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All the News that’s fit to Sing: Reflecting on the Musical Protests of Phil Ochs on his Birthday

Another December, another Phil Ochs birth anniversary. Wow, he would have been 69 tomorrow. It’s also time for the stream of annual Ochs birthday concerts which have been occurring all over the nation each December since the singer’s untimely death in 1976. The movement has not had Phil Ochs to call upon for a long time, but none on the Left have forgotten his impact—and the impact his music continues to have upon us.

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