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Making folk a threat again!We are an anti-profit mutual-aid collective of radical artists and musicians. We make music to provoke, educate, heal and inspire. Collective Newsforgot to mention I crumbled and chipped up a bone in my elbow in December. So all winter tour plans have been put on hold. It is a long recovery... Sorry sorry sorry says sad little the elbowless folk-singer:( Panopticon I posted up a new album of my electronic music. Enjoy. And I'll be on tour in the southern US with Slow Teeth the first week and a half of February. Howard Zinn Dead Damn. I don't know where to start. Howard Zinn turned things upside down and rightside up again, and the work he put into the telling of history, the stories he amplified, the justice he spread through his words and actions, has been a gift to my generation and those to come. A People's History was the first real book I read, and it turned a young man who hated history into a young, eager historian! So, onward! Continue making history, and a new generation of grassroots historians will continue to put the work in to record it and pass it along to the future generations, so they can learn from an expand on our work. Read it, write it, teach it, make it!
Show Tonight in Philly Iraq Veterans Against the War benefit show TONIGHT, Studio 34, West Philly, 4522 Baltimore Ave. With Ryan Harvey, Erik Petersen, a wee bit of Mark Gunnery, and more! Come through. 7:00 PM HAITI RELIEF Good Times & The Bad back online! Hey yall. I re-uploaded The Good Times and the Bad album so you can download it again. Sorry for the confusion. I also re-uploaded my split with Tom Frampton. And I posted a new writing, "Mythology in the Age of Seattle". New Song I wrote a song on new year's eve/day sort-of summing up the decade in a way. It's called Blowback. Also, expect my new album, Manifest Democracy, in the next month or two!
Support Imprisoned GI Resister Marc Hall!
Stop-lossed Army Specialist Marc Hall (aka Hip Hop artist Marc Watercus) was placed in the Liberty County Jail Friday, December 11 for releasing a song critical of the Army's Stop-Loss policies and of the War in Iraq. He was shipped off to jail after talking to to his Ft Stewart, Georgia commander Captain Cross about not wanting to redeploy. Call the jail at 912-876-6411 to demand an end to this illegal confinement. Also send letters of protest to: CPT Cross, Commander, B 2-7 INF BN, Fort Stewart GA 31314. Tentative Dates posted for SOUTHEAST TOUR w/ GEPETTA hey friends, just letting you all know that i've posted tentative dates for my upcoming Southeast Tour with queer fabulist / puppeteer, GEPETTA! check out my SHOWS PAGE to see our tentative route! if you don't see your town listed, e-mail me now at evangreer@gmail.com and hopefully we can come! thanks for your support. -evan g New Videos of Ryan & Mark Hey yall. Me and Mark performed recently in Frederick, MD and they filmed a bit of it. It's available here. Songs include "My Country", "Bored", "Talkin' Mean Machine" and "The Dandelions/Eucalyptus Hybrid Song (or something)". Check it out. Donating Today's Sales to IVAW Hey all. Anything I sell today, Veteran's Day, will benefit Iraq Veterans Against the War. I suggest buying "The Violence of War" if you haven't. Or just donate to them directly anytime by going to www.ivaw.org. Better yet, email every soldier and veteran you know and tell them about IVAW. Michael Franti, Tom Morello, Boots Riley, and others are also donating all of their sales today to IVAW. So if you feel like participating there too, go help em' out more by checking out the new Street Sweeper album, or Tom's new "Fabled City". Also, read IVAW's letter in-protest to Obama, handed to him yesterday at Fort Hood by a war-resister in the barracks. And read Matthis Chrioux's veteran's day statement. Seeking Dates for SOUTHEAST Tour with GEPETTA! This Winter, I'll be touring the southeast with Gepetta, a queer fabulist puppet performance artists based in Philly. We'll be performing a unique blend of radical folk music, puppetry, and performance art, and offering interactive workshops on Queer and Trans Liberation, Confronting Gentrification, Climate Justice, Community Organizing, and more! WE NEED YOUR HELP! Contact: evangreer@gmail.com if you have any ideas with us or can help with booking at your school or in your town. NEW ALBUM! Hey y'all. I just finished uploading Patchwork and Threadbare, the album that's taken 2 years too long to birth! TUCSON SHOW moved!!! hey tucson friends, just FYI our show has been moved from the Dry River Infoshop to the Carousel Project, and will now start at 9pm. 299 S. Park Ave, Tucson. Spread the word! see you there! Interview About "Are We Addicted to Rioting?" Online Audio Here. I was interviewed recently on Against the Grain, a radio program on KPFA radio in Berkeley. The interview was around my article Are We Addicted to Rioting, and discusses anarchist organizing and U.S. social movements, mass-protests, militant protest, and more. Check it out! Afghan Women Organizers on Speaking Tour Two AMAZING Afghan activist/organizers are touring the U.S. ths and next month. Right now Zoya, from the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan is doing a speaking tour. Next month, Malalai Joya, Afghan Parliament member and radical activist, is touring the U.S. speaking. PLEASE see these women speak if you are near an event. A full calendar of their tours is lcoated here. Track from New Album! I uploaded the first public track from my new album, Manifest Democracy. The track is called Placing The Blame, and is available for download. I'll post more soon. Are We Addicted to Rioting? Please consider giving this article I just published a read. Share it. It's a G20/Pittsburgh protest inspired article. It's got a lot in it that I think Riot-Folk listeners should take some notes on... It's been a long time coming. Also, below the article is a response from Crimethinc, which I have posted. They have posted my article as well... to promote healthy dialogue and conversation. Also please read the string on infoshop.org and indybay.org, there's some really in-depth conversation emerging from this article. New Video of New Song! A friend filmed this in Boulder a few weeks ago, I did a benefit for Students for Peace and Justice out there. It's me singing a song from my new unreleased CD. The song is called Roulette Wheel. Watch the video here.
Also, I found this video of me speaking at the City From Below conference in Baltimore. The topic is the living wage campaign at the baseball stadium, I'm speaking about being an effective ally and struggling with affected people to achieve changes. Even If Your Voice Shakes writings up I started uploading the collected writings of me and Mark Gunnery's zine Even If Your Voice Shakes. Even If is an occassionally-published booklet of mostly original articles, essays and interviews on the topics of music, politics, the politics of music, and political issues dealt with in the "music world". Dig it. Much more still to come, this is just a few writings from issues 1-3. Steel Strings & Break Beats BOSTON & NYC Tour Kick-offs! Hey everyone! For all you northeast folks, we have two big shows before we leave for the big tour: THIS FRIDAY in BOSTON THIS SATURDAY in BROOKLYN More info, directions, etc, on my shows page (which has been fixed and now displays properly!) Learn more about the tour here: www.broadcastive.org/epk Iraq-Labor Tour NOW! Iraqi labor leaders have teamed up with Iraq Veterans Against the War and US Labor Against the War and are touring East Coast cities right now! GO HERE and catch an event. You will not regret it. Trans Musician Documentary Premiering Sept. 6th Some friends of Riot Folk from Actor Slash Model just released RIOT ACTS: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance, a documentary film about transgender musicians. Riot Acts will be premiering Sunday September 6th @ Glasslands 289 Kent Ave Brooklyn, NY 11211 at 7pm. CommonDreams article An article I wrote, Many Different Enemies - Afghan Women Fight for Their Country, was published today on CommonDreams. Dig it. New content... Hey yall. I updated some of my albums, posting demo tracks for my album Soldier By Soldier. I also just posted a brand new article I've been working on, an analysis of the supposed "withdrawal" from Iraq... please read it, it's full of info and will hopefully aid an understanding of what exactly is going on with U.S. forces in Iraq. Thanks. Looking for shows to fundraise for community space I am hard at work with 8 other folks opening up a community space in Bemidji. We named it the Root Cellar Community Space and we are hoping to have it open by late September. The outdoor space is already up and running. The community garden is amazing!! Folks working on that project are getting ready to break new ground for more plots for next year. I am excited to have the indoor space and lending library finally open and to finish the renovation stage!!! love from minnesota!
Steel Strings & Break Beats Tour 2009 Hey everyone! -Evan G SITE IS BACK! Sorry for that long-ass wait yall. Site is live now. A lot of us have been really busy lately, working, learning new skills, working through hard personal times, starting community spaces in home-towns, growing food, and brewing up plans to write books and essays. Others have been working hard making hot new music but with no website to help promote and distribute their music. Thanks to Micah, our friend and programmer, we have a newly designed, less-hackable, and more functional website. Things will still be a bit slow as we re-upload songs and re-enter lyrics and other info. But you can start relying on this site again for our shows, new songs, etc. Stay tuned, ans thanks for being patient! And thanks Micah! Never Surrender is NOW AVAILABLE! woohoo, the new riot-folk site is back up, and i just re-uploaded all the tracks for my new CD, "NEVER SURRENDER." check it out if you haven't already. 15 brand new recordings featuring a full band of amazing friends including Anne Feeney, Emma's Revolution, members of Broadcast Live, Taina Asili, and more!!! Please support independent music if you can by ordering a copy, or donating online for the music that you download! Thanks so much! -Evan G World NewsHAITI RELIEF Holy Shit. A group of super-rich Germans are pushing the government to tax them moreand invest the money into social justice, education, and ecology. Pretty sweet, pretty wierd...
Statement from President of Federation of Councils and Unions in Iraq The President of Federation of Councils and Unions in Iraq has issued a damning response to Iraqi government officials to accusations of union illegality and general repression. Some democracy Iraq is. See story here.
Free Fahad Hashmi! Syed Hashmi, known to his family and friends as Fahad, was born in Karachi, Pakistan in 1980, the second child of Syed Anwar Hashmi and Arifa Hashmi. Fahad immigrated with his family to America when he was three years old. His father said “We knew there would be many opportunities for us here in the United States. We came here to find the American dream.” The large Hashmi family settled in Flushing, New York and soon developed deep roots throughout the tri-state area. Fahad graduated from Robert F. Wagner High School in 1998 and attended SUNY Stony Brook University. He transferred to Brooklyn College, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in political science in 2003. A devout Muslim, through the years Fahad established a reputation as an activist and advocate. In 2003, Fahad enrolled in London Metropolitan University in England to pursue a master’s degree in international relations, which he received in 2006. On June 6, 2006, Fahad was arrested in London Heathrow airport by British police based on an American indictment charging him with material support of Al Qaida. He was subsequently held in Belmarsh Prison, Britain’s most notorious jail. The US government accused Fahad of providing material support to Al Qaeda, but a close look at the evidence shows that the charges make little sense. Fahad is NOT charged with providing any money or resources to any terrorists or being a member of al Qaeda. Instead, the US government charged Fahad with allowing an old acquaintance — Junaid Babar — to stay in Fahad’s London apartment for about two weeks in 2004. During that two week period, Babar allegedly kept several raincoats, ponchos, and waterproof socks in luggage that Babar temporarily stored in Fahad’s apartment. The US government then alleges that at some point Babar gave the socks and ponchos to a high ranking member of al Qaeda. There is no allegation that Fahad is a member of al Qaeda or that he ever personally gave or helped to give anything to any member of al Qaeda. SITE IS BACK! Sorry for that long-ass wait yall. Site is live now. A lot of us have been really busy lately, working, learning new skills, working through hard personal times, starting community spaces in home-towns, growing food, and brewing up plans to write books and essays. Others have been working hard making hot new music but with no website to help promote and distribute their music. Thanks to Micah, our friend and programmer, we have a newly designed, less-hackable, and more functional website. Things will still be a bit slow as we re-upload songs and re-enter lyrics and other info. But you can start relying on this site again for our shows, new songs, etc. Stay tuned, ans thanks for being patient! And thanks Micah! |
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