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The Ugly Side of  
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Alex Kajumulo & the Original Sound in Concert, Monday 6/29/09 Noon-1 and 8-9pm PST
Alex Kajumulo and the Original Sound. Recorded 5/30/09
Alex Kajumulo got his start making records in 1999 producing an album for "Cool James" Dandu, also known as Mtoto wa Dandu.  The Album was called "CJ Massive: African Most Wanted" and was a big hit in East Africa and in African communities around the world.  Unfortunately Cool James was later killed in a car accident but the experience inspired Alex to continue to create his own music.  The Tanzania born singer/songwriter has written over 500 songs and his first album- Never Before was a best seller all over the world.  His songs have been in the top ten on airplay lists internationally ever since, rising to number one in different places.
  
Already an international superstar from his days as a soccer champion, Alex financed, produced, and promoted his own record, skirting the corporate music industry monopoly control system by using the internet and getting airplay mostly on non-corporate collage and community radio stations.  He pioneered new venues selling his records on CD Baby and i-tunes, helping to make the founder of CD Baby a rich man.

This was probably all for the best because from what we know of censorship by giant media monopolies like Clear Channel it is questionable whether Alex could have gotten much airplay on commercial radio here in the US at that time.  That’s because Alex is not afraid to touch on subject matter that may not provide the kind of “hospitable advertising environment” that commercial media crave.  His song, Super Size People is a direct slam on junk food corporations like McDonalds and Burger King for “poisoning our children” and “making them fat”.  He doesn’t write a whole lot of love songs and instead chooses to focus on social issues like global warming, the American injustice system, discrimination, human rights, imperialism, and propaganda.  He says the world is too screwed up to be singing about “baby, baby” all the time but  insists however, that his music is not “political”.

I think this is an interesting point.  For instance, why is talking about global warming considered political?  I think it is because if you allow yourself to be victimized by a corporate media system whose purpose is to distract you and make you forget, then almost anything that is not strictly “entertainment” will therefore be perceived as “political”.  And that is an essential albeit subtle element of thought control in the United States.

Known as “the Bushman”, Alex is a unique character.  Literally born into a Stone Age tribe in “the bush” of Africa, he spent the first 13 years of his life running around naked.  He is fond of comparing this to the Garden of Eden.  He ate the apple of soccer and started playing professionally at 15 eventually becoming an international sensation.  He later coached his own teams and started a sports clothing line designing, manufacturing, and selling soccer uniforms and gear to teams and individuals around the world.  He teaches and coaches soccer and has written a book: Soccer Monster.  All this has given him the financial independence to underwrite his own music projects and tours. Since the release of Never Before, Alex has put out 5 more albums.

Alex’s music is an interesting blend that is not easily categorized.  It combines elements of funk, rap, hip-hop, reggae, R&B, as well as many other styles but is built on a “rock solid” foundation of the afro beat groove.  Alex likes to call it “people’s music” because it is world fusion.  He calls his band the “Original Sound”.

This concert was filmed on May 30th at the 4th Avenue Pub, Olympia’s premier music venue.  He set up the concert specifically to film the touring band for promotional purposes.  Alex is working on booking tours of Europe, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.  He is a superstar in Africa and will be taking his band to Africa in late December for a Global Warming/Justice for Mankind tour filling stadiums and returning to South Africa for a FIFA World Cup Tour in May of 2010.  He wants to bring some attention to the effects that climate change is having on the environment in that part of the world.  One of the stadiums in Tanzania was already sold out as of last month [May].  If you want to catch them live the band will be playing in Seattle at the Black Community Festival at Judkins Park on the 4th of July, 4-5pm.

Alex Poster

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                                    The War at Home
Ground Noise and Static- Report on the protests at the DNC & RNC 2008 Steven T. Wax- Kafka Comes to America Paul Wright and Silja Talvi: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration? Cathy Wilkerson- Flying Close to the Sun- My Life and Times as a Weatherman
Ground Noise          Steven T. Wax          Paul Wright and      Cathy Wilkerson:  
and Static                 Kafka Comes to        Silja Talvi: Who       My Life and Times 
                                   America                     Makes $ frm Mass    as a Weatherman     
                                                                       Incarceration? 1:18                                    
Jules Boykoff & Kristian Williams- The New State Repression Juanita Young, Nicholas Heyward Sr., Ophelia Randall Ealy, and Ivan Morgan talk about the murder of their children by police Juanita Young, Nicholas Heyward Sr., Ophelia Randall Ealy, and Ivan Morgan talk about the murder of their children by police Edwidge Danticat- Brother, I'm Dying; National Book Award, best autobiography
Jules Boykoff &      Above the Law pt 1   Above the Law pt 2  Edwidge Danticat:
Kristian Williams      Juanita Young, Nicholas Heyward Sr.,        Brother, I'm Dying
New St. Repression    Ophelia Randall Ealy, and Ivan Morgan
Chris Finan, From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America Amrit Singh- Administration of Torture Sasha Abramsky -Age of Mass Imprisonment Matthew Rothschild
Chris Finan:            Amrit Singh:          Sasha Abramsky:     Matt Rothschild:
Palmer Raids to        Administration of    Age of Mass             You Have No  
the Patriot Act          Torture                     Imprisonment             Rights
____________________________________________________________

David Suzuki- Sustainability within a Generation A Nastier NAFTA: The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America David Smith-Ferri: Battlefield without Borders Dr. Oliver Sacks- Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
David Suzuki:            SPP:                         David Smith-Ferri:  Oliver Sacks:
Sustainability            A Nastier NAFTA  Battlefield without    Musicophilia
within a Generation                                     Borders 1:16

The Sutras of Abu Ghraib: Notes from a Conscientious Objector in Iraq Norman Solomon- Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience With God on Our Side: One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup in America's Military

Aidan Delgado:        Norman Solomon    Alice Rothchild:       Michael Weinstein
The Sutras of            Made Love, Got      Broken Promises,      With God on Our
Abu Ghraib               War                           Broken Dreams 1:12  Side 1:26
Dr. Helen Caldicott- Nuclear Power is Not the Answer Charles Hardy Thom Hartmann- Cracking the Code Wall of Shame and Interview with Azmi Bashira
Helen Caldicott:      Charles Hardy:        Thom Hartmann:     Wall of Shame
Nuclear  Power is     Cowboy in                 Cracking the Code
Not the Answer        Caracas                     
A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton Michael Parenti Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad Benjamin Barber
Carl Bernstein:       Michael Parenti:       Frances Moore      Benjamin Barber: 
A Woman in             Lies, Wars,                  Lappé: Getting a    Consumed
Charge                       & Empire  1:36             Grip
 Jonathan Kozol: Letters to a Young Teacher Dahr Jamail- Beyond the Green Zone Trita Parsi- Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the U.S. Dr. Robert Morris: The Blue Death
Jonathan Kozol:       Dahr Jamail:           Trita Parsi:              Dr. Robert Morris:
Letters to a Young   Beyond the Green    Treacherous             The Blue Death
Teacher  1:08             Zone                          Alliance 1:17                     
FCC Media              John Ross:                 Robert Henson:       Step it Up Seattle
Consolidation          Zapatistas!                 Rough  Guide to
Hearing 11/9/07                                            Climate Change

Cynthia McKinney- Free the Jena 6! John Dean Julian Darley Clean Energy Expo
Cynthia McKinney: John Dean:                Julian Darley:        Clean Energy Expo

Free the Jena 6!         Conservatives           Responses to 

        1:23                      Without                     Energy Descent
                                     Conscience                         1:29

Christine Harold- Ourspace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture  John Perkins: The Secret History of the American Empire Impeachment Forum with David Lindorff, Elizabeth de la Vega, & Phil Burk Cullen Murphy- Are We Rome?
Christine Harold:   John Perkins:         Impeachment            Cullen Myrphy:
OurSpace                   Secret Hist.              Forum                        Are We Rome?

Rev. Rich Lang Fund the Wounded, Not the War David Donnelly Catherine Thomasson

Rev. Rich Lang:      VA protest rally:      David Donnelly:      Catherine

The Emergency       Fund the Wounded, Clean Elections        Thomasson:
Call                            Not  the War!             Update                      Eye Witness Iran

Peter Irons Laura Flanders  Voices from the Frontlines Dr. Hans Blix: From a Cold War to a Cold Peace. Time for a Revival of Disarmament?

Peter Irons:               Laura Flanders:     Voices from the       Hans Blix:

God on Trial               Blue Grit                    Frontlines                Cold War to Cold

                                                                                                           Peace


 
Afghanistan: Giving Peace a Chance w/ Tamim Ansary, Cabeiri deBergh Robinson, and Stephen Zunes. Recorded 5/13/09  Mumia Abu Jamal: Jailhouse Lawyers, A Community Book Reading. Recorded 4/24/09 Mark Rudd: Underground- My Life with SDS and the Weathermen. Recorded 4/24/09 Wangari Maathai: The Challenge for Africa. Recorded 4/19/09 
Afghanistan:            Mumia Abu Jamal:   Mark Rudd:            Wangari Maathai:
Giving Peace            Jailhouse Lawyers    Underground           The Challenge 
a Chance                   Bookreading                                                 for Africa
 Doug Fine: Farewell, My Subaru. Recorded 4/9/09 David Suzuki- The Big Picture. Recorded 4/8/09 Keith McHenry: Food Not Bombs! An American Saga. Recorded 3/21/09 China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation. Recorded 2/28/09
Doug Fine:                David Suzuki:          Keith McHenry:       Xinran:
Farewell,                    The Big Picture         Food Not Bombs!     China Witness
My Subaru                                                    An American Saga 
Ray McGovern, Keynote Address to VFP NW Regional Conference. Recorded 3/8/09 Antonia Juhasz: The Tyranny of Oil.  Recorded 10/21/08 Aaron Glantz: Washington's Battle Against Veterans. Recorded 2/26/09 John Gibler: Mexico Unconquered. Recorded 2/19/09
Ray McGovern:       Antonia Juhasz:       Aaron Glantz:          John Gibler:
VFP Keynote           The Tyranny of Oil   Washington's Battle   Mexico
Address                                                        Against Veterans        Unconquered
Panel Participants Part One.  Recorded 11/8/08 Panel Participants Part Two.  Recorded 11/8/08 Robert K. Musil: Hope for a Heated Planet. Recorded 1/22/09 Dr. Max Power: America's Nuclear Wastelands: Politics, Accountability, and Cleanup. Recorded 11/18/08
Resisting Empire at Home and Abroad    Robert K. Musil:     Dr. Max Power:
Part 1                          Part 2                           Hope for a Heated   America's Nuclear
                                                                         Planet                         Wastelands
A Call to End All Torture. Recorded 11/12/08 Malik Rahim, After Katrina. Recorded 12/11/08 Deborah Nelson- The War Behind Me. Recorded 12/6/08 Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq. Recorded 10/12/08

 A Call to End All   Malik Rahim:           Deborah Nelson:      Thorne Anderson  
Torture!                   After Katrina             The War Behind       and Kael Alford:    
                                                                        Me                             Unembedded

 John Pilger Documentary- Palestine is Still the Issue Susan Jacoby: The Age of American Unreason. Recorded 4/23/08 The Loss of Liberty Jeff Halper: Israel/Palestine From Temporary Occupation to Permanent Warehousing. Recorded 10/6/08
John Pilger:         Susan Jacoby:           The Loss of               Jeff Halper: 
Palestine is               The Age of                  Liberty                      Israel/Palestine
Still the Issue           American Unreason 
Dr. Less Roberts- The Iraqi Civilian Death Count and the US Press. Recorded 10/22/08 Ralph Nader- The Importance of Third Party Politics.  Recorded 10/21/08 Rick Steves- Uncovering Iran.  Recorded 10/14/08 Naomi Wolf- Give Me Liberty. Recorded 10/3/08 
Dr. Les Roberts:      Ralph Nader:            Rick Steves:            Naomi Wolf:
Iraqi Civilian Death
  The Importance of    Uncovering Iran      Give Me Liberty
Count & US Press    Third Party Politics
The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power. Recorded 9/24/08 Kathy Kelly- Living the Work and Walking the Talk of Nonviolence.  Recorded 9/18/08 What We Say Goes Vincent Warren- The CCR and the Struggle to Preserve the Rule of Law. Recorded 9/29/08 
Tariq Ali:                  Kathy Kelly:             David Barsamian:   Vincent Warren:
The Duel                    Living the Work
What We Say Goes The CCR and the
                                    Walking the Talk                 1:56                  Struggle for the
 
                                   of Nonviolence                                             Rule of Law 

Robert Fisk: The Age of the Warrior, Recorded 9/26/08 Dexter Filkins: The Forever War, Recorded 9/22/08  David Wasdell: The Positive Feedback Crisis in Global Climate Change  The Body Toxic: How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health and Well-being. Recorded 9/10/08
Robert Fisk:              Dexter Filkins:       David Wasdell:         Nena Baker:

The Age of the          The Forever War     Positive Feedback  The Body Toxic

Warrior                                                           Crisis in Global                                           

                                                                         Climate Change
  Michael Parenti: Capitalism’s Apocalypse- Why the plutocrats can’t save anyone, not even themselves.  Recorded 8/27/08 Thanks to Larry Everest for allowing us to post this documentary Jonathan Steele- Defeat: Why the Americans and British Lost Iraq. Recorded 3/27/08 Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill) Recorded 4/30/08 
Michael Parenti:     Iraq: War Against  Jonathan Steele       David Cay Johnston:
Capitalism's               the People                 Defeat                        Free Lunch

Apocalypse
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism. Recorded 4/30/08 Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System, recorded 11/17/07 Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy, recorded 4/17/8 Rep. Jay Inslee and Bracken Hendricks: Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy

Kevin Phillips:          Silja Talvi:               Michael Klare:         Inslee&Hendricks:
Bad Money                Women Behind        New Geopolitics        Apollo’s Fire
                                     Bars                           of Energy
This Land is Their Land: Reports From a Divided Nation The Easiest Targets: The Israeli Policy of Strip Searching Women and Children George Lakoff: The Political Mind- Why You Can't Understand 21st Century American Politics with an 18th Century Brain Amory Lovins: Profitable Solutions to Oil, Climate, and Proliferation   
Barbara Ehrenreich:   The Easiest          George Lakoff:         Amory Lovins:
This Land is Their         Targets                 The Political Mind    Profitable
Land                                                                                                    Solutions
 
Steven Kazlowski: The Last Polar Bear: Facing the Truth of a Warming World Alternative Views: FEMA- A Signature and Fascism Dahr Jamail: Iraq and Iran -In Context Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia
Steven Kazlowski:  Alternative Views:   Dahr Jamail:           Ahmed Rashid:
The Last Polar          FEMA-A Signature  Iraq and Iran            Descent into
Bear                           and Fascism               -In Context                Chaos
Why We’re Liberals: A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army Global Warning: An Interview with Mordechi Vanunu
Eric Alterman          Jim Douglass:          Jeremy Scahill:        Mordechi Vanunu:
Why We’re               JFK and the               Blackwater                  Global Warning
Liberals                      Unspeakable                                                
NW Winter Soldier Hearings

NW Winter Soldier Hearings pt.1 Soldiar Testimony NW Winter Soldier Hearings pt.2 Soldiar Testimony NW Winter Soldier Hearings pt.3 Solidarity Panel with Dahr Jamail and Antonia Juhasz NW Winter Soldier Hearings pt.4 Breaking Ranks, the Future of G.I. Resistance

GI Testimony            GI Testimony 2         Solidarity Panel        Future of GI
                                                                                                            Resistance

Rogue Economics: Capitalism's New Reality David Sirota- The Uprising: An All-Access Pass to the Populist Insurrection Brewing Across the Country Cindy Sheehan, Moving Toward a Peace Economy, Town Hall Seattle 6/6/08 Dr. Norman Finkelstein- The Fake Controversy

Loretta Napoleoni:   David Sirota:            Cindy Sheehan:       Norm Finkelstein:
Rogue Economics     The Uprising             Moving Toward      The Fake
1:20                                                                  a Peace Economy    Controversy
The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water Father Roy Bourgeois- School of the Americas and American Foreign Policy

Daoud Hari:              Raj Patel: Hidden     Maude Barlow:       Fr. Roy Bourgeois:
The Translator          Battle for the World  Blue Covenant        School of the
                                    Food System              1:04                           Americas & US pol 
Jeffrey Toobin- The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court West Coast Shut Down! Mayday 2008  E.J. Dionne, Jr.: Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith & Politics After the Religious Right Col. Ann Wright at UT Methodist Ch 4/18/08
Jeffrey Toobin:        West Coast                E.J. Dionne, Jr:       Col. Ann Wright
The Nine                   Shut Down!                 Souled Out               Dissent: Voices
1:19                                                                  1:18                            of Conscience 1:18