Direct Action - Utah Phillips

In memory of a great American, a true voice of the worker and a friend to all people that strive to be free.

Utah Phillips

May 15, 1935 -- May 23, 2008

You are loved and you will be missed!

Link on the event in the video:

http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=7357

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Utah
• Phillips
• Union
• IWW
• Wobblies
• Capitalism
• Workers
• Soldidarity
• Age
• of
• Enlightenment
• Freedom

[therebelwaltz]

I just saw this clip during the "Tribute to Utah Phillips" portion of an IWW public forum I went to last night. Good stuff.

Did you make it or just upload it? Because if you made it you should know that actual Wobblies are showing it to people!

[erkd1]

I did make the video, thanks for letting me know, that made my day!

[zotde75]

Nice video, as always. Going to do more narration videos soon?

[erkd1]

Thanks zotde! I have a work in progress now ;)

Stay tuned and thanks for the encouragement!

[erkd1]

Thank you Qualia!

[bedford99]

Fantastic and important historical doco. Vail Utah Phillips. Well done for putting such a great array of images togther!

[ESPEEandERIE]

Great job on this video, Utah is one of my heroes. It was also fun to learn he and I share a birth date though he preceded me in life by 15 years. I used to enjoy listening to his radio show "Loafer's Glory" on KPFA here in the Bay Area. He was a great man and I cherish my Utah Phillips CD's.

[jwmcmillenii]

@erkd1 America was born of protest and rebellion. I am right leaning, but to silence anyone one our soil is just UN-American! Long live Utah.

[beachdog67]

Great piece of work! Thanks for doing it; thanks for posting it.

To this day, I have a Southwestern tooled silver belt buckle that Bruce traded me one night in the 70s at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall for a brass Utah Railroad commemorative buckle I was wearing.

I think we both believed we got the better end of that deal.

[durtygrrrl]

Oh, I miss that man! Thank you - you did a wonderful job on this video :)

[wid85]

I've never heard this story told so well, even in Emma Goldman's autobiography. I love this video!

[Necr0manzer]

SUCKS! ;_; I just learned about him about a month before he died =/

Ah well, his stories and spirit live on... <3

[anarcrustie]

check out Mischief Brew!

[fishtronaut]

sweeeet video! thank you for making it

[Musashikhan]

Mein gott no, never liked him.

[geezzerboy]

So you killed Mickeal Jackson.