Monday, Monday... March 31, 2014

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LATE ADDITION, up-front, on top, so it's easy to find...

Johnny Cash fans....

If'n you're inclined to be a homebody tonight, you're fixed right well if'n you have Ovation on your teevee.

At 7:30 pm is the 1987 movie "LA BAMBA" about '50s music sensation RICHIE VALENS, who the world lost too soon.

It's followed at 10 pm by "HALF A MILE A DAY," (2001) about JOHNNY CASH, with appearances by WILLIE NELSON, GLEN CAMPBELL, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, JUDY COLLINS, and BILLY BOB THORNTON.

Immediately following that is "JOHNNY CASH," a half-hour episode of "MUSIC MAVERICKS" from 2013.


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Now, here's today's edition as originally published.

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It's Monday, and a special Monday, being CESAR CHAVEZ DAY, to honor the champion of workers' rights and humane living and working conditions for the people who harvest the food we put on our tables.

The activism of Cesar Chavez -- as co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union and leader of strikes and boycotts by consumers of specific crops whose growers fought reforms -- made him a politically volatile figure even after his death. Today, his name us still invoked in worker and immigrant causes.

Robert Reich, Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley and former US Secretary of Labor wrote a thoughtful piece. Here it is.

The Legacy of Cesar Chavez

by Robert Reich

Cesar Chavez would have celebrated his 87th birthday today. Were he still alive, he’d be organizing for immigration reform, which looked so promising when Barack Obama was elected. But House Republicans have buried the Senate bill, which has turned many Latinos against the GOP. But many also have soured on Obama, who has so aggressively enforced existing immigration laws that one national Hispanic leader recently nicknamed him “deporter in chief.”

Across the country, immigrant-rights advocates report mounting disillusionment with both parties among Latinos, enough to threaten recent gains in voting participation that have reshaped politics to Democrats’ advantage nationally.

Why has Obama been so aggressively deporting undocumented workers? Not because their numbers have been mounting quickly. To the contrary, the Great Recession and anemic recovery have kept illegal immigration down, and a large portion of the nearly 2 million deportees under the Obama administration have been here for many years.

I suspect it’s because, as he did with his activism on the deficit, Obama has wanted to co-opt his critics on the right. But that's been a losing strategy for him. The right hasn't budged.

Why do you think he’s been “deporter in chief?”

-- Robert Reich.

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And with that, we at the Acoustic Americana Music Guide will see you with a special edition tomorrow, Tuesday, April 1st. We need and are taking a much-needed day off.


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