[Redbadbear] Re: [R-G] Robeson / Mine-Mill / Peace Arch Commemoration -- ExcellentCD

[William Mandel]

You'll find a lot of Robeson in my autobiography, described in the
signature tag below. I was in the bodyguard at the 1949 Peekskill Riot
against him, where we literally stopped fascism for that period of
history. The next year I broke the blacklist against him by convincing
the party running me for Congress to change our closing rally to a paid
Robeson concert. My father said in later years that I cried in
introducing Robeson. I remember best that glorious smile at the end,
backstage, when he extended his hand and said: "Thanks, Bill." In the
following presidential election we traveled together to a rally/concert
in the adjacent state, in a car with four Harlem hoods who had offered
him unconditional protection. With them, he, a master of our language
and others, spoke Black English. Incidentally, I still have his record
of Chinese songs on a 78 rpm platter.
							William Mandel

Macdonald Stainsby wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hunter Gray" <hunterbadbear at earthlink.net>
> 
 I have said
> this before, but as the witchhunts thicken from day to day, it is of immediate
> need for activists of my generation (I am 26 years old) to familiarise
> themselves with the man in Paul Robeson. His dignity in defiance of the butchers
> is an inspiration for those of us who, in the next few years, will face a
> military tribunal or some such thing if our work is successful.
> 
> The CD Hunter speaks of is wonderful, Robeson even sings the Chinese National
> Anthem - partly in Chinese.
> 
> Macdonald
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My autobiography, SAYING NO TO POWER (Creative Arts, Berkeley, 1999), 
was written for the general reader. However, if you teach in the social
sciences consider it for student reading. It is a history of how the
American 
people fought to defend and expand its rights in my lifetime, employing 
the form of the life story of one who was involved in most serious 
movements: labor, student, peace with the USSR, civil rights South and
North, civil 
liberties (I seriously damaged the Senate Internal Security Committee, 
the McCarthy Committee, and the House Un-American Activities Committee 
with spectacular testimonies that may be heard/seen on my website,
http://www.billmandel.net ), the RADIO OF DISSENT (37 YEARS ON
PACIFICA), 
with very extensive information on its history) and the feminist
movement, 
although I am male. The book  contains some fifty pages on my late wife, 
Tanya, appearing appropriately throughout the book. They may be found in 
the index under Mandel, Tanya. My activities began in 1927. I am 84. The
book 
is available through all normal sources. If you want an autographed
copy, 
send me $23 at 4466 View Pl., Apt. 106, Oakland, CA. 94611
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