CNN: Woodstock Planner Artie Kornfeld Advocates Renewed Resistance, Invoking SDS/Weathermen/Panthers

CNN ^ | August 22, 2004 | CNN

[risk]

Artie Kornfeld was asked in a biased interview what he thought about current events and whether or not Americans could be "united" (against the war in Iraq, which features "poor people from America killing poor people from the mideast") as they had been by Woodstock. He said Americans had to renew their "resistance" and stand up for what they "believe." He associated with and supported the SDS, Abby Hoffman, the Weathermen, and the Black Panthers, and appeared to imply that Americans should engage in similar acts of "resistance" that we would more accurately describe as terrorism.

[risk]

ping: weathermen, sds, and touted on cnn in biased interview with woodstock concept man artie kornfeld; must be all the positive left wing press that came out for notes from the underground," a film on the weathermen.

i'm curious to know if michael moore is linked to these yahoos.

[Cincinatus]

Clueless losers, trapped in a time warp. It would be funny, if it weren't so sad.

[nickcarraway]

Bernadine Dohrn and Billy Ayers have good jobs now! Did they spring Kathleen Soliah, so she could "sign on for another hitch?"

[Mo1]

Umm .. this ain't the 60's anyore and that stuff won't fly in todays world ..

[weegee]

Artie Kornfeld was driving gold Corvettes on an expense account with an office at Capitol when he came into the picture of "the Woodstock festival".

He was involved (as was Michael Lang, both around the same time) but he was not an originator in concept or funding.

These lefty loons let Abbie Hoffman and the Black Panthers blackmail the promoters into giving them booth space AND thousands of dollars ($10,000 had been demanded) so as not to disrupt the festival (and even then Abbie Hoffman tried to rush the microphone during the Who's performance only to get beat down by Pete Townsend's guitar).

[Casloy]

The truth about Woodstock was it was the culmination of years of hippie and left wing rants about a new age and a so called revolution. Woodstock was touted as the symbol of this new age and the fact that thousands of hippies could get together for days and there would be no violence. When it was over all that was left was miles and miles of garbage and one hell of a good record album, but otherwise it left every one wondering what was next. There wasn't anything next. Within a year the draft was over and great hippie cause had no reason for being.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

Er, Artie...they've grown up now. Get a clue.

[risk]

There wasn't anything next.

There was the murder at Altamont speedway at the Rolling Stones concert.

[weegee]

It was more than a concert, said Lisa Law, a photographer and author of the book "Flashing on the Sixties" who attended Woodstock Music and Art Fair, August 15-17, 1969.

"It was just beautiful. There was mud every place. And people were making their own music, even in the campgrounds.Everybody else helped everybody else."

Except the vendors who saw their booths burned down by anticapitalist radicals. What? You thought the only arson occurred at the 1999 festival?

[Dane]

How heartwarming, nostalgia for the late 60's(/sarcasm)

[weegee]

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Also from the article...

Many young people since that time have looked at the original Woodstock as a symbol of self-expression. But attempts to recreate versions with that same spirit didn't really work out.

Woodstock '94 and Woodstock '99 were criticized for replacing the free and easy atmosphere of the 1969 prototype with corporate greed and high security.

"Certainly they didn't have the same historical impact," Roszak said. "The first Woodstock had a landmark significance and I don't think the others could have that. Different people at a different time."

The "hype" of Woodstock is just that. BS.

It was designed to be a show for money but I suspect that the Michael Lang hijacked the affair to offer a "free concert" (after all, it wasn't his money on the line or even his concept).

BTW, Michael was also involved in the boondoggles that were Altamont and the two other Woodstocks.

The Isle Of Wight festival in the UK also had radicals outside the gates trying to get in for free and throwing firecrackers at the stage (I think that they caught the staging on fire).

Damn hippies.

[Rastus]

Law thinks today's political climate resembles that of the 1960s.

"We, for the first time since Woodstock, are coming together the same way against the war in Iraq as a tribe of people," said Law, who spends her time talking to young voters and campaigning for Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry.

But, but . . . your guy supports the war! He even voted for paying for armor, before he voted against it.

[Free_at_last_-2001]

Drugs!

[537cant be wrong]

love is the drug i been thinkin' of

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

LOL! Roxy Music bump - they were 100 times better than most of the crap at Woodstock (Who and Hendrix excluded).

[Jaxter]

He should have stayed away from the brown acid, man.

[537cant be wrong]

10 years after could pretty much rip it up too.
would love to have seen a guitar shoot out between
ted neugent and alvin lee.

[Just mythoughts]

"......Within a year the draft was over and great hippie cause had no reason for being."


They methodically took hold of the institutions of this nation, "political", "economic" "educational" and "religious".

[InvisibleChurch]

i'll bet he whines about his socialsecurity checks not being big enough, too