Befria Södern

Annotation

"Brevet från Lyndon" ("Letter From Lyndon") - on album above, but different version "Befria Södern!" (Liberate the South) - on album above, but different version "Vi sår vårt ris" ("We Wound Our Rice") "Visan Om Ho Chi Minh" ("Visan Om Ho Chi Minh") "Wall Street"

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Annotation — Kent / Jackson State Songs

Swedish. Anti-war. All songs refer to Vietnam Befria Södern # BS-2

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

BS 2 A-B, issued by De Förenade FNL-grupperna, Husargatan 13, 411 22 Göteborg; printed by Miletryck AB. The front cover reads "Antiimperialistiska sånger" and "Freedom Singers 1970" on a red, white, blue and black grid, with a drawing of a blindfolded horse in a stars-and-stripes band beside a caricatured figure, captioned "Nu har det amerikanska monopolkapitalet tvingats byta ut en enögd häst mot en blind" [now American monopoly capital has had to swap a one-eyed horse for a blind one], and a red-toned photograph of an armed woman wading through water. The back, headed "Bekämpa USA-imperialismen", shows photographs captioned as Britta Calamnius, a teacher on Gotland selling the Vietnambulletinen and collecting for the FNL in Slite with her son, and 10,000 demonstrators outside the US embassy in Stockholm on 6 May 1970 protesting the US move into Cambodia, "Sweden's largest Vietnam…

About the artist

Collective name for the song choirs of the Swedish FNL movement (FNL-grupperna) in Stockholm and Gothenburg, late 1960s to early 1970s; released albums on the Befria Södern label. Participants included Mia Gerdin, Maria Hörnelius, Marie Selander, Curt-Eric Holmquist and Slim Lidén. Based in Sweden. [Source: Swedish Wikipedia]

Themes

Anti-War

In collections

European Songs · Kent / Jackson State Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]