A group of activist women musicians will be hitting town March 2-6, thanks to Emancipate, a project of Culture Project’s annual Women Center Stage series. Women Center Stage is focused on supporting and vigorously promoting the work of women artists, writers and musicians.
Here is a great link to a page on Emancipate’s website outlining their goals of standing in solidarity with the people of our city and insisting that the rest of the country engage in the rebuilding of New Orleans. There will be blogging on this site during the entire stay here.
“The struggles that the citizens of New Orleans face are in many ways no different than those of any small- or mid-size American city, where corporate interests have plundered all the natural resources, including the people, and are proceeding to suck out the bone marrow. Problems of housing and healthcare, education and employment, existed before Katrina, and they are exacerbated a hundred times over after Katrina.”
Some of the organizations the women will be interacting with are Louisiana ACORN, New Orleans Outreach, Silence is Violence, Renew Our Music, Friends and Family of Louisiana’s Incarcerated, INCITE, Advocates for Environmental Human Rights, the People’s Hurricane Relief Fund and the Grand Bayou Community.
This is so exciting!
On April 27, the women will perform brand new songs inspired by their visit here as part of the Women Center Stage series. Later, the songs will be recorded on CD with the proceeds going to a New Orleans service based community organization.
All this news has me so excited I had to go to YouTube and post this video. Sistah’s Are Doin’ It for Themselves. The video’s kinda campy but Annie’s voice is smokin’.
Never underestimate the power of a woman….(a saying from back in the day.)
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