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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.
'Like Shakespeare, Jack Kerouac, Langston Hughes and Carson McCullers, Don Paul uses words like music.' DAVID AMRAM
'The kind of adventurous mix I like ....
Hamid is, well, Hamid and Kidd Jordan is something special.... 'The Same Way the Water' and 'Motor Land' are mighty fine story-telling, I'd say.' JONATHAN RICHMAN
'I love the energy and poetry in this
album, the stories it tells, and its celebrations of Goddesses. It's both
excellent and wonderful.'
ANGELA KING
'The album is like a journey through
Don Paul's life. The musicians are superb and respond in total sympathy
with the lyrics.' KATRINA FREY
"I love Meld One! I listen to it every
Sunday morning while doing my
dishes." K. CHANTELLE
"I love it!" DAVE BLEVINS,
Music Director, WODU
"I just like it," JOHN SINCLAIR.
Radio Free Amsterdam
'The poetry and music of Don Paul
are, together, very passionate and
powerful.' BETSIMAR SEPULVEDA,
Director, International Poetry Festival,
Cali, Colombia
'thanks for the hard work and beauty
in this great project.'
JIM COMPTON-SCHMIDT, KDCF
'Many thanks, Don, from a fan of great music and message.'
TRUDY LEONG, WZRD
The Time We Have (Meld #1) gathers 13 tracks from six albums, recorded between 1989 and 2018 in San Francisco and New Orleans.
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It features many great musicians. Included are Don Paul's Suspect Many bands of San Francsico and members of his Rivers of Dreams band in New Orleans. Hamid Drake, frame-drum and voice and then
drums-set on two tracks dfrom his and Don's album Singing In The Airport. The GALLOP Trio of Hamid,
Alex de Grassi and Don Paul, with three tracks from their Make Magic GO album that owes to film-maker Melissa Gregory Rue. Kidd Jordan on tenor saxophone and Morikeba Kouyaté on kora in three tracks from their album with Don Paul Women Center, Earth, Sea and Sky.
You can STREAM the first four Tracks of The Time We Have (Meld #1) on Bandcamp.
You can also click to SEE the album's PERSONNEL
You can also click to SEE the album's BOOKLET and its pages of ILLUSTRATED LYRICS.
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Sticking Up For Children's partner for this album is the United States' first producer of organic and biodyamic wines, Frey Vineyards of Redwood Valley, California.
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