Category Archives: REMEMBER
BYE-BYE JOE PEPITONE, & THANK YOU
There have been three professional baseball players I’m aware of from my Gravesend/Bensonhurst (Brooklyn) neighborhood: The one-of-a-kind Dodgers’ pitcher Sandy Koufax (who’d refused to play on the Jewish holidays, and made us all proud although we didn’t really know why!), John Franco, and Joe Pepitone, who was the NY Yankees’ first baseman in the mid-1960s. […]
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
January 15th marks the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929). The airwaves are filled with timid and at best nostalgic tributes to the great man. Except for WBAI and other non-commercial stations, only Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech — and even there but a tiny snippet of it — […]
REMEMBERING FRIENDS AND MEANINGFUL LIVES
Mitchel Cohen (19) in 1968 at SUNY Stony Brook Hi folks, I’m having a rough time of it today as I remember the close friends and acquaintances who died this year and last. I was just wondering if anyone else is feeling that way too …. I’m still in shock over many of folks, snatched […]
Just Found picture of my Dad (Abe Cohen), whose 98 birthday would be today! Here he is in 1951.
Dad (Abe Cohen) was 27 here in 1951, a few years back from serving in the US Marine Corps in the South Pacific. That’s Mitchel Cohen at 2 years old. Picture in Sheepshead Bay. Dad was 55 when he died in 1980. His 98 birthday would be on December 5th. Happy Birthday, Dad!!!! from […]
DICK GREGORY, RIP
FILE – In this July 21, 2012 file photo, comedian and activist Dick Gregory poses for a portrait during the PBS TCA Press Tour in Beverly Hills, Calif. Gregory, the comedian and activist and who broke racial barriers in the 1960s and used his humor to spread messages of social justice and nutritional health, has […]
REMEMBERING DAN BERRIGAN
“Dan Berrigan was a moral giant and the closest thing we have in our society to a prophet.” – Jeremy Scahill Mitchel Cohen writes: I was standing in the back of the jam-packed, magnificent Church of St. Francis Xavier on W. 16th St. in Manhattan Friday for the funeral and “sending off” of liberation theology […]
REMEMBERING FR. PAUL MAYER
WBAI radio’s Robert Knight writes: Wednesday night on WBAI’s “Earthwatch with Robert Knight,” a tribute to the late Father Paul Mayer: Civil rights leader, environmentalist and global humanitarian, The Rev. Paul Mayer, passed away on November 22nd. Tonight we shall hear Father Paul in conversation with WBAI’s “Earthwatch” and “Five O’Clock Shadow.” So please join […]
REMEMBERING LEONARD WEINGLASS (August 27, 1933 – March 23, 2011)
Our friend and comrade — and one of my heroes — attorney Leonard Weinglass — died on March 23, 77 years old, of complications stemming from pancreatic cancer. Len Weinglass was a humble man and a great attorney. His life’s work was to support radical activists who were under attack by the system of injustice […]
