Dr. Gerald Horne Keynote on YouTube and other, older news…
Daniel Patton and Francis Shor informs us that Dr. Horne’s keynote speech from the 2012 North American Labor History Conference has been posted to YouTube. The camera microphone used to record the keynote is the primary audio source—so there’s a lot of room booming making Dr. Horne difficult to hear at times. But this is a minor complaint compared to not having the recording at all—especially in view of the fact that my plans to record Dr. Horne live about two years ago completely failed because of my lack of availability. So many thanks to Daniel Patton, Francis Shor and anyone else involved in capturing this event.
Watch the Juanita Tate story closely in the Scott Hamilton Kennedy documentary “The Garden”…
Back in 2009 I watched The Garden on Netflix and what stood out for me was portrayal of Los Angeles community activist Juanita Tate in the documentary. It was the first time for me I’ve seen certain grey areas documented about our 21st-century activists—who are usually glosses over as “good guys” in public while hearsay and rumor (from their peers) has been overheard by rubes like me.
Bill Gibron in his 2009 review goes into more detail:
When local activist Juanita Tate defeated the plan, the property ended up in the hands of a mostly immigrant, largely Latino populace that put its desire to farm and cultivate the land to wondrous use. Now, over a decade after the Rodney King riots (which inspired the plan in the first place), Horowitz is back, and with the help of Tate, 9th District City Councilwoman Jan Perry, and a secret city deal, he has regained ownership—and he wants these “squatters” off his property, pronto.
An interesting chapter in the history of schmoozing…
I watched another documentary in 2009, I recall the title on Netflix as “The Champagne Expedition”—but now on Amazon.com and Netflix it is called The Champagne Safari. This George Ungar film chronicles, “…wealthy businessman, glamorous playboy, daring adventurer Charles Eugène Bedaux…”
We as victims of Hollywood anti-history have often seen exaggerated stereotypes of how to “win friends” in the business world—well these stereotypes have to come from somewhere and my assertion is that the life of Charles Bedaux surely is an inspiration for distortion.
On YouTube for the moment: “RAMANUJAN: Letters from an Indian Clerk”
YouTube: “The extraordinary story of how in 1914 the self-taught maths genius SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN was brought from Madras to Trinity College, Cambridge, by the great English pure mathematician GH Hardy, who called their relationship ‘the one truly romantic episode of my life’. A 1987 documentary for the Channel 4 ‘Equinox’ science series. Uploaded from an old VHS tape.” See the book: The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan.