This CD will be out of print in 6 weeks, so get it now – October 16th 1970, in Canada, Prime Minister Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act, sending tanks rolling through the streets and curtailing civil liberties nationwide. That evening Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and Phil Ochs play to a sell-out crowd in Vancouver, raising money to send activists to Amchitka, Alaska to stop U.S. nuclear bomb testing, thereby giving the world “the birth of the Greenpeace organization.”
http://www.amchitka-concert.com/
– Pat Thomas is the author of the recently released work, Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975
