. ♪♪ [music break] amy: "hold the line" by pete seeger. this is democracy now!mocracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman, joined by my democracy now! co-host nermeen shaikh. hi, nermeen. nermeen: hi, amy. welcome to all of our listeners and viers from around the country and around the world. amy: we begin today's show looking at the case of evan gershkovich, a "wall street journal" reporter who was arrested and jailed last week in russia on espionage charges. he faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. russia has accused evan of trying to obtain state secrets related to the russian military. he had reported in russia since 2017. his parents had fled the soviet union before he was born. "the wall street journal" accused russia of arresting gershkovich as part of a "calculated provocation to embarrass the u.s. and intimidate the foreign press still working in russia." press freedom groups have denounced his arrest and urged russia to immediately release him. on wednesday, u.s. secretary of state tony blinken said gershkovich was being wrongfully

and musical and visual artists such as pete seeger. and annie. pete seeger sent us the gettysburg address, written out in his own hands. in a different format. and he said, you know, i'm 94, so i'm not going to be composing anything right now. but i'm going to write it out for you. the gettysburg out for you. the way i've helped people over the years learn to recite it. and so that's what he sent us. and annie leibowitz. sent us. she said, well, you know, i'm not a writer. i do photograph. so she sent us some photo essays that we included in the book particularly the one of daniel chester french, who was the sculptor for the lincoln memorial. and she was at his studio. and so she a picture of of the model and that's what we have the book but many of our other essays spoke of their own personal experience pieces and their family heritages and julian bond, the late julian bond, wrote for us an essay reminds us that only a few generations separates us from slavery. and he wrote a very eloquent essay and i'll read some of it for you. only my generati

pete seeger bring them home, you know, so it's it's really across board. and then by the later sixties you start to see the antiwar songs emerging. i think one of the most compelling and i've been thinking about it all day today is, the bob seeger system's two plus two equals question mark, which was not really a hit. i think it did okay in detroit, but it it it it's it's the speaker of the song is going to go to war doesn't know why isn't even necessarily protesting but is saying this doesn't make sense. people are making decisions that are affecting my life what going on two plus two is not equaling logic here so i think you know these are these are little two minute songs but you know pop, rock and roll had emerged in the fifties here. it was in the sixties record companies were bigger and the baby boom had sort of taken taken forms. and you just see see vietnam kind of all over popular music in that period. as you say, there is an alignment between the kind of war music or antiwar that was being produced with the that were happening in vietnam. and i g

woody guthrie, pete seeger, joan baez are portrayed in the film.e. there with three daughters and their friends, making memories of a lifetime. she's in the midst of a tour that continues through august. >> singing every word. >> thought that was cute. that's pop news. >> go to ginger in utah. >> george, quite a different scene from the desert to what happened in miami, florida. they're tropical. record daily rain, 2.5 inches. 2 to 4 inches caused flooding, and more where that came from. a lot has to do with the action to the west. that low pressure system trying to make its way into new orleans in the next 48 hours. heavy rain, 3 to 5 inches. that warm front will lift for tampa, miami, tuma with her accurately forecast. more clouds leading to afternoon sunshine but below average temperatures in the 50's and 60's. tonight, clear skies will dip into the 30's and 40's. the next seven days, we have sunshine, a dip in temperatures tomorrow but then we warm up for the weekend. saturday and sunday we go back into the 60's and the 70's. >> time now for so

pete seeger bring them home, you know, so it's it's really across board. and then by the later sixties you start to see the antiwar songs emerging. i think one of the most compelling and i've been thinking about it all day today is, the bob seeger system's two plus two equals question mark, which was not really a hit. i think it did okay in detroit, but it it it it's it's the speaker of the song is going to go to war doesn't know why isn't even necessarily protesting but is saying this doesn't make sense. people are making decisions that are affecting my life what going on two plus two is not equaling logic here so i think you know these are these are little two minute songs but you know pop, rock and roll had emerged in the fifties here. it was in the sixties record companies were bigger and the baby boom had sort of taken taken forms. and you just see see vietnam kind of all over popular music in that period. as you say, there is an alignment between the kind of war music or antiwar that was being produced with the that were happening in vietnam. and i g