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Strange Fruit:
🎵 Pouvoir Moteur

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https://open.spotify.com/track/55ABHCQqO2eNKI56gXFhQz

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Yesterday, 7 April , was #BillieHoliday's birthday.

If she were alive today, she'd be disgusted!

#music #musica #musik #musique

#BillieHoliday #StrangeFruit

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-DGY9HvChXk&list=RD-DGY9HvChXk&start_radio=1&pp=ygUdc3RyYW5nZSBmcnVpdCwgYmlsbGllIGhvbGlkYXmgBwE%3D

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Today In Labor History April 7, 1915: Jazz legend, Billie Holiday, was born. She was one of the first to sing Abel Meeropol’s, “Strange Fruit,” and performed the most well-known version of the anti-lynching song. Soon after her first public performance of the song, in 1939, the new Federal Bureau of Narcotics started gunning for her. Harry Anslinger, who was a racist, prohibition zealot, led the assault. He hired a black agent provocateur, Jimmy Fletcher, to befriend her and sell her drugs. And Fletcher conducted her first drug bust.

https://youtu.be/-DGY9HvChXk

#workingclass #LaborHistory #jazz #billieholiday #strangefruit #racism #addiction #drugs #lynching #prison

Today in Labor History March 29, 1951: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. They were executed at Sing Sing in 1953. The Rosenberg’s sons, Michael and Robert Meeropol were adopted by Abel Meeropol, the composer of “Strange Fruit,” (made famous by Billie Holiday). The sons maintained their parents’ innocence. However, after the fall of the Soviet Union, decoded Soviet cables showed that their father had, in fact, collaborated, but that their mother was innocent. They continued to fight for the mother’s pardon, but Obama refused to grant it. The Rosenberg’s sons were among the last students to attend the anarchist Modern School, in Lakewood, New Jersey, before it finally shut its doors in 1958.

The Modern School movement began in 1901, in Barcelona, Spain, when Francisco Ferrer opened his Escuela Moderna. It was one of the very first Spanish schools to be fully secular, co-educational, and open to all students, regardless of class. His ideas were so popular that 40 more Modern Schools opened in Barcelona in just a few years, while 80 other schools adopted his textbooks. In 1909, there were mass protests and a General Strike against Spanish intervention in Morocco. The state responded with a week of terror and repression, during which they slaughtered over 600 workers and falsely executed Ferrer as an instigator of the protests. His execution led to worldwide protests. Modern Schools started to pop up outside of Spain, inspired by his original Escuela Moderna, including 20 in the U.S.

For more on the Modern School movement, read my article: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/30/the-modern-school-movement/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #deathpenalty #execution #rosenbergs #espionage #ussr #soviet #communism #prison #SingSing #obama #strangefruit #anarchism #modernschool #abelmeerepol

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Strange Fruit:
🎵 Monopolar (Tom Furse Remix)

#StrangeFruit

https://strangefruit.bandcamp.com/track/monopolar-hardway-bros-remix-2

https://open.spotify.com/track/7FsylnthYpfFkOnFj8xBT5

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Today in Labor History February 11, 1953: Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower denied all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The government executed them at Sing Sing in 1953. They had been convicted of espionage for the USSR. Their sons, Michael and Robert Meeropol (adopted by Abel Meerepol, composer of the anti-lynching song “Strange Fruit,”), maintained their parents’ innocence. However, after the fall of the Soviet Union, decoded Soviet cables showed that their father had, in fact, collaborated with them. The sons continued to fight for the mother’s pardon, but Obama refused to grant it.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #rosenbergs #espionage #deathpenalty #execution #ussr #soviet #communism #prison #coldwar #obama #eisenhower #StrangeFruit #racism #lynching

Indonesian Dreampop Outfit Strange Fruit Share Video for Restless New Single “Monopolar”

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://post-punk.com/indonesian-dreampop-outfit-strange-fruit-share-video-for-restless-new-single-monopolar/

Nina Simone: Strange Fruit (Live in Antibes, 1965)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-vBga68Xdc

#NinaSimone #StrangeFruit #Music