SWEET LINDA DIVINE -“I’LL SAY IT AGAIN” (1970)

Mothers, sisters, lovers, friends. Stand by your woman.

“Woman is the other half of the sky.
If she’s for real, we say she’s trying to be a man.”
-John Lennon, 1980/1972

“Every woman has a song to sing/ Every woman has a story to tell/
Make no mistake about it, brothers/ We women have the power to move mountains.”
-Yoko Ono, 1973

“Remember, this man’s world of yours will never be without pain and suffering until it learns love, and respect for human rights. Keep your hands extended to all in friendliness but never holding the gun of persecution and intolerance!”
-Wonder Woman, 1948

“It was the boast of the founders of the republic, that the rights for which they contended were the rights of human nature. If these rights are ignored in the case of one-half the people, the nation is surely preparing for its downfall. Governments try themselves. The recognition of a governing and a governed class is incompatible with the first principles of freedom….”
-Susan B. Anthony

“That man over there says that women need to be helped over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud puddles, or gives me any better place. And ain’t I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head (surpass) me! And ain’t I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man- when I could get it- and bear the lash as well! And ain’t I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t I a woman?”
-Sojourner Truth, 1851

Sisters in the Revolution showcased here include: Mary Wollstonecraft, godmother of feminism; Victoria Woodhull; Sojourner Truth; Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Susan B. Anthony; the British suffragist movement, including Mary Pankhurst; the American suffragists movement, including Alice Paul (like the British women, tortured in prison for her beliefs); the women of World War II who ran the country while the men fought; William Moulton Marston’s paragon of progress for humanity, Wonder Woman; Rosa Parks, the modern catalyst; Betty Friedan; Yoko Ono, conceptual artist and first Rock’n’Roll feminist (hence the haters); Germaine Greer; Kate Millet; the grand Gloria Steinem; Shirley Chisolm, the first woman to run for President; Angela Davis of the Black Panthers; Vivienne Westwood, co-instigator of the Sex Pistols and Punk fashion; Linder (Sterling), Punk artist and musician; Judy Chicago; the E.R.A.; Jenny Holzer; Barbara Kruger; the best journalist in America, Pulitzer Prize winner Susan Faludi; Dr. Anita Hill; Kathleen Hanna, instigator of Riot Grrrls, and leader of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre; The Guerilla Girls, saving Art from stupidity; and the brave women of the world who stand up against the slaver’s mindset.

The Equal Rights Amendement has been introduced to Congress every year for a century, and never been passed. Women make 75 cents to every man’s dollar. CEO’s increase their salaries to obscene levels with surplus profits.
In a democracy you have the right to say something about this…

About Sweet Linda Divine: As part of the San Francisco rock scene of the late 1960’s, Linda Tillery was the powerhouse voice for the soulful rock group, the Loading Zone. They made two albums in which her full-throated assault punched up the proceedings. She recorded a praised solo album in 1970, taking the name Sweet Linda Divine at the suggestion of producer Al Kooper. True to his legendary pedigree, Kooper surronded her on organ while she took full front and center on tunes like “I’ll say It Again”, an anthemic revolutionary take on James Brown. “Linda subsequently played drums and sang on over 40 albums throughout the 1970’s. she became a regular musician and producer at the feminst record label, oliva Records, who released her classic recording, “Freedom Time”, in 1977. At the start of the 1990’s she performed leading vocals as Sweet Linda Divine on MC Hammer’s Please, Hammer, Don’t Hurt ‘Em” and continues to record to this day.” (“Gimme Shelter: Kaleidoscopic Funk collision” CD, Harmless Recordings, 2001.)
http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/Linda%20Tillery.html
http://www.culturalheritagechoir.com/linda_tillery.shtml
http://www.thefestival.bc.ca/artists.php?perID=2750

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/23/NSCF18QUK5.DTL&type=music

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