Today in Labor History February 4, 1974: The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) kidnapped Patty Hearst, granddaughter of American publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, in Berkeley, California. One of the SLA’s demands for releasing Hearst was for her family to pay for millions of dollars’ worth of food to be given out free the poor and unhoused of the San Francisco Bay Area. Hearst complied, with various community organizations distributing 100,000 bags of groceries at 16 sites in 4 counties, before violence brought the program to a halt. The violence occurred because the crowds were bigger than expected and workers started throwing boxes of food off of moving trucks. As a captive, Patty Hearst was held in a closet, blindfolded, with her hands tied, raped and threatened repeatedly with death. She was later offered the choice of freedom, or joining the SLA. She chose the latter. Consequently, she was later sentenced to 35 years in prison for her complicity in SLA robberies. After several years in prison, her sentence was commuted by President Carter. President Clinton later pardoned her. Congressional Representative Leo Ryan was murdered by the Jim Jones cult in Guyana several weeks after collecting signatures for her release. Actor John Wayne, of all people, expressed frustration that everyone accepted the idea that Jones had brainwashed hundreds of his followers into mass suicide, but wouldn’t accept that the SLA could have brainwashed a teenage girl. After her release, Hearst went on to become an actress, appearing in several John Waters films, as well as many others.

#PattyHearst #unhoused #JohnWaters #sla #torture #rape #freefood #johnwayne #JimJones #berkeley #homeless #symbioneseliberationarmy

RAMONES ON 45 - Judy Is A Punk

youtu.be/NIbcOYyv7Ck?si=0-iap-fniAY5uGz9



Words & Music: Joey Ramone

Jo Stock (Lead Vocals, Piano, Drums)


Recorded, mixed and mastered by Siv at JAM Music Conversatory in Cochin (IND)



www.ramones-on-45.com
ramoneson45.bandcamp.com




youtube.com/@ramoneson45


#ramones #ramoneson45 #judyisapunk #rocanrol #rocknroll #joeyramone #symbioneseliberationarmy #sla #pattyhearst #patriciahearst #diyrocknroll #ramonesreel #rocknrollreel #heyholetsgo #ro45thesingles

Paul Schrader: “As a screenwriter, you think of your stories as scenes rather than compounded imagery”

In 1972, Paul Schrader (b. 1946), then still a film critic with Pauline Kael as his mentor, wrote an in-depth academic study titled “Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer,” which ended…

FILM TALK

50 anni fa veniva arrestata la nipote di uno degli uomini più ricchi degli Stati Uniti. La sua colpa? Aver partecipato ad atti criminosi, che avevano causato morti, con l'Esercito di Liberazione Simbionese (un gruppo terroristico di estrema sinistra). Che l'avevano rapita l'anno prima. Vittima o carnefice? Certo, a differenza dei complici, passò in carcere solo 22 mesi. La sua storia #PattyHearst (1988) #film directed by Paul Schrader with Natasha Richardson | https://ok.ru/video/1812360202950

@cultura

Today in Labor History May 17, 1974: Cops raided the headquarters of the Symbionese Liberation Army in Los Angeles, killing six members. It was one of the largest police shootouts in U.S. history. The cops fired 5,000 rounds and the SLA fired 4,000. Prior to the shootout, the SLA had committed several bank robberies and murders. However, they were most famous for kidnapping newspaper heiress Patty Hearst. One of the conditions they demanded for her release was for the Hearst family to distribute four hundred million dollars’-worth of food to the Bay Area poor. In actuality, over 100,000 bags of groceries were distributed. The SLA was a Maoist organization that saw itself as an American version of urban guerillas, like the Tupamaros, in Uruguay. By most accounts, the SLA was a group of confused wingnuts. Leader and founding member, Cinque, has been accused of being a police informant.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #SymbioneseLiberationArmy #sla #police #policebrutality #terrorism #PattyHearst #communism #maoism #poverty

Today in Labor History February 4, 1974: The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) kidnapped Patty Hearst, granddaughter of American publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, in Berkeley, California. One of the SLA’s demands for releasing Hearst was for her family to pay for millions of dollars’ worth of food to be given out free the poor and unhoused of the San Francisco Bay Area. The Hearst complied, with various community organizations distributing 100,000 bags of groceries at 16 sites in 4 counties, before violence brought the program to a halt. The violence occurred because the crowds were bigger than expected and workers started throwing boxes of food off of moving trucks. As a captive, Patty Hearst was held in a closet, blindfolded, with her hands tied, raped and threatened repeatedly with death. She was later offered the choice of freedom, or joining the SLA. She chose the latter. Consequently, she was later sentenced to 35 years in prison for her complicity in SLA robberies. After several years in prison, her sentence was commuted by President Carter. President Clinton pardoned her. Congressional Representative Leo Ryan was murdered by the Jim Jones cult in Guyana several weeks after collecting signatures for her release. Actor John Wayne, of all people, expressed frustration that everyone accepted the idea that Jones had brainwashed hundreds of his followers into mass suicide, but wouldn’t accept that the SLA could have brainwashed a teenage girl. After her release, Hearst went on to become an actress, appearing in several John Waters films, as well as many others.

#PattyHearst #unhoused #JohnWaters #sla #torture #rape #freefood #johnwayne #JimJones #berkeley #homeless #symbioneseliberationarmy

The crazy story of how ‘Stockholm syndrome’ got its name: #Movies #Hostage #PattyHearst #Psychology #StockholmSyndrome #Sweeden

“Is there something wrong with me? Why don’t I hate them?”

In 1973, 21-year-old Elisabeth Oldgren posed this question to a psychiatrist in the wake of a robbery in Stockholm, Sweden, in which she and three other bank workers had been held hostage from Aug. 23-28.

As the… https://triplefivelighttherapy.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-crazy-story-of-how-stockholm.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Hostage #Movies #PattyHearst #Psychology #StockholmSyndrome

The crazy story of how ‘Stockholm syndrome’ got its name

#Movies #Hostage #PattyHearst #Psychology #StockholmSyndrome #Sweeden “Is there something wrong with me? Why don’t I hate them?” In 197...

Acabo de escucharme el podcast de #DocumentosRNE sobre #PattyHearst, una millonaria a la que secuestraron y que se acabó uniendo a la filas de una guerrilla revolucionaria, y puff, qué lástima de enfoque paternalista, especialmente por la psicóloga defendiendo la interpretación del síndrome de Estocolmo...
No white shoes after Labor Day, or else....
.
Serial Mom - 1994
.
#SerialMom #Movie #LaborDay #KathleenTurner #PattyHearst #retro #vintage