[OccupyCU] [Peace] caroling caroling caroling?

Germaine Light lightport at sbcglobal.net
Sat Dec 15 07:07:14 UTC 2012 

I would like to join you all if the time is right....

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Germaine 

On Dec 14, 2012, at 6:04 PM, "Dada Vedaprajinananda" <dada at dadaveda.com> wrote:

> Just name the day and time and place.
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> Dada
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> From: Stuart Levy
> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 5:58 PM
> To: C. G. Estabrook
> Cc: Moonyeen Carlyle ; Chris Evans ; ocCUpy ; Pam Carsey ; Elizabeth Simpson
> Subject: Re: [OccupyCU] [Peace] caroling caroling caroling?
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> Parallels between regrettable-but-inevitable drone bombings and inevitable-but-regrettable school shootings are too grimly apt.
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> We could really, really use a song about drones.   Has anyone heard any?   (Maybe from Harry Shearer?)   I can try for simple protest signs, but songs are beyond me.
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> Looked at Roy Zimmerman's facebook page to see whether he's been thinking along those lines.    His latest is about the prospects of life on Mars - yielding new opportunities for imperialism.    But no drones that I can see, yet.
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> From a couple of months ago, a Pakistani woman singer came out with a song whose refrain runs, "My gaze is as fatal as a drone attack."
>    http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/13023455-romantic-pakistani-song-from-peshawar-makes-reference-to-drone-attacks
> Unfortunately for our listeners here, it is in (I think) Pashto.
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> It is just so much easier to bomb people whose languages we don't speak.   Maybe that could be the subject of a song.
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> Meanwhile I'd still like to go caroling with whatever we can come up with.   Who is in?
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> I've heard from about 3 people, Dada (yay!), Ya'aqov (interested if we can get organized enough to hold a practice session and sound decent by the time we're on the street), and Moonyeen.
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> On 12/14/12 3:49 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>> How can we put into a Xmas carol that Obama had his defense secretary quietly announce today - in contrast (to put no finer point on it) to Obama's own protestations in the campaign that US troops would be withdrawn from Afghanistan by the end of 2014 - that on the contrary the US would have "an enduring presence" (perhaps 60,000+ troops) there indefinitely after 2014?
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>> Or perhaps a carol about the children he's killed - and continues to kill - with drones, while he speaks affectingly about murdered American children?
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>> "Washington Post Friday, December 14, 2:17 PM. Here is a ... transcript of President Obama’s remarks about the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012:
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>> "'...We’ve endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years. And each time I learn the news, I react not as a president, but as anybody else would as a parent. And that was especially true today. I know there’s not a parent in America who doesn’t feel the same overwhelming grief that I do.
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>> "'The majority of those who died today were children -- beautiful, little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old. They had their entire lives ahead of them -- birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own. Among the fallen were also teachers, men and women who devoted their lives to helping our children fulfill their dreams...'"
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>> One would have to be a sociopath not to see that his words apply to the children he's killed.  
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>> On Dec 14, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Stuart Levy <stuartnlevy at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On 12/14/12 2:39 PM, Moonyeen Carlyle wrote:
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>>>> Stuart,
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>>>> Is this only for the Occupy CU people?
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>>> Just saying that the initiative came from Occupy.  Anyone interested is welcome!
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>>> I'm Ccing here everyone who has sounded interested in this...
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>>> I like especially the last three songs!
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>>> Cc'ing here 
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>>>> Found some alternative lyrics for caroling:
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>>>> Deck the Halls
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>>>>  Send to jail George Bush and Cheney,
>>>> Fa la la la la, la la la la.
>>>> For the torture of detainees,
>>>> Fa la la la la, la la la la.
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>>>> And for war crimes of aggression,
>>>> Fa la la, la la la, la la la.
>>>> This would send Barack a lesson,
>>>> Fa la la la la, la la la la.
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>>>> God rest ye merry, veterans
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>>>>  God rest ye merry, veterans
>>>> Let nothing you dismay
>>>> The wars you fought have ended
>>>> And peace is now the way.
>>>> We’ve now been saved from Satan's power
>>>> We will not go astray
>>>> O tidings of comfort and joy,
>>>> Comfort and joy
>>>> O tidings of comfort and joy
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>>>>  Joy to the World
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>>>>  Joy to the World, the wars are done!
>>>> Let earth rejoice in peace;
>>>> Let every heart repair the harm,
>>>> And Christian and Muslim sing,
>>>> And Jewish and Muslim sing,
>>>> And Christian and Muslim and Jewish sing.
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>>>> --
>>>> 
>>>>  O little town of Washington
>>>> 
>>>>  O little town of Washington
>>>> What harm you cause abroad
>>>> Will you please put your guns away
>>>> And have all war outlawed?
>>>> For if thy dark hearts findeth
>>>> A glimpse of Truth and Light
>>>> And end the fears of all the years
>>>> Our future will be bright.
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>>>>  All I want for Christmas
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>>>>  All I want for Christmas
>>>> is the two wars ceased,
>>>> the two wars ceased,
>>>> the two wars ceased.
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>>>> Gee, if I could only
>>>> have the two wars ceased,
>>>> then I could wish you
>>>> "Merry Christmas!"
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>>>> Moonyeen
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>>>> --- On Fri, 12/14/12, Stuart Levy mailto:stuartnlevy at gmail.com wrote:
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>>>> From: Stuart Levy mailto:stuartnlevy at gmail.com
>>>> Subject: [Peace] caroling caroling caroling?
>>>> To: "Peace" mailto:peace at anti-war.net
>>>> Cc: "Peace Discuss" mailto:peace-discuss at anti-war.net
>>>> Date: Friday, December 14, 2012, 1:45 PM
>>>> 
>>>> Hey all,
>>>> 
>>>> Some of us in Occupy CU are tempted to go out carol-singing, for fun - maybe a mix of traditional holiday songs and peace-and-social-justice songs - and to see if it gives us a chance to talk with people.
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>>>> We'd probably choose songs that are familiar enough that most of us will know the tune, and we can print lyric sheets.
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>>>> We haven't picked specific dates yet.   Would try to pick an evening or two, over the next week or so (say between 12/16 and 12/22), that are good for as many of those interested as possible.   I'm thinking we might go from 7:30-9, or some such time - late enough to not interrupt many people at dinner but early enough that they won't mind seeing people at the door.  Could gather a little earlier (6:30? 7?) to try to practice and get ourselves organized.
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>>>> If interested, please write back to me, and say which nights are or aren't good, if you think there are songs we should include, etc...
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