RHODE ISLAND RALLY ~ SOLIDARITY WITH WISCONSIN SAT FEB 26, 2011

We are all Wisconsin. We are all Americans. Rhode Island had two rallies to support the right to be in a union, freedom to bargain, Wisconsin Citizens and Wisconsin Democrats who have taken a stand to support "the right to exercise rights" wtihin a democracy. One rally was on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 and the other on Saturday, February 26, 2011. This video includes highlights of the Saturday Rally at the Rhode Island State House. Presented by Sandra Hammel

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Correction: Spelling on one side of my poster's last line...
Governor Walker. I was very much in a hurry when I did the sign.
I had to drive 45 minutes to get there and I was late in leaving by 10 minutes.

Notable ~ The organizer of the Rhode Island Saturday rally asked the attendees how many were Union members and almost all those attending were not Union members.

Rhode Island rally to support Wisconsin on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 ~ Photostream
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Rights are called rights because they are rights.

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Twitter #WeAreWI

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50 Photos from the 50 State Rallies to save the American Dream
(Saturday, February 26, 2011)

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Interview with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Sunday, February 27, 2011 with David Gregory on Meet the Press. Video of the interview at Meet the Press transcripts

Found the following at moveon.org

Posted by GabrieleSe

Original by Dietrich Bonhoeffer:

“First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out.

Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out.

Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out.

And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.”

Then this posted by HollyandJohn ~

Perhaps the new version goes something like this:

First they came...

First they came for the car unions,
and I didn't speak out because I didn't work in Detroit.

Then they came for the air traffic controllers,
and I didn't speak out because I thought, yeah they are too entitled.

Then they came for the welfare mothers,
and I didn't speak out because I thought, yeah they are lazy, aren't they?

Then they came for the all the industrial workers,
and I didn't speak out because I thought, well, NAFTA could be good for me.

Then they came for the free press,
and I didn't speak out because I believed it was fair and balanced.

Then they came for everyone's savings and retirement money,
and I didn't speak out because I thought bubbles happen and deregulation will make me money.

Then they came for people with houses and predatory loans,
and I didn't speak out because they said greedy low-income people brought down the system.

Then they came for the right to an education,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a student or a teacher.

Then they came for those who organized to fight the rich,
and I didn't speak out because I believe them when they said it was about the budget.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me. show more

Then this posted by lillymouse ~

Then they came for the mentally ill
and I didn't speak out because I didn't have a problem and didn't know anyone who did.

Then they came for the sick, unable to afford treatment,
and I didn't speak out because I was healthy and had a job with what I thought was good health insurance.

Then they came for the old and disabled
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't either and I believed them when they said social security was broken and there was no way to fix it and we must all settle for less.

PROVIDENCE RHODE ISLAND'S WATERPLACE PARK FREE FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERTS KICK OFF JUNE 11, 2010

Waterplace Park Concerts

The Friday Night Concert Series at Waterplace Park is a free summer

concert series open to the public that showcases local talent in one

of the city's most breathtaking parks. All performances begin at 7:30pm.

Providence RI Art Culture Tourism Friday_Night calendar

Oh geez, I just saw that these great concerts start this Friday. And the band looks good.

The forecast:
Partly Cloudy

High: 70°

Low: 57°

Providence, Rhode Island
Two rivers were moved to create this new development, a four-acre park surrounding a tidal basin. Amphitheater, landscaped terraces and boat landings. River edge is edged by walkways and Venice-inspired bridges. Waterplace Park concerts are held in the foreground to the right in the picture.

June 11, 2010
Fanfarlo Referencing Charles Baudelaire’s novella, La Fanfarlo, the London based act found a name and began hitting the London club scene in 2006 while releasing several 7” singles before striking their debut album Reservoir i...n 2009. The band has since toured the US and UK and has been featured on Fox’s House and the Late Show With David Letterman.

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The island where I live
It is called Aquidneck Island
It is also called the Island of Rhode Island
and the rest of the state of Rhode Island is actually called
Providence Plantations. The foreground is Brenton Point and Ocean Drive. The left side is Narragansett Bay and the Pell Newport Bridge. The center includes the towns of Newport, Middletown and Portsmouth is the furthest town in the distance. This view is from 3 miles up.

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Text from the Youtube page with this video:
Another installment of our laptop sessions... sitting around in the living room again, this time we had a go at a Neutral Milk Hotel song.

HEATH LEDGER in THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS OPENS IN RHODE ISLAND JANUARY 8, 2010

Avon Cinema

260 Thayer St
Providence, Rhode Island 02906

401-421-AVON (2866)

January 8 – Opens

Times Weekdays 6:30 p.m and 9:00 p.m

Sat & Sun add Matinee times 1:30 p.m. & 4:00 p.m.

$9.50 Evenings
$7.50 Matinees
Discount card $48 for 6 shows

www.avoncinema.com
AVON expects to extend it one week after first week
and will know January 11, if it will extend

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Lily Cole, Andrew Garfield & Verne Troyer as Valentina, Anton and Percy

Clip 2
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Heath Ledger
and
Lily Cole
Market Scene

Clip 3
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Lily Cole & Christopher Plummer as Parnassus & Valentina

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is a fantastical morality tale, set in the present-day. It tells the story of Dr. Parnassus and his extraordinary Imaginarium, a travelling show where members of the audience get an irresistible opportunity to choose between light and joy or darkness and gloom.

Blessed with the extraordinary gift of guiding the imaginations of others, Doctor Parnassus is cursed with a dark secret. An inveterate gambler, thousands of years ago he made a bet with the devil, Mr. Nick, in which he won immortality. Centuries later, on meeting his one true love, Dr. Parnassus made another deal with the devil, trading his immortality for youth, on condition that when his daughter reached her 16th birthday, she would become the property of Mr Nick.

Valentina is now rapidly approaching this coming of age milestone and Dr. Parnassus is desperate to protect her from her impending fate. Mr. Nick arrives to collect but, always keen to make a bet, renegotiates the wager. Now the winner of Valentina will be determined by whoever seduces the first five souls. Enlisting a series of wild, comical and compelling characters in his journey, Dr. Parnassus promises his daughters hand in marriage to the man that helps him win.

In this captivating, explosive and wonderfully imaginative race against time, Dr. Parnassus must fight to save his daughter in a never-ending landscape of surreal obstacles and undo the mistakes of his past once and for all!

List of cities in United States
with openings January 8, 2010
can be found at
www.imaginariumofdrparnassus.com

Sony Classics Pictures The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Forum for Heath
www.heathledgerplanet.com

facebook Imaginarium-of-Doctor-Parnassus

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Tennis in Doha

Rafa Nadal

Singles
Singles Draw
Round 1
Rafa Nadal vs. Simone Bolelli
second match on Ceter Court
(first match begins 7:30 a.m. USA EST)
January 5, Tuesday, 2010

Doubles
Doubles Draw
Rafa Nadal and Marc Lopez vs. Fyrstenberg and Matkowski
fourth match on Court #1
(first match begins 7:30 a.m. USA EST)
January 5, Tuesday, 2010

Fan Support Sites Great sources of information

vamos brigade

Rafa's Babolat-sponsored forum

TV
www.atpworldtour.com

Qatar ExxonMobil Open – Doha, Qatar
ATP World Tour 250 tennis tournament
4-9 January, 2010 – Hard ~ Outdoors

Official Website




Abu Dhabi Exhibition Match's December 31st-January 2nd Pictures
Rafa Nadal beat Robin Soderling 7-6(2) 6-4
in the final of the Abu Dhabi exhibition tournament
January 2, 2010
Photo credits are unknown
I copied them from the Babloat-sponsored forum
They are most likely
Getty Images' Photographers

For online viewing of Doha Tennis try

http://www.atdhe.net/

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INGREDIENTS OF A GENOCIDE

PERPETRATORS, UNARMED CITIZENS
AND A WORLD THAT TURNS THE OTHER WAY
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This is the same video I uploaded at youtube.com
where the lips are in sync,
but also where one picture mysteriously is missing
where a boy holds a sign: "Don't Forget Darfur"
when Barack Obama says these words:
"There is no problem we cannot solve,
no destiny we cannot fulfill,
we will restore our moral standing in the world"

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“NEVER AGAIN” just doesn’t mean a thing.

Genocide in our time is
worthy of being noticed,
worthy of being reported by our media,
worthy of having the leaders
of free nations use their political will
to end the Darfur genocide

and put some meaning to the words

“Never Again”

. . . words we love to use
at the languishing end of each genocide
that this planet has hosted.

Europeans can go to:
aegis trust Sudan Darfur

Send me an email if you know of a website for your country.

Southern Sudan:
help sudan international

Contact Information for USA citizens
President Obama email form:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
Call
202-456-1111
or better yet call
1-800-GENOCIDE
which will give you talking points
before connecting you to your
President, Senators, or Representative

More ways to contact the President:
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Please include your e-mail address
Phone Switchboard: 202-456-1414
FAX: 202-456-2461

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Speak Up
You Have A Voice
stand now
save darfur
while we wait sudan

Light a candle for Darfur
The candle will stay lit for only 48 yours.
Please, consider lighting a candle daily, so the light won't go out.

Dear President Obama - My first letter sent March 12, 2009

GIVE HIM AN OSCAR - VOTE FOR RICHARD JENKINS FOR BEST ACTOR

It was several years ago. I was sitting in a dark gym, that was supposedly transformed in an atmosphere of nightclub with a jazz band. We sat at large circular tables, found some average food, smorgasbord style and there was a disco ball hanging from the ceiling - saying it was expected that there would be some dancing. The music was better than the average high school band. But this school was Moses Brown - a private Quaker school in Providence, Rhode Island. My son was playing tenor saxophone in the Upper School's Jazz Band. And usually I don't mind going to things alone, but this night it felt a little uncomfortable. Everyone it seemed was there with a husband or a wife. And most people had preselected the people that they would sit with. Not me. I couldn't really see the person I was sitting next to well enough to be able to recognize him even if I might by chance have seen him before. So, I asked him what he did. Well, at least I didn't say something lame like "It's been cold lately." So he answered, "I'm an actor."

Well, a little awkward, because I was looking at him sideways, and though there was no smoke in the air to blur his face, I couldn't make out who he was. It was barely light enough to find the plate with my food on it.

I can't remember what I said next. Somehow I got his name. Richard Jenkins.

The Richard Jenkins who in 2009 is one of the five men up for the Best Actor category for an Academy Award.

Now here was my problem that evening. I hadn't kept up with his career. At all. But I knew who he was. But because years and years ago, I had seen him repeatedly in the Trinity Repertory Theatre Company plays. So, all I could come up with in my mind was to mention Trinity Rep and an actor that I also remembered as a stand out at the time, Peter Gerety. There are 84 movies or TV shows that Richard Jenkins has been in.

He was there with his wife. I remember we talked about Moses Brown and his wife thinking it was important that their son have a good education. His son was a Senior that year. Guess what instrument he played in the jazz band?

Drums.

Just like Richard plays in The Visitor.

I felt so badly afterward ... that all I could say was that I knew him from Trinity Rep - the Rhode Island professional theatre company. Geez, I wish I had kept up with his career... so I could have complimented him on his current success. So, there I was, with an opportunity to talk about acting and I squandered it. What a knucklehead.

I love where I live....as I have admitted repeatedly.

I know it may seem silly to be impressed with people we see on the screen (or in this case - somehow missed seeing on the screen), but we are, or at least some of us are. I can't imagine if I had been sitting beside my current favorite actor, Gerry Butler. I would have been blushing in the darkness.

I love where I live, because I have had the opportunity to be close to people that otherwise I wouldn't have back in northeastern Indiana where I was born. Here, Nicolas Cage has a house about 10 minutes from where I live. One of his many, but still he and his wife enrolled their son in a local private school in Newport. Years ago, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward walked past me at Rogers High School's auditorium lobby. They were there because Joanne supported the dance company performing that evening. I was just standing there and knew it was them, but it was such a fleeting moment. And unexpected.

We were in an elevator in New York City where we were spending the weekend once and there was the actor Fyvush Finkel. At the time he had just been in Picket Fences.

Last summer, I was walking along Americas Cup Avenue with two others on August 8, wearing our STOP GENOCIDE t-shirts and Chevy Chase walked by us. He was there for the Newport Jazz Festival.

Just little moments. But still. Fun moments.

The Best Actor category for 2009 includes
Richard Jenkins
The Visitor

Frank Langella
Frost/Nixon

Sean Penn
Milk

Brad Pitt
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Mickey Rourke
The Wrestler

Source: www.oscar.com

February 22, 2009 - The Oscars

Richard Jenkins News

Here are just some of Richard's roles

1. The Cabin in the Woods (2010) (pre-production)
2. The Rum Diary (2010) (pre-production) .... Lotterman
3. Norman (2009) (post-production) .... Doug Long
4. Dear John (2009) (post-production)
5. Waiting for Forever (2009) (post-production) .... Richard Twist
   
   
6. The Tale of Despereaux (2008) .... Principal
7. Burn After Reading (2008) .... Ted Treffon
   ... aka Burn After Reading (France)
8. Step Brothers (2008) .... Dr. Robert Doback
9. The Brøken (2008) .... John McVey
   ... aka The Broken (France) (International: English title)
10. The Visitor (2007/I) .... Prof. Walter Vale
11. The Kingdom (2007) .... Robert Grace
    ... aka Operation: Kingdom (Germany)
12. Rumor Has It... (2005) .... Earl Huttinger
    ... aka Rumour Has It... (Australia) (Canada: English title) (New Zealand: English title)
13. Fun with Dick and Jane (2005) .... Frank Bascombe
    ... aka Alternative Career (Philippines: English title)
    ... aka Fun with Dick & Jane (USA: poster title)
14. Earth to America (2005) (TV)
15. North Country (2005) .... Hank Aimes
16. "Six Feet Under" .... Nathaniel Fisher (19 episodes, 2001-2005)
    - Everyone's Waiting (2005) TV episode .... Nathaniel Fisher
    - All Alone (2005) TV episode .... Nathaniel Fisher
    - Ecotone (2005) TV episode .... Nathaniel Fisher
    - Time Flies (2005) TV episode .... Nathaniel Fisher
    - Untitled (2004) TV episode .... Nathaniel Fisher
    (14 more)

Peter Gerety roles

Regis Philbin talks about Richard Jenkins and The Visitor - Don't Miss This

This Year's Real Underdog - a video interview in Dave Karger's Oscar Watch

New York Times article about Richard Jenkins and The Visitor

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Richard Jenkins agent is Rhonda Price

The Visitor

Richard Jenkins ~ Nominee for Best Actor
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The Visitor - Trailer

The Visitor trailer scenes, interviews and on set footage - 25:40

A video - As part of the ongoing Back Stage "Evening With" series, actors Richard Jenkins and Haaz Sleiman spoke to a packed house after a screening of their film 'The Visitor' in L.A. 4:05 www.backstage.com

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Walter (Richard Jenkins) comes home to his apartment in New York and finds an unexpected visitors living there (Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira).

The Visitor

In a world of six billion people, it only takes one to change your life. In actor and filmmaker Tom McCarthy's follow-up to his award winning directorial debut The Station Agent, Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under) stars as a disillusioned Connecticut economics professor whose life is transformed by a chance encounter in New York City.

Sixty-two-year-old Walter Vale (Jenkins) is sleepwalking through his life. Having lost his passion for teaching and writing, he fills the void by unsuccessfully trying to learn to play classical piano. When his college sends him to Manhattan to attend a conference, Walter is surprised to find a young couple has taken up residence in his apartment. Victims of a real estate scam, Tarek (Haaz Sleiman), a Syrian man, and Zainab (Danai Gurira), his Senegalese girlfriend, have nowhere else to go. In the first of a series of tests of the heart, Walter reluctantly allows the couple to stay with him.
Touched by his kindness, Tarek, a talented musician, insists on teaching the aging academic to play the African drum. The instrument's exuberant rhythms revitalize Walter's faltering spirit and open his eyes to a vibrant world of local jazz clubs and Central Park drum circles. As the friendship between the two men deepens, the differences in culture, age and temperament fall away.

After being stopped by police in the subway, Tarek is arrested as an undocumented citizen and held for deportation. As his situation turns desperate, Walter finds himself compelled to help his new friend with a passion he thought he had long ago lost. When Tarek's beautiful mother Mouna (Hiam Abbass) arrives unexpectedly in search of her son, the professor's personal commitment develops into an unlikely romance.

And it's through these new found connections with these virtual strangers that Walter is awakened to a new world and a new life.

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Call President Obama at 202-456-1111
or 1-800-GENOCIDE
and pressure him to immediately take steps
to ensure the protection of civilians in Darfur!

An example of your phone call text can be found below.
It is encouraged that you make it personally your message. *

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And call the USA Secretary of State

The USA State Department public comment line works 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Please, call as soon as possible.

Call the State Department's public comment line 24/7 at 202-647-6575

The White House (9 AM - 5 PM EST weekdays) at 202-456-1111

or 1-800-GENOCIDE with a similar message as the one below.

If you have called already, please call again:

* I'm calling to ask President Obama, Secretary of State Clinton and Ambassador Rice to protect innocent civilians in Darfur in the wake of Bashir's arrest warrant. Please issue immediate warnings to Bashir and the government of Sudan specifying consequences of attacks on civilians. Please also prepare an emergency response plan to address further violence and appoint a full-time senior level envoy. Lastly, please stand firm in support of the ICC indictment and veto any delay in the prosecution of Bashir.

Call your Senators and Representative Today!

Find your elected politicians contact information at this link:

http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml
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Genocide Ends

When Enough of Us

Stand Up Against It

JOIN US
1-800-GENOCIDE
www.savedarfur.org
www.genocideintervention.net
www.standnow.org

www.miafarrow.org


Write President Obama
www.whitehouse.gov
You can also call or write to the President:

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Comments to President Obama: 202-456-1111

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IF NOT,

THEN,

YOUR SILENCE

CONTRIBUTES

TO

ANOTHER

GENOCIDE.

www.savedarfur.org/content

PICTURES OF AN OBAMA VOLUNTEER THROUGHOUT THE PRIMARY SEASON AND BEYOND

Some pictures I took while volunteering with the Obama campaign


November 4, 2008
Some Obama supporters near my house in Rhode Island

Meeting in Providence, Rhode Island to organize to get twice the needed signatures in one day to put Barack Obama on the Rhode Island ballot.
November 2007

Rhode Island Obama Volunteers William Pierce, Sandra Hammel and Marshala Lee
in Providence, Rhode Island.
Bringing in signatures on the petition to put Barack Obama's name
on the Rhode Island ballot.
December 7, 2007

Craig Robinson and William Pierce

Craig and Kelly Robinson

Craig Robinson (Michelle Obama's brother) and Sandra Hammel
Above and below.

January 8, 2008 Nashua, New Hampshire the Primary Night Party
Barack and Michelle Obama as they were coming to greet us.

This is the night of the speech that took off as the "Yes, We Can" speech.

Greeting volunteers January 8, 2008 in Nashua, New Hampshire

After Irish TV interviewed me.

At a private home - used as the "staging area" to give us our daily assignments to go door-to-door in New Hampshire. The young lady on the right worked on Barack's staff when he was a Senator. The woman in the center was from Australia and came just for the day to help. I was there for one week prior to the New Hampshire primary.

Richard Wolffe,
White House Correspondent, Newsweek writer, MSNBC commentator
and an unflattering picture of Sandra Hammel

Snowman for Obama
At the staging area's house in New Hampshire where we met daily.

Michelle Obama came to Warwick, Rhode Island
February 20, 2008

Michelle Obama in Warwick, Rhode Island
She was introduced by her brother, Craig Robinson,
who at the time was the basketball coach at Brown University

Youth for Obama
March 1, 2008

Barack Obama in Rhode Island
at Rhode Island College
March 1, 2008


Edward Mutanguha, student from Kigali, Rwanda,
Senator John Kerry and a professor at Salve Regina University
Newport, Rhode Island, March 2008.
Obama Campaign Office ~ above two pictures and one picture below.

Praising the young people's involvement
and introducing Senator John Kerry
to volunteers.

It's All Right - Sung by Curtis Mayfield

All of the pictures that I took above were in previous posts:

forty-days-until-New-Hamphire-primary

Rhode Island to put barack obama on the ballot

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Michelle-Obama-comes-to-rhode-island

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NASHUA, NH - JANUARY 08: Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) supporter Sandra Hammel reacts to poll results as she await his arrival at a primary night rally in the gymnasium at the Nashua South High School on January 8, 2008 in Nashua, New Hampshire. Initial polls show Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Obama in a tight race in the nation's first primary.

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Genocide Ends

When Enough of Us

Stand Up Against It

JOIN US
1-800-GENOCIDE
www.savedarfur.org
www.genocideintervention.net
www.standnow.org

www.miafarrow.org
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RICARDO LEMVO AND MAKINA LOCA IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE BANDS

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This is the best quality upload of a Ricardo Lemvo and Makina Loca song on Youtube, currently. I particularly like this song, Sao Salvador from the CD of the same name. However, their typical songs are upbeat, this is one of the rare slow songs. A real gem. I have worn out this cut on my CD, which I purchased at a concert at Waterplace Park in Providence, Rhode Island - the whole band signed all the CDs I purchased. The best $10 CDs ever! I own four of their CDs.


I have never enjoyed dancing more than to this band. The bass, the congos, percussion, the trumpets, keyboard...then there is the singing. It is one of those things that make you glad you are alive.

Ricardo Lemvo and Makina Loca Website

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PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND DARFUR TORCH CEREMONY ON YOUTUBE

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Rhode Island Darfur Torch Relay & Ceremony October 27, 2007

Links about the Genocide of the People of Darfur and Why China Is Complicit in the Genocide:

http://www.enoughproject.org/node/658

http://www.standnow.org/

http://www.miafarrow.org/

http://www.darfurgenocide.org/

http://www.stopgenocidenow.org/resources

http://investorsagainstgenocide.googl...

"Why Target China?

While China continues to be Sudan's largest economic and diplomatic ally, the genocide in Darfur continues in Darfur. China has done very little to help end the suffering. China will host the 2008 Olympic Games in August 2008. In doing so, the Chinese government hopes to bask in the glow of the Olympic ideals of global peace and cooperation.

But China's efforts to polish its international image can't hide the fact that it has not done enough to stop genocide in Darfur. The games China is playing in Beijing cannot hide the games that China is playing in Darfur.

China is a rising global power and Sudan's close economic, military, and diplomatic partner. It is the one government in the world -- except Sudan itself -- that can bring an end to genocide in Darfur." Source: http://www.savedarfur.org/page/conten...

Rhode Island Dream for Darfur Torch Relay

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," (Martin Luther King Jr.)

On October 27, 2007, The Rhode Island Dream for Darfur Torch Relay and Ceremony took place in Providence. Ordinary people came together to stand united with others around the world with the unified message to bring the Beijing Olympics theme of "One World, One Dream" to Darfur. With our presence we said "'Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.'* We were there to say we will not be silent about Darfur." *Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Keynote speakers were twin nineteen year old Rwandans, Edward and Edwin Mutanguha, freshmen at Salve Regina University in Newport.

Edwin said, "Today, we are all uniting for a common cause, all from different backgrounds, but with one thing in mind, to be responsible for each other and be conscious of what is going on around us. Our world is becoming a global village and it is no longer possible for us to live obliviously and inconsiderately."

Edward spoke from his heart "I would like to remind everybody about something that you have that the rest of the world envies: your FREEDOM. With this freedom, comes rights. I urge you to use your rights as citizens of a free nation to help the people of Darfur obtain their freedom and their right to live."

Music was provided by the Rhode Island Darfur Ensemble.

For photos of the Providence, Rhode Island Torch Relay and Ceremony:

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IF OUR LEADERS WON'T LEAD

ON THE ULTIMATE RIGHT TO LIVING A LIFE

THEN It is Our Torch to Carry

STOPPING GENOCIDE IS A RESPONSITILITY FOR ALL OF US

Genocide flourishes when there is no accountability.

WE CAN’T SAY THAT WE CARE ABOUT JUSTICE

WHEN WE DO NOTHING TO STOP THE INJUSTICE

The President's Comment Phone Line is open Monday through Friday
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time
202 - 456 - 1111

email: president@whitehouse.gov

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Call your US Senators & Representatives at

1 - 800 - GENOCIDE

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We each have a voice.

We each have a presence.

We have been called to be human

 in the most basic way

 on this subject.  

Let Us Not Be Silent

Silence Kills  

We are each responsible for our personal silence.

If Peace never begins, Genocide will never end.

Where does Peace begin?

One humanity.

One Human Race.

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