African Liberation Day, May 27, 1977

Washington DC....
https://www.flickr.com/photos/washington_area_spark/8301684577/in/album-72157632326971522/

Clash Album released April 8, 1977

The first album by The Clash was released in 1977 in the UK on this day.  One hundred thousand were imported into the US and sold out.  Eventually a US version was released.

Some Things Only Get Worse--Immigration chronicles

This is from the underground newspaper the Berkeley Barb January 1977.....the last sentence says a lot..."Allow looser immigration during economic booms....when recession hits, tighten up...and excess workers have to be disposed of."

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B01dj5QyuLDeMjE2TU5RYzBUSlhwNV9FNTh4MEFHY1NqUURB

Anita Bryant, Gay Rights and Dade County, Florida 1977

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB5H--b3Xho&feature=youtu.be

The Music Never Stopped

Cornell '77 is a book about the Grateful Dead by a fan, but it is not just for fans.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/21/the-music-never-stopped/

here's a link to a recording of the show  (may go dead after official CD is released)

https://archive.org/details/gd1977-05-08.111493.mtx.seamons.sbeok.flac16

The Italian Spring of 1977

"On March 11, 1977, in the city the Italian Communist Party had governed since 1945, the carabinieri shot an unarmed medical student, Francesco Lorusso, 25, during an autonomist demonstration.  Pitched battles ensued between students and the police, with barricaded streets and Molotov cocktails used on one side, and tear gas and rubber bullets on the other side. Tanks rumbled down Via Rizzoli. French intellectuals Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Felix Guattari, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others denounced the state’s repressive methods. In September, student groups forced the municipal government to sponsor a three-day, national conference against repression in the city, with free food and use of the sports stadium made available to the 100,000 people who came to Bologna."

I cover the Spring of 1977 throughout Italy in my book Daydream Sunset.  It was a revolutionary moment that freaked out everyone to its political right, including the Italian Communist Party.  The quote above is from the article linked to below.  Make sure you check out some of the links at the bottom of the linked article.....

http://www.iitaly.org/magazine/focus/life-people/article/bologna-1977

Elvis Costello on SNL in 1977

Elvis Costello played Saturday Night Live in place of the Sex Pistols, who were having trouble getting visas.  He was allowed to play on the condition he not play the song "Radio, Radio," which criticizes the industry.  So, he played "Radio Radio."

Anarchy in the UK

Recorded October 17, 1976.....Get off your ass!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TZ_9-rbslo

Deutscher Herbst/German Autumn--1977

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Autumn

http://www.kinoeye.org/02/20/goldsmith20.php