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How lucky we are to know GREAT COMPANY!
Above, I'm a happy fella with Madame Marie-Marthe Balin Franck Paul in Little Haiti, Miami, January of 2023. after Maryse and I brought computers and JAMBARS for students in Haiti. Photo by Maryse.
Mme. Franck Paul, Maryse's aunt, now 87, is founder and Principal of College Canapé-Vert in Port-au-Prince. Click to visit our Partners in education at stickingupforchildren.com. Again, many are those who do good ... without an iota of A.I.!
Leftward, lights are strung about a Live Oak in New Orleans City Park by a Park volunteer, Christmas-time of 2022. We make these freely adorned lights Symbol for the TRACK-A-DAY feature that's staring on July 30. 2023. Over 100 songs and poems for music have come to me since 1988. What better can I do than give back from the brilliance that partner musicians have delivered?
First track offered on the Sticking Up For Children (SUFC, don't-cha-know?) Jukebox is "Bobee (What A Spirit Walks That Way)" from Roger Lewis' album ALRIGHT!. We start with three excerpts from Roger, Herlin Riley and Kirk Joseph of the Rivers Answer Moons band and then. come Wednesday July 2, "Bobee ..." with Herlin and me on vocals.
Happy as we may be to enjoy great families and friends, wherever we live, we know by now, July of 2023, that we, the working-class and middle-class people of the world, are under Global
Attack. Those Corporations that lack conscience (the 100 Strategic Partners of the World Economic Forum for prime examples) have embarked from 9/11/01 into " 'COVID-19' " forward
on programs to use Big Lies and 21st-century technologies (technologies that are our classes' inventions) to reduce our freedoms more into mass enslavement or mass 'Sudden Death Syndrome'. Our genius, however, rebels and re-arises with irresistible compassion and creativity. My pieces in the Flipping the Script blog over on the WeAreRevolutions website and pieces on the Stands the Human Being blog and Substack are offerings that combine with many, many--millions unto billions--who REALLY 'Improve' humanity through their insights and resistance.
ALBUMS. Three from I/R Records are among the top 25 Jazz albums charted by Roots Music
ReportS for the year 2022. Listen on Bandcamp and Download in full fidelity there.
The World Economic Forum and its 100 Strategic
Partners among especially exploitative Corporations of the Neo-Colonial world are waging a War Against Humanity that has accelerated over the past four years under covers of " 'COVID' " and " 'Climate Change' ". Call it the WEF WAH for short.
The series of WEF Files profiles, offered here through my Stands the Human Being blog and Substack presents leading Agenda Contributors to the WEF as extremely driven and energetic individuals ... who have become pathological imbeciles in their services to the WEF's global Techno-Fascism, the WEF's 21st-century 'New World Order' of enslavement by Banks of the Northern Hemisphere.
Among the profiled are J. Michael Evans of Ali Baba (and once of Goldman Sachs), Helen Hai of Binance and the United Nations, and more obvious subjects such as Bill Gates, Chrystia Freeland, and Justin Trudeau.
"Prosecute 'Em!", cataloging crimes against masses of
humans during our " 'COVID-19' " era, is part of my
'Stands the Human Being' blog and Substack.
You are one / Light among / Many Lights, / Ever-changing, / Invaluable, / And meant to shine / Ev'ry moment of our lives.
LOVE OVER WAR #1 on WODU of Norfolk, VA and WZRD of Chicago
two consecutive Weeks of July 2022.
STREAM on Bandcamp
and Download
there in full
fidelity.
DON PAUL and RIVERS ANSWER MOONS (the great musicians Roger Lewis, Herlin Riley, Kirk Joseph and Michael Torregano Jr.) deliver THREE (Count' em!) anthems
for Musing and Dancing--
"Get Your JAM On!" and
"Glory Glory Glory Is For Us All" and "Love Over War, Every Time
We Play".
The RIVERS ANSWER MOONS
musicians comprise 247 years
of performance, lore and spirit.
ROGER LEWIS alto, baritone, tenor
and soprano saxophones.
HERLIN RILEY drums-set.
KIRK JOSEPH sousaphone.
MICHAEL TORREGANO JR. keyboards
MARIO ABNEY trumpet.
The THREE anthems are blessed
to have ERICA FALLS
as guest singer. As you may hear,
Erica is perfect in her tones
and timing.
The album also features virtuoso
DHYANI DHARMA on "My Old Man".
Two more master musicians
KIDD JORDAN on tenor saxophone and MORIKEBA KOUYATE on kora
for the tribute, 'About Reinaldo,
Mourning, and Outrage'.
DON PAUL plays bhodran and sings
his first song, a lullaby for daughter
Paloma, "A Baby's Smile Is Sweet To See."
MAKE LOCAL GLOBAL.
LOVE OVER WAR and Roger Lewis
ALRIGHT! are available through Louisiana Music Factory online
and in New Orleans.
Counter-clockwise from lower left:
Kirk Joseph, Mario Abney, Herlin Riley,
Michael Torregano Jr., Roger Lewis,
David Farrell.
LOVE OVER WAR comes with
a 12-page booklet.
The triptych is of video-stills from Aristide Phillips and the recording
of Women Center Earth, Sea and Sky
at Rick G. Nelson's Marigny Studio,
July 24, 2014.
Dhyani Dharma, leftward, in concert.
Rick G. Nelson, Roger Lewis,
Don Paul, Herlin Riley, Kirk
Joseph, after Herlin introduced
us to a new language, August 3,
2011. Photo by Maryse Philippe Déjean.
Full moon, February 8, 2020,
after returning from the
Angela King Gallery.
Photo by Maryse Philippe Déjean.
"Love Over War, Every Time
We Play" and its melding
of Mario Abney's trumpet
and Erica Falls' singing voice
can be heard on BANDCAMP.
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