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Don't have ANY time BUT I thought to aware those who are tourists or residing in NYC thattoday (Dec-3-2011) there is a continuing Free 24 Hour Performing Arts Occupy Broadway in progress, which began yesterday.
What is Occupy Broadway and their Statement?
"Creative artists, performers occupy Broadway and commence an all-night performance in an undisclosed bonus plaza."
EVENT: Occupy Broadway (theatre/shopping district) with a 24-hour performance. WHEN: From December 2nd starting at 6pm until December 3rd at 6pm
WHERE: Times Square by the red stairs, between 46th and 47th streets, along 7th Ave, NY, NY
...."In recent weeks, we have seen a push to tramp on our rights to public assembly, public space and by extension democracy itself. In response, we join a global struggle using occupation as a form of creative resistance. Occupations are spreading around the world and around New York City, even UPTOWN!
Bloomberg...you take our park, Now Liberty Park is everywhere! In a time when downtown theaters are rapidly losing their spaces, being turned into high-end fashion stores, Occupy Broadway is a symbolic attempt to regain the space of theatre as an accessible, popular art form, bringing it back to where it all started – in a public space, for the common citizen.
We are using public space to create a more colorful image of what our streets could look like, with public performances, art, and music. Through this movement, New York re-imagines itself as a work of art, rather than a retail shopping mall. With capitalism gone mad, foreclosures increasing, and bank crises consuming whole communities, we are signaling through the flames that there is another way of living."....
This came up on my player on my afternoon walk and it made me think of this thread. The original is by Genesis, with a video that focused on Ronald Reagan. But I like this one, too. It fits with all the turmoil in the world today.
Take away your paper & pen
Stacks of money and your foolish grin
And go
Get me off the backwards ride
Take away your greedy way and go
See the woman standing at the door
World gone by ... Again and again
See the blisters growing on your feet
Pushed on... Pushed on
World gone by
Take away your companies
Take away your societies and go
Get me off this backwards ride
Take away your fictitious books of fact
See the woman standing in the door
World gone by ... Again and again
See the blisters growing on your feet
Pushed on ... Pushed on
World gone by
I wouldn’t want to be
Living in a world of ecstasy with you
Wasted arms; wasted legs
Wrapped round this machine
Military machine
I wouldn’t want to be
Living in a world of ecstasy with you
Taken’ away your companies
Takin’ away your societies and go.
Get me off this backwards ride,
Takin’ away your ficticious books of fact.
Yeah, do mum-ba-si-be-ah
My dear Sir KnightShadow, I was ill when you started this thread and am sorry to have missed the Grand Opening .
It shows promise and restraint which I grately appreciate a place to post about the revolution, civil rights, rights to all!!!
I miss you so....you were an important part of my life and I was yours.
Happiness to you and Frauelien joxx, so much happiness and blessings coming your way!
Sam Chatmon
Born: January 10, 1897, Boltmon, Mississippi
Died: February 2, 1983, Hollandale, Mississippi
Sam Chatmon was born into a highly musical family — reportedly there were 11 sons, all of them musicians. As a boy Sam often played with the Chatmon Family String Band, and when three of his brothers formed the Mississippi Sheiks, who became very popular, he sometimes played with them as well. But Sam Chatmon was a multi-instrumentalist in his own right — playing mandolin, bass, guitar and banjo — and worked as a traveling musician with a wide repertoire that included blues until the early 1940s. He became a plantation worker until the 1960s blues revival, at which point, like many of his contemporaries, he embarked upon a second career as a musician, performing and recording until his death in 1983.
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