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Date: Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 | Time: 11:22 pm
Tags: man on the moon, obama
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My family has been outed - we’re dam Commies - but we ain’t paid to be

UPDATED: Don Rose contacted me with these truths:

Anna & Marc–just for the historical record, David Axelrod did not work for the Voices at any point. He was a reporter for the HP Herald while attending U of C, appearing on the scene first in 1975, just after the Voices folded–but he was familiar with our paper as a student before he got the Herald job. Your dad and i “mentored” and helped educate him politically in that capacity, which is perhaps why you may recall seeing him hanging around the house. I later wrote a reference letter for him that helped him win an internship at the Tribune, which was the next step in his journalism career.–don

So I was interviewed by a journalist who claimed he was writing about Harold Washington - the first black Mayor of Chicago - whom my father worked with, helped and was friends with. It turns out the was a red hater, muck racking McCain swift boater, doing research on my family kind of guy.

Apparently they were trying to connect my father to David Axelrod - who worked for my father back in the 60’s on a local newspaper he published (along with Don Rose) called the Hyde Park-Kenwood Voices. I delivered that newspaper - by hand.

A young David Axelrod got his start as a reporter for the Voices and look where it got him.

This journalist -Trevor Loudon and his buddy (the Real Barack Obama) produced some great stuff - which hopefully they won’t take down. These two articles chronicle the history of my father and grandfather (and many of their colleagues) and with just a slight correction to statements like he was “an identified member of the Communist Party USA, a registered agent of the Soviet Union and a paid disseminator of Soviet black propaganda“ - most of the stuff is basically true. The fact that hysterical people still equate the IVI (Independent Voters of Illinois), ”Veterans for Peace” and “Get rid of the Red Squad” as communist fronts - is humorous, at best.

And I have all sorts of wild memories of being the son of one of the organizers of the meatpackers union. Don’t get me started! Lets just say that if you’re wondering where I learned how to eat ribs - it was in every rib joint on the South Side of Chicago.

But my most vivid childhood memories are of election days and nights. They’d start off at 5 AM, going to polling places, making sure that Mayor Daley’s cronies weren’t stealing the vote or shutting down polling places. Then during the day we’d shuttle food and drinks to precinct workers, culminating with a wild night of results - which 98% of the time - we lost the election. That was ages 0-10.

During the late 60’s my father got involved in the federal suit against Mayor Daley on jerrymandering the wards in chicagop, to deprive black voters of fair representation. Once we won that suit (?? when - mid=70’s ??), we gradually saw a shift in black voters power - which culminated with the election of Harold Washington in 1983, when Jane Byrne and Mike Belandic split the white vote.

You gotta love these muck racker types, trying to lie and triangulate my grandfather’s effort to save Sacco-Vanzetti and my father’s efforts to end the war in Vietnam - to David Axelrod and then Obama. We give these guys the right to say anything they want in our country (which is more I can say about their attitude towards gays, minorities or anybody who has beliefs which aren’t the same as theirs.)

So please check out this excellent (only slightly untrue) article on details of 50 years of my family’s community activism, trade unionism, poltiical activism. And since these guys travel in packs - here’s the accompanying article. They mention the publisher, but they don’t spell out the contents of the book that my father and his partner Leory Wollins published in 196o. It was on the Gary Powers U2 spy plane - which was shot down over Russian. Which at the time - the U.S. denied existed. So my father published a book with all the transcripts, photos, etc. from the spy trial in Russia.

This country thanked him for that - by inditing him in front of HUAC and calling him a commie. My father than quoted protection under the Fifth Amerndment in front of Congress. :-)

God Bless our Constitution. When you need it most it’s there for you!

My mother was heavily involved in the defence committee who helepd fund the trial case which shut down HUAC. It was the case of Dr. Jeremiah Stamler. I remember going to the International Amphitheatre in Chicago to hear Harry Belefonte sing and we got to sit in the box next to Dr. Martin Luther King and family. You don’t forget memories like that from your childhood.

My sister found these posts today and clued me in - so I wanna shout out to her and her kids (down in Baco Raton, FL) and say “Thank you!” Our family’s history and their connection to David Axelrod - who is one of Barack’s closest advisors - might even get us invited to the White House!

Indeed David Axelrod did work for my father (on the “Voices”) and I’m quoted (in the articles) as saying “I’m pretty sure my father knew Barack”. So I guess there really is a connection to Barack - and that’s why it’s so significant that my family was outted - today. Its this year’s version of a swiftboating. Just stir in enough lies with the truth and see what the oinment ooozes.

If you follow the research and blog posts these guys have been doing, they’re claiming that Leon Depres, Charles Hayes, Tom Hayden, Carol Moseley Braun - were all commmies. They’re right - they were progressives, but not commies. How weird that folks are still mud slinging lies like that - and be so out of touch with what is bringing Obama to power - as we speak.

Its about truth. About being the good guy. Not constantly attacking and spewing negative energy - which is what McCain has turned into. The very people these guys are attacking are totally the good guys and happen to be my family and the people I was raised around.

Don Rose is still alive, writing and has been watching this campaign with excitement. Unfortunately Studs Terkel didn’t make it. He died at age 96 over the weekend.

You see I was raised in politics, and I was taught how to catch a lie, how to read between the lines and how to really see what is going on. That helped us play Apple off of Microsoft and IBM in the 80’s and it’ll help us build the open mesh today.