Dead Serious and Political

does anyone know who sing this version of bella ciao

what is the name of the song at the end?

This young man was a student at Jim Hill High School NOT Jackson State. So only one student was killed from JSU... the one standing in the window. Get it right, whoever you are.

"Students were killed at the university of mississippi in their beds... they were killed in their beds by the National Guard." This is incorrect. The protest was not at the University of Mississippi but at Jackson State University. The National Guard did not fire on the dormitory, it was the MS State Highway Patrol. One student was standing near a window and died. Another was hit across the street and died as he walked home, away from the protest.

this vid is spot on.

Thank you Norah for bringing a turbulent time from the past to the present turbulent time.

Your approach to digital storytelling in this Tale from history brought a flood of memories from a time in Junior High School when most of us were scared, mad, worried,while some took action to have their voices heard.

Thank You
Vernon

Your video is amazing--captures so much of what it was like to be a student at BHS in 1970 and how determined you and others were to politicize the school and make students aware of what was happening in the larger world. When I tell folks about what was happening at BHS the spring I was there, they can't quite believe that all this occurred ( and with the tacit permission of the principal).
Eva Travers. Did thesis research for an Ed.D. at Brookline High School in Spring, 1970.

I was part of the Vietnam protest movement, with my guitar. I wasn't telling stories then, just having conversations... Thanks for this story.

A wonderful new dimension is being added to storytelling.Stories to awaken or reawaken our political natures! That is what stories have been since there have been people to tell them. We are amnesiacs! Then, when we are reminded of what happened last week, last year, last decade -- we get angry all over again. But that's when things happen. Otherwise we would never change. Stories can help us remember...and make us determined to make things right, and ultimately bring us together. -Bob Reiser