEVOTED TO .. New Nicaraguan Songs "Native American Songs .. Environmental Songs .. Women's Songs ., Music of Chile

Pacific Ocean

Central America

Individual sub: ... $20 Institutional sub.$25

"I refuse to accept the cynical no­tion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway in­to the hell of nuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and un­conditional love will have the final word in reality. "

Martin Luther King, Jr. Speech accepting Nobel

Peace Prize December 11, 1964

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I knew they'd all succeed or bust I knew by the size of the cloud of dust, I knew by the sound of blisters going "crack", I thought I'd head back to the farm When suddenly someone snagged mY,arm, And there I was in the middle of a seething pack I was sweating like a fool, I was out of breath, Trying to keep from getting stomped to death I must have been an edifying sight to see I cried, "You folks can jeer and scoff, But my legs are broke and they're [ailing ofL" And by now you know what they turned and said to rne. (Chorus)

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HOLLY NEAR & RONNIE GILBERT

Lifeline is the live album documenting Holly and Ronnie's tour last year. It's avaU able from Redwood Records, 476 West MacArthur Blvd.Oakland, CA for $8.50. The album contains "We Are Singing People" and other standards [rom their concerts. It has the exuberance of their live performances and comes across as two women having a great time singing.

PEGGY SEEGER AND EWAN MACCOLL

The scene was very much like a family reunion at Town Hall in New York with Pete Seeger, John Cohen, Alan Lomax, Ethel Raim and many other mainstays of the folk world in the audience for this concert of diverse folk songs from the British Isles and elsewhere. Peggy and Ewan demonstrated the range of their vast re­pertoire with Celtic ballads, contemporary topical songs and a IIlongwindedll tale from Ewan about a particularly pungent occur­rence on a sea vessel. Accompanying Ewan and Peggy on mandolin, guitar and dulcimer were their sons Neil and Callum. They dis­played their fine musicianship ina variety of ways, adding an interesting touch to the songs of their parents. As always, a concert with Peggy and Ewan is an uplifting and educational experience. As an encore, Peggy sang Ewan's liThe First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,1I in a beautiful solo per­formance.

INQUIRY

Nancy Fox-Smith is looking for the record or sheet music of Little Songs

On Big Subjects. Some of the songs were, "Old CoJ1llK)dore Gray",: :Brown-Skinned Cow" "I'm Proud To Be Me;', She's been look­ing for theses songs of her childhood for ten years now and would appriciate anyone with any information to write to her at; 2815 Ninth St.

Berkeley, CA 94710

Holly Near and Ronnie Gilbert finished off their fall concert tour with two perform­ances at New York's Avery Fisher Hall in New York City. (Avery Fisher paid $10 million to have the hall's name changed to his own.) In a very relaxed atmosphere the two powerful voices went through a varied repertoire of traditional folk songs, politi­cal songs, topical songs and even Marvin Gaye's IIWhat's Goin' On?1I The program included a wonderful medley of IIWeavers'" songs, as well as tunes by many new songwriters. Holly and Ronnie are beauti­ful to watch and you can see the admira- . tion they hold for each other as they sing. The national recognition that Holly, in particular, is receiving, demonstrates that people want t.o hear powerful, hard-hitting music. At thIS concert, they got just that.

PHIL OCHS NIGHT

~t was IIPhil Ochs Nightll at the Speakeasy 10 Greenwich Village last month, with a large outpouring of Phil's fans for an evening devoted to his music. Sonny Ochs emceed; Oscar Brand, Jim Glover and the Washington Squares were on the bill; Phil's. mother and brother Michael were in the audience. (A more detailed description, by Sonny Ochs, will appear in the December iss~e of Broa~side, along with many songs Written by PhIl but never before published and never recorded.) .

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PEGGY SEEGER AND EWAN MACCOLL

The scene was very much like a family reunion at Town Hall in New York with Pete Seeger, John Cohen, Alan Lomax, Ethel Raim and many other mainstays of the folk world in the audience for this concert of diverse folk songs from the British Isles and elsewhere. Peggy and Ewan demonstrated the range of their vast re­pertoire with Celtic ballads, contemporary topical songs and a !!longwinded!! tale from Ewan about a particularly pungent occur­rence on a sea vessel. Accompanying Ewan and Peggy on mandolin, guitar and dulcimer were their sons Neil and Callum. They dis­played their fine musicianship in a variety of ways, adding an interesting touch to the songs of their parents. As always, a concert with Peggy and Ewan is an uplifting and educational experience. As an encore, Peggy sang Ewan's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,!! in a beautiful solo per­formance.

INQUIRY

Nancy Fox-Smith is looking for the record or sheet music of Little Songs

On Big Subjects. Some of the songs were, "Old Corrmodore Gray",: :Brown-Skinned Cow" "I'm Proud To Be Me". She's been look­ing for theses songs of her childhood for ten years now and would appriciate anyone with any information to write to her at; 2815 Ninth St.

Berkeley, CA 94710

Holly Near and Ronnie Gilbert finished off their fall concert tour with two perform­ances at New York's Avery Fisher Hall in New York City. (Avery Fisher paid $10 million to have the hall's name changed to his own.) In a very relaxed atmosphere the two powerful voices went through a varied repertoire of traditional folk songs, politi­cal songs, topical songs and even Marvin Gaye's !!What's Goin' On?!! The program included a wonderful medley of !!Weavers'!! songs, as well as tunes by many new songwriters. Holly and Ronnie are beauti­ful to watch and you can see the admira- . tion they hold for each other as they sing. The national recognition that Holly, in particular, is receiving, demonstrates that people want t.o hear powerful, hard-hitting music. At thIS concert, they got just that.

PHIL OCHS NIGHT

~t was !!Phil Ochs Night!! at the Speakeasy III Greenwich Village last month, with a large outpouring of Phil's fans for an evening devoted to his music. Sonny Ochs emceed; Oscar Brand, Jim Glover and the Washington Squares were on the bill; Phil's. mother and brother Michael were in the audience. (A more detailed description, by Sonny Ochs, will appear in the December issue of Broadside, along with many sona's written by Phil but never before pUblish;d and never recorded.) .

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House Panel Backs Spending I &ff;tlJ!: I·

Of $246 Billion by the Military 1.::7~ it ••• + ••• +.+.+++'t.~..!"+""'.++'."'·.

, House Appropriations Co~m.ittee has Representative Joseph P. Addabbo, I approved and sent to the House a $246.3 Democrat of Queens, the suocommit-

WASHINGTON, OCt. 21 (AP) _ The \ subject of floor amendments, howt'ver

billion military spending bill that de- tee chairman, moved to delete all $2.1 letes money for prOOuction of nerve billion eannarked for production of the gas. TIle bill would pay for the bull- '1 MX missiles. The move lost, 29 military expenses in the fiscal that began Oct. L

"We haven't done anything iT that gives the AdministraU heanburn," Representative wards, Republican of Alabf Th~y, sh<>rtly before th, tee shouted approval of the m

What was probably the bi81 pointment to the Administl said, was that the comm.itt~ 28 to 22, to eliminate all the It President Reagan wanted prodUCing nerve gas weapot first time since 1989.

The Defense Appropriati committee, on which Mr. E the ranking Republican, had I for nerve g<l!t back from the : lion authorized by Congress e fall to $61.1 million. But tl panel went along with a matil resentative John Edward PI publican of Illinois, to kill the

Amendment Could Be 01

1abbo also tried to cut $438 'dvance procurement money enable the Pentagon to buy

rs Wlder multiyear con­r than annual contracts. ost, 26 to 21, after advO­program argued that the angement was the only -5 could hold the Adminis­ts pledge that the 100-;ram would cost no more lion. \ddaboo moved to cut $4()7 y 95 Pershing 2 intermedi­ssiles on top of the 112 al­lased for deployment in HOpe starting in mid­Agam, Mr. Edwards's

lIed, 29 to 15. about $14 billion more than .hle legislation enacted for ar that ended Sept 30, but ut $14 billion less than Mr.

. dg~t request. 1 - e Defense Appropriations

An amendment could be ~ ,,,J ee has drafted a $251 hi!-restore the funds when the bi . .i .. fi)1 of the spending bilt but, un-the House floor Tuesday, bu ' , I )use vers' . t . 1 d wards saId "that would not - \\ Ilion in ..:~~ ~o/~~e ur: comfortable thing" to get pas \.~ rtment's 3.2 million uni-

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Reprint from BROADSIDE #62

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knee deep in the Big Muddy, but the damn fool said to push on .• -

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Next dey fran a boat we found his body Stuck in the old quicksand I guess he didn't know that the water was deeper Than the plaoe he'd once before been

,_) Another stream had joined the Big Muddy 1 Just a half mile from where we'd gone

,- We'd been lucky to escape fran the Big Muddy ;~ When the damn fool said to push on.

The sergeant said, with all this equiJ:ll!ent <; , "'l Well, maybe you I d rather not draw any moral No man' U- be able to swim ~f' :: \ I'll leave that to yourself Sergeant, don't be a nervous nellie ~ I, '\ Maybe you're still walking and you're still talking The captain said to him . 4 And youtd lik~ to keep your health

·All we need is a little determination ;1 But every time I read the papers Men, follow me, I'll lead on , ".-, 'v" '; That old feeling comes an We were neck deep in the Big MudeW \ '''< f· Waist deep in the Big Muddy And the damn fool said to push on. t\,.'· And the Big F~Ol says to push on.

All of a sudden, the moon clouded over : ~ . "j Waist deep in the Big lfuddy We heard a gurgling cry \, !''t And the Big Fool says to push on A few seconds later, the captain's helmet -\ Waist deep in the Big Mudqy Was all that floated by And the Big Fool says to push on

The sergeant said, turn around men (Whistle a cadenza I'm in charge from now on to take up these two lines) And we just made it out of the Big MudeW Waist deep in the BIG MUDDY! With the captain dead and gone AND THE BIG FOOL SAYS TO PUSH OO! I

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OFFICIALS SAY U.S. SECRETLY TRAINED

JORDANIAN FORCE COMMANDO UNIT FOR GULF

Troops Could Reportedly Be Transported by American

Planes in Emergency

By BERNARD GWERTZMAN

WASHINGTON, D<'t 21 -- The United States has been secretly train. ing a Jordanian strike force for u.<;e in military emergencies in the Perslan Gulf. Government officials saId today. They said the training had been under way for the last two and a half yean.

It was. learned last week that the Reagan Admtnistration was seeking $220 million in secret financing for a Jordanian force. But it was not known then that the force had already started lIaining with AmeIllAU1 Special Forces troops and had engaged in joint exer. cises with them.

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House Panel Backs Spending i ~:::!d.. I Of $246 Billion by the Military ~ oM ~~

it. ........ 1-+ .......... +++ ... +_+++'*++. .... WASHINGTON. OCt. 21 (AP) _ The I subject of floor amendments, however.

~ House Appropriations Co~m.ittee has Representative Joseph p, Addabbo, [ approved and sent to the House a $2-46.3 Democrat of Queens, the subcommit-

billion military spending bill that de-. t~.chairm.an, moved to delet.e all $2.1 letes money for production of nerve btilion earmarked for production of the gas. TIle bill would pay for the bull- ~1 MX missiles. The move lost, 29 military expenses in the fiscal that began Oct. L

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Ameodmeol Could Be 01

1abbo also tried to cut $438 'dvance procurement money 'mabie the Pentagon to buy

rs under multiyear con­r than annual contracts. ost, 26 to 21, after advo­program argued that the angement was the only oS could hold the Adminis­ts pledge that the lOO­;ram would cost no more .ion. \ddabbo moved to cut S407 y 95 Pershing 2 intennedi. ssiles on top of the 112 al· lased for deployment in lI"ope starting in mid· Agam, Mr. Edwards's

Bed, 29 to 15. about $14 billion more than ble legislation enacted for ar that ended Sept. 30, but ut $14 billion less than Mr. dget request.

, e Defense Appropriations An amendment could be . ..\ ,J ee ha..c; dra~E'd a $251 bit.

restore the funds when the bl : . ,J .... ., Jf the spendmg bUI but, un. the H~ floor Tuesday, bu \, r )Use version, it includes wards said "that would not "... "~I Ilion in raises for the De-comfortable thing" to get pas \.~ rtment's 3.2 million um.

But other much-debated 1 ::ivilian employees. ~cluding th~ MX intercontinentB:l mi£..l Mr. Addabbo said his panel did not sileo appea..r m ~tte~ shape, Jud~ by include money for the raise because of the comnuttee 5 rejection of vanous uncertainty about. when it would bet challenges to the money earmarked for come effective and how much it woula them. Several are expected to be the cost.

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The sergeant said, Sir, are you sure This is the best way back to the base? Sergeant, go 00; live forded this river Just a mile above this place

knee deep in the Big Muddy, but the d.aIm fool said to push 011 .• -

Next day fran a boat we found his body Stuck in the old quicksand

Ittll be a little soggy but just koep We'll soon be on dry ground

slogging

I guess he didn It know that the water was deeper Than the place held once before been ) Another stream had joined the Big Muddy

Just a halt mile !rom where weld gone We were-waist deep in the Big Mudqy And the damn fool said to push on.

The sergeant said, with all this equipnent No man Ill· be able to swim Sergeant, don't be a nervous nellie The captain said to him

All we need is a little determination Men, follow me, 1111 lead on We were neck deep in the Big Mudqy And the damn fool said to push on.

All of a 5Udden, the moon clouded over We heard a gurgling cry A few seconds later, the captain's helmet Was all that floated b.r

The sergeant said, turn around men 11m in charge from now on And we just made it out of the Big Mudqy With the captain dead and gone

AI '~.I:' ."J .... ~,

We I d been lucky to escape fran the Big Muddy When the damn fool said to push on.

Well, ~be yould rather not draw any moral I'll leave that to yourself Maybe you're still walking and you I re still talking And youtd lik~ to keep your health

But every tae I read the papers That old feeling comes on Waist deep in the Big Muddy AIild the Big Fool Sa;y"S to push on.

Waist deep in the Big Muddy And the Big Fool says to push on Waist deep in the Big Mudqy And the Big Fool says to push on

(Whistle a cadenza to take up these two lines)

~~~~~:!9 Waist deep in the BIG MUDDY! AND THE BIG FOOL SAYS TO PUSH rn 1 !

REPRINTED FROM BROADSIDE #74

OFFICIALS SAY U.S. SECRETLY TRAINED

JORDANIAN FORCE COMMANDO UNIT FOR GULF

Troops Could Reportedly Be Transported by American

Planes in Emergency

By BERNARD GWERTZMAN

WASHINGTON. o<t 21 - The United States has been secretly train. ing a Jordanian strike force for U.'re in military emergencies in the Perstan Gulf, Government offiCials sald today. They saId the training had been under way for the last two and a haltyeans.

It was. learned last week that the Reagan Administration was seeking $220 million in secret financing for a Jordanian force. But it was not known then that the force had already started tl aining with Ament:an Special Forces troops and had engaged in joint exer~ cises with them.

7

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BROADSIDE #146 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 4

STATEMENT BY AGNES CUNNINGHAM & GORDON FRIESEN

[This page originally appeared in Broadside in the late sixties as a statement of purpose, We reprint it here as a reaffirmation of that statement and as a dedication of future issues to the ideals of the founding editorso]

Broadside was started in February of 1962 to provide a place where topical protest songwriters could get a hearing. America TS heritage is rich with the expression of dissent through song, going all the way back to pre-revolutionary times. The Abolitionists put forth their appeals for an end to slavery in songs like those of The Hutchinson family. The miners and other workers trying to organize into unions in the late eighteen hundreds used songs extensively. The Wobblies had their Joe Hill and their great TTLittle Red Songbook. Tf In the thirties there was a great outpouring of songs protesting the miseries of the great Depression. Woody Guthrie emerged from the Dust Bowl to become one of the greatest writers of songs protesting social injustices. The Almanac singers helped organize the C.I.O., and wrote and sang many songs in the fight against Hitlerism.

But during the cold war period with its accompanying iv'IcCarthyite persecution in the fifties, the writing of such songs came to a virtual standstill. Songwriters, like other progressive artists, were dragged before the HU AC committee. As this period of oppression subsided somewhat, Broadside felt that it was time to revive the tradition of protest songs. We printed and encouraged a whole new school of young protest singer­songwriters--Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, Len Chandler, Peter LaFarge, Janis Ian, Tom Paxton, Eric Anderson, and many more, as well as the new works by older writers such as Pete Seeger and Malvina Reynolds. Through the magazine, recordings, and songbooks we spread widely the proliferating songs of the Civil Rights Movement. Hundreds of songs protesting the Vietnam war appeared and continue to appear as that hideous U.S. aggression drags on. There is hardly an evil in this land that has not been protested in Broadside songs--the horrors of the Black ghettos where children die by the hundreds, poisoned by the lead paint from rotting tenement walls; the pollution of our environment; the mistreatment of the Indians and Chicanos; the exploitation of the migrant workers; police brutality against Blacks and students; the jailing of political prisoners; the general hypocrisies and lies of the ruling class; Broadside has supported every progressive cause from women!s liberation, peace, equal rights and student power, to overall social justice.

Nor has Broadside TS influence been limited to this country. The North Vietnamese, in an appreciation of the American peace movement, mentioned specifically a song, TfGet Gone, Uncle SamTf (from Vietnam) written by Len Chandler and first published in Broadside. Bernadette Devlin got some of her first radical ideas listening to American protest s'OI1gs at a local club. Students sang these songs all over Europe. Books drawing heavily on Broadside have been published in France and Franco Spain as models of what should be done in those countries. In Tokyo, hundreds of thousands of peace demonstrators sang an anti-war song taken directly from the pages of Broadside. Translations of Broadside songs have been made in Norway, Denmark, Holland, Italy, and other countries.

BroadsideTs editors feel its contribution must continue. As it was said by Malvina Reynolds, now past seventy, author of hundreds of protest songs including, !TLittle BoxesT! (it also first appeared in Broadside), TTWe are the only people trying to put ourselves out of business, TT another way of saying protest songs must continue till there!s nothing left to protest. It is of course all too obvious that the evils of our American society remain multitudinous and are a long way from being ended. It is true that there was much protest in pop rock songs in the past several years, but the heavy hand of censorship is pushing the trend of this music into the Tin Pan Alley sterility of unproductive inanities, creating a gap and a vacuum in the continuity of meaningful songs which 'Jnly the Broadside approach can and must fill.

BROAOOIDE #146 TOO CHEAP TO METER KRISTIN LEMS

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Copyright~19?9 Kristin Leas

Such power fell into a few men's hands It seemed they had the world at their command for awhile When asked about the dangers they would smile and say it's .Kristin Lems. has released

her second album called, "In The Out Door", on carol­sdatter Productions of Ur~, Illinois.

cho: Too cheap to meter Too cheap to meter . Too cheap to meter, like the sun, llke the sun

2. \~hil e test; ng overground out in the West The army sent its men to watch the test from nearby And radiation marked those men to die The weapons contracts signed, the treat:es made Plutonium produced at weapons grade, up for sale No one spoke of the outcome should they fail; the risks are

The nuclear power industry cla.1JII..ed in the .5O·s that. "clean" nuclear power was so efficient. that 1 t would be lIIIfoo Cheal! To Meter"'.

cho: Too small to meter Too sma 11 to me't:eV' . Too small to meter, they built on and or and on

3. As plants went ~p, the cost of them did too An~ cancer rates dramatically grew. in our land But sti'l they keep us to their deadly plan Bu~ t~e truth is too insistent to conceal As accidents and close calls get revealed one by one How many must be lest ~eforl it's done? is our health

cho: T)o cheap to meter 100 -~eaD to meter Ar::. they' toe cheap to care for everyone. everyone?

4. Insur~nce flees in fear, too much to pay And V'caltors run off the other way at top speed What better proof could any person need?

But enerqy is blowin in the wind And stre~min9 from the sun and ~idden

in a waterfall: Let's stop the nuke~ before

they stop us all: the costs ~.re

cho: Too steep to m~ter Too steep to meter Too steep to meter, shut 'eJ!J ~:1'own. one by one, shut 'em down

The risks are too steep tc meter, Too steep to meter, The dumps. the plants. the 0" ~eder. shut 'em down, everyone, shut 'em down

BROADSIDE #146 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 4

STATEMENT BY AGNES CUNNINGHAM & GORDON FRIESEN

[This page originally appeared in Broadside in the late sixties as a statement of purpose, We reprint it here as a reaffirmation of that statement and as a dedication of future issues to the ideals of the founding editors,]

Broadside was started in February of 1962 to provide a place where topical protest songwriters could get a hearing. America's heritage is rich with the expression of dissent through song, going all the way back to pre-revolutionary times. The Abolitionists put forth their appeals for an end to slavery in songs like those of The Hutchinson family. The miners and other workers trying to organize into unions in the late eighteen hundreds used songs extensively. The Wobblies had their Joe Hill and their great ITLittle Red Songbook. IT In the thirties there was a great outpouring of songs protesting the miseries of the great Depression. Woody Guthrie emerged from the Dust Bowl to become one of the greatest writers of songs protesting social injustices. The Almanac singers helped organize the C.I.O., and wrote and sang many songs in the fight against Hitlerism.

But during the cold war period with its accompanying McCarthyite persecution in the fifties, the writing of such songs came to a virtual standstill. Songwriters, like other progressive artists, were dragged before the HUAC committee. As this period of oppression subsided somewhat, Broadside felt that it was time to revive the tradition of protest songs. We printed and encouraged a whole new school of young protest singer­songwriters--Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, Len Chandler, Peter LaFarge, Janis Ian, Tom Paxton, Eric Anderson, and many more, as well as the new works by older writers such as Pete Seeger and Malvina Reynolds. Through the magazine, recordings, and songbooks we spread widely the proliferating songs of the Civil Rights Movement. Hundreds of songs protesting the Vietnam war appeared and continue to appear as that hideous U.S. aggression drags on. There is hardly an evil in this land that has not been protested in Broadside songs--the horrors of the Black ghettos where children die by the hundreds, poisoned by the lead paint from rotting tenement walls; the pollution of our environment; the mistreatment of the. Indians and Chicanos; the exploitation of the migrant workers; police brutality against " Blacks and students; the jailing of political prisoners; the general hypocrisies and lies of the ruling class; Broadside has supported every progressive cause from women's liberation, peace, equal rights and student power, to overall social justice.

Nor has Broadside's influence been limited to this country. The North Vietnamese, in an appreciation of the American peace movement, mentioned specifically a song, TTGet Gone, Uncle Sam IT (from Vietnam) written by Len Chandler and first published in Broadside. Bernadette Devlin got some of her first radical ideas listening to American protest s'Ortgs at a local club. Students sang these songs all over Europe. Books drawing heavily on Broadside have been published in France and Franco Spain as models of what should be done in those countries. In Tokyo, hundreds of thousands of peace demonstrators sang an anti-war song taken directly from the pages of Broadside. Translations of Broadside songs have been made in Norway, Denmark, Holland, Italy, and other countries.

Broadside's editors feel its contribution must continue. As it was said by Malvina Reynolds, now past seventy, author of hundreds of protest songs including, ITLittle Boxes" (it also first appeared in Broadside), "We are the only people trying to put ourselves out of business, IT another way of saying protest songs must continue till there's nothing left to protest. It is of course all too obvious that the evils of our American society remain multitudinous and are a long way from being ended. It is true that there was much protest in pop rock songs in the past several years, but the heavy hand of censorship is pushing the trend of this :nusic into the Tin Pan Alley sterility of unproductive inanities, creating a gap and a vacuum in the continuity of meaningful songs which 'Jnly the Broadside approach can and must fill.

BROALSIDE #146 TOO CHEAP TO METER KRISTIN LEMS

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The war was done and time was on our side And no one spoke of how many died in Japan And no one knew just what that blast-began

Copyright~19?9 Kristin Lems

Such power fell into a few men's hands It seemed they had the world at their command When asked about the dangers they would smile

for awhil e and say it's Jtrlstin Lems. haa :released

her second album called, "In The Out Door". on carol­sdatter Productions of Ur~f Illinois.

cho: Too cheap to meter Too cheap to meter . Too cheap to meter, like the sun, llke the sun

2. l~hi1 e test; ng overground out in the West The army sent its men to watch the test from nearby And radiation marked those men to die The weapons contracts signed. the treat:es made Plutonium produced at weapons grade, up for, sale No one spoke of the outcome should they fall; the risks are

The nuclear power industry cl.a.1m.ed in the 5O's that "clean" nuclear power was so efficient that it would be "'Too Chea:p To Meter".

cho: Too small to meter Too small to me"t'eY' Too small to meter, they built on and or an~ on

3. As plants went ~p, the cost of them did too' An~ cancer rates dramatically grew. in our land But sti'l they keep us to their deadly plan Bu~ the truth is too insistent to conceal As accidents anc close calls get revealed one by one How many must be lest ~eforl it's done? is our health

cho: T)o cheap to meter 100 -~eaD to meter At::. they' toe cheap to care for everyone. everyone?

4. Insur~nce flees in fear, too much to pay And Y'caltors run off the other way at top speed What better proof could ary person need?

But energy is blowin in the wind And stre"'ming from the sun and 1idden

in a waterfall: Let's stop the nuke~ before

they stop us all; the costs 'I,re cho: Too steep to m~ter

Too steep to meter Too steep to meter, shut 'eP:) ~!"own. one by one, shut 'em down

The risks are too steep tc meter, Too steep to meter, The dumps, the plants, the b'~eder, shut 'em down, everyone, shut 'em down

10 SAVE THE CHILDREN PART II (another response to An1ta Bryant)

I.Come gather round people, and you must listen well There's a danger in the country as you will hear me tell It begins with banging elbows as peacefully you dine It will end with the destruction of all that's good and fine

chorus; Pass the laws, pass the laws, make it clear in every clause Lefthanded's arehuma~oid, we've got to keep them unemployed Southpaw liberation is the ruin of our nation Make it' formal , make em normal pass the laws

2 We can't have 'en in the army or teaching in our schools Their minds are backwards sinister they'll undermine our rules And they're stubborn as the devil though we lecture every night That the bible cautions us to follow all that's good and right

chorus

3.We have tested them and twisted them and taunted them with rocks Tried thorazine and Freud; behaviour mod; electric shocks Unfortunatelt finding that the syndrome will not yield We may have no other choice but to insl\re they \..rill not breed

chorus

© 198,'3 Joanna Cazden

BROADSIDE # 146

BROADSIDE # 146 11

SAVE THE CHILDREN PART II. cont,

40 I can't even hire to babysit the young girl living next t'us For I heard her tell the children that she is ambidextrous Worst of all she had the nerve to say that anyone can learn The "Fulfilling, conscious joy" of using either hand by turn

chorus

50 Left and right and white and black, short ones below, tall ones above

different ways we choose to live, ways we look and ways we love Although the differe'rices are scary for me the bigger fright Is this bigotry legitamized, the danger on The Right

Last chorus

Pass the laws, pass the laws, make it clear in every clause People are created free, though no one's quite the same as me Human liberation is our only salvation Make it formal, no~ abnormal, pass the laws 0

TALKIN' TENANT UNION

Now if you want decent rents, let me tell you what to do, You got to talk to the neighbors on the block with you, You got to build a tenant union, got to make it strong, But if you all stick together friends, it won't be long, You'll get better plumbing, get the back porch fixed, And maybe even get a rent rebate!

Well it ain~t quite so simple, so I'd better explain, Just why you got to ride the tenant union train; 'Cause if you wait for the landlord to lower your rent, Well you'll all be waiting 'till your wad is spent, so to speak, You'll all be dead, gone to heaven; Saint Peter '11 be your landlord then, And rents up there are high!

copyright 1983, Lenny Anderson,

Printed by Permission

Now you know your rent's too high, but the landlord says it ain't, He raises it again, you're about to faint; You may be down and out, but you ain't beaten, Just pass out a leaflet and call a meeting, Talk it over, speak your mind,· decide to do something about it.

Nm,y the landlord may persuade some fool To go to your meeting and act like a stool, But you can always tell a stool though and that's a fact, He's got a yellow streak running down his back, He doesn't have to be a fool you know, He can always make a good living off what he steals Outa blind men's cups!

,..f

For a descrip1 t1on, history, and instruct10BS on "TalklA" style see The Folk SoncsOf North Amer1ca by Alan Lomax.

10 SAVE THE CHILDREN PART II (another response to An1ta Bryant)

I.Come gather round people, and you must listen well There's a danger in the country as you will hear me tell It begins with banging elbows as peacefully you dine It will end with the destruction of all that's good and fine

chorus; Pass the laws, pass the laws, make it clear in every clause Lefthanded's are humanoid, we've got to keep them unemployed Southpaw liberation is the ruin of our nation Make it' formal , make em normal pass the laws

2 We can't have 'en in the army or teaching in our schools Their minds are backwards sinister they'll undermine our rules And they're stubborn as the devil though we lecture every night That the bible cautions us to follow all that's good and right

chorus

3.We have tested them and twisted them and taunted them with rocks Tried thorazine and Freud; behaviour mod; electric shocks Unfortunatelt finding that the syndrome will not yield We may have no other choice but to insure they ,.,ill not breed

chorus

© 1'7'8:3 Joanna Cazden

BROADSIDE # 146

BROADSIDE # 146 11

SAVE THE CKILDREN PART II. cont,

40 I can't even hire to babysit the young girl living next t'us For I heard her tell the children that she is ambidextrous Worst of all she had the nerve to say that anyone can learn The "Fulfilling, conscious joy" of using either hand by turn

chorus

50 Left and right and white and black, short ones below, tall ones above

different ways we choose to live, ways we look and ways we love Although the differe'rices are scary for me the bigger fright Is this bigotry legitamized, the danger on The Right

Last chorus

Pass the laws, pass the laws, make it clear in every clause People are created free, though no one's quite the same as me Human liberation is our only salvation Make it formal, no~ abnormal, pass the lawso

TALKIN' TENANT UNION

Now if you want decent rents, let me tell you what to do, You got to talk to the neighbors on the block with you, You got to build a tenant union, got to make it strong, But if you all stick together friends, it won't be long, You'll get better plumbing, get the back porch fixed, And maybe even get a rent rebate!

Well it ainlt quite so simple, so I'd better explain, Just why you got to ride the tenant union train; 'Cause if you wait for the landlord to lower your rent, Well you'll all be waiting 'till your wad is spent, so to speak, You'll all be dead, gone to heaven;

. Saint Peter '11 be your landlord then, And rents up there are high!

copyright 1983, Lenny Anderson.

Printed by Permission

Now you know your rent's too high, but the landlord says it ain't, He raises it again, you're about to faint; You may be down and out, but you ain't beaten, Just pass out a leaflet and call a meeting, Talk it over, speak your mind, decide to do something about it.

Nm\T the landlord may persuade some fool To go to your meeting and act like a stool, But you can always tell a stool though and that's a fact, He's got a yellow streak running down his back, He doesn't have to be a fool you know, He can always make a good living off what he steals Outa blind men's cups!

ftf

For a descr1p1t1on, history, and 1nstruct1oAs on "Talkin" style see The Folk SonlSOf North Amer1ca 'by Alan Lomax.

12 TALKIN' TENANT UNION CONT.

Well you got a tenant union now and you're sittin' pretty, BROADSIDE # 146 You put some of the folks on the steering committee; The Landlord won't listen if one guy squawks, But he better listen if the tenant union talks; Oh he'd better, or he'll find himself mighty lonesome one of these days, Walking down to the bank with his pockets empty. Rent Strike!

Suppose your rent's so high that it's just outrageous, And you haven't had running water for ages, And you go to the landlord and the landlord '11 yell, liB efore I lower your rent, I'll see you in hell." He's smoking a cigar and feeling might slick 'Cause he thinks he's got your union licked, 'Til he looks out the window and what does he see? A thousand pickets and they all agree, He's a bastard, extortionist! I imagine he makes his wife sleep out on the front lawn!

Now friends you 1ve come to the toughest part, The landlord will trv to throw you out for starts; Relll call in the sheriff to serve an eviction, And drag you into court on a contempt citation; He'll cut off your water and electricity, And even have the gall to try and stick you With his lawyer's fees. ____ Jill (ljll1.J~~~ [ '!t:~ :Jl-..,i: i j

~--L .~~ ~ ~~~! I

But out in Berkeley, here's what they found, ,- ~~' ',' . {r-:,. " I ~': ' ,,'~? ~J it , ( 6 '1 f II 1 f 1.... ~ i

And wherever people get together ' / )1' I, f' 1~ ".', ". r-to get a de,cent roof at a decent rent, - , I~~k-" ,/~'" t I ~ 'A" '~,Jf. ' \ Ji

Here's what they found-- ' ~~_" -'~:' ~ry " "r"-'f- ': " ',I That.if you don't let redbaiting break you up" r: " \ '!'~I '~-]lrr:~~ --:' -~F' And ~f you don't let race hatred break YOll up,~. ,C-- '~?J " _~ And If you don't let the courts break you up, ._,_ -:;,~_~ __ ' Well, you'll win! ~

What I mean is take it easy, but. .. TAKE IT!

CDI's List of Unjustified Nuclear Weapons Programs

MX Missile Trident Submarine New Manned Bomber Trident II Missile Pershing II Missile Ground-Launched Cruise

Missile (GLCM) Sea-Launched Cruise Missile (SLCM)

Ballistic Missile Defense (ABM) Anti-Satellite Weapons Department of Enel'gy Nuclear

Weapons Programs TOTAL

Fi8C(I/ Yew' 1981 Rf'qllf'st

$3.0 Billion $Ui Billion $2.5 Billion

$243 million $400 million

$532 million

$;)91 million $4mJ million $147 million $:3.2 Billion

$12.5 Billion

10000 9000 800,0

6000

500e 4000 3000 2000 1000

Year

"Not in one single nuclear weapons category have the Soviets demonstrated technological superiority We have more strategiC nuclear weapons than the Soviet Union. But you never hear this because the myth of US inferiority is being spread to try to panic the public"

Or. Herbert Scoville J::(}f'ller CiA Pt'[J-..J1\ Dlle(~:o'

tor SCience ana T erh~=.JI~·'

BROADSIDE # 146 ISLANt:? 13 Robert Scullin

.'

Copyright (0 1976, 1981 by Robert Scullin, S.J. All Rights Reserved

12 TALKIN' TENANT UNION CONT.

Well you got a tenant union now and you're sittin' pretty, BROADSIDE # 146 You put some of the folks on the steering committee; The Landlord won't listen if one guy squawks, But he better listen if the tenant union talks; Oh he'd better, or he'll find himself mighty lonesome one of these days, Walking down to the bank with his pockets empty. Rent Strike!

Suppose your rent's so high that it's just outrageous, And you haven't had running water for ages, And you go to the landlord and the landlord '11 yell, liB efore I lower your rent, I'll see you in hell." He's smoking a cigar and feeling might slick 'Cause he thinks he's got your union licked, 'Til he looks out the window and what does he see? A thousand pickets and they all agree, He's a bastard, extortionist! I imagine he makes his wife sleep out on the front lawn!

N ow friends you lve come to the toughest part, The landlord will trv to throw you out for starts; Helll call in the sheriff to serve an eviction, And drag you into court on a contempt citation; He'll cut off your water and electricity, And even have the gall to try and stick you

With hislawyer's fees. _ c' kif Ii!~~";: f : l&ifJ, if!#,:; I But out m Berkeley, here's what they found, ,- ~~' "I - - , , 1--------= ~~? FJ tft

, , /;, )~ I/- II! f '1.-'-' ~ I

And wherever people get together ' c / • 1l'. I, (' t~~' ,~t~l J;;' , I_ t d " f .;f. I , \<I'~. i.:;W;;c. r o get a e,eent roo at a decent rent, 1~~ 'c t • - ",' I. JI

Here's what they found-- ." -' "i ',"~,"- I,:; • • > • >..'l ,t r- _ I

That .If you don't let redbaiting break you up, .,r.+ '\' , ',,-, ~ - '" ,> --: - ~F ' And ~f you don;t let race hatred break y011 up, _' ,C- ,,'~~"_~ And If you don t let the courts break you up, ,_' ~.~_~ _ Well, you'll win! ~

What I mean is take it easy, but. .. TAKE IT!

CDI's list of Unjustified Nuciear Weapons Programs

MX Missile Trident Submarine New Manned Bomber Trident II Missile Pershing II Missile Ground-Launched Cruise

Missile (GLCM) Sea-Launched Cruise

Missile (SLCM) Ballistic Missile Defense (ABM) Anti-Satellite Weapons Department of Energy Nuclear

Weapons Programs TOTAL

F ism I Y ('(()' JUSl Rcqllcst

$3,0 Billion $1.6 Billion $2.5 Billion

$24:-l million $400 million

$532 million

$~l91 million $,t-l~j million $147 million $;-l.2 Billion

$12. [) Billion

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,. Not in one Single nuclear weapons category have the Soviets demonstrated technological superiority We have more strategic nuclear wcapons than the Soviet Union But you never hear this because the myth of US inferiority is being spread to try to paniC the public"

Dr. Herbert Scoville J:C)r'llef CiA [lepclly D;ref~:D'

tor SCience ana T t'rhfi2,,J}.

BROADSIDE # 146 13 Robert Scullin

Copyright (01976, 1981 by Robert Scullin, S.J • .All Rights Reserved

14

:. l<:tcm the island to the cities They pa.id dearly with tbeir Jives As they 't"zorkecl to build future Fer their own.

3. And the cbDdren rar;solr..ed freely 1'001<: the land ~l'ld tcok t::eir pleaBure But they mistook their father's hope Of liberty

Jj'rugal houses, stmple r1e&.5ures \'las the legacy they left

For bigver, bette!', more and f!1st~r-­Changed the dream of ucalt.r. for motley And in buyin;? life :l.n::m.'.'eti Hearts still restless, not COflvinced

'I'hat this was home. (Chorus) Their misery. (Chon~:J)

PHil 0[H5

4. Ellis Island YlovJ-is em.oty No more pE>ople passing through But from the ferry, rafts of stra:cgers Catch my eye. Some are hungry--C"!.ll are l1omel€J8s And some will stay that way , it t S true: They leave the :tsland yet I'ltay homeless All their lives. (2m~~ chor.us; to verse S)

The December issue of BROADSIDE will feature a special tribute to Phil Ochs on the anniversary of his birth, including songs written in memory of Phil by Tom Paxton and Sammy Walker. It will also have a number of songs written by Phil himself but never previously published or recorded (with an introduction by Phil's long-time friend, Jim Glover). Also in this issue: a report on "Phil Ochs Night at the Speak Easy," by Sonny Ochs. (Note: Editorial contributions and advertising can be accepted until December 7th.)

adside

"We live in a great and free country only because our forefathers were willing to wage war rather than to accept the peace that spelled destruction." Caspar Weinberger Secretary of Defense

N

,. Each of our strategic submarines can destroy 160 Soviet cities. . No one can say we are not very poweriul militarily. Now It s very difficult and somewhat embarrassing for military men to accept the fact that we have no defense against Soviet missiles and that Soviets have no defense against our missiles. We can destroy the Soviet Union even though they destroy us first There are no winners In a nuclear war· . Rear Admiral Gene R. La Rocque, U SNell. Y I Rei J

L'AM R E

NLAGUERRA

BEIRUT DEATH TOLL AT 161 AMERICANS; FRENCH CASUALTIES RISE IN BOMBINGS; REAGAN INSISTS MARINES WILL REMAIN

15 THE MOCNTAI:\ EAGLE, September 6, 1983

1.983 Evacuation Plan September I, 1983

To The Editor: Paul Girsdansky's article on nuclear evacuation plans in the

August 23 Mountain Eagle raised a number of interesting ques­tions. He refers, for instance, to a plan to evacuate Greene County and to another which would bring 181,000 evacuees from New York City into Greene County. There is obviously a very creative logic in such thinking.

The article describes a number of plans prepared in the 19708 which are now outdated. I am pleased to reveal that new pro­cedures have recently been drawn up which answer most -- if not all -- of the questions originally overlooked. However, the most salient point is the one made by retired Army Colonel Marvin Shiro. When asked if there was any purpose in having plans for dealing with a conflict that might "eliminate the entire planet," Shiro pointed out that women are involved.

I think we must all remember that the men must always have contingency plans for saving the women, even in the face of cer­tain death, because it is the plans that are important, not the realities of survival. It is this sort of planning that can save us all from such catastrophies as the Equal Rights Amendment and the advent of female baseball players. With this in mind, following are the details of the 1983 evacuation plan:

1. The Soviet Union, China, Iran, Japan and West Germany have been advised that two weeks' advance notice will be re­quired in the event of nuclear war.

2. Upon such notice, the president will call for the orderly evacuation of Greene County to the Northern Adirondacks. Residents will be allowed three days for moving. All farm animals must be left behind. All foodstuffs in the home can be removed but all stores must close for three days.

3. On the fourth day all women and children currently living in Staten Island will drive up the Thruway to Saugerties and then to Tannersville, where a resettlement office will be established in the parking lot next to the A&P. (Qne rest stop will be permitted en route at either a Thruway restaurant or the Dairy Queen near exit 20, though the contract with the Dairy Queen is open to com­petitive bidding annually.)

4. New living assignments will be made in Tannersville on the basis of information now being compiled with regard to family size, ethnic background and religious affiliations, both of the families now residing in Greene County and of those living in Staten Island. Large families will be assigned to large houses and small families to small houses. In addition, chess and checker sets will be provided to everyone over 65; Scrabble and Monopoly to all those between the ages of 25 and 65; and video games to everyone under 25.

5. If there is still time after all the women and children have been resettled, their husbands and fathers will be permitted to follow them up from New York City and will be given their new locatIons at the A&P in Tannersville.

Similar plans, of course, have been developed for the rest of New York City and the rest of the country. It is clear that the evacuation of all American cities can easily be completed in two weeks' time as long as everyone is orderly and knows that there will be plenty of room and food for them in the suburbs and more distant areas. Of course state and local police will have precise assignments for insuring that everyone goes to the correct 'iestination. For instance, every car and bus leaving New Yor~ 9-ty will carry a large sign on the driver's door indicating the on~m and destination of the car so police along the highways can prevent people from getting off at the wrong exits. (It soould be noted that the governor has cancelled all tolls on the Thruway in the event of nuclear attack.)

After the evacuation of all American (and enemy) cities, the two sides can launch their attacks and counter-attacks without fear of killing any women (or children). Given the speed of the missiles and the devastation a few nuclear warheads can ac­complish, it is likely that the war will be .over in two to three hours, after which, of course, everyone can go home.

Very truly yours, ;'\iorman A. Ross

Hunter

14

:. }<"'.L'cm tht~ island to the cities They paid dearly ",ith tbeir Jives As they norked to build future For their own.

3. And the cbDdren ransorr:ed freely '}'ool<:. the lo.nd ana took theil~ pleasure But they mistook their father's hope Of liberty

JTrugal houses, s:tmple r1eEsures \"las the legacy they left

For bigver, better, more and f.'1st~r-­Changed the dream of ucalt.r. for mone:y And in buying life i.nE>u:.:.'eri Hearts still restless, not corfvinced

'I'hat this was home. (Chorus) Their misery. (Cbo:n~:J)

PHil 0[H5

4. Ellis Island nO\<J -is em.oty No more people passing through But from the ferry, rafts of stra:cgers Catch my eye. SOIDE\ are hungry--all are bomeless And some will stay that way , it t S true: They leave the :i.sland yet lotay homeless All their lives. (~chorus; to verse 5)

The December issue of BROADSIDE will feature a special tribute to Phil Ochs on the anniversary of his birth, including songs written in memory of Phil by Tom Paxton and Sammy Walker. It will also have a number of songs written by Phil himself but never previously published or recorded (with an introduction by Phil's long-time friend, Jim Glover). Also in this issue: a report on nphil Ochs Night at the Speak Easy," by Sonny Ochs. (Note: Editorial contributions and advertising can be accepted until December 7th.)

ad.sid.e

"We live in a great and free country only because our forefathers were willing to wage war rather than to accept the peace that spelled destruction." Caspar Weinberger Secretary of Defense

,. Each of our strategic submarines can destroy 160 Soviet cities . No one can say we are not very powerful militarily. Now It s very difficult and somewhat embarraSSing for military men to accept the fact that we have no defense against Soviet miSSiles and that Soviets have no defense against our miSSiles. We can destroy the Soviet Union even though they destroy us first There are no winners In a nuclear war .. , Rear Admiral Gene R. La Rocque, USN,h,IRel!

FATE L'AM

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R E

NLAGUERRA

BEIRUT DEATH TOLL AT 161 AMERICANS; FRENCH CASUALTIES RISE IN BOMBINGS; REAGAN INSISTS MARINES WILL REMAIN

\TI\II !~N\ILEII

,,'. . ~ "

15 THE MOCNT:\l:\ EAGLE, September 6, 1983

1.983 Evacuation Plan September 1, 1983

To The Editor: Paul Girsdansky's article on nuclear evacuation plans in the

August 23 Mountain Eagle raised a number of interesting ques­tions. He refers, for instance, to a plan to evacuate Greene County and to another which would bring 181,000 evacuees from New York City into Greene County. There is obviously a very creative logic in such thinking.

The article describes a number of plans prepared in the 1970s which are now outdated. I am pleased to reveal that new pro- . cedures have recently been drawn up which answer most -- if not all _. of the questions originally overlooked. However, the most salient point is the one made by retired Army Colonel Marvin Shiro. When asked if there was any purpose in having plans for dealing with a conflict that might "eliminate the entire planet," Shiro pointed out that women are involved.

I think we must all remember that the men must always have contingency plans for saving the women, even in the face of cer­tain death, because it is the plans that are important, not the realities of survival. It is this sort of planning that can save us all from such catastrophies as the Equal Rights Amendment and the advent of female baseball players. With this in mind, following are the details of the 1983 evacuation plan:

1. The Soviet Union, China, Iran, Japan and West Germany have been advised that two weeks' advance notice will be re­quired in the event of nuclear war.

2. Upon such notice, the president will call for the orderly evacuation of Greene County to the Northern Adirondacks. Residents will be allowed three days for moving. All farm animals must be left behind. All foodstuffs in the home can be removed but all stores must close for three days.

3. On the fourth day all women and children currently living in Staten Island will drive up the Thruway to Saugerties and then to Tannersville, where a resettlement office will be established in the parking lot next to the A&P. (One rest stop will be permitted en route at either a Thruway restaurant or the Dairy Queen near exit 20, though the contract with the Dairy Queen is open to com­petitive bidding annually.)

4. New living assignments will be made in Tannersville on the basis of information now being compiled with regard to family size, ethnic background and religious affiliations, both of the families now residing in Greene County and of those living in Staten Island. Large families will be assigned to large houses and small families to small houses. In addition, chess and checker sets will be provided to everyone over 65; Scrabble and Monopoly to all those between the ages of 25 and 65; and video games to everyone under 25.

5. If there is still time after all the women and children have beell resettled, their husbands and fathers will be permitted to follow them up from New York City and will be given their new locatIons at the A&P in Tannersville.

Similar plans, of course, have been developed for the rest of New York City and the rest of the country. It is clear that the evacuation of all American cities can easily be completed in two weeks' time as long as everyone is orderly and knows tha t there will be plenty of room and food for them in the suburbs and more distant areas. Of course state and local police will have precise assignments for insuring that everyone goes to the correct 'iestination. For instance, every car and bus leavinl": New Yor~ 9-ty will carry a large sign on the driver's door indicatmg the on~m and destination of the car so police along the highways can prevent people from getting off at the wrong exits. (It soould be noted that the governor has cancelled all tolls on the Thruway in the event of nuclear attack.)

After the evacuation of all American (and enemy) cities, the two sides can launch their attacks and counter-attacks without fear of killing any women (or children 1. Given the speed of the missiles and the devastation a few nuclear warheads can ac­complish, it is likely that the war will be over in two to three hours, after which, of course, everyone can go home.

Very truly yours, Norman A. Ross

Hunter

16 Reprinted from BROADSIDE Oct. '6Lf

A LETTER FROM BOB DYLAN

for sis and gordon and all broads of good sides

let me begin by not beginnin let me start not by startin but by continuin it sometimes gets so hard for me--I am now famous I am now famous by the rules of public famiousity it snuck up on me an pulverized me ... I never knew what was happenin it is hard for me t walk down the same streets I did before the same way because now I truly dont know who is wait in for my autograph ... I dont know if I like givin my autograph oh yes sometimes I do ... but other times the back of my mind tells me it is not honest. .. for I am just fulfillin a myth t somebody who'd actually treasure my handwritin more'n his own handwritin ... this gets very complicated for me an proves t me that I am livin in a contradiction t quote mr froyd I get quite paranoyd ... an I know this ain't right it is not a useful healthy attitude for one t have but I truly believe that everybody has their fears everybody yes everybody ... I do not think it good anymore t overlook them I think they ought t be admitted ... people ask why do I write the way I do how foolish how monsterish a question like that hits me ... it makes me think that I'm doin nothin it makes me think that I'm not being heard yes above all the mumble jumble an rave praises an all the records I've sold ... thru all the packed houses I play ... thru all the com munica tion systems an rants an bellows an yellin an clappin comes a statement like "why do you do' what you do" what is this? some 'kind of constipated idiot world? some kind of horseshoe game we're all playin respondin only when a ringer clangs no no no not my world everybody plays in my world aint nobody first second third or fourth everybody shoots at the same time an ringers dont count an everybody wins an nobody loses cause everybody lives an breathes an takes up space an cant be overlooked an I am a people too I cannot pretend I'm not an I feel guilty god how can I help not feel guilty I walk down on the bowery and give money away an still I feel guilty for I know I do not have enuff money t give away ...

continued next issue ...

BROADSIDE # 146

Come Celebrate Revival & Survival

BROADSIDE BENEFIT CONCERT

• Eric Anderson

• Oscar Brand

• Tom Paxton

• Dave Van Ronk

$10 Peggy Atwood Peter Lake Susie Balaine & Ivice Christine Lavine Hugh Blumenfeld Emory Lavendar Marcie Boyd Arvin Leitman George Christ Lorna MacKinnon Lydia Davis Carolyn McCombs Ken Ekkens Rod McDonalds Susan Firing Jean Freedman Jim Glover Judy Gorman Jacobs Gordon Grinberg Jack Hardy Chuck Hancock Wes Houston David Indian Tom Intondi Josh Joffen Paul Kaplan Bob Killian Lach

Roger Manning David Massengil Roland Moussa Rick Nestler The New England Express Grant Orenstien Peter Pasco Jeff Ritter Norman Ross Eric Russell Peter Tracy Ned Treanor Norm Wennet

At the SPEAK EASY, 107 McDougal St. . December 7, 8:00 PM until ...

POETRY BAUJn'1l1C 1BI AlR (/Of' Adam Fish.,,)

when i _

petala of aahea air-borne

flowerina the ahina1ed aurfacea of roofs

bereft of color pitched to deflect

aunliaht • ahunt ra1n downward

when 1 am ra1n • taate1esa

without essence or ahape, .y most

terrible traft a pa11uc1d1ty wh1ch

cannot be just1f1ed aa aOlia laborn

1nher1te,d quirk but muat be viewed

as 1nexcusab1e--a breach of .y prOilise to

always always be there

when 1 .. borne away flaa11y by a 11qu1d,

that th1ckens only when 1t free.es

to a place 1 env1s10n not In tar.. of space

but tlJle unpunctuatad by motion

or liaht, 1 will bec.e then the very

houra of flowers whoae lavla1ble f1 ....

ao haunt1na the air.

--.T. C. Hand

ONE CRAY CULL (fOf' Donald Junkins)

One youna gray gull brave • Karch gust., standina in a tar lot by the Peconic. Bead cocked, he eyes .. as I throw bread cruabs fro. .y car, ten feet away. H1s feathers--1ight aray of wina, dappled white and black tall struts, the brighter white of hla breast and head, whiter than snowflakes in bursts, punctuatina the afternoon-­assure me on this cold, damp day that It is sprina; that he is the new crop, already wise to ways he can get lunch, and I know, as surely as the wind catches htm when he lofts the narrow river on his way to some other soul with bread crumbs, that I, too, can survive until a better season.

--l>atn'd B. A.:ce l1'Od

Copyright (e) 1985 by the authof'S

Poetry Editors' Note: As poets, we often wish we could see some of the poems written by the various editors to whom we submit our own work, so that we could better judge what they like to publish. Thus, we've begun our duties as poetry editors with some of our own poetry .... as well as with a poem by Stan Barkan of Cross-Cultural Communications. Poems for future issues of BROADSIDE may be mailed to 19~ Soundview Drive, Rocky Point, NY 11778. Please include an SASE if you want your poems returned.

--D. B. Axelrod & J. C. Hand

BUTTEIt.FLY DREAHS (fOf' NeZvin GoZigef'. tr.e "!tug IIICZJ1It or Brook lyn)

I have hunted for cocoons of cynthia .oths strung alona ailanthus trees (stink-weeds) between broken-down apart1lent houses, alleyways, and across the edge of beltways on the rill of duaplands (Canarsle) Brooklyn. Sometilles cecropia cocoons, larger, heavier, worth more (monkey food) unless emptied of pupae by parasitic wasps, eggs opening into ravenous -ggota to feed on the sleep1na wom. Ah, tc! dream as a crawling caterpillar, to awaken a Morpho Alar! (fit for riker mounts). To nap awhile so close' and wam and then enfold, unfold wings, iridescent blue leaves, (metlUllOrph) out Into the gol.d • azure light of air floating upwards .towards the crest of flowers, trees, Into the ralabov of the sky.

--StanLey B. Bazokan

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16 Reprinted from BROADSIDE Oct. '6Lf

A LETTER FROM BOB DYLAN

for sis and gordon and all broads of good sides

let me begin by not beginnin let me start not by start in but by continuin it sometimes gets so hard for me--I am now famous I am now famous by the rules of public famiousity it snuck up on me an pulverized me ... I never knew what was happen in it is hard for me t walk down the same streets I did before the same way because now I truly dont know who is wait in for my autograph ... I dont know if I like givin my autograph oh yes sometimes I do ... but other times the back of my mind tells me it is not honest...for I am just fulfillin a myth t somebody who'd actually treasure my handwritin more'n his own handwritin ... this gets very complicated for me an proves t me that I am livin in a contradiction t quote mr froyd I get quite paranoyd ... an I know this ain't right it is not a useful healthy attitude for one t have but I truly believe that everybody has their fears everybody yes everybody ... I do not think it good anymore t overlook them I think they ought t be admitted ... people ask why do I write the way I do how foolish how monster ish a question like that hits me ... it makes me think that I'm doin nothin it makes me think that I'm not being heard yes above all the mumble jumble an rave praises an all the records I've sold ... thru all the packed houses I play ... thru all the communication systems an rants an bellows an yellin an clappin comes a statement like "why do you do' what you do" what is this? some "kind of constipated idiot world? some kind of horseshoe game we're all playin respondin only when a ringer clangs no no no not my world everybody plays in my world aint nobody first second third or fourth everybody shoots at the same time an ringers dont count an everybody wins an nobody loses cause everybody lives an breathes an takes up space an cant be overlooked an I am a people too I cannot pretend I'm not an I feel guilty god how can I help not feel guilty I walk down on the bowery and give money away an still I feel guilty for I know I do not have enuff money t give away ...

continued next issue •..

BROADSIDE # 146

Come Celebrate Revival & Survival

BROADSIDE BENEFIT CONCERT

• Eric Anderson

• Oscar Brand

• Tom Paxton

• Dave Van Ronk

$10 Peggy Atwood Peter Lake Susie Balaine & Ivice Christine Lavine Hugh Blumenfeld Emory Lavendar Marcie Boyd Arvin Leitman George Christ Lorna MacKinnon Lydia Davis Carolyn McCombs Ken Ekkens Rod McDonalds Susan Firing Roger Manning Jean Freedman David Massengil Jim Glover Roland Moussa Judy Gorman Jacobs Rick Nestler Gordon Grinberg The New England Express Jack Hardy Grant Orenstien Chuck Hancock Peter Pasco Wes Houston Jeff Ritter David Indian Norman Ross Tom Intondi Eric Russell Josh Joffen Peter Tracy Paul Kaplan Ned Treanor Bob Killian Norm Wennet Lach

At the SPEAK EASY, 107 McDougal St. -December 7,8:00 PM until ...

POETRY BAUllTIWC 1BI AIR r f07' Adam FishB7'J

when i _

petal. of a.hes air-borne

floverinl the shina1ed surfaces of roofs

bereft of color pitched to deflect

sunlilht & shunt rain downward

when i am rain & tasteless

without essence or shape, .y most

terrible trait a p.11ucidity which

cannot be justified .s sOlia inborn

inherited quirk but aust be viewed

as inexcusab1e--a breach of .y prOliise to

always always be there

when i am borne away finally by a liquid.

that thickens only when it freeaes

to a place i envision not in terM of space

but t1ae unpunctuated by motion

or lilht, i will becoae then the very

hours of flowera whose inviaib1e f1 ... s

10 hauntina the air.

--.T. C. Band

ONE GRAY GULL (107' Donald Junkins)

One youna gray gull braves Karch gusts, standina in a tar lot by the Peconic. Bead cocked, he eyes as as I throw bread crwibs fraa .y car, ten feet away. His feathers--light Iray of wina, dappled white and black tail struts, the brighter white of his breast and head, whiter than snowflakes in bursts, punctuatina the aftemoon-­assure .e on this cold, damp day that It is sprina; that he is the new crop, already wise to ways he can get lunch, and I know, as surely as the wind catches him when he lofts the narrow river on his way to some other soul with bread crumbs, that I, too, can survive until a better season.

--David B. A.reZrod

Copyright (a) 19B5 by the autho7'S

Poetry Editors' Note: As poets, we often wish we could see some of the poems written by the various editors to whom we submit our own work, so that we could better judge what they like to publish. Thus, we've begun our duties as poetry editors with some of our own poetry .... as well as with a poem by Stan Barkan of Cross-Cultural Communications. Poems for future issues of BROADSIDE may be mailed to 19~ Soundview Drive, Rocky Point, NY 11778. Please include an SASE if you want your poems returned.

--D. B. Axelrod & J. C. Hand

BUTTEItFLY DREAMS (101" Nelvin Golige7'~ tJ:e "Cug /IIaII" of B1"ooklyn)

I have hunted for cocoons of cynthia lIOths strung a10na ailanthus trees (st ink-weeds) between broken-down apartaent houses, alleyways, and across the edge of beltways on the ria of duaplands (Cananie) Brooklyn. So.etiaes cecropia cocoons, larger, heavier, worth lIOre (monkey food) unless emptied of pupae by parasitic wasps, eggs opening into ravenous _ggots to feed on the sleepina WOt'll. Ah, tc! dream as a crawling caterpillar, to awaken a Morpho Agar! (fit for riker mounts). To nap awhile so close' and wat'll and then enfold, unfold vinas, iridescent blue leaves, (.etamorph) out into the gol.d & azure light of air floating upwards ~ovards

the crest of flowers, trees, Into the rainbow of the sky.

-StanLey B. Btnokan

SUBSCRIBE NOW! Send $20 to: Name~" ____________________________ _ BROADSIDE P.O. Box 1464 New York, New York 10023

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Eric Andersen Burry Sainte-Marie

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Janis Ian Pat Sky

VOLUME FIVE - TIME IS RUNNING OUT

contains: TIME IS RUNNING OUT--Wende Smith: GOOD MORNIN' BROTHER HUDSON--Frederick D. Kirkpatrick; NOT ENOUGH TO LIVE ON--Mike Millius; HEY MR. ROCKEFELLER--Mike Millius; FAREWELL MR. CHARLIE; F.D.Kirkpatrick; BALLAD OF MARTIN LUTHER KING--Michael Strange: BACK STREETS OF DOWNTOWN AUGUSTA--Anne Rom­aine; NOTHIN' BUT HIS BLOOD--F.D.Kirkpatricki WE SHALL BE FREE TOGETHER--Roland Mousaa; TO BE A KILLER--Wesley Houston: ELIJAH GOOD --Wesley Houston: PINKVILLE HELICOPTER--Tom Parrott; HELL NO I AIN'T GONNA GO--Matthew Jones & Elaine Laron; A PICKAXE AND A STONE --Jimmy Collier,

Jimmy Collier (left)

& Rev. F. D. Kirkpatrick

VOLUME SIX - BROADSIDE REUNION

contains: LONG TIME TROUBLED ROAD--Eric Ander­sen; TRAIN A-TRAVELIN'--Blind Boy Grunt (Bob Dylan) ; ONLY TIME WILL TELL--Bobby Donahue; DREADFUL DAY--Blind Boy Grunt, I'M GONNA GET MY BABY OUT OF JAIL--Len Chandler; TATE'S HELL --Will McLean; A VERY CLOSE FRIEND OF MINE-­Richard Black; MOON SONG--Mike MilliuSi THE TRAIN FOR AUSCHWITZ--Tom Paxton; HUNGER AND COLD--Phil Ochs; CHANGING HANDS--Phil Ochs; DRUMS-- Peter La Farge; THE BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL--Blind Boy Grunt; THE BALLAD OF DONALD WHITE--Blind Boy Grunt; THE BALLAD OF JESSE JAMES--Sis Cunningham, Mike Millius, Wes Houston and friends.

VOLUME SEVEN

contains: LET IT ROAR LIKE A FLOOD; SPIRITS OF THE REVOLUTION; AVIARY SONG; IT'S OUTRAGEOUS; TROUBLESHOOTER (all by Larry Estridge). BALLAD OF MRS. MARTHA MITClIELL--Gary Paris: VIETNAM-­Paul Kaplan; WHITE BLOSSOM and LA LUCHA--Danny & Judy Rose-Redwood; BALLAD OF FRANK CLEARWATER and BALLAD OF FRANK WILLS--Ron Turner.

VOLUME EIGHT -.SONG FOR PATTY by Sammy Walker

Sammy Walker singing his own songs: SONG FOR PATTY; RAGAMUFFIN MINSTREL EOYi MY OLD YEAR BOOK, LITTLE NEW JERSEY TOWN; I AIN'T GOT NO HOME (by Woody Guthrie); CLOSIN' TIME, A SIMPLE HOUR OPERATION; THE BALLAD OF JOHNNY STROZIER; FUNNY FARM BLUES; TESTIMONY OF A DYING LADY; CATCHER IN THE RYEiBOUND FOR GLORY (by Phil Ochs). Sis Cunningham and Phil Ochs, additional vocals on three

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VOLUME NINE - SUNDOWN by Sis Cunningham 19 contains: SUNDOWN i HOW CAN YOU KEEP ON MOVIN I

EVICTED TENANT; OIL DERRICK BY WEST TULSA; MISTER CONGRESSMAN; NO MORE STORE BOUGHT TEETH; STRANGE THINGS HAPPENIN'; IN THE MERRY MONTH OF MAY (trad.); WILD RIPPLING WATERS (tract.); MY OKLAHOMA HOME; JAY GOULD'S DAUGHTER (trad.); SEND WORD TO THE PILOT; FAYETTE COUNTY; BUT IF I ASK THEM; THE GREAT DUST STORM (Woody Guthrie

VOLUME TEN - PHIL OCHS SINGS FOR BROADSIDE

contains: PLEASURES OF THE HARBOR; THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO HEAR; I'M GONNA SAY IT NOW; CHANGES; ON HER HAND A GOLDEN RING; DAYS OF DECISION; SANTO DOMINGO; UNITED FRUIT; CRUCIFIXION; SMA~L CIRCLE OF FRIENDS, WHAT ARE YOU FIGHTING FOR?; RINGING OF REVOLUTION.

VOLUME ELEVEN - INTERVIEI-JS WITH PHIL OCHS (by the Editors of Broadside)

Phil talks about GREED OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY, HIS FIGHT WITH BOB BYLA~, HIS BITTERNESS AT BEING EXCLUDED FROM THE WOODY GUTHRIE TRIBUTE, GIVING UP ON AMERICA.

"More monologue than interview, this is a fan­tastic analysis of what happened to the good radical music of the '60s. Deeply moving in its intensity and honesty." - Carol Hanisch, Editor of MEETING GROUND.

VOLUME TWELVE - GOD,GUTS & GUNS, JEFF AMPOLSK

contains: SALLY SELLS HER CHARMS FOR MONEY THESE DAYS; BASKETBALL HERO; STARTED OFF LONE­SOME; ALCOHOL HEAVEN; BIG JIM BOURGEOISE AND ANTLERS BAR; JOHNNY CASH'S FATHER; LONG LONG WAY TO CALIFORNIA; MOP FACTORY BLUES; GOD,GUTS & GUNS. (All songs written by Jeff Ampolsk).

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18 158 roadside albums8(1

BROADSIDE BALLADS - VOLUME ONE

contains; BLOWIN' IN THE WIND--The New World Singers: BALLAD OF OLD MONROE--Pete Seeger; JON BROWN--Blind Boy Grunt(Bob Dylan); AS LONG AS THE GRASS SHALL GROW--Peter LaFargej I WILL NOT GO DOWN UNDER THE GROUND--Happy Traum: WILLIAM WORTHY--Phil Ochs; BENNY KID PARET-­Gil Turner; FAUBUS FOLLIES--Peter La Farge; ONLY A HOBO & TALKIN' DEVIL--Blind Boy Grunt (Bob Dylan) ; AIN'T GONNA LET SEGREGATION TURN

US AROUND--Freedom Singers; GO LIMP--Matt McGinn; BIZNESS AIN'T DEAD--New World Singers; THE CIVIL DEFENSE SIGN--Mark Spoelstra; I CAN SEE A NEW DAY--New World Singers.

Bob Dylan Peter La Farge

BROADSIDE BALLADS - VOLUME TWO

All songs sung by Pete Seeger. Contains: LITTLE BOXES (Malvina Reynolds); FARE THEE WELL (Bob Dylan); NEVER TURN BACK (Bertha Gober); THE WIL­LING CONSCRIPT (Tom Paxton); IRA HAYES (Peter LaFarge); WHO KILLED DAVEY MOORE? (Bob Dylan); I AIN'T A-SCARED OF YOUR JAIL (Birmingham Free­dom Song) i WHAT DID YOU LEARN IN SCHOOL TODAY? (Tom Paxton); HARD RAIN'S GONNA FALL (Bob Dylan);

THE THRESHER (Gene Kadish); WILLIAM MOORE THE MAILMAN (Seymore Fisher & Pete Seeger); BUSINESS (Walter Lowenfels & Pete Seeger); SONG OF THE

PUNCH PRESS OPERATOR (Bernie Packer & Pete Seeger) ; THE BALLAD OF LOU MARSH (Phil Ochs) .

12 LP's by BROADSIDE singer-songwriters. 16 years of topical songs from BROADSIDE MAGAZINE. $10 per album. 3 or more, $9 each. All 12, $99. Add 50¢ each for postage, $1.50 each overseas. Check with order to BROADSIDE, P.O.B. 1464, New York NY 10023 USA. No credit cards.

VOLUME THREE - THE BROADSIDE SINGERS

contains: AIN'T THAT GOOD NEWS (Tom Paxton); MORE GOOD MEN GOIN' DOWN (Dave Cohen); TIMES I'VE HAD (Mark Spoelstra); PATHS OF VICTORY (Bob Dylan) i CHRISTINE (Matt McGinn); RAT­TLESNAKE (Peter La Farge); CARRY IT ON (Gil Turner); LINKS ON THE CHAIN (Phil Ochs); CAUSES (Pat Sky); WELCOME, WELCOME EMIGRANTE (Buffy Sainte-Marie); THE FAUCETS ARE DRIP­PING (Malvina Reynolds); FATHER'S GRAVE (Len Chandler); THE SCRUG9S PICKER (Ernie Marrs); PLAINS OF NEBRASKY-O (Eric Andersen) : FREE­DOM IS A CONSTANT STRUGGLE (Freedom Singers),

Eric Andersen Buffy Sainte-Marie

VOLUME FOUR - THE TIME WILL COME

contains: THE TIME WI~L COME--Elaine White; HOLD BACK THE WATERS--Will McLean & Paul Champion; THE MIGRANT'S SONG--Danny Valdez & Augustin Lira; DON'T TALK TO STRANGERS--Chris Gaylord; SHADY ACRES--Blind Girl Grunt (Janis Ian) 1 OSCEOLA--Will McLean & Paul Champion; I'VE BEEN TOLD--Paul Kaplan; FREEDOMS WE'VE BEEN FIGHTING FOR--Tom Parrott & John Mackie­wicz: GENOCIDE--Zachary 2 (Len Chandler); EL PICKET SIGN--Teatro Campesino.

DOVE, oa. 01 • IIod< reJeued dUJiDI nIIy In nme. Square y-y thai bopD .-1DOnItCrium, HI OD • bat beld by Pet. Seeser. lolt IlDpr. performlq .t _ .... tntloD. Wes Houston

Janis Ian Pat Sky

VOLUME FIVE - TIME IS RUNNING OUT

contains: TIME IS RUNNING OUT--Wende Smith; GOOD MORNIN' BROTHER HUDSON--Frederick D. Kirkpatrick; NOT ENOUGH TO LIVE ON--Mike Millius; HEY MR. ROCKEFELLER--Mike Millius; FAREWELL MR. CHARLIE; F.D.Kirkpatrick; BALLAD OF MARTIN LUTHER KING--Michael Strange; BACK STREETS OF DOWNTOWN AUGUSTA--Anne Rom­aine; NOTHIN' BUT HIS BLOOD--F.D.Kirkpatrick; WE SHALL BE FREE TOGETHER--Roland Mousaaj TO BE A KILLER--Wesley Houston; ELIJAH GOOD --Wesley Houston; PINKVILLE HELICOPTER--Tom Parrott; HELL NO I AIN'T GONNA GO--Matthew Jones & Elaine Laron; A PICKAXE AND A STONE --Jimmy Collier.

Jimmy Collier (left)

& Rev. F. D. Kirkpatrick

VOLUME SIX - BROADSIDE REUNION

contains: LONG TIME TROUBLED ROAD--Eric Ander­sen; TRAIN A-TRAVELIN'--Blind Boy Grunt (Bob Dylan) i ONLY TIME WILL TELL--Bobby Donahue; DREADFUL DAY--Blind Boy Grunt, I'M GONNA GET MY BABY OUT OF JAIL--Len Chandler; TATE'S HELL --Will McLean; A VERY CLOSE FRIEND OF MINE-­Richard Black; MOON SONG--Mike Millius; THE TRAIN FOR AUSCHWITZ--Tom Paxton; HUNGER AND COLD--Phil Ochs; CHANGING HANDS--Phil Ochs; DRUMS-- Peter La Farge, THE BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL--Blind Boy Grunt; THE BALLAD OF DONALD WHITE--Blind Boy Gruntj THE BALLAD OF JESSE JAMES--Sis Cunningham, Mike Millius, Wes Houston and friends.

VOLUME SEVEN

contains: LET IT ROAR LIKE A FLOOD; SPIRITS OF THE REVOLUTION; AVIARY SONG; IT'S OUTRAGEOUS, TROUBLESHOOTER (all by Larry Estridge). BALLAD OF MRS. MARTHA MITCl!ELL--Gary Paris; VIETNAM-­Paul Kaplan; WHITE BLOSSOM and LA LUCllA--Danny & Judy Rose-Redwood; BALLAD OF FRANK CLEARWATER and BALLAD OF FRANK WILLS--Ron Turner.

VOLUME EIGHT - .SONG FOR PATTY by Sanuny Walker

Sammy Walker singing his own songs: SONG FOR PATTY; RAGAMUFFIN MINSTREL BOY; MY OLD YEAR BOOK; LITTLE NE~ JERSEY TOWN; I AIN'T GOT NO HOME (by Woody Guthrie); CLOSIN' TIME; A SIMPLE HOUR OPERATION; THE BALLAD OF JOHNNY STROZIER; FUNNY FARM BLUES; TESTIMONY OF A DYING LADY; CATCHER IN THE RYE; BOUND FOR GLORY (by Phil Ochs). Sis Cunningham and Phil Ochs, additional vocals on three songs.

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VOLUME NINE - SUNDOWN by Sis Cunningham 19 contains; SUNDOWNi HOW CAN YOU KEEP ON MOVIN' EVICTED TENANT; OIL DERRICK BY WEST TULSA1 MISTER CONGRESSMAN; NO MORE STORE BOUGHT TEETH; STRANGE THINGS HAPPENIN'; IN THE MERRY MONTH OF MAY (trad.); WILD RIPPLING WATERS (trad.); MY OKLAHOMA HOMEi JAY GOULD'S DAUGHTER (trad.); SEND WORD TO THE PILOT; FAYETTE COUNTY; BUT IF I ASK THEM; THE GREAT DUST STORM (Woody Guthrie

VOLUME TEN - PHIL OCHS SINGS FOR BROADSIDE

contains: PLEASURES OF THE HARBOR; THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO HEAR; I'M GONNA SAY IT NOW; CHANGES, ON HER HAND A GOLDEN RING; DAYS OF DECISION: SANTO DOMINGOj UNITED FRUIT; CRUCIFIXION; SMA~L CIRCLE OF FRIENDS, WHAT ARE YOU FIGHTING FOR?; RINGING OF REVOLUTION.

VOLUME ELEVEN - INTERVIElvS WITH PHIL OCHS (by the Editors of Broadside)

Phil talks about GREED OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY, HIS FIGHT WITH BOB BYLA~, HIS BITTERNESS AT BEING EXCLUDED FROM THE WOODY GUTHRIE TRIBUTE, GIVING UP ON AMERICA.

"More monologue than interview, this is a fan­tastic analysis of what happened to the good radical music of the '60s. Deeply moving in its intensity and honesty." - Carol Hanisch, Editor of MEETING GROUND.

VOLUME TWELVE - GOD,GUTS & GUNS, JEFF AMPOLSK

contains: SALLY SELLS HER CHARMS FOR MONEY THESE DAYS; BASKETBALL HERO; STARTED OFF LONE­SOME; ALCOHOL HEAVEN; BIG JIM BOURGEOISE AND ANTLERS BAR; JOHNNY CASH'S FATHER; LONG LONG WAY TO CALIFORNIA; MOP FACTORY BLUES; GOD,GUTS & GUNS. (All songs written by Jeff Ampolsk).

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NEW YORK, Nov. 1 (UPJ)- Broadside, the National Topical Song Magazine, published for 20 years by veteran folksinger Sis Cunningham and her husband, Gordon Friesen (with the help of innumerable volunteers and hangers-on), is back, with 20 pages of songs, poems, articles, reviews, irreverency and bacchanalia every month.

Launched by Sis and Gordon in 1962, Broad­side played an inOuential and important role in the "folk revival" of the 1960s. A mong its frequent contributors were such writers as Julius Lester, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Malvina Reyn­olds, Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger. Although many of the contributors were unknown at the time outside of a small circle of friends, their songs were published because of the inherent good qualities of the music. Broadside was a vital element in the development of these artists, providing them with an outlet for their music and with a forum for the exchange of ideas.

In recent years the publication had declined to an annual. However, with the cooperation and approval of Sis and Gordon, the magazine is being resuscitated. The announcement that Broadside was returning-as a 20-page month­ly was greeted with great enthusiasm by those who were familiar with its past, and subscriptions and words of support have been received from such diverse corners and Brooklyn, Tokyo, Co­penhagen, S~n Mateo, Far Rockaway, Monsey and Greenwich Village. (Additional subscriptions, however, are still available.)

This issue contains information about Broadside's past and future, including a state­ment of purpose by Sis and Gordon, to which the new staff adheres. It also contains important news about the BROADSIDE BENEFIT CON­CERT coming on December 7th at 8 PM at the Speak Easy, 107 McDougal St., and about the special Phil Ochs issue coming in December.

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