Fellow Travelers' Advisory from Anne Feeney - JUNE 2006, VOLUME TWO, # 3

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This isn't a typical Fellow Travelers' Advisory... Sure there are fun links and family news and labor news and tour dates, but this month I'm asking for your help.

I'm in the middle of recording and I'm just about out of money for the project. I'm recording some of the most frequently requested songs that I perform and some fabulous new songs - Let Their Heads Roll, Ya Basta!, Defenders of Marriage, My Feet Are Tired, Days of the Theocracy, Lullaby, Cops of the World, Preacher and the Slave, Hallelujah I'm a Bum, Who's the Criminal Here?, Emma Goldman and more... The tracks sound really terrific -- I've been working with terrific local union musicians and I've found a wonderful engineer, Doug Wilkin, to work with just blocks from my house.

But I need your help! I estimate the remaining cost of this production to be slightly more than $18,000.00 - a hopeless number for me to come up with alone... But if 180 of you can come up with $100 it will happen. This is how I financed "Have You Been to Jail for Justice?" six years ago and I'm hoping for the same magic this time. So far I've gotten contributions from Charlie Bernhardt, Joel Henderson, David Newby & Kathy McElroy, Steffi Domike, Berk Snow, Jill Weldon Merrill, Dave Thornburgh, Mel Packer and Emily DeFerrari, Jim Gorman, Mark Damron, the IWW, John Ames, Carol Gay, Carol Newman, Rose Feurer, Ed Finkelstein, Dan Callahan, Joey Hartman, Dave Johnson, Helena Worthen, Joe Berry -- so I only need 158 more angels/patrons/sponsors/underwriters/true-believers...but I need you soon!

If you can send me $100 before June 15th I'll be most grateful and I'll gladly put your name in the liner notes. Please send it to:

Anne Feeney
7206 Michigan Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15218

and include a note as to if/how you'd like to be listed in the liner notes. Thanks so much!

Some incredibly sweet people have written to offer me $10 or $15 -- Thank you so much... but, I'm like you, $10 or $15 I have... It's trying to come up with a huge lump sum up front to produce a new recording that is beyond my reach. I'm looking for those lucky and wonderful and rare people who have $100 to contribute toward a labor culture/social justice project.

If you've got $15 you don't know what to do with, how about buying a CD? They make great and unusual gifts!

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IMMEDIATE DESTINATIONS:

HOUSTON & COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS

MEREDOSIA, IL

WASHINGTON, DC

THE TRIPLE TROUBLE TOUR WITH DAVE LIPPMAN!!!
JUNE 23-AUGUST 2ND ......

SEATTLE, BELLINGHAM, VANCOUVER, VICTORIA, PORT TOWNSEND, TACOMA, OLYMPIA, PORTLAND, EUGENE, ASHLAND, BANDON, BRICELAND, NEVADA CITY, SAN FRANCISCO, OAKLAND, SAN RAFAEL, PALO ALTO, WATSONVILLE, FELTON & more

THE MARIPOSA FOLK FESTIVAL IN TORONTO

LAUREL, MD
BEIRUT
STOCKHOLM
THE 22nd BREAD AND ROSES FESTIVAL IN LAWRENCE, MA
READING & JIM THORPE, PA
IRELAND

all before the end of September! whew! Get all the details on my Tour Dates page.

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BEIRUT, ANYONE???

If you know someone living in Beirut that you think I should make contact with when I go there in August, please let me know.

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CHRIS CHANDLER IN PITTSBURGH JUNE 9TH

My dear and extraordinarily talented friend Chris Chandler brings his dynamic new show featuring New Orleans piano player David Roe to the Friendship House Concert series here. Details are:

Friday, June 9th, 2006 7:30pm
The Chris Chandler and David Roe Show
Friendship House Concerts
RSVP for directions to this house concert: phone: 412.361.6051 mailto:altes@potomacnet.com

Jim and LLouise Altes are the perfect house concert hosts and you'll have a memorable evening ... don't miss it! If I weren't going to the Kerrville Folk Festival for a few days I would surely be there myself!

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LABOR DAY

I'm very excited to report that I will be performing at the Bread and Roses Festival in Lawrence, MA this year. It's a festival that I've always wanted to play. Information on this year's festival should be up on their website very soon.


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FABULOUS FUN LINK

One of the funniest and cleverest sites on the web... The Yes Men do some really creative speaking of truth to power

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ACTIVIST LINK OF THE MONTH

Tell McDonald's and Chipotle (did you know that McDonald's owns Chipotle???) to Support Fair Wages for Farm Workers

Farm workers who pick tomatoes for McDonald's hamburgers and Chipotle's burritos earn about 45 cents for every 32-pound container of tomatoes they pick, a subpoverty wage that has remained stagnant for almost 30 years.

Although Taco Bell signed an agreement last year with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to pay an additional one cent per pound for tomatoes it purchases, McDonald's and Chipotle have refused to sign a similar agreement to raise wages in the fields.

Tell McDonald's and Chipotle to support fair wages for farm workers and sign the agreement with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers now.



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DAVID GILL FOR CONGRESS/NATIONAL HEALTH CARE NOW!!

Illinois' 15th Congressional District race features a physician campaigning for single-payer national health care. Check out his website./

I met him during my swing through Champaign/Urbana last weekend and I was very impressed. His district should be on Colbert's "Better Know a District" -- It's a real gerrymandered mess.

If you don't know about HR 676, John Conyers' Universal Health Care Bill, you should. I'm delighted to report that my member of Congress, Mike Doyle, just signed on as a sponsor.

Check out John Conyers' Health Care page and then look to see if your member of Congress is a sponsor.

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BOILERMAKERS 484 LOCKOUT ENDS (see article below this post)

Sunday, June 11th there will be a Hog Roast to honor the sacrifices made during the lockout of the loyal & heroic member/warriors of Boilermakers Local 484

City Park * Hwy 104 * Meredosia, IL - I'm leaving the Kerrville Folk Festival early to be with my locked out brothers and sisters.


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FAMILY NEWS

Cousin Terry Donovan is 60 years old as of the 23rd of May. Bill Feeney, Jill Weldon Merrill, Mary and Tom Weldon and I got together with Terry to celebrate over dinner. See the photo below this post.

Karen McCahill's daughter Erin Brown is expecting a little brother for Henry - Congratulations!

And rumor has it that Kevin McCahill turned 60 in mid-May -- Happy Birthday, Cuz!

I was delighted to get an email from cousin Joseph McCahill, Jr - a guitar player living in Alexandria, VA with his gorgeous wife Mennelle and son, Nicholas. Welcome to the list, Joseph! I'm hoping to get a chance to hang out with you when I come to Silver Spring for the Great Labor Arts Exchange next month.

Aunt Claire's Birthday is June 4th -- I'm not 100% sure, but I think she's 86 this year... you can send her a card : Claire O'Connor, 325 Magnolia Lake Court, Aiken, SC 29803 ... or give her a call - 803.641.9027

My daughter Amy got home from Guatemala and Mexico today. My son Dan and his fiance Monique Murad left for Beirut this afternoon.

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That's it for June! Look for a new CD next month! Yes!!!!