Ep 150 - Anti-Folk w/ Aaron J. Leonard
This Wreckage
Sean KB and AP Andy
4.2 • 980 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Historian of the radical left and state repression Aaron J. Leonard discusses his book Folk Singers and the Bureau, a chronicle of the relationship between American musicians, the Communist Party, and the FBI. We also talk about state repression today, human evolution, and Eric Adams' history of backing the blue.
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Songs:
Pete Seeger - Song for Bridges
Woody Guthrie - 1913 Massacre
The Weavers and Howard Fast - The Peekskill Story
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | When up spoke Harry Bridges, us workers got to get wise, our wives and kids will starve to death if we don't get organized. |
| 0:10.0 | Oh, the FBI is worried the bosses they are scared. |
| 0:15.0 | They can't depart six million men they know. |
| 0:19.0 | And we're not going to let them send Harry over the sea. |
| 0:24.3 | There's something like that. |
| 0:25.3 | I'm all over the place. |
| 0:27.6 | We're keeping the seat warm for you, I guess. |
| 0:30.1 | We're holding it down. |
| 0:31.5 | Yeah, Bushwick is a trip. |
| 0:32.9 | Have you ever read about the blackout riots of 1977? |
| 0:37.2 | Oh, sure. |
| 0:38.6 | Not only read about them, but if you go through the neighborhood |
| 0:41.4 | and you know about the riots and the |
| 0:43.6 | burnings you can see the scars of it still on the neighborhood to this day. |
| 0:48.9 | Yeah, it's a trip because one of the things to arise from that was all the cops lived everywhere else |
| 0:56.5 | so they couldn't get into the city you know they're all stuck on Staten Island and |
| 1:01.0 | Long Island. Still to this day. |
| 1:04.0 | Which is, |
| 1:05.0 | Jermeane to Eric Adams, right? |
| 1:08.0 | Which it's like, you know, here are the guys living in New Jersey and he's |
| 1:12.0 | borough president of Brooklyn. |
| 1:13.5 | Yeah, and he's actually pretty typical of cops. |
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