Utah Phillips was a personal friend of some of the members of the PepperSpray Collective stretching back almost 30 years. He recently passed away. Radicalized in part because of his experiences as a soldier in the US war against Korea, he went on to become the most famous member of the International Workers of the World (IWW or "Wobblies") in modern times. He was a great storyteller and singer, and a champion of the class struggle. When we got the call that Utah had passed, we dug around in our library to unearth the piece that leads off this episode of "Indymedia Presents," an interview with Utah Phillips conducted by Kay Powers, in which he gives, among other things, his advice to graduating high school students.
Utah Phillips. Live like him.
http://www.utahphillips.org
Moving from the past to the present, we round off the show with Season 2, Episode 9 of Franlin Lopez's "Its The End Of The World As We Know It, and I Feel Fine." Franklin's highly political pieces amount to a very watchable all out frontal attack on the citadels of capitalism.
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