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And the intelligence today is coming from Jon Wiener, who along with Mike Davis has written an incredible book called Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties. Many, many lives were changed, in the most positive way imaginable. I mean, whatever, wagon. You also had when Tom Bradley was our first Black mayor–I remember I interviewed him on his sixtieth birthday for the Los Angeles Times, and he told me that much of his adult life he’d had trouble even checking into motels or hotels. And we have to give Black Lives Matter credit for keeping their eye on the ball, for organizing the right kind of pressure. But the facts is he’s been in Washington for nearly a half-century, and even this year he’s flat-out stated he’s not banning fracking, he’s going to veto M4A should it cross his desk (during a pandemic, mind you), said he will increase funding for policing during a time of major civil unrest brought on in no small party by police brutality and murder, told donors that nothing will fundamentally change, and so forth.

But yes, getting rid of Daryl Gates was a key turning point in the history of Los Angeles. There’s something about it that they just can’t–they’re trying; President Trump is trying to smear it, others are trying to smear it. After Rodney King, when Daryl Gates, the police chief, defended the chokehold killing Black people because they had a “different physiology.” And that took some courage to fire him. This is basically his conception. This is not where he comes from. So could his attorney general, which at one point was Bobby Kennedy. And there’s a lot of forces that are going to tell us, don’t rock the boat, you know, America is a very precarious place right now, and you have to restrain yourself, and we can’t do everything that you want to do. But my goodness, it’s an 800-page book! Dare I say, there was contempt for much of what defines the American middle class, the “arrogant bourgeoisie.”, 60’s was counter-revolutionary cowardice—reification. JW: I think that’s possible. Jon is an avid news buff, reader, historian, and community activist. Not just the big cities where there’s majority minorities, but in all the little towns all over the place. I don’t mean Senator Church, I mean, you know, official, big churches. But when it came–you know, the whole slogan of “the whole world is watching,” the whole idea of a televised movement, that became its weakness, you know. We wish we had it back. Afterword by Tom Hayden and drawings by Jules Feiffer. Part of the thing you understand when you read about the sixties is why it is that the Black Lives Matter movement has been so much more successful, is so much more effective, has so much broader support. But on the other hand, it’s authentic because they’re not in control. But let me begin–and I’ll get you to talk about John Lennon and the FBI, but this new book, Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties. Joshua Scheer is the show’s producer. JW: I think you point to a very important problem that we are going to face after Biden wins.

And it was an article about how wealthy people, particularly Soros being one, who gave a couple of hundred thousand dollars in support of efforts to deal with racism now in America. New episodes posted every Thursday evening. More info at https://www.thenation.com/authors/start-making-sense/. First People put last. plus: “Totally Under Control” is Alex Gibney’s powerful new documentary on Trump’s Covid-19 failures – Ella Taylor comments. Police say there is no known threat to the community.

But I just happened to go to a very good talk by a scholar, Taj Frazier, right now at USC, where I teach. The very model of our society, and the presumption of even people on the left, has been [that] as flawed as it is, we have the model of the good society. Cooption, cooption. But Set the Night on Fire, this excellent book by Mike Davis and Jon Wiener, L.A. in the Sixties, is an incredibly well-documented, beautifully written book that reminds you of the capacity of the establishment of this society–and the establishment comes in a lot of different dresses, you know? His work has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New Republic, and the Los Angeles Times. You’re kind of doing our dirty work. And I remember having more resistance to that from a lot of supposedly well-meaning white people than I did for supporting the Black Panthers, or supporting SNCC. And we had Barack Obama, and we got Donald Trump. And second of all, the most famous radical of the sixties, Angela Davis, was a kind of protégé of Dorothy Healey, and Dorothy was her mentor through all of her struggles at the end of the sixties. By signing up to receive emails, you agree to receive occasional promotional offers for programs that support The Nation's journalism. But it caught my eye: why is John Podesta’s organization, you know, the New America project, why are they getting a big chunk of the money? And I have used Jon’s work a lot in my own teaching and writing, but one in particular is a [book] called Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files. As we have seen, Black Lives Matter is doing a lot better than we did. How come we’re doing worse with this pandemic than just about every other country in the world? Freigegeben / keine Freigabe erforderlich. Jon Wiener . Mr. Not rational to believe that. 10-7-2020, Listen HERE Because you are really two guys who have contributed a great deal. What’s the takeaway? Just as a personal footnote, so a memory of Jean Stein. Challenging empire, challenging racism, challenging male hegemony; you can go down the whole list. And I read this story, and what the story was, really, when you read the fine print, is that money–this huge pledge of money to address this basic question of racial oppression beyond inequality in America–is given to a whole host of groups. By using this website, you consent to our use of cookies. JW: I have to agree. It isn’t done for the media, it’s not done for personal publicity–which, you know, your story of the sixties has a lot of egomaniacs running around. Thanks for doing this. Marxist I understand, but Leninist?

And the problem–I’m not going to put down the sixties rebellion, because it was authentic to many people who were in the military, who were drafted. The book is Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, two brilliant authors, Mike Davis and Jon Wiener. Also: reports on The Resistance. JW: Earlier. In 1969 he ran a really inspiring, grassroots campaign for mayor that had a lot of support on the west side of L.A. Sam Yorty, the incumbent, a very right-wing, pro-war and racist Democrat–Democrat of the old kind of establishment, Democrat of the old school–ran an openly racist campaign relying on turning out the white vote in the San Fernando Valley, and ended up defeating him in 1969. RS: Well, maybe I’m fresh.

In 1964, the conservative real estate forces got a referendum on the ballot to repeal open housing in California, and two-thirds of white people voted in favor of the initiative to repeal public, fair housing in California. It enlisted the federal government in enforcing the right to vote for Black people in the states where they had been denied the right to vote. RS: Yeah. And when I say “incredible,” it’s just the definitive work on what L.A. was like during whatever you want to call it, the Beat movement, the antiwar movement. New episodes posted every Thursday morning. So L.A. has been full of these contradictions.

JW: Absolutely, that was–and let’s remember, Daryl Gates had started out as the driver for the kind of creator of the modern L.A. police department, Bill Parker.

They’re present in almost every chapter of our book, because they set out to attack, undermine, and destroy almost every movement in our book, including some of the more unlikely ones. That’s what made it successful. RS: Well, but what comes next comes because of the failure of Democrats. And then I started questioning it, because after all, who were the Sanders? And that carried–you’re right, they got along well precisely because there was such an open, L.A.-ish environment. But it was also destroyed by seduction, by coopting people. And we certainly would have made greater progress since the Civil War than we have. But come on, this is–I mean, this is–you could devote your whole life to this Verso book. Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Seven. In L.A., this was not the case. There were mass protests at Occupy Wall Street, Obama couldn’t care less, didn’t change anything at all. His guests have included Gail Collins, Jane Mayer, Joan Didion, Gore Vidal, Barbara Ehrenreich, Frank Rich, Seymour Hersh, Amos Oz, Mike Davis, Elmore Leonard, John Dean, Julian Bond, Al Franken, and Terry Gross. The rest is notes, bibliography, index.

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