Ho Chi Minh

Hanoi Turns 1,000 With Vietnam's Biggest-Ever Parade (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ho Chi Minh, Hanoi 1000th Birthday, Vietnam War, Vietnam, Hanoi, Slidepollajax, Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, Vietnam Celebration, President Ho Chi Minh, World News

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Draped in red Communist banners and propaganda slogans, Vietnam's capital turned 1,000 years old Sunday in an extravagant ceremo...

Read Whole Story

Memorial for Social Activist Betty Millard (1911-2010)

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wasp, Ho Chi Minh, Communism, White House, Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Social Activism, French, Chicago, Barnard College, American Left, Social Action, Phil Donahue, Earl Robinson, Thought Leaders, Hudson River, Greenwich Village, Rhinebeck, Democratic Party, Guyana, Highland Park, Global Citizens, Duchess County, Social Justice, Fundamentalists Anonymous, Stanford Luce, Mandarin Chinese, The Stewardship Report, Vow of Poverty, Fidel Castro, Sexuality, Salvador Allende, Mccarthy Era, Cheddi Jagan, New Hampshire, French Resistance, Spanish Civil War, North Star Fund, Betty Millard, Manila, The New Masses, Fundamentalist Mindset, University of Chicago, Janet Jagan, Poughkeepsie, Tikkun Olam, New York City, Chinese Revolution, Barack Obama, Zhou Enlai, Gay and Lesbian, Latin America Today, White Mountains, Marxism, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, New York Times, Meat Packing District, Suffragette Movement, Mao Zedong, New York News
Jim Luce

Betty Millard of Chicago, a long-time social activist had danced with Zhou Enlai after the Chinese Revolution and then was called to testify as a host...

Read Post

Pete Seeger, "Folk Music" and the Left

Jesse Larner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fellow Travelers, James Lileks, Banjo, Joseph Stalin, Barbarossa, Ron Radosh, Pete Seeger, March on Washington, Folk Music, Woody Guthrie, Nicaragua, Bob Dylan, Mark Steyn, Kingston Trio, World War Two, Yalta, Billy Bragg, Communism, Doc Watson, Mao Zedong, Guitar, Leninism, Joan Baez, Franklin Roosevelt, Kim Il-Sung, Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro, Medgar Evers, Amy Goodman, Entertainment News
Jesse Larner

As someone on the left who loves folk music, I understand that I'm supposed to feel mystically uplifted by the dean of activist folkies. But I never could stand Pete.

Read Post