[microsound] New Orleans Jazz Funeral Procession

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for those of you in the NYC + area

am posting to this list as the discusion about this of late,



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Subject: Musicians needed for New Orleans Jazz Funeral Procession

Sunday, September 11, gathering at 3pm,

This is a call to musicians who cannot stand another

minute of watching people being left to starve and die

and be shot at by police, without acting to stop it?.



NEW ORLEANS JAZZ FUNERAL PROCESSION

100+ horns (and drums and?) to march in a procession

through the streets of NYC on

Sunday, September 11, gathering at 3pm, south side of

Washington Square Park (in front of Judson Church, 239

Thompson St)

Call Alicia Rau(917) 721-7686



The World Can't Wait, Drive out the Bush Regime is

calling for this procession in the style and spirit of

the New Orleans jazz funeral processions, led by the

musicians. The vision is a dramatic public manifesto

that people can no longer tolerate this regime that is

committing mass murder down there, whether by

incompetence or design. We demand people be rescued,

that police stop shooting people who are trying to

meet basic needs, and stop demonizing Black people

(people on the ground are now reporting that Black men

have to be off the street by 5 or risk arrest or

worse). We are calling for a massive movement to

politically drive out the illegitimate Bush regime.



Last Sunday, with about 8 hours notice, The World

Can't Wait, Drive Out the Bush Regime pulled together

a jazz funeral march (with musicians, black umbrellas,

coffins, signs) that snaked through Manhattan for

hours and was covered on 6 TV stations that evening.

We parted 2 lanes of Broadway as buses and cars gladly

gave way, many thumbs up. This time, the vision is: A

stunningly large, beautiful and together gathering of

musicians. Horns will blow with sadness, anger and

determination to stop the suffering and death caused

by this regime.



We are acting quickly because we can and must?people

are suffering and dying right now on the streets of

New Orleans and in "superdomes" and gruesome shelters

all over the south. And to be blunt, they need a lot

more than our sympathy and money. Efforts must be

intensified to rescue people and stop treating them as

criminals. And the debate needs to intensify about the

nature of America that was revealed in the wake of

Katrina and about a regime that shows such utter

disregard for peoples' lives. A regime that does this

must be driven from power. And if we don't act now,

the tide will shift, and they will get away with

murder.



"How can we be refugees in our home state? My family

has been here since slavery days," a man from Kenner

said. "And now I'm supposed to be a refugee?" "We're

not angry. We're way past angry."



Musicians who want to join in can call the trumpet

player, Alicia Rau, who played at last Sunday's

funeral march. Her number is (917) 721-7686.



http://www.worldcantwait.org



Pamela S. Booker, Advisor

Critical & Liberal Studies

Office of Advising

Parsons School of Design

2 West 13th Street, 5th Floor

New York, NY 10011

bookerp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

212 229-585


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