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"Berkeley Calling" is a collection of songs that Vic Sadot plans to release in 2011. Vic Sadot has been writing songs since he got his first guitar in 1969 and started to learn the folk songs of Woody Guthrie, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Malvina Reynolds, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, and various songwriters from the pages of Broadside: The National Topical Song Magazine. Vic was born in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania and grew up mostly in Newark, Delaware. He moved to Berkeley, California in September of 2008. "Berkeley Calling" is a collection of songs recorded since the move to the west coast. It is not only a work in process, but songs have been posted exclusively at Last FM as they have been recorded. "An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King" was written by Vic Sadot to highlight some of the information in the book by the same title by William Pepper, the King family lawyer. The book is about the 1999 trial in Memphis, Tennessee and the alarming public record established by that trial that Pepper won on behalf of the King family. "Love Me I'm A Liberal" is a humorous 2010 parody update by Vic Sadot of the 1966 Phil Ochs song about the hypocrisy of many leading liberals. "Tell John Yoo" is performed with the Code Pink Goldengate chorus. The song calls for accountability for the US use of torture under the Bush-Cheney regime. "Dear Tomasso" tells the story of a scholarly monk who lived in the late 1500's and was imprisoned and tortured by the Catholic Pope on charge
