High Points of a Strange Career

OK, you asked. These are the high points of whatever it is I've been doing.
If your town isn't listed here, consider it one of the sober points.

Photo: William Jordan 2004

teaching

1966
Rally for mom's 
illegal social workers' strike

1968
Touring the open mikes of the San Francisco Bay Area in a yellow Citroen

1969
University of Washington, Seattle - named unindicted co-conspirator for singing about the "Guatemala sweepstakes" at a rally prior to the escorting of a recruiter from the United Fruit Company off the campus

1973
Country Joe McDonald records "Old Joe Corey"

1975
On the road: Writing 15 songs without a guitar and having them not turn out all the same

1980
Reagan for Shah Campaign - debut of George Shrub

1981
Belgrade youth center, between concert videos of Lynrd Skynrd and Rolling Stones
Berlin - Zitty Fest - a big bash in a big tent. Huge crowd wondering who we were and why

1982
Singing "500 Years to the Eighties" at Charas, Loisaida, New York

1983 CIA small
George Shrub's first public speech, Boulder, Colorado (Grenada Rescue)
Backing Allen Ginsberg on guitar

1984
Salvadoran refugee caravan through Texas - 7 nights, 7 denominations

1985
Managua, Nicaragua - entertaining the (Sandinista reserve) troops

1986
Christmas in Chalatenango - playing for villagers in El Salvador

1987
Tour of Texas as security Man for Ladies Against Women

Stump small 1989
London - MC of Nicaragua benefit on a boat on the Thames (complimented on my "pretty good" American accent)
Quetzaltenango, Guatemala - bilingual George Shrub show

My host in a town somewhere in England playing me a 78rpm record of his Hawaiian band, to show how my guitar strumming was similar to his ukulele style, circa 1930.

Seymour small 1990
San Francisco - debut of George Stump, with Judi Bari et al

1991
Seattle - my pediatrician came

1995
Malibu - Pepperdine College Convocation - got away with it

1996
Berkeley (Ashkenaz) - Bye to the Bay

1998
Ft. Benning, Georgia - "School" of the "Americas"

1999
Washington - MC'ing Pete Seeger's 80th birthday benefit concert

2001
Houston - Art Car Museum

2002
Kingston, New York - Go Catskills!
Berkeley (La Peña), Eugene - Cafe Paradiso,
Chapel Hill (Skylight Exchange), with Prince
       Myshkins

2003-04
Wheels of Justice bus tour - eyewitnesses to Iraq and Palestine occupations. 

2004
Collateral Damage van tour - Mexican Maquila organizer, Black Voices for Peace, Ministers for Racial, Social and Economic Justice - and Shrub.

Tour of Palestine and Israel with Middle East Children's Alliance.

2005
G. Shrub Oh-No-Gurated at the Blue Dot Ball in Durham, NC - ( blue dot in a red state)

Return to Wheels of Justice as a speaker - well, a singer with pictures, and slightly more knowledge.

2006
Travel in Venezuela, learn that the streams are finding the river.

Detroit - 3 days, 3 events: Palestine, Venezuela, Shrub and Lipp concert. The right way to tour. Fascinating immigrant scene a bonus.

2007
Emceeing at 4th annual anti-war demo at Ft. Bragg, NC, with Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Veterans for Peace, Col. Ann Wright, Holly Near.

Bailout

2010
Northern California tour brings together long-lost high school friends, activists of all ages, and several brothers, making for meetings of minds and a rolling series of serious, but fun, parties. New character Wild Bill Bailout not invited to parties. Palestine finally admitted to the general anti-war consensus.

"Off-off-Broadway tour" of street singing - Palestine parodies - 'round New York with enthusiastic nearly-on-key gang.

NYC concert with Jim Page and Bev Grant - together again for the first time!

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