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10 Interconnections Between the Beach Boys and Jan & Dean
Tom Lohr
Tom Lohr is a fan of surf music. He has seen the Beach Boys 12 times in concert. He has also caught three Jan and Dean concerts.
Think the Beach Boys and Jan & Dean sound alike? There is a reason. While they took different trajectories to get there, both are pioneers of the California sound. The connections between the two groups are many. Here are ten of them.
1. They Listened to Each Other's Music and It Influenced Their Own Recordings
Jan and Dean began their music careers in 1958. The duo embraced the music of the era and started out as Doo-wop singers. The bomps and dips in "Jennie Lee," "Baby Talk," and other early hits clearly reflected the sound of the day. The Beach Boys sprang onto the scene in 1961. Their very first recording, "Surfin'," included some bomps and dips of their own. Interviews with members of the Beach Boys include them admitting that they listened to Jan and Dean and it influenced their early recordings.
The Beach Boys' popularity quickly surpassed that of Jan and Dean with the former's introduction of surfing related songs. With a dwindling Doo-wop fan base, Jan and Dean followed the Beach Boys' lead and began recording surf and car song, extending their careers. While the Beach Boys' began by emulating Jan and Dean, the duo ended their run as icons of the California sound pioneered by the Beach Boys.
2. They Had Some Early Personnel Changes
The Beach Boys consisted of three brothers, Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love and a school pal of Brian's named Al Jardine. After their first song "Surfin'" was released and the group was paid, Al Jardine did not see much of a future in it and went off to college. He was replaced by the Wilsons' neighbor David Marks. Marks sings and plays on the first couple of Beach Boy albums. He later had a falling out with the Wilson boys' father/manager and quit. He was replaced by original member Al Jardine, who, after the wild success of the band, decided it wasn't such a bad gig after all.
Jan and Dean started out as a few friends messing around in Jan's garage. As Jan was peddling their first song "Jennie Lee," Dean decided get his military service out of the way and joined the army reserves and went off to do his duty. The song "Jennie Lee" became a hit, and without Dean, Jan recruited his friend Arnie Ginsburg to form a duo. When "Jennie Lee" hit the record stores, it had Jan and Arnie on the label. Arnie soon became disillusioned with the music business and decided to pursue a different line of work. He was replaced with Dean, who had just finished his military service.
3. They Used Each Other's Music
Jan and Dean used several Beach Boys standards on a few of their albums. They covered "Surfin'," Surfin' Safari," "Little Deuce Coup," and others. The Beach Boys occasionally performed Jan and Dean's only number one record "Surf City" in a few concerts, and "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena" often. The latter being included on their first live album.
Jan and Dean (1964)
4. They Helped Each Other's Careers
Very early in the Beach Boys' careers, they opened for Jan and Dean a few times. Once the fab five of surf music had a string of hits, they became headliners. Jan and Dean's music came to an abrupt end when Jan was seriously injured in a car crash that left him brain damaged.
The 1970s were not kind to the Beach Boys. They struggled to maintain their status as a legitimate rock band. Then, their former record company released a double album of their hits called Endless Summer. It was a huge success and suddenly the Beach Boys became in vogue again by becoming mostly a nostalgia group. In the late 70s, Jan and Dean were attempting to make a comeback as a nostalgia group themselves, riding the wave of a recent made for TV movie about their lives. The comeback started as a two song intermission act at stadium sized, sold out Beach Boys' concerts.
5. They Helped Each Other Make Hit Records
Jan and Dean's only number one record was "Surf City." The song was given to them by Beach Boys band leader Brian Wilson. He was working on a different surf song called "Surfin' USA" and didn't have time for both. Not only did Wilson write most of "Surf City," he sang on the recording as well. He is not listed in any credits for the actual recording because the groups were employed by different record companies and singing for the competition was a no-no.
While they worked for different record labels, both recorded their music in the same studio complex. The Beach Boys, pressured for a new album by their label, were in the studio making the Beach Boys' Party! album. The LP was basically designed to be a throwaway with no hits on it. It was the Beach Boys goofing off and singing some rock and roll standards. Down the hall Jan and Dean were recording and Dean took a break and decided to see what the Beach Boys were up to. They asked him to join them and what he wanted to sing. Dean decided on a silly song called "Barbara Ann." The falsetto in that piece is a combination of Brian Wilson and Dean Torrence singing the high parts together. Again, this was kept secret for decades due to record label rules. But at the end of the long version of "Barbara Ann," you can hear the group say "thanks Dean." Also, "Barbara Ann" became a huge hit for the Beach Boys on what was supposed to be a dud of an album.
6. Both Had Movies Made About Their Lives
The Beach Boys have had two TV movies made about their storied career. The first, Summer Dreams first aired in 1990 and is a mediocre flick. The Beach Boys: an American Family graced the airwaves in 2000 and was a much slicker production, and it, unlike the first film, used actual Beach Boys' recordings instead of a clone band performing the soundtrack. There was also a theatrical release that was Brian Wilson centric called Love and Mercy in theaters in 2014.
Jan and Dean were the subject of the TV biopic aptly titled Deadman's Curve. The movie chronicles the duo's rise to fame and the sudden end of their career when Jan crashed his corvette and suffered severe brain trauma in 1966. The movie also details Jan's dramatic fight against his disability to be able to perform again. This inspirational film is well worth watching. It used to be on Youtube, perhaps it still is.
Jan Berry's wrecked corvette
7. Both Had Legal Issues With Their Records
Did you ever think that "Surfin' USA" sounded a lot like Chuck Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen." Chuck did too, and he was not happy about the group taking his song, adding surf lyrics and calling it their own. Chuck took them to court and won. Most of the proceeds from the Beach Boys' first super hit ended up in Chuck Berry's bank account.
Jan and Dean's issue was not about their music, but the cover art on the Jan and Dean Meet Batman album. They were huge Batman fans and the series was in its first run on TV at the time. Jan and Dean did a part comedy/part serious music album with all Batman related lyrics. The cover of the early issues of that album feature the comic book depictions of the dynamic duo just like the comic books. The producers of the TV show and comics were not pleased that they used their hero's images without permission. Subsequent releases of the album were sans Batman and Robin.
The Batman album with the dynamic duo
8. Both were in the T.A.M.I Show
TheT.A.M.I Show stood for Teenage Awards Music International. It was 60s hallmark film of many of the popular music groups of the day performing live in 1964. Performances included the Rolling Stones, Leslie Gore, and many others. The Beach Boys performed several of their hits before a screaming audience. The movie also had hosts; none other than Jan and Dean, who also performed two of their hits.
The Batman album sans the caped crusaders
9. Both Groups Had Musical Geniuses
It is no secret that Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys was considered to be a musical genius in his day. He was a superb music composer and arranger. Even today he is considered one of the best in the history of rock and roll.
Where Brian lacked in skills was in studio equipment and management. He ended up becoming adept in the studio, learning from one of the best studio guys of the era: Jan Berry of Jan and Dean.
10. Cover Art Kept Them Close
After Jan's career ending crash, Dean took up art design and produced numerous album covers. He won a Grammy for his album cover for the group Pollution in 1972. Dean was also tapped to design numerous Beach Boys album covers, including 15 Big Ones which is adorned with Dean's neonesque "The Beach Boys" which has become their trademark logo for decades.
Dean Torrence's Grammy winning album cover
One Glaring Difference
While some people understandingly mistake one group's music for another, they should be forgiven for their case of musical mistaken identity. Not only were the Beach Boys and Jan and Dean friends, the cross pollination of their careers serves to muddle the difference between the groups. Both were iconic musical influences in the mid 60s and defined the genre of the California sound.
There is, however, one item that markedly separates the two groups; a travesty that cannot be explained, but is easily corrected: the Beach Boys are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Jan and Dean are not
Should Jan and Dean be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Did the Beach Boys ever back up Jan and Dean in studio recordings?
Not as an entire group. As far as I know, only Brian sang on a few Jan and Dean recordings.
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Very interesting site! I grew up in the 60's with Jan & Dean and the Beach Boys. Both were a huge influence on me both musically and in my personality style development. I was very much into the "California Sound". My feet might have been in the Southeast, but my heart was on the West Coast.
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jan and dean songs populated the early to mid 60s radio play just as much as the other Hall of Fame artists
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The Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Jeff Kaufmann slammed the state's lone congressional Democrat, Rep. Cindy Axne (D-IA), for campaigning with so-called "Squad" member Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) at an event.
"Cindy Axne is finally showing her true colors and campaigning with radical Squad member Ayanna Pressley, a leader in the national Defund the Police movement," Kaufmann said in a statement ahead of a virtual town hall event in Polk County, Iowa, where Pressley is set to headline, joined by Axne.
Squad members U.S. Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) listen during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol on July 15, 2019, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images)
"Congresswoman Cindy Axne will also make remarks and help to inspire even more women to run for office and become involved in campaigns," the event website said.
"For years now, Axne has tried to fool Iowans into believing she is a moderate. However, Iowans know the Democrat Party has changed," the Republican chairman added. "There are no moderates left, just ones who lie about their agenda and ones who are honest about their hatred for our country and its values. Iowans deserve to know Pressley's record."
Chairman Jeff Kaufmann speaking at the Iowa Republican Party's 2015 Lincoln Dinner at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, Iowa. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)
"Pressley is an avid supporter of defunding our police, she has called for rioters to target GOP officials, and wants to 'restructure' our country. None of these are Iowa values, yet Cindy Axne will campaign with her and use the money to continue her deceptive lies," he concluded.
However, this event would not be the first time Axne has been aligned with "squad" members.
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First printing of the first proclamation of Thanksgiving as a national holiday. This original broadside produced in Massachusetts is formatted in two halves, the top being Governor John A. Andrew's announcement of Lincoln's Proclamation dated July 27, 1863, and the bottom being Lincoln's actual proclamation dated July 15, 1863, announcing that August 6 shall be set aside as a National Day of Thanksgiving. Though the exact printing date is unknown, it can be assumed that it was printed within the week following July 27.
Thanksgiving was observed as a holiday since colonial times and each state would set aside its own day for celebration. This proclamation was the first time that the holiday would be celebrated on a set day nationwide, making it the first observed Thanksgiving as a national holiday.
Later the same year, on October 3, 1863, Lincoln made a second proclamation again announcing Thanksgiving as a holiday, but this time in November, a date closer to the time most states had been celebrating it in the past. This earlier proclamation is actually the first time Thanksgiving was given national status, but because the second proclamation was widely accepted, the knowledge of this earlier one has been somewhat forgotten, making this piece a rare and important document in the annals of American history.
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Governance expert, Professor Baffour Agyeman-Duah has taken a swipe at the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) for its relentless resistance against the compilation of the New Voters' Register.
According to him, the party is only using the cost involved in the new acquisition of the new machines and the time constraint to cover-up their unhappiness with the current administration for removing Charlotte Osei from office.
President Akufo-Addo removed Charlotte Osei and her two deputies from office in 2018 for "misbehaviour and incompetence" on the recommendation of a committee set up by the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo. The committee had been tasked to investigate alleged acts of corruption, misconduct and misbehaviour by the three commissioners.
The NDC, in reaction to the removal insisted that the move was politically motivated.
But speaking to ABC News, a former United Nations Senior Government Advisor, Baffour Agyeman-Duah posited that the arguments being raised by the NDC against the compilation of a new voters' register are lame and appear to be sheer excuses aimed at sabotaging the Electoral Commission.
"Mind you, I believe the NDC has never been happy with how the previous electoral commission chairperson, Charlotte Osei was replaced so I think all these have been packed in what is going on. Even though we are not seeing them, they are picking on all kinds of excuses, it's too costly, there is only one vendor, the time is not conspicuous and all kinds of lame excuses in my view. None of them has mentioned this as part of their grievances and they will not because it won't fly but I'm talking about what may be fueling their actions," he said.
The controversy surrounding the compilation of a new register has been topical since last year following accusations by some political parties and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) that the Electoral Commission (EC) has not built the needed consensus for compiling the new voters' roll.
The coalition spearheading the resistance has through various demonstrations registered their position on the EC's decision.
The EC has however remained resolute in its position. It says the compilation of the new electoral roll will commence on April 18, 2020.
When asked if the seeming political tension due to the lack of consensus toward the exercise had the potential of fuelling electoral violence, Mr Agyeman-Duah said the political parties involved will be 'guided' by a common interest of 'ensuring the sustenance of peace in the country".
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 Bill Holman, saxophoniste et arrangeur de jazz américain
 Hans Bruggeman (mort le ), politicien néerlandais
 Iulian Mincu (mort le ), homme politique roumain
 Jacques Guerrier de Dumast, banquier français
 Kay Kendall (morte le ), actrice britannique
 Marcel Esdras (mort le ), homme politique français
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Home > IV Online magazine > 2010 > IV425 - June 2010 > "When injustice becomes the law, resistance is a duty!"
"When injustice becomes the law, resistance is a duty!"
Wednesday 30 June 2010, by Andreas Sartzekis , Tassos Anastassiadis
The above sentence, inscribed on the common banner of DOE and OLME, the two trade unions of primary and secondary education, in a demonstration on May 12, summarizes very well both the analysis of the situation and the only road which is left to workers faced with the social catastrophe inflicted by the PASOK government.
This resistance seems obvious, and the enormous mobilizations of the past weeks could confirm it, but we should not have any illusions: it is a difficult battle that we are engaged in, the outcome of which will mainly depend on the ability of the trade-union and political left to offer credible perspectives to the population, split between mass combativeness and the risk of giving in to discouragement faced with the size of the obstacles, and on the ability of the European working class to counter this offensive of European capital.
In what is already now a race between classes, the brutal aggravation of the crisis in Greece presents a series of extremely opposite paradoxes quite contradictory with each other. On the one hand we can indeed say, like Alain Krivine on May 15 in Athens, that "what is happening in Greece, which will lead to situations of distress for millions of people, is from a certain point of view positive for all European revolutionaries, because from a certain point of view, you (the Greeks) are in the forefront of what all of us will experience in Europe in the coming months and years (…) and because today, the majority of people are suddenly becoming aware that the European Union, far from being the saviour of the peoples, is a machine for oppressing and exploiting them." But on the other hand, one should not underestimate the significance of the remarks of Prime Minister Papandreou, stressing that the crisis represents a great opportunity to change Greek society: "We must now ensure that our country has solid foundations for a better future. We have to speak openly and honestly about the problems for which we Greeks are responsible." Now, Papandreou could in this way concentrate popular anger on a real cause, though obviously minor in the crisis that is taking place: the tax evasion in which various rich sections of society have been engaged for years has led over the last few days to big revelations in the press and on TV: after hearing about doctors, we have been promised that in the coming days we will know the names of tax-dodging sportsmen, lawyers and show business people, and Papandreou did not hesitate to sacrifice one of his ministers, whose husband, a popular singer, had the unfortunate idea of owing 5.5 million euros to the tax office! This challenging of practices that are intolerable to impoverished workers is of course important, but it in no way represents an answer to the deep roots of the crisis and is an attempt to send a population which is starting to take its problems in hand back to playing the role of passive spectator!
Measures that take us back to the Middle Ages
Let us recall [1] that in February and March, workers had already been hit by "packages" of measures. The worst was to come: pressured by speculation that was free and unrestricted (as competition is in the European Constitution…), the government negotiated with the European Union (EU), the European Central Bank (ECB) and the IMF a loan of 110 billion euros which was agreed in principle at the beginning of May. The details are well-known:
a rate of interest of almost 5 per cent: the countries of the EU which lend money themselves borrow at a rate of 3 per cent from the banks, which alone have the right to borrow from the ECB at a rate of one per cent! As the French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde shamelessly admitted, this solidarity of the countries of the eurozone will earn France 150 million euros a year.
putting all the sectors of the Greek economy under the control of the EU-ECB-IMF "troika": this real political dispossession of a sovereign state reinforces the anger of a population which does not hesitate to use the word "junta", knowing full well what it is saying, having experienced from 1967 to 1974 a military junta backed and kept in place by the United States. It is however important not to forget that the Greek employers, who are big investors in the countries of the Balkans and of whom certain sectors (ship-owners) are world leaders, takes its full share of this plan, which it wishes to make harsher just as much as the IMF does!
The measures, voted by the Parliament on May 6, result from the memorandum set out by the troika: they sharply aggravate the preceding packages and correspond to a search for savings of the order of 30 billion euros...exclusively on the back of the workers. Among those which have already been implemented: an immediate 15 per cent wage cut (which takes the form, in the civil service, of the suppression of the thirteenth and fourteenth months); the same for pensions, with a maximum payment of 800 euros a month 800 euros maximum; new tax increases (with an increase in VAT, with an increase in two months from 19 to 23 per cent on certain products); a virtual freeze on recruitment in the public sector (one worker hired for every five who leave)… But this is only a part of the picture: since these measures were adopted a project for the reform of the pension system is under discussion (lengthening of the duration of contributions, towards 40 years of instalments, which means an increase of between 2 and 7 years compared to the existing situation, level of pension calculated on the total wages of a working life and no longer on the last years…) and other attacks are coming: in June, a draft law on the labour code, which is too generous in the eyes of the EU, the IMF… and SEV, the Greek employers' organization. Already, it has been made possible to sack employees of the state education system, but what the IMF in particular demands, as announced by its very socialist president, is more flexibility in order to"offer" more competition and possibilities of removing the current limits on sackings (even though it has been decided to raise from 2 to 4 per cent the monthly percentage of dismissals that are authorised in a company, that is not enough!). In the same way, whatever his entourage says, the same Strauss-Kahn insists that the wage measures inflicted on the public sector should also apply to the private sector, and the government wants to be able to reduce the minimum wage from 740 to 592 euros! The memorandum signed by the PASOK government thus envisages the implementation of about thirty measures between now and 2012: among them, a reduction of 500 million euros in the financing of the unemployment agency, in a situation where the unemployment figures, officially around 10 per cent, unofficially 18 per cent, will rise dramatically; a three-year wage freeze in both private and public sectors, wages that are flexible, taking account of productivity, lower payment for overtime, a rise in the prices of public services, not forgetting that they are going to be privatized… The character of these measures is recognized by the Prime Minister himself: hard, unjust measures for workers who are not responsible for the crisis… but for Papandreou it is the only possible way! To transform social skills into a field of ruins, that is the only possible policy for the leader of PASOK!
However, even economists who are not necessarily on the left question the effectiveness of such a plan: Joseph Stiglitz underlines this in Le Monde of May 24: "Europe needs solidarity, empathy. Not an austerity which will make unemployment shoot up and lead to a depression. (…) Today, these countries (Spain, Greece) will only recover if European growth returns. That is why it is necessary to support the economy by investing and not cripple it by austerity programmes." And the recession is calculated (by the troika and the IMF) for this year at about 4 per cent, and the same for 2011… proof, if it was necessary, that what European bourgeoisie wants, in the case of Greece, is not a way out of the crisis, but a sharply increased superexploitation of workers, which will become the European social model…
Under these conditions, one of the first preoccupations of the population is of course unemployment, made worse by the fact that one worker in four is not declared by his or her employer. Poverty, already present in the big cities and in some regions, will rapidly increase, but it is in particular for young people (and the elderly) that the prospects are quite simply terrifying: whereas the unemployment rate for those under 24 is 32 per cent, the future holds at best a job paid at less than 600 euros a month in the first two years, a prospect of retirement calculated on the wages of their entire life. Meanwhile, the annual salary of Strauss Kahn is 300,000 euros… That explains the strength of popular anger!
Massive mobilisations
Of course, it is interesting to examine the various surveys which show a contrasted, even contradictory image of the state of mind of the population in the face of a degradation of their conditions of existence on a scale that they had never experienced: the surveys show both the determination to protest and the feeling of the difficulty of the task, made worse in Greece by the neglect of previous governments: this last point is important, it explains why PASOK, shaken, does not collapse. But that is not what is most important: in four months, Greece has experienced four one-day general strikes, in a particular framework of mobilization, without forgetting the very combative demonstrations of particular sectors, or those demonstrations called at a day's notice. Indeed, whereas the leaderships of GSEE (the confederation of private sector workers) and ADEDY (the federation of public sector workers), in both of which PASOK is in the majority, have every reason not to mobilize against "their" government, they had no choice but to give in to the pressure exerted since December by the trade-union left. Admittedly, after the big strikes of February 24 and March 11, they have "played for time", but with the strike of May 5, which immobilized the country, we saw hundreds of thousands of demonstrators (the figure was given of 200,000 in Athens). It was the biggest workers' demonstration since the fall of the dictatorship, in 1974, and comparable to the huge demonstration which in 2001 forced PASOK to retreat on its projected law on pensions). It will represent a key date in the history of the Greek workers' movement. Such an open and massive outpouring of anger had seldom been seen; an anger that directly challenged the capitalist system and its agents: no question of paying for "their" crisis, no to the PASOK-EU-IMF-ECB measures, that was the tone of the demonstrations. In Athens, the gigantic demonstration was marked by two facts: on the one hand, the tragic death of three employees of the Marfin Bank, owned by one of the most powerful Greek employers, because of the attitude of the employers and the government, which was denounced by the Federation of bank workers (OTOE) and of the criminal violence of those who threw Molotov cocktails in spite of the visible presence of a score of employees in the building. This act, very strongly denounced, in particular by many anarchist groups, led on the one hand to an incredible level of police violence that was a worrying indication of the state of bourgeois democracy, and was of course exploited by the government and the owner of the bank, obviously putting brakes on the possibility of a rapid extension of the mobilizations. Because on the other hand, we saw thousands of demonstrators, young and old, of all political tendencies, attacking the Parliament as the symbolic site where the pro-capitalist measures had been adopted, openly confronting the "forces of order". And the following day, in spite of the emotion caused by the death of the three workers, more than 10,000 demonstrators assembled in front of the Parliament when the first section of the terrible measures ordered by the troika was being adopted.
On May 20, a new general strike took place, also well supported, even though the demonstrations, while massive, were not as big as on May 5.
What will happen now? It is difficult to see, but at present, we should note the following elements:
the trade-union leaderships linked to PASOK have been forced to follow the movement and to call for mobilizations. Once again, it has been demonstrated that these bureaucrats know how to adapt and use left language. Let us listen to the president of GSEE, Giannis Panagopoulos: "the IMF will not stop asking for sacrifices from the working class. Its recipes are catastrophic. The government must firmly reject them. In Greece, we cannot say that in fact the wages of the private sector create a problem of competitiveness of the economy…", and the leadership of GSEE can chant, as on May 1, that this it is not up to the workers to pay for "their" crisis! However, it is clear that it is trying to temporize: a month and a half between the general strike in March and the one on May 5, then they had to speed things up very quickly. And with the strike of May 20, it is to be feared that the tactics are from now on to call a series of one-day strikes, well spaced out, which we know will end up by not being supported.
The division between workers is fostered by the trade-union fraction of the KKE (with its trade-union front PAME), which systematically invites issues calls to demonstrate elsewhere and often at different times from the majority of the unions. Nevertheless, this tactic started to be countered on the ground on May 5, where the different contingents found themselves side by side, with no animosity on either side. This was a bad example in the eyes of the Stalinist leadership, which made a call on May 20 to demonstrate in another direction from the march called by GSEE and ADEDY, who called for a demonstration to the Parliament…
A very important role has been played over the last few months by local trade union structures (workplace branches, regional committees) in pushing for mobilization: for one-day general strikes, and today for ongoing strikes, which could be launched in some sectors. A coordinating committee of these local union structures has been set up. We should also mention some combative and unitary federations: for example OLME and DOE – with the new measures teachers will lose at least an entire month's wages because of the measures, not to mention the threats to their status and the readiness of the IMF to take advantage of the crisis to impose more private education in Greece, something which has been denounced by the president of Education International (a worldwide trade union body of workers in education). These federations are openly discussing the perspectives for ongoing strikes. All these organizations are of course very combative poles in the demonstrations!
What made the success of mobilizations like the one on May 5 is obviously that fact that hundreds of thousands of workers who give the majority in the unions to the PASOK current took to the streets en masse, angry, to say the least, at having been betrayed by "their" government. However, this anger does not result in a disavowal of the unions, nor indeed of their political loyalties. But on the other hand, this immense force is very ready for united action.
What perspectives for the mobilizations?
It is obvious that mass combativeness will be strengthened or weakened depending on the mobilisations that take place, either those launched by GSEE and ADEDY, or the extension of an exemplary ongoing strike, something which is cruelly lacking at present, because it could also be a concrete point of support for European solidarity in action. Today, the risk is of course that the trade-union leaderships on the one hand, and on the other hand the government with its campaigns of tracking down those guilty of tax evasion, try to put the brakes on possible mobilizations. Many political and trade-union cadres consider that it is especially after the summer holidays that the mobilizations will begin again, after everyone has seen the scale of the disaster, with the systematic implementation of the measures that have been adopted (for example, the suppression of the fourteenth month's salary paid in summer, a kind of holiday pay). That is possible, but the risk also exists that the cost of a strike slows down the workers more in autumn. So it is is important that the mobilization continues and if possible deepens now, but that also implies a clarification of the political perspectives, which gives confidence for a victorious conclusion of the mobilizations. However, on this front, things are moving forward, certainly, but very slowly…
Today it is becoming seen as correct on the left of to address the PASOK "people": so much the better, it was not always the case! At the same time, it is clear that possible differentiations will not lead inevitably to the strengthening of the anti-capitalist or anti-liberal left! Discontent can be seen especially on the level of the apparatus: thus, 3 MPs refused to vote for the vicious measures, and they were expelled. They do not however constitute the core of a future left opposition. Their attitude has more to do with a mood of discontent that has even affected some ministers, who are worried about their political future. However, the opinion polls show that, alongside a phenomenon - which could become serious - of rejection of political parties, PASOK is well ahead, accentuating even its lead over the Right. Even the student elections, which have just been held, show a progression of the PASOK current (which came out against the measures…). On the other hand, it is in PASKE, the trade-union current of PASOK, that we are starting to hear more or less strong criticism: even the president of ADEDY challenges the government's line that there is only one way to deal with the crisis. The leader of PASKE in the public services has declared that "we need social justice and class solidarity". PASKE trade unionists in several ministries are making accusations of tax evasions, of the existence of offshore companies, and thus showing that the money is there. PASKE trade unionists in DEI (Greece's electricity company) declare: "We oppose everything that has just been officially smashed, but we also oppose the new attacks that are coming… Our perspective remains that of a more just society, freed from the economic and moral wretchedness of the present time." It is difficult to know what echo these declarations have (we have taken the information from Eleftherotypia, May 23), but they express an undeniable fact: PASOK, which has survived all the (many) scandals and the austerity policies of Papandreou's father and Simitis, has just crossed a red line, on the other side of which it continued to be seen as an instrument to defeat the Right. The consequences could be radical, if the anti-liberal and anti-capitalist left know how to propose united action and to open clear programmatic perspectives.
What is clear is that the Right is for the moment less than ever in a position to pull itself together, and its leader, the nationalist Antonis Samaras, continues to dig a deeper hole for it, by explaining like Papandreou that faced with the crisis, national unity is needed, but refusing to vote for the measures… which he would of course have taken with even more zeal! By expelling the former Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis, he is leading his party further into a dead end which leaves a bit more space to the far-right party, LAOS, whose leader voted without hesitation for all the PASOK measures, while baying at the Left which was setting the street against parliamentary legality. Coming from a movement that shelters some real fascists, this accusation may seem laughable, but it is clear that the calculation of the Greek caudillo is to play the game of responsibility while hoping to collect disillusioned voters from PASOK and the Right. More than ever, anti-fascist vigilance is necessary in Greece…
One of the factors blocking the situation, especially for future mobilizations, is a Greek particularity, an object of derision for some people, but in fact an element that is at the same time a factor of combativeness and a brake on the hopes of victorious mobilizations: the KKE is more than ever playing this double role, and that is rather tragic when you look at the mess that it results in. In fact, the KKE, directly or through its trade-union current PAME, succeeds in organizing big mobilizations: on May 15, it even made a successful national mobilization of between 20 and 30,000 activists, including quite a lot of young people – a party that had "lost" all its youth at the beginning of the 1990s, after its participation in the government of national union with the Right. Today, the tone is set resolutely on the left, with anti-capitalist accents which would be good news if they were not accompanied by a sectarianism from another age, but also by a political analysis of rare poverty, and thus by the absence of a political perspective, an absence which will soon or later make its sympathisers want to stay at home: in reality, the only reason to mobilize is to reinforce the KKE to the point where it can constitute the popular government (around itself!). When you look at this from outside Greece, it might leave you dumbfounded, but here, such ineptitudes in fact render a service to the system that KKE leader Aleka Papariga claims to be fighting. Her discourse is an invaluable object for archaeologists: all the Stalinist stereotypes are to be found there. So, the government conducts its campaign and secret services mount provocations against the KKE (this is to contradict the fact that militants of PAME clashed with the police in front of the Parliament on May 5!); the workers are in a bad situation because they did not pay sufficient attention to the timely warnings that the Party made on what Maastricht meant (the people is wrong, the party is always right!). The governmental formula is "an anti-monopolist popular alliance for people's power" … Obviously, the regroupments and parties to the left of PASOK are only traps for the unwary, and the KKE never misses an occasion to remind people that Synaspismos (left reformist, the core of the Syriza regroupment) voted for the treaty of Maastricht (which is, besides, true!), but avoids pointing out its own participation in a government around the Right! And beyond the speeches, the current radical line of the KKE quickly shows its limits: although she quite correctly refused to go to a meeting of national unity, of party leaders around the president of the Republic, Papariga eagerly went to meet Samaras, to discuss with the leader of the Right, who was only too happy for this lucky break, since he was able in this way to show a kind of coalition of those who had refused to vote for the measures!
Concerning the KKE, the question is of course to know what oppositions exist in the face of this blindly sectarian line. There is no answer, except signs from time to time: thus, cadres of the KNE (the youth wing of the KKE) were recently expelled, which could explain a drop in the KKE's vote in the student elections. In any event, the objective is more than ever to propose unity of action to the KKE, and to make these proposals known to its militants. It seems difficult to imagine in the present context a victorious mobilization against PASOK's policies without the unitary participation of the KKE current.
It is indisputable that the anti-liberal and anti-capitalist Left is playing a big role in the mobilizations that are taking place, whether in Syriza or in the anti-capitalist regroupment Antarsya. The organization of the local trade union structures that we mentioned above depends in general on the active presence of these currents, and their contingents in the recent demonstrations were very sizeable. In the same way, coming from certain currents of Syriza or Antarsya, the proposal for unitary committees against the measures goes in the direction of an "all together" movement which could be prepared in the workplaces, in the neighbourhoods, in the university. But beyond these very important initiatives (even though the unitary committees remain far from numerous today), there begin the deficiencies in terms of credible political perspectives, and we must underline them quickly here. As far as Syriza is concerned, the problem is that there is a de facto splintering: even though Syriza appears as a bloc in the demonstrations, the tensions are today very sharp between the majority of Synaspismos and various revolutionary groups. And within Synaspismos, other tensions exist between the "renovator" current, accused by the revolutionary groups of being responsible for everything that goes wrong in Syriza, and the majority current, today itself divided. All that of course makes the political message very confused, and it is difficult to know what the line is, between the leader, Tsipras, who started by protesting against the lack of measures for development in the PASOK plan, then asked for the organization of a referendum on the measures (at the moment when the mobilization was taking place in the streets!), and the former spokesperson Alavanos, who has been demanding for at least two months the resignation of the government. The participation of Alavanos in a recent meeting of Tsipras was refused, and the regroupment that he organized with forces like DEA, KOE and KEDA is organizing a meeting this week in Athens. Officially, everyone wants to continue Syriza… but by refounding it. While we wait for the congress of Synaspismos, which can be a decisive factor [2], the political message of Syriza remains confused, and Alexis Tsipras did exactly like Papariga: he refused to go to the meeting of the party leaders, but got involved in the political manoeuvre of Samaras, who explained, straight-faced, that of course they were not in agreement, but that the situation required a dialogue between the Right and the Left. Very simply, the newspaper Eleftherotypia (centre-left) explained that Samaras had scored a political point by showing that he had succeeded in doing what PASOK could not do: discuss with the Left!
So we can see that in the present context the responsibilities of the Antarsya regroupment are enormous, and the tasks are innumerable. What is sure is that for this regroupment, founded in particular by the two biggest organizations of the revolutionary left and coming from a history where left organizations did not often act together, the past two years show the progress that has been made, with all due respect to those who swear only by electoral results. First of all in the serious character of the analyses: this week again, Panayotis Mavroeidis, a leader of NAR and a cadre of Antarsya, analyzed in a platform the crisis of the left as a crisis of strategy, stressing that unity of action on the left is obviously the minimum that has to be attained. For anyone who knows the long Greek history of self-proclaimed parties which act alone, this development is fundamental, and Antarsya is very actively involved in unitary frameworks, in particular with Syriza or with forces from Syriza. Of course, the analysis of the crisis is a subject of debate within Antarsya, as is the question, actively debated, of whether or not to leave the European Union, and if so how. But what plays an increasingly important role, and represents decisive progress, is that, over and above its ability to mobilize, which meant that for example on May 1, Antarsya had the biggest contingent in the demonstration, there is the conception of Antarsya as an instrument which must serve to address all the other left forces, not excluding, moreover, the KKE, in order to move forward on the question which weighs heavily today on the mobilizations: it is becoming obvious for thousands of workers that the only way to defeat the government's "plan of stability and development" is to overthrow capitalism, there are no half-measures possible. Consequently, the questions which arise are both enormous and concrete: beyond the correct slogans on the nationalization of the banks, the banning of sackings, wage increases and reduction of working hours…, what government can we form tomorrow to concretize such tasks? In the framework of extending mobilizations and precisely winning these demands, in fact such questions start to arise very concretely, and it is also essential to conduct this discussion in order to avoid the discouragement which could otherwise develop very quickly. But such a discussion now has to be conducted on a European level; it goes without saying that at the moment when the Greek model of anti-working class measures is being extended to other countries of Europe, the anti-capitalist response cannot but have at least a European dimension!
Athens, May 24, 2010
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[1] See "Workers against the so-called stability programme", by Tassos Anastassiadis and Andreas Sartzekis, International Viewpoint 423, April 2010
[2] After this article was written, the congress took place from June 3-6. Most of the "renovator" current split from Synaspismos, taking 4 of Syriza's 13 MPs
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Enriching Experiences at YMCA Camp Ohiyesa
The summer camp experience boasts big benefits for children, and at YMCA Camp Ohiyesa, situated just off Fish Lake in Holly, campers take a break from city living to get in touch with nature, build relationships and make memories that last a lifetime.
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"Camp helped shape me into the person I am today."
This is something that Ryan Mertz, the executive director of YMCA Camping Services, says he often hears from past campers at YMCA Camp Ohiyesa, located on the shores of Fish Lake in Holly.
It's no surprise. The camp, which has been serving kids in the metro Detroit area more than 100 years and is no more than an hour from anywhere in metro Detroit, provides children with a place to learn and grow, make new friends and have experiences that will impact their futures. And they get to experience it all in a beautiful, natural environment — without screens.
"Camp is a place where youth gain independence, build friend-making skills, challenge their limits, explore the natural world and create lifelong habits of healthy living under the careful guidance of responsible role models," Mertz says. "For kids, having positive role models who believe in you and encourage you (outside of their own family) is tremendously important in their development."
For Highland mom of two Jennifer Gordon, the decision to send her children, Abby, age 12, and Quinn, 10, to camp each year is a no-brainer. In fact, the kids have spent eight and six summers respectively at YMCA Camp Ohiyesa.
"It's about 300 acres in the woods with the lake and all the activities, typical standard summer camp activities — canoeing, archery, a giant swing and all the normal sports activities," Gordon says. "I think the environment and the counselors keep us coming back every year."
This summer is no different. In fact, Gordon's children are back at YMCA Camp Ohiyesa for both day and overnight camps.
"They love both experiences, and both experiences are different," Gordon says. "It's great for them to get exposure to being away from home like that."
Gaining a bit more independence is just one of the many benefits of the summer camp experience, and, this year, campers will also receive a boost in their academic and social learning — which is integral after the early end to in-person learning due to COVID-19.
"With kids out of school for so long now, we're helping children to become reacclimated socially while continuing to develop communication, teamwork and science skills," Mertz says. "Camp helps children to be successful in school, if they attend college, and in the workforce later in life. Research tells us that camp experiences are distinct from other learning environments because kids learn skills at camp that they do not learn in the same way in school."
The power of summer camp
Michelle Lee, the academic principal at David Ellis Academy in Detroit, only attended camp once as a child, and it wasn't until adulthood that she got to experience YMCA's camps with her students. After that, she realized the power of the summer camp experience — and even found ways to expand on the skills children learn at camp in the classroom.
"Every activity that you participate in at camp increases your critical thinking skills, it increases a child's independence," Lee notes, and those skills stay with them for life. "Camp is very social, it's very engaging. In camp, you are building friendships, you're building skills all day long. I think that every child and every adult should experience camp. It's something you will never forget. It's positive."
At YMCA Camp Ohiyesa, the camp experience is unforgettable for all ages. For day campers, Mertz says activities are tailored to each age group (day camps are for ages 5-16, while overnight camps start at age 8). The youngest campers may take part in pony rides, swimming, playing parachute in the field and more.
"We encourage them to try things like the climbing wall and archery, but we know their favorites might still be drawing with sidewalk chalk, the waterslide or making a craft to take home," he says.
Other activities include yoga, art, canoeing and kayaking.
"Overnight campers can focus on skill development in the activities they are most interested in. It's an opportunity to learn about goal setting in a healthy way with positive, encouraging role models," Mertz says. "Older campers also get to try out more adventurous activities like the giant swing, the Alpine climbing tower and paddle boarding while learning leadership skills from our staff."
These experiences are what keep Gordon's kids coming back every summer.
"My kids look forward to this every year. They've been to Disney World a couple of times, and this they have called the happiest place on earth," Gordon says. "This is their heart; every summer it makes them so happy."
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How important is this anniversary to the church?
Lutheran churches from around the world have been talking about this 500-year anniversary of the Reformation for years, and Augustana is glad to contribute to the many ways that the church is commemorating the Reformation. The Reformation was exactly that—a moment when the Christian church undertook the difficult and creative process of re-forming itself.
The year 1517 marks an important year for Christians. With the Reformation, Christians were called to read and understand the Bible on their own. It was also the time when education came to include both boys and girls, when the first social support system (outside of monasteries) was created, and when everyday lay Christians understood that they had vocations—meaningful, faithful work to do to contribute to the common good.
These reformations are not for Lutheran Christians alone. Not even close! People throughout the world are looking back over the past 500 years and realizing what a tremendous impact Martin Luther and the Reformation had on the modern world.
Why should this anniversary matter to anyone?
Martin Luther reformed the relation between the church and state, he critiqued economic abuses, promoted universal education, and he imagined human freedom as both freedom from authoritarianism and the freedom to be for those who need your help. You could say that the Reformation did nothing less than re-imagine what the common good is, and how each person can contribute to it.
Of course, Luther had his failures. He turned against peasants at a decisive moment, called the Pope some pretty colorful names and ended his life spouting a vindictive against Jewish persons. I think it is to the credit of the ELCA church that it has repudiated such ideas, especially Luther's anti-Jewish writings, and formally repented of them. They can do so because they continue to live out a church that is always reforming.
What is important to know about Augustana's planned events?
Augustana is Lutheran not because there are only Lutherans here. We are Lutheran, deeply Lutheran, in fact, because we live out the reforming values of our institution as we serve students and community members who come from all sorts of faith traditions and no particular tradition.
The events planned to commemorate the 500-year anniversary of the Reformation will certainly celebrate this tradition, and Lutherans from Augustana and the Quad Cities will no doubt add their voices to that celebration. But we think that the events will also appeal to those who want to think more carefully about this tradition, with all its successes and failures.
Faith plays such an important role in people's lives—whether you live in 16th-century Wittenberg or 21st-century Rock Island. We are offering two multiple-week book-discussion series that will try to get beyond celebrating the Reformation to thinking critically about this religious and intellectual tradition.
Why would you encourage individuals to attend the Relevant Reformation events?
When I speak at area churches, I realize how hungry people are for honest and open conversation about issues that matter today. Often church communities foster such open and honest conversation, but not always.
The Augustana campus wants to offer a safe space and place to be brave—a place where people can talk openly about social justice, interfaith engagement, spiritual exploration, their vocations and otherwise reasonably reflect on religion and its role in our lives. The events surrounding the 500-year anniversary of the Reformation offer the time and space for participants to do so.
Why is Lutheran higher education relevant today?
Augustana and other institutions within Lutheran higher ed are relevant, and desperately needed, because we educate all students—including Christian, Muslim, agnostic students—to discern and live out their vocations, their callings to do good and needed work in a world that desperately needs them.
In other words, Augustana and other ELCA-related institutions educate not exclusively or primarily to secure employment, to develop a "life of the mind," or even for citizenship and to cultivate civic virtues, as important as each of these is. Lutheran institutions principally educate students so that they can discern the material and spiritual needs of other human and nonhuman creatures and then respond with committed service and out of a sense of gratitude.
Language of vocation is deeply Lutheran. Before Martin Luther, only nuns, monks and priests had vocations. For Luther, all persons are called to meaningful work—especially work which serves the common good and leads to the flourishing of other people, or what Luther called the neighbor. Educating young persons so that they can discern their calling, their needed place in a world that needs them, is deeply Lutheran stuff.
At the same time, "calling" and "vocation" are not the exclusive property of Lutherans or even Christians. Rather, out of the depths of our own theological tradition, Augustana educates Lutherans, other Christians, people from other religious traditions, and the nonaffiliated for lives of meaning, purpose, and responsible service so that the world God created and redeems might also flourish.
Individuals live out their callings whenever they match their own passions and capabilities—their sense of being gifted—with the real needs of the world. They learn in order to respond, to be helpful, and to care. Augustana lives out its calling when we teach and support and help form such students. You could say that our collective vocation is to educate for vocation.
Augustana and other ELCA colleges and universities are thus called to good and needed work in the world. The world desperately needs our graduates, persons able to respond capably and compassionately to all those who need them.
Students gain perspective on the religious, theological and ethical issues of human life. They learn the questions of existence and values found in diverse traditions.


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Kindness of Strangers #Thursday Book Feature
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
by Jim DeFede
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The True Story Behind the Events on 9/11 that Inspired Broadway's Smash Hit Musical Come from Away
When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000. The citizens of Gander met the stranded passengers with an overwhelming display of friendship and goodwill.
As the passengers stepped from the airplanes, exhausted, hungry and distraught after being held on board for nearly 24 hours while security checked all of the baggage, they were greeted with a feast prepared by the townspeople. Local bus drivers who had been on strike came off the picket lines to transport the passengers to the various shelters set up in local schools and churches. Linens and toiletries were bought and donated. A middle school provided showers, as well as access to computers, email, and televisions, allowing the passengers to stay in touch with family and follow the news.
Over the course of those four days, many of the passengers developed friendships with Gander residents that they expect to last a lifetime. As a show of thanks, scholarship funds for the children of Gander have been formed and donations have been made to provide new computers for the schools. This book recounts the inspiring story of the residents of Gander, Canada, whose acts of kindness have touched the lives of thousands of people and been an example of humanity and goodwill.
There are plenty of accounts of people surviving 9/11: a blind man whose guide dog led him down 78 flights of stairs to escape the World Trade Center, a blind cat left alone in a New York apartment for several days. This book looks at the tragedy from a different angle. On that fateful day, we were all too preoccupied with the people on the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center and Pentagon and the firefighters trying to save as many people as possible at Ground zero. It never occurred to us that other airplane passengers, although safe, were stranded in unfamiliar territory as a result of the closure of U.S. air space. Many of these passengers had relatives in New York, and one couple's son was a firefighter at Ground Zero.
I like the way the author tells the stories of some of those passengers stranded in Canada, bringing them to a satisfying conclusion. I was amazed that some of the people in Gander and surrounding areas invited these passengers, total strangers, to their homes to shower and sometimes sleep. This is something I would never feel comfortable doing.
While reading this book, I was comparing the 9/11 tragedy to the Covid 19 pandemic we're experiencing now. Although not as violent, the coronavirus has claimed many lives and affected a lot of people. Maybe someday, someone will write a book like The Day the World Came to Town, an account of the kindness of strangers in one corner of the world.
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Q: What is the matter of "doing" in the phrase: "how are you doing"? I used to hear people say "how are you doing?" in the meaning of "how do you feel" (and that's why people used to answer "very good" or something like it. As a non native English speaker it's difficult for me to understand it and it always interests me to know what is the relation between "doing" to the meaning of feeling.
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I checked the question that was said to be duplicate, and I didn't find any similarity to my question. I am asking about the relation of the noun "doing" to the meaning of "feel". No relation between them for my opinion.

A: What someone is doing at any point is what activity they are engaged in, what their current state of being is.  When asking "how are you doing?", in asking how you are feeling, they are asking for how you are doing whatever task you are doing.
For example, if you are doing a task, say cutting the lawn, and you are sad.  You are doing your task a sad manner: you are sadly cutting the lawn.  If someone asks you, "How are you doing?", as you are cutting the lawn, they want to know the adverb: you are sadly cutting the lawn, so the answer to their question would be "sad".

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