Peter Dreier and Dick Flacks review the iconic songs and speeches of U.S. history and remind us that those whose words we recall today spoke of justice, liberty, equality, and freedom for all. We do not celebrate the 1%. We do not celebrate the income inequality that mars our land. We sing of brotherhood and sisterhood, from sea to shining sea.

Here’s a column for July 4 about a little known Washington DC monument to a major US mistake:
http://hometownsource.com/2013/07/02/joe-nathan-column-a-memorial-to-a-mistake/
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Joe,
Thanks for the link!
Do you think the powers that be and the educators who have participated in the sorting and separating of students causing much harm to many students through such laws as NCLB and RaTT will ever admit that they were wrong?
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Good questions. Don’t know. What do you think?
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I would hope so but probably not. Upton Sinclair’s aphorism comes to mind “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
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See response earlier.
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The patriotic songs of Irving Berlin were a great aource of pride to my late father, who never tired of boasting that God Bless America was written by a fellow Jew-Boy. If only Irving came from The Bronx! Or maybe in a way he did…
ANDREW WOLF, Editor and Publisher The Bronx Press and Riverdale Review Newspapers The Bronx NOW! Tourism Magazine 5752 Fieldston Road • Bronx, NY 10471 (718) 543-5200 or (800) 601-9594 x- 105
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