Thread: Some Family Background on Adam Kidron, Creator of New Anthem

Courtesy bluegrass who posted this enlightening info at the Awareness Portal forums - as if their long agitating a Judeo-christian vs. Muslim 'Clash of Civilizations' along with all their other various culture wars and made to order kiddie "revolutions" weren't enough..

Adam Kidron, who is the credited mastermind behind the new National Anthem sung in spanish language and also "persuading" radio stations across the country to play it simultaneously, is a jewish businessman who immigrated from Britain 16 years ago and purports to have come up with the idea himself just last week. Excerpted from the Miami Herald:

A British-born immigrant and Latin music producer has put together a stellar group of Latino artists to record a Spanish language version of the Star-Spangled Banner that is shaping up to be a We Are The World for Latinos eager to be heard on the immigration debate.

Set for release to radio later this week, Nuestro Himno (Our Anthem) with the voices of Olga Ta�on, Aventura, Andy Andy, Ivy Queen, Reik, Wyclef Jean (who sings in Spanish) and many others is being recorded in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Puerto Rico, Mexico City and Madrid.

It comes out as the U.S. Senate is due to once again take up the contentious debate on immigration reform this week. The Miami recording session will take place today, as the Latin music industry gathers in South Florida for the Billboard Latin Music Conference in South Beach and Thursday's Billboard Latin Music Awards at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood.

Adam Kidron, head of Urban Box Office, a reggaeton and urban Latino label in New York, said he was inspired to create Nuestro Himno by TV reports on immigration last week and by his own experience as a successful immigrant.

''I said what's a song we could record that everyone could rally around,'' said Kidron, who came to the United States in 1990.

...

Kidron hopes to persuade radio programmers to play the song simultaneously across the country, making it a national salute in Spanish to the United States. Radio personalities in Los Angeles and other cities have been one of the forces behind recent massive demonstrations by immigrants.

I wonder just what kind of persuading is going on here? Who's doing the influencing and funding of these demonstrations and organizations, be it "philanthropists" or think-tanks?


The following are excerpts of his father Michael Kidron's obituary, as posted at www.Marx.org:

Michael Kidron
(1930 � 2003)


Publisher, writer and socialist whose life's project was to understand, and help replace, capitalism

From The Guardian, 27 March 2003.
Downloaded from Guardian Unlimited.
� Guardian Newspapers Limited 2003.
Marked up by Einde O'Callaghan for the Marxists' Internet Archive

Michael Kidron, who has died aged 72, was an economist, a Marxist theorist, an agitator, an editor, a publisher and the co-author of the bestselling State Of The World Atlas (1981) and The War Atlas (1983).

...

He was born in Cape Town into an ardently Zionist family. The youngest of seven children, he was an adored but sickly child, further weakened by rheumatic fever at the age of 13. He left South Africa just after the war to join his parents, who had already emigrated to Palestine. There he went to the Tichon Hadash progressive school in Tel Aviv � where he rejected Zionism almost immediately � then on to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to study economics.

A brilliant mind and a free, rational and open thinker, he clearly enjoyed the heady days of early 1950s Jerusalem immensely. But Israel was a backwater for anyone not tied in to the Zionist project. So, in 1955 Kidron went to Oxford as a doctoral student. Knowing nothing of Oxford colleges, he applied to the two colleges at the top of the alphabet and was accepted by Balliol.

He promptly clashed with his supervisor Thomas Balogh, which did not help his career much. But he thrived in the Oxford political world, carving out a role as oppositionist within the opposition, becoming a fiercely independent libertarian Marxist, clashing vigorously with Communist party hardliners (before the 1956 Hungarian revolt had shaken their certainties). He also developed a close working relationship with his brother-in-law Ygael Gluckstein who, under the name of Tony Cliff (obituary, April 11 2000), was trying to chart an independent Marxist course in the Trotskyist-infested waters to the left of the Communist party.

Academic work provided a base for research and independent thinking, but also for political activity in the Socialist Review (later International Socialism) Group. Unlike others who looked to the Soviet bloc or the third world for salvation, this tendency argued for the centrality of the working class of developed capitalist societies as the agency for social change. This meant jettisoning the shibboleths of both communism and Trotskyism and looking reality squarely in the face, recognising and accounting for the success of postwar capitalism.

... In this period, too, Kidron threw himself into (unpaid) political organising, campaigning and lecturing, acting with charm and panache in a movement often noted for its solemnity and dourness.

He also edited the quarterly International Socialism, which first appeared in 1960. ...

He was an academic at Hull University in the late 1960s and gave his wholehearted backing to the wave of student protest which washed over the country. When the vice-chancellor accused him of being impertinent, he was honoured by student placards on their next demonstration which affirmed: "Yes, we are all impertinent."

In 1972 he and his wife Nina joined Pluto Press, helping to make it one of the most influential socialist publishing houses of that time. His main contribution was as an editor and a visionary, but he made his own special mark as an author and editor in the Atlas series, which produced The State Of The World Atlas and The War Atlas. And there was also The Book Of Business, Money And Power (1987).

His lifelong project was to understand modern capitalism, to help replace it. Already in the mid-1970s he had questioned the central pivots of the theory he had been so instrumental in developing in a brief but devastating critique called, in typically self-deprecatory fashion: Two Insights Don't Make A Theory.

Disliking the way the International Socialists � who were transformed into the Socialist Workers party later in that decade � had turned to orthodox Leninist forms of organisation, he drifted away in the mid-1970s, throwing his enormous energies into political publishing.

...

Dogged by illness, Kidron found it increasingly difficult to give the focused attention the subject demanded. But his conviction that an alternative[to Capitalism] was possible, indeed was being nurtured within the heart of the system, remained undimmed as new networked forms of communication and relationships undermined the command and control relations of earlier capitalism.

...

Together they had three children, Adam, Beeban and Cassia ...

There was no one like him. Michael Kidron, revolutionary socialist and thinker, born September 20 1930; died March 25 2003

The fruit sure didn't fall far from the tree, did it? This goes far toward explaining why false-opposition groups such as A.N.S.W.E.R., who for example have attempted to hijack the anti-war movement and sentiments, are behind much of the pushing and organizing of the recent Illegal rallies as well.

Lastly, a list of prominent Kidron's from ZoomInfo.com:

Kidron, Adam� UBO
Kidron, Amos� ISAKOS
Kidron, Avital� Ofek New World
Kidron, Debora� WASPaLM Bureau
Kidron, Ivy� Weizmann Institute
Kidron, Lisa� Ormat Technologies, Inc.
Kidron, Miriam� Integrated Security Technologies, Inc.
Kidron, Nadav� Institute Of Advanced Jewish Studies - Bar Ilan University
Kidron, Shlomo� ImmvaRx Inc
Kidron, Shmuel� Elron Electronic Industries Ltd

Recent polls have shown that the overwhelming majority of all (legal) Americans oppose amnesty and the non-enforcement of our immigration laws. Those pushing and organizing these Illegal rallies are also openly organizing voter drives, to make this a political issue - with the outcome in their favor - come November.

why was this guy even allowed to enter the United States?

http://teacuptempestry.blogspot.com/


Some Family Background on Adam Kidron, Creator of the New Spanish Sung Nuestro Himno(formerly known as America's National Anthem)
Courtesy bluegrass who posted this enlightening info at Awareness Portal - as if their long agitating a Judeo-christian vs. Muslim 'Clash of Civilizations' along with their other various culture wars and made to order revolutions weren't enough..

Adam Kindron, who is the credited mastermind behind the new National Anthem sung in spanish language and also "persuading" radio stations across the country to play it simultaneously, is a jewish businessman who immigrated from Britain 16 years ago and purports to have come up with the idea himself just last week. Excerpted from the Miami Herald:

A British-born immigrant and Latin music producer has put together a stellar group of Latino artists to record a Spanish language version of the Star-Spangled Banner that is shaping up to be a We Are The World for Latinos eager to be heard on the immigration debate.

Set for release to radio later this week, Nuestro Himno (Our Anthem) with the voices of Olga Ta�on, Aventura, Andy Andy, Ivy Queen, Reik, Wyclef Jean (who sings in Spanish) and many others is being recorded in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Puerto Rico, Mexico City and Madrid.

It comes out as the U.S. Senate is due to once again take up the contentious debate on immigration reform this week. The Miami recording session will take place today, as the Latin music industry gathers in South Florida for the Billboard Latin Music Conference in South Beach and Thursday's Billboard Latin Music Awards at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood.

Adam Kidron, head of Urban Box Office, a reggaeton and urban Latino label in New York, said he was inspired to create Nuestro Himno by TV reports on immigration last week and by his own experience as a successful immigrant.

''I said what's a song we could record that everyone could rally around,'' said Kidron, who came to the United States in 1990.

...

Kidron hopes to persuade radio programmers to play the song simultaneously across the country, making it a national salute in Spanish to the United States. Radio personalities in Los Angeles and other cities have been one of the forces behind recent massive demonstrations by immigrants.

I wonder just what kind of persuading is going on here? Who's doing the influencing and funding of these demonstrations and organizations, be it "philanthropists" or think-tanks?

The following are excerpts of his father's obituary, as posted at www.Marx.org:

Michael Kidron

(1930 � 2003)


Publisher, writer and socialist whose life's project was to understand, and help replace, capitalism

From The Guardian, 27 March 2003.
Downloaded from Guardian Unlimited.
� Guardian Newspapers Limited 2003.
Marked up by Einde O'Callaghan for the Marxists' Internet Archive

Michael Kidron, who has died aged 72, was an economist, a Marxist theorist, an agitator, an editor, a publisher and the co-author of the bestselling State Of The World Atlas (1981) and The War Atlas (1983).

...

He was born in Cape Town into an ardently Zionist family. The youngest of seven children, he was an adored but sickly child, further weakened by rheumatic fever at the age of 13. He left South Africa just after the war to join his parents, who had already emigrated to Palestine. There he went to the Tichon Hadash progressive school in Tel Aviv � where he rejected Zionism almost immediately � then on to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to study economics.

A brilliant mind and a free, rational and open thinker, he clearly enjoyed the heady days of early 1950s Jerusalem immensely. But Israel was a backwater for anyone not tied in to the Zionist project. So, in 1955 Kidron went to Oxford as a doctoral student. Knowing nothing of Oxford colleges, he applied to the two colleges at the top of the alphabet and was accepted by Balliol.

He promptly clashed with his supervisor Thomas Balogh, which did not help his career much. But he thrived in the Oxford political world, carving out a role as oppositionist within the opposition, becoming a fiercely independent libertarian Marxist, clashing vigorously with Communist party hardliners (before the 1956 Hungarian revolt had shaken their certainties). He also developed a close working relationship with his brother-in-law Ygael Gluckstein who, under the name of Tony Cliff (obituary, April 11 2000), was trying to chart an independent Marxist course in the Trotskyist-infested waters to the left of the Communist party.

Academic work provided a base for research and independent thinking, but also for political activity in the Socialist Review (later International Socialism) Group. Unlike others who looked to the Soviet bloc or the third world for salvation, this tendency argued for the centrality of the working class of developed capitalist societies as the agency for social change. This meant jettisoning the shibboleths of both communism and Trotskyism and looking reality squarely in the face, recognising and accounting for the success of postwar capitalism.

... In this period, too, Kidron threw himself into (unpaid) political organising, campaigning and lecturing, acting with charm and panache in a movement often noted for its solemnity and dourness.

He also edited the quarterly International Socialism, which first appeared in 1960. ...

He was an academic at Hull University in the late 1960s and gave his wholehearted backing to the wave of student protest which washed over the country. When the vice-chancellor accused him of being impertinent, he was honoured by student placards on their next demonstration which affirmed: "Yes, we are all impertinent."

In 1972 he and his wife Nina joined Pluto Press, helping to make it one of the most influential socialist publishing houses of that time. His main contribution was as an editor and a visionary, but he made his own special mark as an author and editor in the Atlas series, which produced The State Of The World Atlas and The War Atlas. And there was also The Book Of Business, Money And Power (1987).

His lifelong project was to understand modern capitalism, to help replace it. Already in the mid-1970s he had questioned the central pivots of the theory he had been so instrumental in developing in a brief but devastating critique called, in typically self-deprecatory fashion: Two Insights Don't Make A Theory.

Disliking the way the International Socialists � who were transformed into the Socialist Workers party later in that decade � had turned to orthodox Leninist forms of organisation, he drifted away in the mid-1970s, throwing his enormous energies into political publishing.

...

Dogged by illness, Kidron found it increasingly difficult to give the focused attention the subject demanded. But his conviction that an alternative[to Capitalism] was possible, indeed was being nurtured within the heart of the system, remained undimmed as new networked forms of communication and relationships undermined the command and control relations of earlier capitalism.

...

Together they had three children, Adam, Beeban and Cassia ...

There was no one like him. Michael Kidron, revolutionary socialist and thinker, born September 20 1930; died March 25 2003

The fruit sure didn't fall far from the tree, did it? This goes far toward explaining why false-opposition groups such as A.N.S.W.E.R., who for example have attempted to hijack the anti-war movement and sentiments, are behind much of the pushing and organizing of the recent Illegal rallies as well.

Lastly, a list of prominent Kidron's from ZoomInfo.com:

Kidron, Adam� UBO
Kidron, Amos� ISAKOS
Kidron, Avital� Ofek New World
Kidron, Debora� WASPaLM Bureau
Kidron, Ivy� Weizmann Institute
Kidron, Lisa� Ormat Technologies, Inc.
Kidron, Miriam� Integrated Security Technologies, Inc.
Kidron, Nadav� Institute Of Advanced Jewish Studies - Bar Ilan University
Kidron, Shlomo� ImmvaRx Inc
Kidron, Shmuel� Elron Electronic Industries Ltd

Recent polls have shown that the overwhelming majority(upwards of 80%) of all (legal) Americans oppose amnesty and the non-enforcement of our immigration laws. Those pushing and organizing these Illegal rallies are also openly organizing voter drives, to make this a political issue - with the outcome in their favor - come November.

It's long past time to take back our country, folks.

He's a friggen communust too!

Originally Posted by Jezzabell

He's a friggen communust too!

a few of us have been saying this is communism for a while, but I like your frantic description! Our President and Congress are friggin idiots too!