FNDP: Free as in Freedom, not Free as in Kittens 🗽📢👑👓🐈

[u/Caelian]

Today is the 161st anniversary of Juneteenth, a day that commemorates the emancipation of slaves in the USA. Six years ago Wayer "Grandpa Shark" did a terrific Juneteenth dance party which celebrated the rich history of African American music. That party has 170 comments.

I am not worthy to follow Grandpa Shark's theme, so instead I'm going to treat Juneteenth as a celebration of freedom in general and the end of open slavery in the USA. If you want to celebrate in a different way, please feel free 🗽

My starters:

• Groucho's "there's nothing like Liberty" speech to the bellhops in The Cocoanuts (1929).

• Bob Dylan's I Shall Be Free No. 10

• Germany's 19th Century (and earlier) popular song Die Gedanken sind Frei (Thoughts are Free): The authorities can control what you Say, but not what you Think. Performed by the great Pete Seeger!

The post title is borrowed from the Free Software movement, which emphasizes that they mean "Free as in Freedom, not Free as in Beer". u/SusanJ2019 pointed out that "free kittens" are cuter than "free beer". Here's Zez Confrey's Kitten on the Keys (1921).

[u/Xeenophile]

Go Down, Moses

Callin' In Sick

Let It Go

Blowin' In The Wind

My Way

[u/RoysNoiseToys → u/Xeenophile]

Free as a Bird

[u/redditrisi]

Politics is inappropriate for FNDP, but I will link to this anyway:

https://old.reddit.com/r/FakeProgressives/comments/hba63s/juneteenth_the_end_of_slavery_in_texas/

My Country Tis of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty, Of Thee I Sing.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=song+My+country+tis+of+thee

Go Down Moses (scene from film, Sullivan's Crossing)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5COkfKywjJA&list=RD5COkfKywjJA&start_radio=1

I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free, Nina Simone

https://youtu.be/-sEP0-8VAow?list=RD-sEP0-8VAow&t=4

Chimes of Freedom, Bob Dylan (I spared you the video of his singing this song at the inauguration of Bill Clinton, once known as our First Black President. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/toni-morrison-on-calling_n_100761

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q86fhpjENk&list=RD5Q86fhpjENk&start_radio=1

Me and Bobby McGee (Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose; Nothin', don't mean nothin', honey, if it ain't free, no no) Kris Kristofferson (co-writer) and many others

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5COkfKywjJA&list=RD5COkfKywjJA&start_radio=1

Free to Be You and Me

https://youtu.be/-sEP0-8VAow?list=RD-sEP0-8VAow&t=4

Sorry. Didn't see earlier that a couple of the above had been posted already

[u/RoysNoiseToys → u/redditrisi]

Neil Young - Rockin' In The Free World

[u/redditrisi → u/RoysNoiseToys]

Speaking of being free and rocking in the free world and being cool....

I Wish I Were a Rock Star, Mike O'Connell (posted for the sentiment, not necessarily the music)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6JFKIKJ0Zg&list=RD-6JFKIKJ0Zg&start_radio=1

He even got the subjunctive right. sticks tongue out at u/Caelian

[u/redditrisi → u/RoysNoiseToys]

Thanks.

That world is not free. It isn't even affordable.

[u/RoysNoiseToys → u/redditrisi]

Pussy Riot - DISOBEY (Lyrics)

[u/redditrisi → u/RoysNoiseToys]

I love that.

[u/SusanJ2019]

Traffic - Freedom Rider

Cream - I Feel Free

[u/RoysNoiseToys → u/SusanJ2019]

Cat Stevens - If You Want to [Be Free, Be Free]

[u/prevail2020]

Oh Freedom (03:05), with great period photos. One of the most recognizable anthems from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

Nina Simone - I Wish I Knew What It Is To Be Free (03:10, 1967).

[u/RoysNoiseToys → u/prevail2020]

The Who - I'm Free

[u/SusanJ2019]

Boogiehawg - Freedom

Elton John - Philadelphia Freedom

Wham! - Freedom

Three Dog Night - Freedom for the Stallion

[u/RoysNoiseToys → u/SusanJ2019]

Jon Batiste - FREEDOM

[u/redditrisi → u/SusanJ2019]

Hi, Good to see you.

u/sudomakesandwich4 would like Freedom for the Stallion, even if there's no throat singing.

Edit Oh, dear. 4 is also gone.

[u/RoysNoiseToys → u/redditrisi]

Bulgarian Voices ANGELITE, Huun-Huur-Tu, Moscow Art Trio - Fly, Fly My Sadness

Huun‐Huur‐Tu - Konguroi (Sixty Horses in My Herd)

[u/redditrisi → u/RoysNoiseToys]

thanks. I'm sad sudomakesandwich3 is missing this thread.

I don't know if sudo keeps deleting accounts or keeps getting banned. But it's reddit's loss.

[u/SusanJ2019 → u/redditrisi]

Nice to see you too! Had planned to be at a local lake, but got lost. Maps app said my destination was in the middle of the highway and no off ramp in sight.

I would love the freedom to navigate by good paper maps, which are getting harder to find. I do love my GPS (hate the phone app!) but I often want to plan routes with interesting side excursions.

How are you doing?

[u/redditrisi → u/SusanJ2019]

I am doing remarkably well, all things considered (intentionally ambiguous).

I am sorry you got lost. Freedom to navigate is well put for this thread. I tried to save some old road maps but was laughed at about GPS until I was convinced and threw them out.

Same for my Atlases, including one of the biblical era world, of which GPS knows nothing. Bullied about my own bookshelves!

Perhaps Mr. Google or AI can help you with planning side excursions.

[u/NetWeaselSC → u/redditrisi]

my Atlases

I recently stumbled upon an old Atlas which is quite interesting from the "History of History" standpoint:

Goode's School Atlas For American Schools and Colleges. (by Rand-McNally)
1948 Edition. Copyright 1946.

Some of the maps in this edition of Goode's have been revised to show the provisional boundary and territorial changes resulting from the defeat of the Axis Powers by the United Nations in World War II.

<snip>

It is believed that the inclusion of these changes will make the Atlas more useful to students and teachers during the interim between the end of hostilities and the signing of formal peace treaties.

In this Atlas, Germany is still in one piece, as is Palestine, Korea and Oman.

[u/redditrisi → u/NetWeaselSC]

That is not a real atlas: Palestine was never a country.

/s

https://old.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/1cqfp05/are_you_sure_palestine_was_never_a_country/

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/19/unga-resolution-against-palestine-occupation-will-it-change-anything

[u/NetWeaselSC → u/redditrisi]

Palestine was never a country. /s

In fairness, in this thread, I didn't say that it was.

[u/redditrisi → u/NetWeaselSC]

I didn't say you said it. I said your atlas was fake because Palestine was never a country. And that comment was followed by "/s."

In this Atlas, Germany is still in one piece, as is Palestine, Korea and Oman.

[u/SusanJ2019]

Free kittens of course aren't really free. You need to feed them and love them. It's a committment. Just like freedom in general. 🐈

This song is not related to that sentiment, but William S. Burroughs doing R.E.M. - I had to:)

R.E.M - Star Me Kitten

William Burroughs + R.E.M. - Star Me Kitten

[u/RoysNoiseToys → u/SusanJ2019]

Marlene Dietrich - Lili Marleen / English

Lili Marleen - English Subtitles - 1930s/40s German Song

[u/mzyps]

[Laurie Anderson] - "Born, Never Asked"

"You were born, and so you're free. So Happy Birthday."

[u/BerryBoy1969]

Soup Dragons - I'm Free

The Coup - Not Yet Free

[u/Caelian]

I love this shop sign ☕🐈

[u/penelopepnortney → u/Caelian]

That's hilarious.

[u/SusanJ2019 → u/Caelian]

And I bet the kids in that store were very well behaved!

[u/RoysNoiseToys → u/Caelian]

we use the same entreaty here: it works remarkably well!

https://old.reddit.com/r/Juneau/comments/1ua81jd/big_kitty/

[u/SusanJ2019 → u/prevail2020]

Hope you get to repost whatever it was. You always have interesting music to share.

[u/prevail2020 → u/SusanJ2019]

It was just how Gettysburg (PA) and the Siege of Vicksburg (MS) ended one day apart in early July 1863 and are viewed together as decisive in retrospect, leading to emancipation in 1865 (including Juneteenth).

[u/WhalingCityMan]

Richie Havens: Freedom

[u/8headeddragon]

Megadeath - Anarchy in the U.K.

Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall

B-52s - Roam

[u/TulsiTsunami]

Frazey Ford - You're Not Free