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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.
RADIO
How many and how great are Community and College Radio-Stations across North
America! They're a world of variety and vitality outside Airports. They feel like the real America of many races. They're of before-Americas and boundlessly ambitious and creative and pollinating immigrants. They let free-form fly ... Fly even more now because much more from all Continents is here now for our ears and eyes.
And the love! The love you can hear and see in infinitudes of show-hosts' playlists!
The Sterne-like whimsy and O'Keefe-like beauty and Whitman's and Neruda's and jeanette Armstrong's embrace of what our unending skeins and strains have to offer.
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Several have welcomed The Time We Have (Meld #1) since early October 2020. Maryse and I are amazed and grateful. Thank you, Kate Smith and Richard, Bill, Kevin
of the KS Promotions (KSP--recalling the wonders-trove of ESP releases) team.
Thank you to each of the 65 Stations across North America and the several elsewhere that have put The Time We Have (Meld #1) tracks into the air.
Nine Stations have charted the album as Top-10 Jazz. One Station has charted it #1.
It's all quite wonder ful and mysterious to us.
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Thank you, WODU and WZRD, WMSE and our hometown WWOZ, KCSB and WRIR, WWSP and the Jazz Gallery and by name Jay, Marta, Dave, Ron, Jerry, Mike, Cole, Hobart, Sakura, Erin, Trudy, ...
The whole reach and communicatiom feels like magic--this reach from strangers. It feels like places named in still vibrant songs.
Ron Pelletier's Jazz from
Gallery 41
KUCI, Irvine, CA and show-host Marta Ulvaeus
WWOZ, New Orleans, LA and its videos
Part of the great work done by Kate Smith Promotions
And on and on and on ... Monday morning with Trudy Leong on WZRDÂ ... Josie Falbo,
Jorge Garcia, Billy Jones, The Motet, Burning Spear, Bela Fleck, The Specials, Dub Syndicate, Enrico Morricone, Magazine, Portishead, Django Reinhardt, Bonobo, Melvins, Les Paul, ...
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