Woody Guthrie "Vigilante Man"

[joesubscriber]

Those who equate American labor unions with Joseph Stalin are not thinking seriously. Those who think the workers should simply accept whatever the capitalist class does to them has a very low opinion of American workers. If the workers do not unite, the bankers and stock brokers will rob them of everything. Those who place their faith in the bankers like Goldman Sachs and politicians they own, do so at their own risk.

[joesubscriber]

To say that the corporate goons have traded in their guns and clubs merely shows that you haven't been paying attention. The guns and clubs are every bit as much being used against the people in America today as they were in the 1930s. And private police forces are every bit as much a part of the oppression today as they were then.

[runamok4]

Two scabs didn't like this clip

[hoosierhiver]

2012 is going to be a hot one.

[Islandersrule66]

Kayum! U are ignorant of our workers rights history. Stop listening to Limbaugh! He lies

[MynameisKayum]

@Islandersrule66

I don't listen to limbaugh, I just know that communists are scum.

[DomSCOTLANDD]

thats what you call a strike!

[MynameisKayum]

Vigilante man sounds like a hero.

[Nerudah]

@MynameisKayum it takes a 'special' kind of hero to shoot at unarmed people yes..

[MynameisKayum]

@Nerudah

The ones in the song and the video sound like a bunch of Communists, and thus deserve it.

[troublemakir]

@MynameisKayum Why do you think that?

[mnebiyu]

We must never forget our history. Through all the corporate propaganda that is spewed throughout the land we must never forget what made us who we are. Struggle

[cranberry6pointOh]

History repeats itself!

[mushkaa100]

great upload nice 1

[feoeo]

Esto va dedicado a....mi. Por que nunca crei convertirme en vigilante. Soy conocido x mi falta de fe. ya hice tantas cosas impensadas en la vida, me pregunto que hare despues

okey dokey falks! see ya!

[gumbable]

it will hapend again-NWO

[RulleKugg]

Woody Guthrie !!

Tre ackord underbar text blir aldrig för gammal!

Tycte det var roligare att spela hans låtar

än "Svarte Rudolf han dansar".

T.o.m Robert Zimmerman börja som en

Guthrie-kopia.

[metacosmos]

The Vigilante is a killer hired by the employers to keep out the Trade Union agents and all the lefty from the factory.

[treejahone]

And so history repeats...

[samson4077]

Power to the Unions! United we stand! Divided we fall!

[SPeteDave]

This will be in neighborhoods all over america soon, well, not the gated ones, just the 'other' ones

[vudu8ball]

This is a film of the future of America. The rich and the corporations, as summed up in the policies of the republican party are trying to make this county look like Honduras or Guatemala, A few super rich and a bunch of illiterate peasants with no access to birth control. It took near civil war to get social reforms in the depression and sadly I think it will take violence to protect the rights of common people from these swine.

[metacosmos]

@vudu8ball Absolutely true.

[vudu8ball]

@metacosmos It's nice to know there are people in this country who haven't forgotten where they come from.  Thanks for you comment.

[metacosmos]

@vudu8ball No, I am a Spaniard but lefty.

[vudu8ball]

@vudu8ball

Hoorah for Spain! You guys had the balls to indite that butcher Allende when no body else would. Too bad we can't get Donald Rumsfeld or Dick Chenny to take a vacation in Spain :)

[taildragger53]

@vudu8ball As Ry Cooder says in his interview on the BBC website "FDR's control on the bankers has been removed..it was removed during Reagan's time and we're in for a rough ride as in the Depression,,possibly alot worse".

[WVlandnwater]

white appalachian, been exploited since i was born

[dave777blaster]

every freedom every right every protection that the People have was won the blood and deaths of others .

REMEMBER this

Should they want to take any of them back you fight like those that won them

or you do not deserve them.

[TheBighairyfart]

@paragtime Invest nothing? They invest their labour. Also should a mother be paid for producing a worker, coz last time I looked monetary investment don't produce people.

[AldCastillo]

the past and future of the united states of America.

[exoticoutlaw1]

This is such a good video, the footage and the song are so suited

[CrawdaddyJoe]

See, i always figured the song was just talking about the cops, working for the bosses, and blaming things on vigilantes.

[pasaremos2010]

Thanks for this video and great song!

[Zeppelinfaktor]

DAMN!



[persevere4]

A viligante man is a piece of human scum a corporate thug above the law to beat and kill the working people, women and children not excluded, the real americans so they think, they are really the scum of the earth going back over 3,000 years used to keep poor people down, look here and see for yourself lie to yourself if you must n so pathetic let the soup lines begin agian our only hope for this country

[airman49]

this is america!

the land of the free :-)

fuck you!

[alargedog]

great song and footage

[Grosflam]

Union busters...fascists.

[75freeman]

GOD bless all the vigilanties out there

[tomitstube]

great stuff thanks.

[JoelGallob]

This film tells more about the 30's and the American neo-Nazi wing than whole books.

[journeyer58]

This couldn't happen today, we the people are nowhere near organized as the people of yesteryear. We are not communicating like they used to and we are afraid

to stand up to the 'vigilante man.'

Somehow, someway, the people in America must unite against the oligarchs of the U. S. and take back the power that is rightfully theirs. Mussolini put it this way, 'Socialism is the corporate oligarchs joining with the government to control the people.'

[Zadfrac]

@gplito

All those names you listed are in the pockets of big business and openly support corporatism. 

[myroncope]

working men and women were badass back then. Nowadays hardly anybody will even lift a finger to email their congressmen

[tomthumbtoo]

Land of the Free & Home of the Brave. ~ttt~

[flashkaput]

The corporate goons of the 21st Century traded in their guns & clubs for briefcases & loopholes...

[BarryChuckle9]

@flashkaput well said brother

[imamymay]

@flashkaput  and riot cops with pepper spray and tear gas.

[flashkaput]

@imamymay > And a corporate media puppet that shills freedom & equality but only sells diversions...

[Parsa9]

The next time someone says that we don't need labor unions to defend our rights as workers, show them this to let them know what unions had to do for us to have those rights. People died, a lot of people died, so that we could have living wages and decent working conditions.

''She showed her card to the National Guard, and this is what she said..."

[maynardcat]

Great video, you really have some very interesting historic film clips in your videos. T

[cderrah]

Does anyone know what the film footage is from?

[DVanDeusen]

I know but for some reason I can't post it in this reply. I'll expand the description.

[PunkSkaOi]

I'm not a Maoist.

Tell me Mike, have you ever even read any real communist literature?

Sometimes it's best for certain people to open their minds and shut their mouths.

[williestratton]

@PunkSkaOi true, and real communism has never actually been followed. there's stalinism, maoism, castroism all kinds of isms that people slap the communist label onto

[PunkSkaOi]

You should really take your irrelevant, Glenn Beck-sculpted opinions elsewhere.

[elmatto2006]

thank you for that ;)

[cesareo12]

Great footage and great song, woodie was a visionaire. God bless this America

[MrLeadbelly]

great video !!! very moving homage to WOODY

[bobstein33p]

Wow, great footage. Thanks for this.

[eskimo1956]

Wow, this is an amazing video compilation - and to add Woody is just great

[TheLutherCowboy]

Im from Oklahoma and a bunch of my family is from Okemah, Oklahoma where woody guthrie is from and im not for sure but i could almost bet that my family knew his. Because Okemah is a fairly small town today and i know it was even smaller in the past.

[mirkobruner]

This Video is very Important. Common People Is History! We Are History! Long Live Woody!

[Murmu]

thank you for posting the original version of this song, i've been dying to heard it! classic, you can hear the condemnation in his voice.

[stephsaysclick]

could somebody give some context to this video please?

[DVanDeusen]

Bonus Riots of 1932, San Francisko General Strike 1934, Republic Steel Strike 1937, General Motors Labor Strike 1937, etc.

[dougily]

bbrilliant video and song thanks

[evelyneverettgreen]

@stephsaysclick sorry this has taken two years. The context? Pis is pigs is pigs- 1932 or 2011: Vive le revolution

[jimbosyl]

great video with this great song

[harryit]

god damn looks like a hillbilly ss fucking christ ?!

[mtnman3MTA3]

Thanks,good song,GREAT man.

[ALREADYSICKOFITALL]

Don: I gather that this is about the Great Depression of the 30s., which I don't know much about. Likely will learn about Economic Depression soon. Thanks for posting Woody Guthrie's song "Vigilante Man." Will get back to you soon.. 28.2.09 5:21 AM EST