Penn Magazine November 2017

y rolling his eyes at you as you pass
on the street, as he passes the stuffing
across the Thanksgiving table, interviews
you on national television.
You may live here, die here, you will
be free to do what you want, say what
you want, but we will speak no more
about you.
That is how it has gone all these
years in America, at least since Nov.
23, 1963.But still there are those who
care enough to try a full-court hook
shot with time running out. And they
are heroes whether that shot goes in or
not.
The White Rose students wrote leaflets,
words, and distributed them and
were considered worthy of decapitation
by the government.
And all the way up from Ammon
Hennacy, Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin,
Emma Goldman, so many names unknown
to American school children
and now American adults.
Up through the now-famous resisters
of the 1960s, famous because
of their acts and courage and also because
the American media at that time
was not yet so much a part of the state,
not yet Tass and Isvestia.
But those holes in the wall were
soon filled in.We do not know of the
Plowshares Heroes.We do not know
the names Helen Woodson, Carl Kabat,
Larry Cloud Morgan, Paul Kabat,
Frank Cordaro, John LaForge, Barb
Katt, many, many others.Why aren’t
the blue-collar words of Phil Berrigan
etched below his smiling statue in
Washington, D.C. that tourists can
climb on, sit on, take their photos, and
the poetry of his brother Daniel etched
in stone above the entrance to the Supreme
Court.
There are names, many names, many
faces, as ghostly and invisible as the
dead faces of the brown people in El
Salvador, Guatemala, Iraq, Afghanistan.
Does anyone know the names
Kevin McGuire, Jean Petersen, Darrell
Rupiper, Larry Rosebaugh, Roy
Bourgeois, Megan Rice, Greg Boertje-Obed,
Michael Walli, Brian Terrell?
“This is, uh, Jim Fetzer and I’m pleased
to welcome my special guest today ...”
“This is Kevin Barrett. Welcome to another
week of Truth Jihad Radio on the
American Freedom Radio network.
No.
All are members of the American
White Rose, resisters to the empire,
unknown to their country- men, yet
very real.
“This is, uh, Jim Fetzer and I’m
pleased to welcome my special guest
today ...”
“This is Kevin Barrett. Welcome to
Jim Fetzer and Kevin Barrett write
and speak, making their education, experience,
ideas and opinions available
to as many people as they can.
And no doubt they are also known
and reviled by those in power.They
are a face of the resistance in America,
which does exist, in many forms.The
resistance in America has a long and
storied history from the Wobblies and
Socialists and all those who fought and
died and wrote and spoke and suffered
and sang and shouted, for workers
rights, against war, women’s rights,
for the earth, since the first white man
stepped foot on this land, nudged the
white man standing next to him, and
said that this was now their land.
another week of Truth Jihad Radio
on the American Freedom Radio network.
I’m your host, Kevin Barrett,
trying to get the most important corrections
to the official narrative ...”
They became The Dynamic Duo in
order to pitch a new radio show they
were starting together. Jim makes
sure that I know that he is Batman
and Kevin is Robin.“When you talk
about The Dynamic Duo,” says Jim,
“I was offered five days a week and
invited Kevin to join me in doing the
M/F shows. He said, ‘Well, I guess
that makes me The Boy Wonder,’ and
I frequently made reference to him by
that name.”
Well, okay, but since that time it
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