George Clooney

- A Messenger Of Peace

February 1, 2008
by Tim Saunders

Academy Award winner George Clooney was made a United Nations Messenger of Peace at a function in New York yesterday, January 31, and has pledged to “shine a light” on UN peacekeeping efforts around the world, particularly in Darfur.
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Terence Blanchard, the trumpeter, bandleader
and composer, muses about Divine Providence,
our collective soul, and New New Orleans
where water meets the earth

[from NY Times article by Nate Chinen]

“A Tale of God’s Will,” like the album “Flow” before it, includes one song apiece by each young band member. Mr. Winston, a former New Orleans resident, contributed a haunting lament, “In Time of Need.” Mr. Hodge, a budding film composer who helped with the “Levees” score, lent his anthem, “Over There.” Mr. Parks, then still in the band, wrote a sonorous piece called “Ashe.” Mr. Scott brought in “Mantra,” with his own orchestration. (“You wrote it, you conduct it,” he was told.)

For his cultivation of these players, Mr. Blanchard is often likened to Art Blakey. A better analogy might be Miles Davis, whose young quintet of the mid-1960s featured compositions by all of its members and absorbed their characteristics.

Mr. [Herbie] Hancock, a member of that group endorses the idea. "They're able to take these compositions," he said of the musicians, "and immediately translate them into the particular sound of Terence's band, which in many ways reminds me of what used to happen with Miles."

Check "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts," the 2006 documentary directed by Spike Lee

 

 

GO New Orleans, the Crescent City for Dr. John [Gris-Gris, Babylon, Duke Elegant, Sippiana Hericane] the Night Tripper interview with HONEST TUNE’s and links for the latest about the ongoing reconstruction work.

Help Those Who Were Hit By Katrina

Brad Pitt pt 1 on Larry King Live for New Orleans restoration
Brad Pitt homepage @ TDN
Study 2c Fighters, Gladiators, and Champions
When The Levee Breaks [Led Zeppelin]

 

 

Event - snapshot of banner for coast to coast Darfur Day 2006
San Francisco Ferry Building in the background

 

A Diplomatic Surge for Northern Uganda, By John Prendergast, Adam O’Brien
December 12, 2007

John Prendergast Acting to End Genocide in Darfur
- John Prendergast Testifies to the House Foreign Affairs Committee

Mia Farrow testifies before Congress April 19,2007 - go www.miafarrow.com

Le Cinéma Enchaîné

The status of stars exceeds today, the simple framework of the icon impressed of dream and glamour. Indeed, behind diamonds and spangles, some stars of Hollywood are pointed out on the diplomatic/political international scene by being made ambassadors of the great causes that they defend. Among the most important causes currently defended, there is the action of George Clooney against the massacres in Darfur, or the engagement of Leonardo DiCaprio for the defence of the environment.

 

 

Mia Farrow Blocked From Darfur Peace Rally

January 21, 2008 by Tim Saunders

Police have stopped actress Mia Farrow from holding a rally in Cambodia as part of a campaign to end atrocities in Darfur.

Around 100 baton-wielding military police blocked Farrow, who established Fund4Darfur in 2007, and her fellow activists from entering the compound at Tuol Sleng, the Phnom Penh high school at the center of Cambodia’s Killing Fields. Read full article.

 

 

Daily meditation

 

Darfur Crisis: Action Information

They Came On Horseback official homepage

UN Responds to the Darfur Crisis - Timeline

 

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