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Recently discovered film footage that aired only once — in 1970, in Europe — and has never been seen on American TV:DEVO’s Gerald V. Casale recalls👇After the carnage and killings of 4 students by the Ohio National Guard on May 4th 1970 at Kent State University, the campus was yellow-taped like a crime scene — sealed off for the summer to us protesting students, and non-protesting students as well. Having been a political activist at the center of the horrid police violence that day, I was still in a numbed state of shock when a news team from the BBC in London arrived in July to interview select participants in the fateful May 4th protest against President Nixon’s expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia without an act of Congress. My age was 21, and I was chosen with a handful of fellow political activists to be allowed to cross the yellow tape and sit on The Commons, which was selected by the BBC crew as the interview site because it was ground zero — the place where the May 4th protest had begun. In the glare of the afternoon sun, I struggled to act brave and begin to process the horror that had taken place 2 months earlier. 

Now that 55 years have passed and I watch what is happening on US college campuses and around the world in response to yet another instance of state sanctioned violence, suffering, and death, I stand with everyone willing to speak truth to power who is outraged by the brutality of those in control. 

Given human nature and the power of the state, clearly some things never change.—Jerry Casale of DEVO____________________Thank you to: Kent State University Librarian/Researcher Jason Prufer for finding and providing this BBC film footage.

The remains, believed to be of 25 individuals including Emma of Normandy, were jumbled together in mortuary chests at Winchester Cathedral

Longtime scholar of Venezuelan politics Geo Maher offers crucial context that is often missing from mainstream coverage.