Woodstock is not just one story – it's 450,000 stories! And the Museum at Bethel Woods and ComFest are partnering to collect unique stories from Ohio.

ComFest is the longest-running community festival in the country and had its beginning in the counterculture movement. The Museum at Bethel Woods, the historic site of the 1969 Woodstock festival, is deeply committed to the collection and preservation of stories from the people who know Woodstock best. Since 2020, the Museum has been collecting oral histories from around the country, and April 4 – April 8, 2023, they are going to be in Columbus.

Did you go to Woodstock? Do you know someone who did? We want to hear from you! It’s quick and easy to do. Contact Andy Basista at andy.basista@comfest.com or send an email to oralhistory@bethelwoodscenter.org to schedule an interview. 

I am a citizen of the US currently visiting Palestine. I’m 64 years old. On March 7, myself and another international were attacked by Israeli settlers while standing on the outskirts of the Palestinian village of Tuba in Masafer Yatta. I was hit from behind, hard, with a large stick, and my companion was chased and threatened by a settler with an iron bar. The settler who hit me fractured my skull and caused a bleed in my brain. 

This is what the colonialism of Israeli settlers looks like for Palestinian families living in Masafer Yatta in the southernmost end of the West Bank. Supported by Israeli military and Police, settlers from the many settlements and illegal outposts in Masafer Yatta are systematically stealing Palestinian land and violently forcing  people from their land. To be here now in these 15  villages is to witness ethnic cleansing in real time.

In addition to daily settler threats, attacks, land theft, property destruction and violence, the area’s 1300 residents, more than half of them children, are facing imminent forced removal from their homes  to make way for the use of their lands by the Israeli military as a firing zone.  

Householder and an associate face up to 20 years in a VERY rare instance of a corrupt official actually being convicted of selling the government to a corporation—and an atomic one at that.

We briefly discuss the crucial Supreme Court race in Wisconsin, where the Democratic party as usual appears fast asleep.

FRANK KNAPP of Businesses for Democracy tells us how his sustainable cohorts are fighting for the right to vote and other basics of a free society.

Then WENDI LEDERMAN introduces us to MAYA VAN ROSSUM whose Green Amendment proposes the revolutionary strategy of appending to state constitutions the core right to a clean environment.

Back in 2021, we had the revelation of emails from the German Interior Ministry which showed that it enlisted scientists to scare the population.

Last year it, was revealed that the Covid statistics had been falsified by Dutch Health Minister Hugo de Jonge by inflating the numbers.

And now we have the revelation of over 100,000 WhatsApp messages from former British Health Minister, Matt Hancock. The British “Daily Telegraph” has put them online as "The  Lockdown Files”. 

From all these revelations, it has been shown time and again that the coronavirus was no more deadly than other cold and flu viruses. As we know from flu and colds, these can be fatal to vulnerable, very old people. For anyone under 80, these viruses are almost never fatal. So it was with Covid-19. It was a common cold virus.

Minister Matt Hancock had a discussion with then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, via WhatsApp about this low mortality rate. He wrote that this was a problem because it meant that vaccination targets would not be met.