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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.
"Some Rain Tonight"
"My Mother's Spirit
   Speaks To Me"Â
"Some Rain Tonight" arose on the Saturday night of May 2010 three weeks after the Deepwater Horizon off-shore platform that was drilling for British Petroleum in the Gulf of Mexico suffered a blow-out and exploded into flung
steel and pluming flames.
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I'd roughnecked on the Gulf between 1977 and 1980. In 1978 Global Marine had suggested that I become a driller and had given me the thick and eighty Driller's Manuel to read. I knew that steps to prevent a blow-out had been missed on the Deepwatter Horizon. You can read about them in the 'Fight the Blob' piece that I wrote for puppetgov.com and that Patti Smith featured in the Souveance section of her website.
Three weeks into the Blob of oil's spread into the Gulf Stream and many States' food-supply I was angry and anguished at the losses to Louisiana in particular.
A young Cajun said to me in a parking-lot: "It's like they're trying to take away
anything we own, and anything that's fun."
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Mario Abney on drums-set, Michael Torregano Jr. on keyboard, and Nick Benoit on acoustic bass were this trio from the shifting Rivers of Dreams band. Michael and Nick busked as a duo beside Café du Monde for four months; their rapport and their desire to expand changes makes for a steadily differing musicality. Mario is a player and a dance born, whatever his instrument.
Two excerpts from my 'Fight the Blob, Part One' piece, published on Bill Jablonski's puppetgov.com in late May 2010. Patti Smith, that great liberator and soul, surprised
me a lot when she offered this piece in the Souvenance section of her website.
Mario plays trumpet and Kaliq Woods clarinet in "My Mother's Spirit ..." Mario and Kaliq have known each other since teen-aged club and and street musicians in Chicago. Their rapport is also unthinking by now and their instruments' singing voices lift each other into heights and depths. They have great ideas. Zach Knewstub has a rare touch on piano and his palette of chords and harmonies grows through eight hours + of practice a day. This was our second take of "My Mother's Spirit ..." on March 4, 2015 and my second day with Rick G. Nelson in his Marigny Studio.
The poem-become-song (for it arose with distinct melody) arose on the preceding Christmas Eve, as I walked with two dogs, Boomer and RotoTumba,
from a house in Gretna out to the levee and Mississippi. The night was one of
fog and shadows that leave the sky chiaroscuro and a marching field of history
and allusions. My mother had died in February 2009; Maryse and I had married in January 2014 and flown directly to the Port-au-Prince International Jazz Festival. 'Framed birds of Asia / Cherry blossoms / Snows of Manitoba / Blowing into New Orleans' Mississippi / ... " Just as it happened--particulars of my mother's past ("She was a hippie before there were hippies," said my cousinRobyn) merging with the swing and swell of wish that she and Maryse might have met. Kaliq and Mario came up with the change that accompanies
"Cock of a hip to Basie's beats / Twinkling smile both young and old."Chicago. Their rapport is also unthinking by now and their instruments' singing voices lift each other into heights and depths. They have great ideas. Zach Knewstub has a rare touch on piano and his palette of chords and harmonies grows through eight hours + of practice a day. This was our second take of "My Mother's Spirit ..." on March 4, 2015 and my second day with Rick G. Nelson in his Marigny Studio.
Mario and Kaliq in a promotional card done by The Long Arms of Honus Paige for a performance
of theirs in hometown Chicago.
My mother, Elizabeth and "Betty" Cannon and then Murphy and then
Hulme, in a photo taken in Brandon, Manitoba by, I think, Rod Hulme,
two years before we three came together in Reno and then California. My
caption today, Oct. 18. 2020: 'The life of the mind is inviolable.'
Maryse with two friends who help to keep our car and truck going, Brian and Zach.
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