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Eugene V Debs
Reginald D Hunter selects Eugene V Debs
Great LivesEugene Victor Debs, born 1855 in Indiana USA, was a railway worker, a trade unionist and a five time candidate for the presidency. He was imprisoned during the First World War for sedition. He'd urged resistance to the draft; President Woodrow Wilson called him a traitor to the nation, but Debs still ran for the presidency in 1920. His sentence was commuted the following year.
Reginald D Hunter is an American stand-up comedian based in the UK. His many credits include Have I Got News For You and Reginald D Hunter's Songs of the South. Last year at Edinburgh his show Fluffy Fluffy Beavers briefly became headline news. In studio with Reginald and presenter Matthew Parris is Professor Clive Webb, author of Vietdamned.
The producer for BBC Studios in Bristol is Miles Warde.
#BBCRadio4 #BBCGreatLives
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"In very truth gold is god today and rules with pitiless sway in the affairs of men."
-Eugene V. Debs, 1918Feels relevant.
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“In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.”
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#EugeneVDebs (I'm guessing he'd find Sanders, Cortez, Booker and the other poseurs pretty vile if he were alive today)
