Thanks for the links. That should help me quite a bit.
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Originally Posted by Mordor
Gods! Please, no!
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The official story is that in 1914, Joe Hill murdered John Morrison and was justly executed.
But the song tells the other story, that the copper barons framed a labor organizer to silence him.
It also tells the higher truth that Joe Hill never died (he's been spending time in China lately).
Without the song, almost nobody would know any of those three things.
100 years from now, what will people know about Leonard Peltier, Michael Brown, Sean Bell, ....? Or will they only ask "what are those names"?
I'm not particular about musical genre, but it is important that the unofficial stories get told and remembered.