>Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:29:38 -0600
> Sylvia Shihadeh <sns@austin.rr.com> David Rovics' Concert/Benefit, Sunday Feb. 23rd
>Please promote
>
>Texans For A Free Palestine (TPAL) and the Palestine
>Children's Welfare Fund invite you to an afternoon of music,
>film, art exhibit and Arabic food.
>
>DAVID ROVICS, AMERICA'S HOTTEST MUSICAL AGITATOR TO PERFORM
>IN AUSTIN
>
>Sunday February 23rd, 1 pm
>UT Flawn Academic Center, FAC 21
>
>Singer/songwriter and political agitator, 35-year old David
>Rovics will perform his own hot brand of social
>consciousness raising entertainment in Austin, TX to
>benefit the children of Palestine.
>
>The music of David Rovics is a picture of our world drawn
>from the heart of a traveler who works not only for a better
>tomorrow, but also for a better today. Rovics takes the
>messages in his music seriously whether those songs are
>telling the stories of Jenin, the environment, the labor
>movement, or US led terrorism on the world. Now, others are
>taking the messages in his music seriously as well. Rovics
>
>has played at rallies and protests around the world from
>IMF/World Bank protests in Washington, DC and Prague, Bush's
>visit to Berlin, the April 20th anti-war rally in DC, and
>February 15th in New York City. He's also a regular
>performer at the School of the Americas protests in
>Columbus, Georgia. His music is being heard. Last summer
>Rovics was turned away at the border when he tried to go to
>the G8 protests in Calgary because he was found on a list of
>political agitators.
>
>While government officials have begun to show concern about
>Rovics' rallying lyrics others are inspired by his tunes.
>Reverend Roy Bourgeois, founder of SOA Watch, a group
>dedicated to closing the Western Hemisphere Institute for
>Security Cooperation (WHISC) also known as the School of the
>
>Americas says, "David Rovics' music gives life and hope in
>the struggle for peace and justice. He is an inspiration."
>
>Rovics takes a different turn on what it means to be
>patriotic in songs like "The Dying Firefighter," a
>tribute to the lives lost in the disaster of September 11th
>2001, which has been known to bring tears listeners hear the
>voice of a firefighter lost in the disaster.
>
> "I believe in my daughter
>And I believe in my wife
>And may nobody's father be taken
>To avenge the loss of my life
>People may call me a brave man
>And this may very well be
>But the firefighters of Kabul
>Are just as brave men as me"
>
>Today, as we stand in the face of war, David Rovics
>continues to challenge the simple notions of our day with
>profound lyrics and beautiful sounds. He, like Pete Seeger,
>Phil Ochs, and Woody Guthrie is the storyteller for our
>lives.
>
>Also at the Concert/ Benefit:
>
>1 PM: Reception at (A selection of Arabic food)
>
>2 PM: Mai Masri's film "Frontiers of Dreams and Fears" which
>explores the lives of two
>Palestinian girls growing up in refugee camps in Beirut and
>Bethlehem and the friendship
>they develop despite the barriers that separate them. Shot
>during the liberation of
>southern Lebanon from Israeli occupation and at the
>beginning of the Palestinian intifada,
>frontiers of dreams and fears articulates the feelings,
>hopes and growing activism of a
>generation of young Palestinians living in exile.
>
>Art Exhibit of Palestinian children's art work from refugee
>camps in Lebanon and occupied Palestine.
>
>Tickets: $15 at the door, $10 advance purchase at Money
>Wrench Books or < pcwf.org>
>
>For more information contact:
>Sylvia Shihadeh: sns@austin.rr.com
>Riad Hamad: Riad Hamad <riadutep@yahoo.com>
>
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>
>Co-sponsored by Palestine Solidarity Committee and Monkey
>Wrench Books
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>
>Texans For A Free Palestine is a newly established group
>dedicated to raising awareness about the injustices imposed
>upon the Palestinian people, to promote a just resolution
>based on principles of international law and human rights
>and to advocate freedom from aggression and violence for all
>peoples.
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>
>Visit the Palestine Children's Welfare Fund at:
>http://www.pcwf.org
>Click to buy Palestinian embroidery online, sponsor a
>Palestinian child, buy a flag or a Kuffiya to feed one, or
>donate books for the children of the refugee camps and
>BirZeit University.




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