Joe Elmo - Guitar & Vocals, George Price - Keyboard and Vocals Ron Freeman - Bass and Vocals, Tom Parillo Drums,
Influences
Plato, Mozart, Rene Descartes, David Hume, Edgar Allen Poe, Salvador Dali, Martin Luther King Jr, Blackbeard, Mother Teresa, Jesus Christ.
Chopin, Bach, George Sands, Leonardo Da Vinci, Phil Ochs, Che Guevara, Edgar Cayce, Charlie Parker and Dizzy, Django, Keith Emerson, Geronamo
Sounds Like
(Joe Elmo)
Greorian Chants sung by a group of nomanic Monks in a trance and gathered together to praise all living beings
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I am a singer/songwriter and enjoy playing live, when I am playing with the right group of people! Its the best feeling in the world, well it's not really the best feeling but it is a very good one, if the truth be told! also... I am in the process of recording my 2nd CD and working with (Dean Bailin Music Production) who is an amazing musician, producer. and songwriter!
I am the Director and founding member of the Music and Mentoring Initiatives a service provider & fundraiser for the disabled community,I visit and perform at assisted living facilities & community centers and schools in the greater NYC. and metropolitan area
My earliest influences were, The Beatles/ John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, ELP. other influences include Chopin, Bach, Mozart, Charlie Parker, Django Reinhardt and Jean Luc Ponty.
I also compose classical and jazz influenced music and enjoy playing and performing live .
I have provided services for variety of clients at facilities such as C.V. Starr, Hearthstone at the Esplanade, The Kessler Institute, The Manhattan View, The Coalition for the Homeless, The Neighborhood House, on the Upper East side of Manhattan and many others. The program also is successful with young adults and children with Autism. The program has also worked well for clients with Cerebral Palsy
For further information, Email: joeelmo2129@aol.com www.myspace.com/joeelmo
You can listen to my songs on Rockade just request what song you would like to hear and send that request to DJ Kevin_ Call 1- 877 - 276 -2523
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LEONARD PELTIER LETTER TO BARACK OBAMA
Current mood: optimistic
Category: News and Politics
"An Open Letter to Barack Obama" by Leonard Peltier
> August 28, 2008
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> An Open Letter to Barack Obama
> Symbolism Alone Will Not Bring Change
> By LEONARD PELTIER
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> I have watched with keen interest and renewed hope as your campaign has mobilized millions of Americans behind your message of changing a political system that serves a small economic elite at the expense of the peoples of the United States and the world. Your election as president of the United States, where slaves and Indians were long considered less than human under the law, will undoubtedly constitute a historic moment in race relations in the United States.
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> Yet symbolism alone will not bring about change. Our young people, black and Native alike, suffer from police brutality and racial profiling, underfunded schools, and discrimination in employment and housing. I sincerely hope your campaign will inspire some hope among our youth to struggle for a better future. I am, however, concerned that your recent statement on the Sean Bell verdict, in which the New York police officers who fired 50 shots at a young man on the eve of his wedding were acquitted of criminal charges, displays a rather myopic view of the law. Until the law is harnessed to protect the victims of state violence and racism, it will serve as an instrument of repression, just as the slave codes functioned to sustain and legitimize an inhuman institution.
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> As I can testify from experience, the legal institutions of this nation are far from racial and political neutrality. When judges align with the repressive actions and policies of the executive branch, injustice is rationalized and cloaked in judicial platitudes. As you may know, I have now served more than three decades of my life as a political prisoner of the federal government for a crime I did not commit. I have served more time than the maximum sentence under the guidelines under which I was sentenced, yet my parole is continually denied (on the rare occasions when I am afforded a hearing) because I refuse to falsely confess. Amnesty International, South African Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama of Tibet, my Guatemalan sister Rigoberta Menchu, and many of your friends and supporters have recognized me as a political prisoner and called for my immediate release. Millions of people around the world view me as a symbol of injustice against the indigenous peoples of this land, and I have no doubt that I will go down in history as one of a long line of victims of U.S. government repression, along with Sacco and Vanzetti, the Haymarket Square martyrs, Eugene Debs, Bill Haywood, and others targeted by for their political beliefs. But neither I nor my people can afford to wait for history to rectify the crimes of the past.
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> As a member of the American Indian Movement, I came to the Pine Ridge Oglala reservation to defend the traditional people there from human rights violations carried out by tribal police and goon squads backed by the FBI and the highest offices of the federal government. Our symbolic occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973 inspired Indians across the Americas to struggle for their freedom and treaty rights, but it was also met by a fierce federal siege and a wave of violent repression on Pine Ridge. In 1974, AIM leader Russell Means campaigned for tribal chairman while being tried by the federal government for his role at Wounded Knee. Although Means was barred from the reservation by decree of the U.S.-client regime of Richard Wilson, he won the popular vote, only to be denied office by extensive vote fraud and control of the electoral mechanisms. Wilson's goons proceeded to shoot up pro-Means villages such as Wanblee and terrorize traditional supporters throughout the reservation, killing at least 60 people between 1973 and 1975.
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> It is long past time for a congressional investigation to examine the degree of federal complicity in the violent counterinsurgency that followed the occupation of Wounded Knee. The tragic shootout that led to the deaths of two FBI agents and one Native man also led not only to my false conviction, but also the termination of the Church Committee, which was investigating abuses by federal intelligence and law enforcement agents, before it could hold hearings on FBI infiltration of AIM. Despite decades of attempts by my attorneys to obtain government documents related to my case, the FBI continues to withhold thousands of documents that might tend to exonerate me or reveal compromising evidence of judicial collusion with the prosecution.
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> I truly believe the truth will set me free, but it will also signify a symbolic break from America's undeclared war on indigenous peoples. I hope and pray that you possess the courage and integrity to seek out the truth and the wisdom to recognize the inherent right of all peoples to self-determination, as acknowledged by the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. While your statements on federal Indian policy sound promising, your vision of "one America" has an ominous ring for Native peoples struggling to define their own national visions. If freed from colonial constraints and external intervention, indigenous nations might well serve as functioning models of the freedom and democracy to which the United States aspires.
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> Yours in the struggle.
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> Until freedom is won,
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> Leonard Peltier
> 89637-132
> U.S.P. Lewisburg,
> P.O. Box 1000,
> Lewisburg, PA USA 17837
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>> www.whoisleonardpeltier.info
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Dear Friend I haven't heard from you in a while. I invite you to stop by the site and take a look around. I've added pictures of our Grand Canyon Shows. Drop by and leave a comment! Jeff
Grip tight the steel,through this vessel flows the embodiment of who you are. Stare down your beast of burden with contempt and purge this leech and collector of souls from your being. But, should you falter in step hesitate not to seek strength from friends who may join together and rally with you.
Thank you 4 your friendship poetic one. Perhaps we shall embark on a new musical journey soon.The wisdom of your utterances should fall upon the masses who yearn for beauty of the spoken word. Your quest is not in vain. Life's reasons cannot be questioned,for what is meant to be will be. Hold fast your path.
Hi! how are you doing? haven't heard from you in a while, so i thought i'd drop in n check on ya...;) hope things r going good for you... was hoping u would drop by n sign my guestbook on my page...i would appreciate it. Thanks! Have fantastic n productive day! Ur friend, N8IVBLEND... :)
Hello again, I think that's great that your music is out there and I hope things work out for you in the production world of radio... I have to admit that I haven't listened to much N8iv radio, not as much as I should, and what I have heard, I appreciated. I just have to say that if you believe in what you want to do for radio - it will pay-off in the longrun... all artists need that exposure. I wish you the best!! Keep me posted. Take Care!
Hey Joe, how are things? We just dropped by to let you know that we have uploaded a new song called "Sentient Motion". Please take a listen to it and leave a comment too if you want.
You can read up about the song and some other news in the blog about "Sentient Motion" as well.
