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  • ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS AGAINST WAR (VIDEO)
    11 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    We are particularly pleased that prominent artists and musicians
    who have been long-time supporters of Stop the War Coalition will
    be at Saturday’s Afghanistan and the War on Terror conference.
    They will be leading a much anticipated session on the role of
    art in the anti-war movement.
    The artists include David Gentleman, whose "blood-spot" posters
    and placards for our demonstrations and events have gained
    worldwide renown; Peter Kennard and Cat (…)

  • Video: Dr. Margaret Flowers Sings “Imagine”
    7 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Friday evening, Aug. 6, 2010, at the Bufano Sculpture Garden, on the campus of the Johns Hopkins U., in Baltimore, MD, a remembrance ceremony was held by the “Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration Committee.” Social Justice activist Dr. Margaret Flowers participated. She sang her rendition of the popular John Lennon ballad, “Imagine.” It was originally released in 1971. Dr. Flowers is a champion of an expanded Medicare-for-All Healthcare System. She is associated with Physicians for a National (…)

  • Video: Dr. Margaret Flowers Sings “Masters of War”
    7 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Friday evening, Aug. 6, 2010, at the Bufano Sculpture Garden, on the campus of the Johns Hopkins U., in Baltimore, MD, a remembrance ceremony was held by the “Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration Committee.” Social Justice activist Dr. Margaret Flowers participated. She sang the Bob Dylan ballad, “Masters of War.” Dr. Flowers is a champion of an expanded Medicare-for-All Healthcare System. She is associated with Physicians for a National Health Program, check out for more information: (…)

  • Roger Waters of Pink Floyd has Sent the Gaza Freedom Marchers (videos)
    29 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    My name is Roger Waters. I am an English musician living in the USA. I am writing to express my great admiration for and solidarity with the 1360 men and women from 42 different countries around the World who are gathering in Egypt, preparing for The Gaza Freedom March. We all watched, aghast, the vicious attack made a year ago on the people of Gaza by Israeli armed forces and the ongoing illegal siege. The suffering wrought on the population of Gaza by both the invasion and the siege is (…)

  • Video: Custer Died for Your Sins - Thank You for the World So Sweet
    2 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Thought folks might like this. The interval between Thanksgiving and Christmas (aka THE Holidays) gives us an opportunity to reflect on the founding mythology of what is now the US. I love this song—I still remember it from a concert about 20 years ago where I went to hear Floyd Westerman sing. Incredible song. I added the Thank You Song at the end in memory of my mom...we still sing the same song today at school before lunch...a ritual she started over 40 years ago. Missing her a lot these (…)

  • Bruce Cockburn Sings for the War in Afghanistan
    14 September 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cockburn Visits Brother in Afghanistan: CBC News
    "It’s a long discussion on whether we should be in Afghanistan - whether anyone should be in Afghanistan. But since we are and since we’ve come this far, I don’t think it’s appropriate to leave.."
    http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/...

  • Marseille Sways to a Maghreb Rhythm
    12 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By SETH SHERWOOD
    AS a warm Saturday night hung over the Mediterranean, the Algerian-French band Yazmen shuffled under the spotlights with its instruments — hand drum, flute, electric bass and a boxy, long-necked stringed instrument called a guembri — while a crowd filed into the hot confines of the windowless Tankono club.
    Couples arrived with children while bespectacled record-store geeks and a bald guy in a dashiki made toasts with Kronenbourg beers. Close to the stage, a dozen or so (…)

  • Woodstock, Handmade
    11 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Glenn Cox
    It is funny how sometimes you start out to write one story and end up writing another. I have been doing research on Woodstock and as the old joke goes, “If you remember it, you weren’t there.”
    I remember it well enough and I wasn’t there, but as I watched the You Tube videos I began to remember details long forgotten, plus some things that I’ve learned since. I was watching a video of the Rolling Stones in Hyde Park in 1969, playing "Honky Tonk Woman." Yes, I know the (…)

  • The Thriller is gone
    26 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Los Angeles — Michael Jackson - the pop music icon who charmed the world as a child star, dazzled the planet as the King of Pop and, in later years, alarmed millions with his eccentric behavior and unsettling sex-scandal trials - died Thursday. He was 50.
    Jackson’s brother says it’s believed that the pop star died of cardiac arrest.
    Jermaine Jackson cautioned at a hospital news conference Thursday that the cause of his death would not be known until an autopsy was performed.
    He said (…)

  • A look at the career of Michael Jackson
    26 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    A look at the career of Michael Jackson
    By The Associated Press – 27 minutes ago
    A look at the life and career of Michael Jackson: Aug. 29, 1958: Michael Joseph Jackson is born in Gary, Ind., the seventh of nine children. 1963: After several years of training, The Jackson 5 begin to perform in public. Dec. 14, 1969: The Jackson 5 appear on the "The Ed Sullivan Show." 1970: Their first album, "Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5," includes the hit singles "I Want You Back" and "I’ll Be (…)