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Label Confines Open Debate (Atlanta Journal)
Nobody and nothing in the world
has an army of advocates, defenders,
PR people, marketers, spin-meisters and image-polishers like Israel
has. This army isn’t made up just of the government but of Jews and
Judeophiles all over the world, especially in the U.S. It includes the
entire alphabet soup of American Jewish organizations, right-wing
‘media watchdogs’ like CAMERA and Honest Reporting, hundreds of Jewish
newspapers and Web sites, Alan Dershowitz, Binyamin Netanyahu, the
Republican Party, the Christian Right, FOX News and an assortment of
other forces.” In Israel, apparently, nobody thought twice about such a
statement.
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Go Down You Broken Old Man
A song of renewal and hope
There's a Lesson To be Learned in the Trees
When children die, we must be there to turn death around. It was true during the Vietnam war, and it is true today. Resist and refuse.
I'd like to sit down by you
Sun crossing the room, a hoped for romance
The Highway Song (Monoxide Song)
Wrote late high school, linking the environment to love. About commitment and betrayal.
3 Months Ago
A love ends, a new one begins. Between these two events can seem a long time. This is a song about both loss and hope
Bar at Midnight
Sitting at Holger Danske Bodega in Elsinore, Denmark, I wrote this in 1975.
Rippling Sea
A poem I put to music, about the seashore at Miura Hanto.
Tofu Spaghetti
I was asked by an English Speaking Society at a Japanese school to give a lecture on something. I had no idea, as I hate lectures or speechmaking. So I came up with the idea of doing things that go against the grain...like combining tofu and spaghetti.
Pressures of the World
Written as a buffer to insulate us from the pains of growing up. Pretty funny, even now.
The Night is Young
Just a love song, from the early 1980s.
The Revision
About Japanese government's changes to immigration law affecting Korean and other former colonial subjects and their descendents, as well as all 'foreign' residents and continued arbitrary treatment of those who commited civil disobedience in order to make a more just society.
Spider song
A failed attempt at love gave birth to this song about salvaging a friendship.
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SOUNDCLICK
MP3 page
(text and music)
3 books on social issues for langauge teachers
Gender Awareness in Langauge Education
Women Educators and langauge Learners
More links on radical education
Alfie Kohn, Radical Psych, Wise Hat,
Illich, Freire, Goodman, Rethinking Schools,
Radical Teaching, Zinn
Not exactly art or education, Chibi was originally the reason I decided to create a web site. Chibi would probably have liked AJ, a radical, non-violent activist cat from NY.
PAUL'S
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The Ballad
of Chong Gyan-young
A song I wrote in 1988 for Korean and other foreign residents of Japan involved in the civil rights movement here. Melody: Tom Paxton's Rambling Boy
A song I wrote in 1988 for Korean and other foreign residents of Japan involved in the civil rights movement here. Melody: Tom Paxton's Rambling Boy
Go Down You Broken Old Man
A song of renewal and hope
There's a Lesson To be Learned in the Trees
When children die, we must be there to turn death around. It was true during the Vietnam war, and it is true today. Resist and refuse.
I'd like to sit down by you
Sun crossing the room, a hoped for romance
The Highway Song (Monoxide Song)
Wrote late high school, linking the environment to love. About commitment and betrayal.
3 Months Ago
A love ends, a new one begins. Between these two events can seem a long time. This is a song about both loss and hope
Bar at Midnight
Sitting at Holger Danske Bodega in Elsinore, Denmark, I wrote this in 1975.
Rippling Sea
A poem I put to music, about the seashore at Miura Hanto.
Tofu Spaghetti
I was asked by an English Speaking Society at a Japanese school to give a lecture on something. I had no idea, as I hate lectures or speechmaking. So I came up with the idea of doing things that go against the grain...like combining tofu and spaghetti.
Pressures of the World
Written as a buffer to insulate us from the pains of growing up. Pretty funny, even now.
The Night is Young
Just a love song, from the early 1980s.
The Revision
About Japanese government's changes to immigration law affecting Korean and other former colonial subjects and their descendents, as well as all 'foreign' residents and continued arbitrary treatment of those who commited civil disobedience in order to make a more just society.
Spider song
A failed attempt at love gave birth to this song about salvaging a friendship.