Talking Un-American Blues

"I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known. I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent this implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, or I might be a vegetarian, make me any less of an American. I will tell you about my songs, but I am not interested in telling you who wrote them, and I will tell you about my songs, and I am not interested in who listened to them." -Pete Seeger, testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee

Endless Contempt

"I refused to testify at that time based on the assertion of my First, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment rights, as I will be doing again for the duration of this grand jury." -Jerry Koch

"After being held two hundred and forty-one days in Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correction Center without being charged with a crime, Judge John Keenan decided to answer a motion filed by [Jerry Koch's] lawyers last month and release Koch on the grounds that the state would not be able to coerce him into cooperating with a federal grand jury… The judge issued a 20-page decision granting his release pursuant to a Grumbles Motion, so-called after the grand jury resister who first successfully employed the argument that since they would never agree to testify, their incarceration had become punitive, in violation of their rights." -Shawn Carrié, The New School Free Press

Photograph via Jerry Resists

"Where words leave off, music begins."

Pete Seeger

Rest In Paradise

"Decade after decade. Singing and agitating and inspiring the children and the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren of those who had heard him singing the songs of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in 1938, or serenading Eleanor Roosevelt in 1944, or accompanying Henry Wallace’s presidential campaign in 1948. The hundreds of Occupy Wall Street activists who joined Seeger on a thirty-five-block march through Manhattan in Octover 2011 knew that he was seventy years older than they were, but he was one of them." -John Nichols, The Nation

Up Against The Wall, Motherfuckers!

Largely unknown by choice, Ben Morea is the force behind the 1960s art/anarchist collectives UAW/MF and the International Werewolf Conspiracy, and the legendary anarchist zine/broadside Black Mask. This is the first exhibition dedicated to a life work that intersected the underground press, rock and roll, performance art, experimental theater, and radical politics

Opposition: Black Mask, Ben Morea, And U.A.W.M.F.

On exhibit from January 16th – Friday, February 14th

Boo-Hooray Gallery, 65 Canal Street, 6th Floor, NYC

Let Us Be Clear

Artwork by Jack Kirby