Tag Archives: anti-war

Anti-War protesters gathered on the Monroe County Courthouse lawn, yesterday. The demonstrators told WFHB they’re trying to build an anti-war coalition, to oppose national escalations against Iran. About two dozen demonstrators waved signs at passing cars and spoke against U.S. antagonism in the greater Middle East. Speakers included veterans, activists, and academics. IU College Democrats’ Bryce Greene was one of …

We open with Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock with “The Star Spangled Banner.” While there are any number of powerful songs we might use tonight, especially from the late 1960s and protests against the Vietnam War, this one seems to me most necessary. A black man, a trained paratrooper of the US Army, on a right-handed electric guitar, playing it upside …

In the late 60s, one man imagined creating a place that would radically undermine the societal values of his time—an alternative space that subverted color lines, gender norms, and war. That man was Fred Rogers and that place was Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. Our opening song is, of course, “Won’t you be my neighbor?” Composed by Fred Rogers and performed by …