Sunday, May 5, 2013

Ohio


SADLY, NEIL YOUNG’S OHIO STILL RELEVANT 43 YEARS AFTER KENT STATE MASSACRE

Rob McGuire, Art Threat, May 4, 2013
It was 43 years ago today that four students were killed at Kent State University, shot dead by the Ohio National Guard as they protested US military involvement in Cambodia. The bloody tragedy would move Neil Young to write the timeless protest song Ohio, which was recorded and heard on the radio within weeks of the incident.
In his liner notes for the song on his later Decade retrospective, Young would call the massacre “probably the biggest lesson ever learned at an American place of learning.” In our current political climate where dissent in increasingly repressed and criminalized, including here in Canada let us make sure we do not forget this lesson.

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