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Progressive Innovation in the 1970s: Madison, Wisconsin, and the Conference on Alternative State and Local Public Policies

January 22, 2007 by Administrator in Winter 2007

By Jonathan Thompson

Progressive cities in the United States and elsewhere have been most commonly understood as dealing with neighborhood mobilization, citizen empowerment and other forms of grassroots political involvement. Using the language of “the grassroots” in the U.S. and “civil society” for overseas cases, commentators have focused on the movement bases of progressive administrations. A different direction in progressive administration, however, can be seen in two cases from the 1970s, where the key factors were administrative and bureaucratic transformations effected by theoretically informed activist officials.

In the first case, the first mayoral administration (1973-1979) of Paul Soglin in Madison , Wisconsin , there was a left-leaning administration moving to the center and “capturing” public sector bureaucracies in order to provide good governance for the entire city. In the second case, the Conference on Alternative State and Local Public Policies, which met for the first time in Madison in 1975, there was an attempt to showcase the progressive transformation of the bureaucratic institutions of local government happening across the U.S. In both these cases, progressive activists transformed themselves into officials and administrators who governed using pragmatic policies emphasizing good governance and the formation of cross-class coalitions for continued electoral support.

At one level these are deviant cases—“normal” cities never faced even the possibility of movement activists taking control of government bureaucracies. Participatory and redistributive innovations and experiments were the exception, not the rule, in 1970s America . And, even in the cities where progressive activists came into power, many of their efforts were successfully resisted, and when implemented, changes were transitory.

At a deeper level, however, the exceptional cases of cities like Madison , and the national organizing of the conference, provide a window into a formative moment, both experimental and optimistic, in contemporary administrative practice. These 1970s innovators prefigured the “activist state” as seen in Porto Alegre , Brazil , and Kerala , India , in the1990s and 2000s. The past few years have seen the election of a set of high-profile, pragmatic and progressive mayors in a number of U.S. cities, including Los Angeles , Madison and Salt Lake City . Now as then, movement-based activists are being forced to develop theories and practices to inform their move into bureaucracies and electoral office.

In Madison , according to recent interviews and media coverage of the time, Paul Soglin pulled together a fragile coalition of students, organized labor and liberals to win election as mayor in 1973. Although the election of the young, mustachioed mayor with a radical past was presented at the time as a startling development, Soglin’s win was based on years of organizing, a history of successful electoral political involvement and the fortunate confluence of a number of other factors: the lowered voting age, the unpopularity of the incumbent mayor and the political organization left from the 1972 campaign of George McGovern. Without these factors, Soglin would likely not have been a serious mayoral candidate in 1972. Soglin’s election marked a decisive shift in the political culture of the city, away from both the right-wing reactionism of the previous mayor and the violence and unrest of the protest years.

As a law student at the University of Wisconsin (UW), Soglin became prominent as an antiwar activist in the 1960s, although more radical activists criticized him as a political operator rather than a movement heavy. His public and continued conflicts with the Madison Police Department (MPD) began during this time—Soglin was beaten at protests, had his car tires slashed in circumstances that implicated police officers and was the subject of sustained and illegal investigations, along with other local activists, by the MPD “affinity squad.”

As frustration grew over the continued expansion of the war in Vietnam , antiwar protests in Madison and across the nation turned increasingly violent in the late 1960s. The police used teargas for the first time against white college students in Madison in 1967. An escalating series of fire bombings, “trashings” and police and vigilante reprisals culminated in the spring and summer of 1970. Final exams at the university were cancelled because of a police riot at the annual Miffland Street block party and the shootings at Kent State in Ohio . The turning point for many activists was the truck-bombing of the Army Math Research Center on the UW campus in August that killed an unaffiliated researcher. Although the antiwar protests continued, the bombing was a sobering event that caused a turning away from the path of revolutionary violence.

Mayor William Dyke took office in Madison in 1969 promising to impose control over the increasingly violent protests; he won reelection in 1971 on the same promise. He was a deliberately polarizing figure, lauding heavy-handed police tactics and calling for vigilante justice. (Dyke later ran for vice president on segregationist Lester Maddox’s presidential ticket.) This polarizing aspect, however, increasingly lost him support as the excesses of the police response became more public and support for the war dropped.

Soglin entered Madison electoral politics as well in 1969, winning election to the City Council from a student-heavy district, and was reelected in 1971. By 1973, there was a strong minority of progressives on the City Council who were often able to create working coalitions with moderate Democratic and Republican aldermen. As Dyke’s political positions grew more extreme, Soglin and other progressives on the Council appeared increasingly mainstream by comparison. As an alderman, Soglin’s reputation as a wild, long-haired radical became overlaid with that of a responsible, mainstream progressive who paid attention to the formalities of government, could work with others and knew how to compromise.

The broad dislike of Dyke trumped the more normal Balkanization on the left, allowing Soglin to craft a broad electoral coalition with significant grassroots mobilization to win in 1972. The voting age had been dropped that year from twenty-one to eighteen, and students turned out to vote in large numbers, though particularly with the decline of the antiwar movement, they did not stay mobilized and were not a significant political force between elections.

Disappointing critics on the far left of the political spectrum, Soglin’s administration stayed firmly “between the lines,” working with existing structures and mechanisms rather than tearing down and rebuilding Madison ‘s government on a radical model. Reflecting the history of conflict between the antiwar left and the MPD, Soglin’s administration made “regaining control” over the police force a central focus during his first years in office. The appointment of a more humane chief of police, and the subsequent opening of the MPD to gay, female and minority applicants, were key symbols of democratic openness and of changing city/community relations.

Soglin implemented a range of mildly redistributive and participatory mechanisms, such as providing public daycare, funding the tenants’ union and opening the city budget to greater scrutiny and citizen participation. While Soglin successfully municipalized the bus system, his efforts to municipalize sectors such as cable television and electricity failed. Soglin’s administration experimented with development corporations and other public-private blendings, with mixed results.

Soglin, like other left-leaning mayors of the decade, went so far as to create a foreign policy independent of the nation’s. For example, Soglin was the first U.S. mayor to visit Fidel Castro, in 1975. These efforts were of great symbolic importance, particularly to the ideological left, but within Madison they were a side issue to the day-to-day politics of service delivery, budgets and political appointments.

Jim Rowen, Soglin’s aide, ran for office in 1979 as Soglin’s successor but was decisively defeated, in part because of his alienation of the Madison economic and media elite by his support for organized labor. Soglin, however, was again elected mayor in 1989, stepping down early in 1997 for an unsuccessful run for the U.S. senate. He ran for mayor again in 2003 in an election where, ironically, he was widely labeled as the conservative candidate, losing to progressive candidate Dave Cieslewicz.

The Conference

The history of Soglin’s administration is intertwined with that of the Conference on Alternative State and Local Public Policies. Madison was not unique. Similar developments were happening in other cities across the U.S. The Conference, which had its first meeting in Madison in 1975, served as a key national point of interconnection for what were otherwise disconnected and isolated local efforts. The Conference is still active, although it has since changed its name twice and its leadership several times. In 1985 the Conference became the National Center for Policy Alternatives, and in 1990 it reorganized as the Center for Policy Alternatives.

In 1975, the national environment, particularly under Nixon’s presidency, appeared to be as or more hostile to progressive activists than ever before. There were, nonetheless, a growing set of cities, such Berkeley , Austin and Madison , and local elected officials, including judges, mayors and city and county legislators, proposing and implementing local progressive reforms. The period between the first meeting in 1975 in Madison and the disillusionment and retreat that followed the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan captures the conference at its most vibrant, productive and influential.

The conference was a loosely organized agglomeration of progressive activists from across North America . It was meant to serve as a clearinghouse of local innovations and successes, and as a platform for the promotion of a national agenda of progressive change rooted in local electoral and legislative politics. The innovations created by conference participants were unabashedly based in an expansive vision of the public sector and incremental progress towards economic justice and direct democracy.

According to interviews and conference publications, a major effort of the conference organizers (Lee Webb, Derek Shearer and Ann Beaudry in particular) involved the creation of a framework within which to fit the disparate efforts of the conference’s participants, and then linking this framework to a realistic program of political change in the U.S. Organizers strongly advocated for structural change through public ownership and a range of what are now called “good government” initiatives. The overall model was that of the social democrats in Western Europe and Canada , with a rhetorical nod to previous American reform efforts such as the Populist Movement. Organizers were particularly conscious of the language of politics, eschewing words like “socialism” in favor of more palatable phrases like “economic democracy.” But because the conference functioned as an agglomeration of local efforts, not as something with top-down authority, the organizers’ vision was not applied equally to all of the local efforts within the conference. Instead, local efforts spanned a spectrum, from highly theoretically informed to what appear to have been very naïve experiments.

Most contemporary discussions of progressive cities have concentrated on progressive administrations’ policies towards participation, redistribution, land use and job creation. What is immediately apparent from looking at Madison, however, and many of the cases showcased at the conference, is the holistic and experimental approach that was taken. The approach was much broader than that taken by most reformist or radical municipal governments in the U.S. today, in part because they came into power with very shallow institutional experience and genuinely did not know what were the limits and possibilities. Their analyses of the nexuses of structural power in 1970s America led them to attempt to gain control over certain pieces of the systems of food production and distribution. (Community gardens and cooperative stores are the surviving remnants of this effort.) They integrated questions of energy production and public ownership of utilities, banks and housing. And a tremendous effort was made to rein in aspects of what was seen as an out-of-control criminal justice system—in particular, many progressives had become radicalized by the indiscriminate use of police violence in attempts to suppress antiwar and civil rights organizing.

Obviously, the conference organizers’ hope of a tide of local progressivism sweeping across the United States never came to pass. The conference meetings and publications, however, were important vehicles for discussing and disseminating innovative strategies and mechanisms for progressive reform. Local administrations, such as Soglin’s in Madison , permanently changed local political cultures on a progressive model, and some of their innovations have today become mainstream administrative practice.

Jonathan Thompson is a doctoral candidate in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell, and is a research associate and lecturer at Whitman College .

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Back in December we reported on a photo that hit the web of some new Apple Store sign-age that clearly read: "The white iPhone 4 will be available in spring 2011" which backed up an Apple statement released back in October.

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After the passing of his mother when Lenny was in second grade, he moved from Allentown to Jonas and was raised by his Uncle Ernie and Aunt Lillian Kreger.

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By Jose Antonio Ocampo | Project Syndicate | November 12, 2008

For those of us who have long claimed that the world's international financial architecture needed deep reform, the call for a "Bretton Woods II" is welcome. Of course, similar calls were made after the Asian and Russian crises of 1997–1998, but were not taken seriously by the rich industrial countries. Now that these countries are at the center of the storm, perhaps they will now be serious.

Two fundamental problems exist with the call for reform. First, it lacks content: it is unclear what any eventual Bretton Woods II discussions will be about. Second, the process started the wrong way, by excluding most countries from the talks. It is obviously good for the G7 or a subset of G7 members to show leadership, but no fundamental reform can occur without an inclusive process that gives both industrial and developing countries, and both large and small countries an adequate voice. Global institutions, not ad hoc groups of countries, must be at the center of the reform effort.

The clearest issue right now is correcting the deficit of regulations that characterizes global financial markets. Discussion must start by agreeing on regulatory principles. An obvious one is that regulations must be comprehensive, to avoid the massive loopholes that led to the current turmoil.

Regulations should also have a strong countercyclical focus, preventing excessive accumulation of leverage and increasing capital and provisions (reserves) during booms, as well as preventing asset price bubbles from feeding into credit expansion. Reliance on financial institutions' internal models, the major focus of the Basel II agreement on banking regulation, should be discarded. That strategy has now been exposed as perilous, and the use by financial institutions of similar risk models can lead to greater instability.

Any new regulatory system should be based on a well functioning network of national and regional authorities (still missing in the European Union) and include truly international supervision of financial institutions with a global reach. Most agree that the International Monetary Fund should not be at the center of the regulatory system. The Bank for International Settlements and the Basel Committee are better placed, but a fundamental reform is needed to broaden their membership and to avoid a major problem of the Basel Committee: its lack of representation of developing countries.

Three central issues of IMF reform should also be taken on board. The first is the need for a truly global reserve currency, perhaps based on the IMF Special Drawing Rights (SDRs). This would overcome both the inequities and the instability that is inherent in a global reserve system based on a national currency. Today's system is plagued by cycles of confidence in the dollar and by periodic shocks due to American policies that are adopted independently of their global impact and thus imposed on the rest of the world.

The second issue is the need to place the IMF, not the G7—or any other "G"—at the center of global macroeconomic policy coordination. This is the only way to give developing countries a voice. The multilateral surveillance on global imbalances that the Fund launched in 2006 was an interesting step in this direction, but it has lacked commitment by the parties, as well as teeth.

The third issue is developing countries' major demand. The IMF should lend during balance-of-payments crises rapidly and without overburdening conditions, particularly when the source of the crisis is a rapid reversal of capital flows or a sharp deterioration in the terms of trade. This would make the IMF more like a central bank, providing liquidity in an agile way, just as advanced countries' central banks have been providing funds on a massive scale recently. In the case of the IMF, the financing for such liquidity could be countercyclical issues of SDRs.

In all these areas, the IMF should make more active use of regional institutions. For a decade, I have proposed that the IMF of the future should be seen as the apex of a network of regional reserve funds—that is, a system closer in design to the European Central Bank or the U.S. Federal Reserve system.

A similar institutional design could be adopted for prudential policies. A denser network of institutions seems better adapted to a heterogeneous international community, and it is likely to provide better services and give a stronger voice to smaller countries.

Finally, one major deficiency of the current international financial architecture is the lack of an institutional framework—i.e., a court similar to those created to manage bankruptcies in national economies—to manage debt overhangs at the international level. The current system relies on ad hoc mechanisms, which generally operate too late, after high indebtedness has already imposed devastating effects. The only regular institutional mechanism is the Paris Club, which deals exclusively with official financing. Bretton Woods II should resolve this problem by creating an international debt court.

The current financial crisis has made the need for reform of the international financial architecture patently clear. But any summons to a "Bretton Woods II" conference must be concrete in its content. A global system for prudential regulation and supervision; a revamped IMF managing a global reserve currency, coordinating global macroeconomic policy, and providing agile credit lines; and an international debt court—all of these must be on the agenda.

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I hope you’re okay with word spreading far and fast about your implication of impeachment. Here’s the thing though, you might want to walk that one back. Soon. Impeachment, Senator Kyl, is a serious thing. I don’t know if anyone’s told you this, but it’s sort of not done unless the President does some really, really fucked up shit. Although to be fair, thanks to your fellow Republicans, a blow job falls under the “Really, Really Fucked Up Shit” banner now too, so maybe you were just ill-informed.

Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) – The first of the morons to imply impeachment for President Obama.

We get it, Senator Kyl. You and your fellow Republicans hate President Obama. Well, I don’t know if you hate him, or just hate that he’s in office. Either way, we understand by now that you guys are willing to do anything and everything to get him out of office, including sabotaging the economy so you can turn around and ask, “Why hasn’t President Obama already fixed this tremendous pile of shit Bush left behind?!” But you still can’t impeach him for his policy on immigration. He isn’t ignoring laws, Senator. He’s choosing to direct his limited resources at more important targets like criminals, and not every Tomas, Ricardo or Harry that comes to our country looking for a better life.

What you’re really pissed off about is that you and the rest of the GOP killed the Dream Act and now Obama has done an end-around our useless Congressional body and effected at least some temporary relief. You may think that deporting people who came here illegally under no fault of their own is a good thing; but most Americans don’t agree with you. Most Americans, when asked favor a policy like that of President Obama’s. He didn’t give the 800,000 or so illegal immigrants impacted by his policy shift a path to citizenship. He just told them we’re not coming for you right now because we have bigger fish to try, and you’re the kind of person we love having here.

I’m just having a hard time understanding you Republicans lately. First you do an en masse flip-flop on the individual mandate in health care reform (after twenty years of championing it), and now you tell us that your intent is to impeach President Obama if he doesn’t go back on his policy change? I hate to tell you, Senator Kyl, but Presidents have been doing this kind of thing for quite some time now. Presidents on both sides of the aisle have had to make some decisions as how to best uphold the laws of the nation. You and your fellow Republicans like to imply that Obama is somehow picking and choosing which laws to uphold and enforce. He’s not doing any such thing; he’s simply deciding how to enforce them and how to prioritize.

But by all means, Senator, implore your GOP friends in the House to fire up the Impeachment Machine 5000. The last time you guys went down this rabbit hole you lost face, lost momentum and lost control of Congress shortly thereafter. Americans don’t mind political theater, but they are are sensitive about witch hunts. Between you running your mouth about impeachment and Representative Issa chasing windmills over Fast and Furious, it won’t be long until the public at large decides they’re tired of the obstructionists fucking it up for everybody.

The irony is that if you hadn’t filibustered the Dream Act to death, we’d have an actual law in place, and you could go after repealing it if you so chose. You’d be acting just as foolish given its popularity, but I’m not in the habit of telling elected officials what to do; I’m in the habit of making fun of elected officials do. But what I hope you and the rest of the Republicans in Congress understand is that the country is much more upset with you and the Democrats in the House and Senate than they are with Obama. Your approval ratings are in the shit house and then some. An unpopular impeachment proceeding wouldn’t fly very well for the segment of the population that doesn’t get its news from the Murdoch and Ailes, and that’s something you have to contend with.

No, your best bet is to shut the fuck up, get the Congressional Republicans together, and write a Dream Act bill. Force the Democrats to vote on it. That’s the only way you can actually get some political cache from independents and moderates. Your maniacal zealot base will be fine with whatever you do. But they won’t help convince average Americans that impeachment is the way to go. Oh, and seriously guy, you have about five months until a very close election. Why don’t you just sit tight and see if your guy wins the White House. Then if he doesn’t, you can go on another crusade, okay?

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Amid former Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson’s punishing attacks on potential GOP foe John Quinones — which include a mailer asserting that Quinones is at odds with former Florida GOP Gov. Jeb Bush on tax policy — Bush released this statement today:

“I find it in utterly poor taste that Alan Grayson would use my statements, misquoted and out of context, for political gain. I encourage Mr. Grayson to take down his ads, stay out of the Republican primary and let the voters of Central Florida to choose their nominee without his help. There will be plenty of time for Mr. Grayson to defend his liberal tax-and-spend record in the fall.”

Grayson, the liberal provocateur who lost his bid for reelection in 2010, is running again for an open House seat in the Orlando area. Cash-flush and unopposed in the Democratic primary, Grayson has spent more than $100,000 on TV, radio and mailers pounding Quinones in advance of Tuesday’s GOP primary.

While he’s the front-runner in the comfortably Democratic district, Grayson is nevertheless trying to shape his November opposition by spending heavily against Quinones.

Why Quinones? As a Puerto Rican Republican and an elected office-holder, he likely represents the biggest threat to Grayson in a district with a high percentage of Puerto Ricans.

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by Marshall Bowden

7 November 2002

Healing Music for Troubled Times

Charles Lloyd was booked to play at The Blue Note in New York City during the week of September 11. Though his performances were postponed until later in the week, both the club and Lloyd decided to go ahead with the gig, and the saxophonist presented a beautiful and healing experience on the audiences who attended his performances. In a quiet way Lloyd has carried the spiritual and emotional banner of the late John Coltrane, particularly since his return to the U.S. jazz scene in the 1990s. After leading one of the few jazz groups to break through to rock audiences in a major way in the mid-1960s, Lloyd retired from the music scene to spend the ‘70s immersed in his personal spiritual quest. Since hooking up with ECM Records in 1990, Lloyd has released one fine album after another of music that is both healing and meditative yet still searching and pushing at boundaries.

Lift Every Voice, a two-CD set, expands on the territory Lloyd established with his last two recordings, The Water Is Wide and Hyperion With Higgins. Since the death of drummer Billy Higgins, Billy Hart takes over the drum chair, and pianist Geri Allen replaces Brad Mehldau. Mark Johnson and Larry Grenadier take turns on bass, and John Abercrombie returns with his trademark guitar work. Abercrombie, influenced by Wes Montgomery, Grant Green, and Jim Hall, is a perfect companion to Lloyd, and he and Allen also interact well. The opening track “Hymn to the Mother”, a Lloyd composition, opens with some exposition by Abercrombie over a drone provided by bass and piano. Following some melodic playing by Lloyd, the rhythm section interacts and shifts roles, with Marc Johnson playing a bowed bass solo while Allen and Abercrombie provide the drone, and finally Allen coming out front while Abercrombie and Johnson provide the point of reference. Hart maintains a quiet timekeeping role throughout much of the track. “Hymn to the Mother” is somewhat reminiscent of Miles Davis’ “In a Silent Way” in its ability to maintain a contemplative mood throughout its 15-minute length without ever allowing itself to become merely sonic wallpaper. It is a testament to the interaction between this fine group of musicians that there is always something interesting to listen to despite the track’s lack of harmonic or melodic development.

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“You Are So Beautiful” is a much more straightforward jazz ballad, and Lloyd’s gorgeous tone floats over Allen’s robust piano accompaniment and Hart’s gentle but insistent brush work. “Amazing Grace” benefits from the blues and folk-tinged counterpoint between Abercrombie and Lloyd. One of Lloyd’s strengths is his ability to make the tenor saxophone “sing” with all the depth and weight of a vocalist, which can be difficult to do without the benefit of lyrics. He doesn’t throw his musical ideas at you so much as he offers them, putting them out there for anyone who is interested.

Lloyd’s Memphis roots come out on his composition “East Virginia, West Memphis”, a blues that allows both Lloyd and Abercrombie to get to some earthy playing. Everything this ensemble plays is imbued with a spiritual quality, with absolutely nothing coming across as tossed off or thrown away. Once the drum and bass slow blues groove kicks in on this number, Lloyd begins to wail, recalling Coltrane, but with a vocal cry that is all his own. Abercrombie often comes across as an electric guitarist who has found a way to transfer the intimacy of the acoustic to his electric work. That is true on this number, but he cuts loose with the electric in a way that is inspiring and makes one wish that the legions of rock guitarists who make intensive faces while playing the simplest blues licks could be forced to take this demonstration of earnest blues guitar work to heart. Following is the group’s take on Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On”, again a great example of conveying the meaning of a song even without its lyrics. Lloyd shows that it is possible to be delicate without sacrificing depth of sound or meaning, a lesson that smooth jazz players should take to heart. The first disc is rounded out by the Lloyd original “Angel Oak”, “Te Amare” by Silvio Rodriguez, one of revolutionary Cuba’s best pop/folk songwriters, the seldom heard Duke Ellington composition “I’m Afraid”, and Lloyd’s own klezmer-influenced “Hafez, Shattered Heart”.

Disc two continues into heavily spiritual territory with both Lloyd originals and adaptations of several traditional spiritual tunes. First though, there is another beautiful Silvio Rodriguez tune, “Rabo de Nube”, which again benefits from simpatico, organic playing of the rhythm section as a whole. A rendition of the pensive, harmonically sophisticated Billy Strayhorn composition, “Blood Count” follows. “Go Down Moses” has Lloyd sounding as much like Coltrane as he does anywhere on this album. Once the out-of-time introduction gives way to Larry Grenadier’s gently loping bass line, Allen provides the full, open-chord sound that is reminiscent of McCoy Tyner, while Lloyd manages to inject both modal runs and a vocal cry into his sound without ever becoming abrasive. Abercrombie takes a nice turn, managing to be both modal, outside, and bluesy at the same time. “Go Down Moses” is a major high point of this album, which is high praise considering the high caliber of Lift Every Voice from beginning to end.

Lloyd’s composition “Beyond Darkness” allows him to demonstrate his full-bodied flute playing. Just as on tenor sax, Lloyd has developed a voice that may share elements with other players, but is completely his own. Here again Lloyd provides the perfect example of the difference between gentleness and weakness, and the very gentleness of his playing provides a core of confidence and strength that few of today’s more bombastic players can lay claim to. “Wayfaring Stranger” allows the rhythm section, to play more freely while Lloyd again manages to invoke Coltrane without imitating him.

The final group of tracks speaks directly to the concept of spiritual struggle, healing, and life’s difficult journey, a group of topics that Lloyd has been examining, both musically and individually, for much of his life. “Deep River” is a straightforward spiritual adaptation that easily recalls some of Lloyd’s ‘60s work with pianist Keith Jarrett and drummer Jack DeJohnette. “Lift Every Voice and Sing” has often been referred to as the “Negro National Anthem”, its lyrics having been written by poet and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson, with music by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson. Though the lyrics clearly discuss the struggle for human dignity and civil rights faced by African Americans throughout the nation’s history, they also have a profound spiritual bent that speaks to all people everywhere, particularly in these difficult times:

Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
Let us march on till victory is won.

The final track, “Prayer, The Crossing” is almost evenly divided between the lengthy, out-of-time opening section (“Prayer”) and (after several seconds of silence) the final uptempo section (“The Crossing”) that exudes an atmosphere of joyous struggle rather than mourning or resignation.

Just as those who heard Lloyd’s performances last September at the Blue Note were able to put aside their fears and doubts for awhile and immerse themselves in Lloyd’s moods and meditations, listeners to this album will find themselves able to do the same. Taken all together, Lift Every Voice provides a sumptuous tapestry that is by turns healing, reverent, mournful, hopeful, and, in the end, celebratory of the human experience. Great art does that, and Lift Every Voice is unquestionably great art, and easily one of the year’s best jazz recordings.

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We recently posted a You Don't Need Permission To about looking like yourself instead of everyone else, and your comments well and truly rocked.

Check out Ellen in this month's W Magazine if you haven't already; she's on the cover and is featured in a 6-page spread. I don't think she looks at all like the Ellen we know and adore. The look is slick and glam, and there's something a little too femmie going on. Why can Diane Keaton wear a gorgeous suit in a spread, or someone else be photographed barefoot, and Ellen's in dominatrix pumps and fishnets?

In the video from the shoot below, we see Ellen being funny and whimsical, and I think W missed a true opportunity to reveal Ellen's particular beauty and magic in the magazine; instead, they buried her in makeup, sexed her up, and chose images which hid her considerable charisma. Do they or don't they understand what's brilliant about this woman?

Worse still, W Magazine bizarrely and stupidly asked her to pose for the cover in a dress; Ellen wisely took a pass.

I know what this magazine is. It's beauty magazine; it's a fashion magazine. For me to even be considered and asked to be on the cover- it's huge-- When I first thought about doing it, I thought, Okay, I'll be open to this. I'll play dress up. Then I thought, I just don't feel comfortable in it. I don't want to apologize for who I am.

Do you think she still expresses herself truly in these shots, or do you feel the stylists and the magazine imposed some traditional ideas on her? Would you have rather seen Ellen photographed brilliantly but looking more like the woman we know (plus, plus, of course -- it's a fashion magazine, after all) or do you like her look in these pictures?

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lms lms 9 years
She looked like she had fun doing the shoot. She looked really good in the video.
Daylyn Daylyn 9 years
I support Ellen no matter what she does. I think she knew what she was getting into when she agreed to pose for the magazine. She is such a beautiful person and her and Portia look so happy together :) She is an all around inspiration.
styleicon85 styleicon85 9 years
I think that Ellen looks pretty good and it was her choice whether or not she wanted to do this shoot. If she felt that her style and personality was being compromised then she should have spoken up about it. She seems to have enjoyed it so I don't understand why anyone else should care....
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Does anyone think that Portia looks like a much prettier version of Ellen Pompeo?
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I think she did more to prove her point by wearing the dress. She can freely say to the world, I can be just as sexy as the next girl, but I choose to be who I am, and more importantly she is comfortable with it. If only we could all have this confidence. I think Ellen is one classy lady.
popgoestheworld popgoestheworld 9 years
The one of her and Portia is so beautiful. Portia is just a classic total beauty and Ellen holds her own next to her, albeit in a different way. I'd be curious to read the article and see the other pics.
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hey jessness -- i truly don't think there's anything wrong with some makeup on ellen, but the interior shots (which i coudln't access) hardly look like her there's so much makeup. my gut feeling after seeing all the pics was that they didn't really understand her appeal & so altered her look too much. check out the mag at the newstand (the layout is in the back) & see what you think. maybe i'm just art directing, which isn't my field, of course!
JessNess JessNess 9 years
THe print is bold because someone forgot to put the end bold symbol Ellen seemed happy with the pictures so whats wrong with her putting some makeup on. I have a feeling that if she didnt like the mags concept for her she wouldnt have done it
Marci Marci 9 years
I think it's an interesting experiment, and it's great that Ellen went along with - except for wearing a dress, which would have been completely out of character for her. But she doesn't look very comfortable with the whole thin in the video. I love the picture of her with Portia best. That's the real Ellen.
kendalheart kendalheart 9 years
Why the bold print??
kendalheart kendalheart 9 years
Ellen is very true to herself even in the Oscars, she refused to wear a dress! She still didn't in this shoot and I think that she enjoyed dressing up some (if you saw it on her show she had clips, she loved and enjoyed it). I love Ellen and think that she is an incredible example of strong woman who stands up for herself and does not compromise! I love her! And I love her with Portia!
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I love the pic of Ellen hugging Portia, they seem like such a loving couple and you can tell from interviews with them that they are so grateful to have found each other. I think she looks too glammed up on the cover, she really has amazing skin and doesn't need all of that makeup to look beautiful. Good for her for not wearing a dress, since she knew she wouldn't feel comfortable in one. The magazine definitely could have compromised more, since Ellen obviously did by wearing the makeup and having her hair done a certain way...on the other hand, like the quote says, she was aware this was a W cover and they were going to want to glam her up.
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Ellen is amazing. I just love her... ! I watched her talkshow before I heard her story and background and then I loved her even more! She's the ultimate host - I would love to meet her or be on her show. She's hysterical and she's beautiful and inspiring! How about them Oscars? Yay ELLEN! :)
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