Friday, August 26, 2011

FW: Activist Bill McKibben on Why Tar Sands Pipeline Is 'Game Over' for the Climate, Sunday Publication Party for 'Keep on Pushin'

From: Ed Pearl [mailto:epearlag@earthlink.net]
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 7:09 AM
To: Ed Pearl
Subject: Activist Bill McKibben on Why Tar Sands Pipeline Is 'Game Over' for the Climate, Sunday Publication Party for 'Keep on Pushin'

Hi. I’ve been remiss in neglecting this subject and the ongoing action in DC. Click on the

URL to see/hear a remarkable, 5 minute video of Bill McKibben, on the Keith Olbermann show.

It also starkly brought to mind what is now missing on MSNBC’s nightly programming. -Ed

PS: Chris Hayes subbed for Lawrence O’donnell, last night, and reported the total number of civil

disobedience arrests now total over 300, with no end is sight. DN today says it’s now 332.

Video...

Activist Bill McKibben on Why Tar Sands Pipeline Is 'Game Over' for the Climate
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/08/24

Published on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 by Countdown With Keith Olbermann / Current TV

Activist Bill McKibben on Why Tar Sands Pipeline Is 'Game Over' for the Climate

For a fourth straight day outside the White House, environmentalists were arrested for peacefully protesting a pipeline that would carry acidic crude oil from Western Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast. Environmentalist and author Bill McKibben, who spent the weekend with fellow demonstrators in a Washington jail, discusses the the success of the protest and the shortcomings of Obama's environmental policy with Keith.

McKibben echoes the warning from NASA's Jim Hansen that if the Tar Sands project goes forward it will be "essentially game over for the climate."

[thumbnail image: Shadia Fayne Wood/Tar Sands Action

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From: Denise Sullivan [mailto:denisesullivan@earthlink.net]
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 9:35 AM

What: Publication Party for Keep on Pushin--Hope to see you there!

When: Sunday, August 28th, from 4-7 p.m. (sharp)

Where: Bolívar Café and Gallery, 1741 Ocean Park Blvd at 18th St.

Santa Monica, CA (310) 581-2344

Keep on Pushing: Black Power Music From Blues to Hip Hop

by Denise Sullivan

"A pleasing survey of soul music, from Lead Belly to Johnny Otis to Michael

Franti to Louis Farrakhan . . . Sullivan offers a welcome exploration of how

African-American popular music became America¹s vernacular."

‹Kirkus Reviews

"Sullivan . . . combines impressive research and wide-ranging interviews in

a multilayered narrative about the power of music within black liberation,

civil rights, antiwar, and gender-related movements . . . This is for anyone

interested in a thorough analysis of music as a commanding force in change

as well as a continually evolving artistic presence." ‹Library Journal

"Reaching as well into the areas of punk rock, reggae, and finally hip-hop,

Keep On Pushing admirably points out numerous key developments and

connections throughout a vital, revolutionary element of popular music."

‹Under the Radar

http://www.ipgbook.com/keep-on-pushing-products-9781556528170.php?page_id=30

http://denisesullivan.wordpress.com/

http://www.facebook.com/DeniseSullivanauthor

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In a Benefit Concert for FolkWorks

July 17th at 2 PM

at the

Tropico de Nopal Gallery, in Los Angeles,
1665 Beverly Boulevard, East of Alvarado.

Swing Riots is an LA Jazz Gypsy Balkan Klezmer Folk ensemble with six versatile fully digitized members who recreate the brilliant music of two-finger Belgian Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt— quite a feat, in that it takes them only sixty fingers to accomplish what Django did with two. Perhaps that’s why the word genius is so often found within two syllables of Reinhardt’s legendary name.

But if you close your eyes, it hardly matters; you can drift back in time to the sweltering erotic nights of Paris’s Left Bank in the 1930s, when Reinhardt was remaking the landscape of modern Jazz, and having to relearn the guitar after suffering major burns in a 1928 fire that changed his life and modern music forever. Without the use of the third and fourth fingers on his left hand he played everything with just the two he had—and that proved to be enough.

The Swing Riots perform an irreverent gumbo of Gypsy & Creole Jazz, Klezmer & Romanian Horas, Parisian Musette & the occasional wild card thrown in for good measure. The SwingRiots are comprised of 6 core members who have played for decades in everything from Balkan dance bands to traditionalSwing groups including: Bill Marks: Guitar & Voice; Pat Mac Swyney: Mando-Guitar, Tenor Banjo, Mandolin, Cornet, Ney, Harmonica & Voice; Linda Kodaira: Violin; Nick Casillas: Clarinet & Soprano Sax;Ben Getting: Upright Bass.

Ed Pearl has done a bit of his own reshaping of the musical landscape of Los Angeles, as the creator of the legendary folk music club The Ash Grove in 1958, and had Django Reinhardt not passed away in 1953, he would surely have graced the Ash Grove stage as well, along with Muddy Waters, Bill Monroe, the New Lost City Ramblers, The Greenbriar Boys, Phil Ochs, Mance Libscomb, Lightning Hopkins, Flatt and Scruggs, Mississippi John Hurt, Jackie DeShannon and Ry Cooder.

Now Ed has embarked on a new venture, catching up with lost time as it were, and will present Swing Riots in his new summer concert series sponsored by Ash Grove Music (www.ashgrovemusic.com).

It will be a doubly special event, since it is a benefit concert for FolkWorks, LA’s free and only folk music magazine, now in its tenth year of continuous publication, covering the waterfront of LA’s sometimes bewildering variety of folk related solo performers, dance and instrumental groups and festivals, as well as national touring artists that come through town.

FolkWorks (www.folkworks.org) was just honored this past May with the Topanga Banjo-Fiddle Contest Music Legend Award for 2011, and needs the influx of funds from this extraordinary concert to keep the presses rolling, as it tries valiantly to beat the odds that have made magazine publishing a quixotic and oft-times heroic endeavor.

So support the Ash Grove, support FolkWorks, and enjoy an unparalleled afternoon of world music from the Lost Generation that these wonderful Los Angeles musicians have rediscovered, mastered and made their own. For this musical experience of a lifetime Swing Riots will be joined by vocal duet Jess Basta & Christine Tavares, formerly of VOCO in a variety of Yiddish and early jazz standards. Don’t you dare miss it!
--Ross Altman

Ed Pearl

Friday, August 26, 2011

FW: Activist Bill McKibben on Why Tar Sands Pipeline Is 'Game Over' for the Climate, Sunday Publication Party for 'Keep on Pushin'

Activist Bill McKibben on Why Tar Sands Pipeline Is 'Game Over' for the Climate

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