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'In sum, we are an army of dreamers, and therefore invincible. Thus, how can we fail to win, with this imagination overturning everything.
Or rather, we do not deserve to lose.'
- Subcomandante Marcos
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SATURDAY APRIL 26th 2008 : GLOBAL RHYTHM NIGHT
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SATURDAY MAY 24TH 2008 : CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM
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CHICAGO ART ON TRACK (www.chicagoartontrack.com)
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+++++++++++++++++++++NEW YEARS EVE++++++++++++++++++
"BRING YOUR TALENTED ASS..."
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================FRIDAY MARCH 20th 2009============
DANCE FOR PEACE...
THE CAFE VIDA WORLD MUSIC SERIES : WEDNESDAY'S @ WICKER WELL
***FREE EVENT HOSTED BY QUENNECT 4 & SOUND CULTURE
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HUMBOLDT PARK ART FEST : SATURDAY JUNE 13, 2009
CLICK ON THE FLYER TO HYPERLINK TO THE FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE THAT OUTLINES ALL OF THE FESTIVITIES...
ALL AGES : FREE & IN THE PARK (BRING YOUR DOG...)
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JUNE 19-21st 2009 @ LINCOLN PARK just south of the zoo.
* The approximate address is: 1700 N Stockton Dr., Chicago Il, 60614
Q4 set up the SUNDAY portion of the event (check the flyer below for SUNDAY's line-up and click on the flyer to hyperlink to the facebook event page with the set times)
last saturday of each month, latin influenced party
w/hosts &resident dj's:
CHRISTIAN VERA (soulphonetics)
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CASWELL JAMES (soulphonetics)
Guest dj's:
DAVID CHAVES (soulphonetics)
Latin Jazz. Samba. Bossa. Brazilian Break Beats. Baile Favela Funk. And a mixture of latin influenced beats to make your mind, body and soul elevate into the cosmic clouds of bliss...
recibirá las inscripciones de todas y todos aquellos que desean realizar una acción por la libertad y la justicia. A través de ella, podrá enviarse a cada preso un mensaje por escrito. A través de la página también podrán inscribirse las acciones que de todo el país y en otras naciones la sociedad civil decida impulsar.
There was a music school in Gaza. It was just six months old. The 31 children aged seven to 11 could choose one of five instruments, including the guitar, oud (lute), and piano. Most of the 19 girls gravitated to the guitar and piano while many of the 12 boys showed a preference for the oud.
The school worked out of rented premises in the Palestinian Red Crescent Society building just across the street from the Preventive Security Forces compound in Gaza City. The compound was targeted in the first wave of Israeli bombardments on December 27, and twice more the next day. The five-story building was vaporized; a flat gravel surface is all that remains.
Like other buildings in the neighborhood, the Gaza Music School was shattered; window frames and doors were blown out, and holes were punched in the walls. The force of the blast imploded the four ouds, just like it had the compound.
By some miracle, the children had not yet arrived for their lessons and so were spared the fate of those in other schools in the path of Israeli bombs.
In the midst of all the death and destruction in Gaza, the school's short life rouses particular emotion. That there was such a school at all is astonishing, not just because of the 18 month siege that followed the decades of "de-development" of Gaza under Israeli occupation but also because one might expect it to be contrary to an Islamist social program.
There is almost no musical education in Gaza. The school project was developed in response to community demand, particularly from among the 11,600 children who are members of the Qattan Center for the Child. The Center provide
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