FForward Movement

is an International, Multicultural, Interdisciplinary, Multimedia Digital Arts Compilation featuring

2.5 Hours of Music
60 minutes of Video
Visual Art, Poetry, Photography,
Essays, Short Stories, and MORE!

FForward Movement was created to raise funds and awareness for the

United States Social Forum 2010 in Detroit, Michigan.

Featured artists include:

Invincible

Amp Fiddler

Olmeca

Head-Roc

Nadir

Agents of Change

The Unapologetic Mexican

Dubasaurus

Adrienne Maree Brown, AJ Viola, Al Jagiello, Allie Moreno, Bagwis, Big A, Chinonye Nsofor, Diskarte Namin, Erin Cramer and Zeke Williams, Fausto A. Lopez, Halima Cassels, Heather L. G. Bella, Iayaalis, Jhonathan F. Gómez, Jhuelz, Jim Perkinson, John Lyons, Just One, Kevin Valentine, Khary WAE Frazier, Kiko, Len Beste, Los Nadies, Mars, Mary Simmerling, Matthis Chiroux, Michele Crimi, Nashville Session Players, Nic Notion, Niko Marks, Paul J. Miles, Phillip Morris, Ramah Jihan, Sabrina Nelson, Sails of Whydah, Sim-One, Stephan Said, Steve Falconer, Stryfe, TaRee, Tha Truth, The Pachamama Band, Tom Neilson, Treble Army, Urbanized Music, Vanessa Huang, Zeina C. Washington

changethemusic.net

$10.00 US

Proceeds from the sale of this compilation go to the United States Social Forum.

This project is a collaboration of artists and activists, individuals and groups who work every day in our communities to create a better world. Artists from Africa, Australia, Asia, Europe and the Americas are represented. Though we are different colors, cultures, creeds and religions, individually and collectively we express our common belief that Another World is Possible.

The completion of this project is the realization that by our action we advance the vision of the USSF from possibility to reality.

Another World Is Here. This is only a beginning.

FForward Ever! Backward Never!!

The US Social Forum (USSF) is a movement building process. It is not a conference but it is a space to come up with the peoples’ solutions to the economic and ecological crisis. The USSF is the next most important step in our struggle to build a powerful multi-racial, multi-sectoral, inter-generational, diverse, inclusive, internationalist movement that transforms this country and changes history.

For more info [or if any of the links here did not work properly] visit USSF2010.org.

You know this joyful sound! I’ve posted his music before. He was a member of what I think of as the original Reggae crew—those musicians who were played in my house for years as I grew up and who first imprinted on me what “Reggae” was. It’s branched out a lot since, but in my world it was revolutionary music. A joyful revolution of spirit, as well as a liberation of the mind, as well as a call to justice in the streets and for the people who are taken advantage of on the regular. That was and is still Reggae to me, and that sort of music will always be needed. These days, especially, it seems.

Enjoy your day. Remember to dance!

GOIN OUT to…the man. On his born day. I have to tell you right now, the hardest part of this was not singing along to the song while I recorded it! I almost don’t know how to do listen to his stuff silently…ah, but it’s so very good. And his music has been with me since the early days, This is one of the first songs that moved me deeply inside the way his music so often does. And got me thinking, at about eight, of the things he does with language.

Get up and move around to this one!

OKAY! So it’s been a while. But it’s still your weekly vinyl reminda! Sometimes I need one, too.

The answer to last week’s Vinyl Reminda was High Flying Bird by Richie Havens! Here’s a treat, Richie  singing that jammie in his first UK TV appearance:

For this weeks’ Vinyl Reminda, I’m going back to the tried and true classics. So forget your troubles and name this tune, which contains completely free of charge, one recipe for both joy and social change! No Googling! If you don’t know this one right off the bat, you better get on the stick, kid! Deeeamn.