Woke up this morning and I got myself a beer...

Released February 9, 1970, Morrison Hotel is, in my opinion, the best album The Doors ever made. No matter what, it is certainly an incredible piece of rock and roll music...."the future's uncertain and the end is always near...."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gwy3P6ub2s

Goodbye to all That

On February 9, 1970, the NYC underground paper RAT published an all-women's issue, the result of a takeover of the paper by is female staff and their supporters.  The highlight of the issue--for its militant separatism, right-on targeting of male chauvinism in the counterculture, and its fiery use of language and imagery was the piece attributed to Robin Morgan titled "Goodbye to all That."  Here is a link to the piece:

http://blog.fair-use.org/2007/09/29/goodbye-to-all-that-by-robin-morgan-1970/

The importance of this piece to the early feminist movement of the late 1960s and the 1970s is reflected in its availability online.  I discuss it in my book on the Weather Underground and in Daydream Sunset.

Happy Birthday Bob Marley...

February 6th is Bob Marely's Birthday.  Enjoy this clip from Boston 1978.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlA2mxCvrHQ

Winter Soldier Investigation January 31 - February 2, 1971

http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Winter_Soldier/WS_entry.html

Jazz Man, That's Where I'm At_ Pharoah Sanders Black Unity Album

http://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2017/01/jazz-corner-presents-pharoah-sanders.html

The Seattle Liberation Front

a short lived but fiery organization

http://www.historylink.org/File/2131

https://radsearem.wordpress.com/2014/04/16/april-16-1970-the-birth-of-the-seattle-seven/

Bombings in Puerto Rico and Manhattan, January 1975

On January 11, 1975, Cuban exile (gusanos) CIA-paid terrorists killed two young Peurto Rican Independentistas and maimed a child in a restaurant in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.  A couple weeks later, the FALN set off a bomb in a tavern in the Wall Street district of Manhattan in response.  They issued a communique to go with the attack.  Here is the link:
http://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC22_scans/22.defense.armed.struggle.1975.pdf