Emma, Colin and Tara with big brother Connor Duncan ... The triplets celebrated their third birthday on July 16th... HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Three Turning Three!
Emma, Colin and Tara with big brother Connor Duncan ... The triplets celebrated their third birthday on July 16th... HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Sunday, July 20, 2008
ACT NOW for justice in Zimbabwe!!
Lovemore Matombo and Wellington Chibebe, the President and General Secretary of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) were arrested on 8 May for speaking out about the state-sponsored violence in Zimbabwe - or as Robert Mugabe's government put it "spreading falsehoods prejudicial to the State".
Lovemore and Wellington are due to appear in court on 30 July, to defend themselves against these charges. Over 2,000 trade unionists from around the world have come together to make a public demonstration of support for the ZCTU leaders and all unionists in Zimbabwe.
Please take a moment to add your voice to this growing tide of support for these brave trade unionists. Everyone can do something to help --
Lovemore and Wellington are due to appear in court on 30 July, to defend themselves against these charges. Over 2,000 trade unionists from around the world have come together to make a public demonstration of support for the ZCTU leaders and all unionists in Zimbabwe.
Please take a moment to add your voice to this growing tide of support for these brave trade unionists. Everyone can do something to help --
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Racism by any other name...
To the New Yorker:
I am a satirist (musical) myself. I am married to a visual artist who does satirical political cartoons here in Sweden. As artists, we are constantly defending freedom of expression. HOWEVER, if this picture had appeared on the front page of any mainstream or conservative publication, it would have been correctly identified as what it is: Right wing racist propaganda featuring slanderous stereotypes.
Instead, you have sullied the pages of the illustrious New Yorker with this disgusting image, leaving the media to hail this as "satire."
Satire reveals truth. This image obfuscates the truth -- in an era when truth becomes increasingly harder to find.
It doesn't matter what sort of articles appear inside the magazine. You are perpetuating villainous public falsehoods designed to manipulate the fear and ignorance that abounds in this country. That ignorance abounds in large part due to a COMPLICIT media that does NOTHING to shed light on the real issues.
Next month's cover should be an apology and a clarion call for a more vigilant media.
Your former subscriber
Anne Feeney
I am a satirist (musical) myself. I am married to a visual artist who does satirical political cartoons here in Sweden. As artists, we are constantly defending freedom of expression. HOWEVER, if this picture had appeared on the front page of any mainstream or conservative publication, it would have been correctly identified as what it is: Right wing racist propaganda featuring slanderous stereotypes.
Instead, you have sullied the pages of the illustrious New Yorker with this disgusting image, leaving the media to hail this as "satire."
Satire reveals truth. This image obfuscates the truth -- in an era when truth becomes increasingly harder to find.
It doesn't matter what sort of articles appear inside the magazine. You are perpetuating villainous public falsehoods designed to manipulate the fear and ignorance that abounds in this country. That ignorance abounds in large part due to a COMPLICIT media that does NOTHING to shed light on the real issues.
Next month's cover should be an apology and a clarion call for a more vigilant media.
Your former subscriber
Anne Feeney
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Anne Feeney's Fellow Travelers' Advisory - JULY 2008, VOLUME FOUR, #4
IMMEDIATE DESTINATIONS:
(all the details about where and when appear in Swedish at http://www.goatbridge.com/bokning.asp, and are continuously updating at http://annefeeney.com/calendar.html)
SUMMER IN SWEDEN!!
Borlange - 27 & 28th of June
Skellefteå - 18th July
Gnesta - 19th of July
Smedjebacken - 22nd of July
Årjäng - 23rd of July
Falun - 26th of July
Leksand - 30th of July
Stockholm - 6th of August
This weekend I am performing at a very cool festival - the Peace and Love Festival - in Borlange Sweden. Manu Chao, Suzanne Vega, the Sex Pistols and Roky Erickson are on the bill too! Cool beans. I still have lots of places I'd like to visit on this tour - email my agent Fredrik@goatbridge.com if you want to put together a gig in Göteborg, Lund, Malmö, Östersund, Sundsvall, Örebro, Kiruna, Gotland ... Fredrik is terrific!
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GENERAL INFO:
BUY CDS: http://cdbaby.com/all/unionmaid
BUY NEW CD: http://cdbaby.com/cd/annefeeney7
Thank you so much for your interest in my music and work. I couldn't do this without you! Let me know what you're up to!
If you'd like to subscribe and have The Fellow Travelers' Advisory delivered to your mailbox every month, please visit http://annefeeney.com/newsletter.com and sign up. Over 10,000 other happy subscribers have done the same!
You can also digitally download all my stuff at CDBaby, or Apple I-Tunes http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=75034988 and most other online services.
My cell is 1-412-877-6480
For this summer, email is better - anne@annefeeney.com
******************************************************
IN THIS ISSUE:
REPORT FROM THE FIRST IRELAND TOUR
*Acquittal of the Raytheon 9*
*Defeat of the Lisbon Accord*
FISA FILIBUSTER
CONCERT DVD NOW AVAILABLE
PRICE HIKE COMING FOR SEPT/OCT IN IRELAND - BOOK NOW!!
LINK OF THE MONTH
DONEGAL WOMAN - a book
BOOKING FALL 2008 and WINTER 2009
2009 IRELAND TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED
FAMILY NEWS/JULY BIRTHDAYS
UPCOMING TOUR DATES
*******************************************************
REPORT FROM THE FIRST IRELAND TOUR
There were 21 of us on this first tour of Ireland - a real international group we were, too! Irish, American, Swedish, Canadian & Danish - and now all friends for life! We went to Kerry, Clare and Galway.
(This group photo taken by Tom Pigott on Guy Zahller's camera...)
We visited Padraic Pearse's summer house, a dozen fabulous pubs to hear traditional music and ballads, the Cliffs of Moher, Lady Gregory's house at Coole Park, and took in some of the most amazing scenery Ireland has to offer... AND ... we made some great music of our own!
I sure didn't have to do all the singing on this trip! Our tour was enlivened by the musical presence of Nell and Laurie Postans and Molly Newman of Victoria, BC as well as the singing of our fearless tour leader, Tom Pigott, birthday girl Marie Berlev of Copenhagen, Denmark and Nettie (also celebrating her birthday on this trip!) Sabin and Linda Turney of Chicago - and really, when we all sang together - (frequently) - it sounded great.
My husband, Julie Leonardsson, took great photos and made many wonderful sketches during the tour... You can see them at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/annefeeney/sets/72157605809447284/
And our Danish friends have posted their photos at:
http://rejser.berlev.dk/#2.0
We had plenty to celebrate on this tour. On June 11th, we were overjoyed to learn that the Raytheon 9 were acquitted.
"The six anti-war activists who occupied arms manufacturer Raytheon's offices in Derry and destroyed its computers have been acquitted by a jury in Belfast.
Derry Anti War Coalition calls on the office of the Attorney General and the Crown Prosecution Service, in light of the jury's verdict of 'not guilty' to criminal damage charges, to institute an investigation into the activities of Raytheon at its various plants across the UK, with a view to determining whether Raytheon is a criminal enterprise."
Read the full article, as well as the powerful statement of the Raytheon 9, that begins...
"We said from the beginning that we came to this court not as the accused but as the accusers of Raytheon."
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/87945
... There was NOTHING about it in the Irish Times - Ireland's major daily.
Then, on the 13th of June, Ireland overwhelmingly rejected a militarised corporatized federal Europe and defeated the "Lisbon Accord." In Clifden my friend Niall Farrell, who had been working tirelessly for the treaty's defeat, filled everyone in on all the details and explained why the defeat of the treaty was a victory for working people everywhere.
In that case, the vote was widely covered in the media as a huge "embarrassment" for Ireland, and a "failure." Perhaps, the pundits opined, the people were too stupid to understand how important it was to vote YES... perhaps there should be another vote to see if they could get it right.
It's obvious that media consolidation is burying the truth everywhere, not just in the United States.
Anyway, the tour was exhilarating and uplifting! I wish you could have all been there!
********************************************
FISA FILIBUSTER
As I'm going to press with this issue it looks like there may still be some hope to stop this latest hateful version of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act - retroactively legalizing the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program.
Call your Senators today and ask them to support the Feingo-Dodd filibuster and oppose any version of FISA that grants retroactive immunity for warrantless wiretapping.
http://www.truemajority.org/FISAcalls/call_save_filibuster.php
**************************************************
CHICAGO CONCERT DVD AVAILABLE!
"Anne Feeney - Songs of Struggle at the Heartland Cafe" is airing on Chicago's Labor Beat TV show this month.
Filmed before a live (and lively!) audience at Chicago's Heartland Cafe on May 18, 2008, this three camera DVD came out really well.
You can watch the video on Google Video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4868765863170585425&hl=en
Or order a DVD: $15 by PayPal, go to www.laborbeat.org/3/forml604.htm and fill out the form with your mailing address, and title of the DVD "Anne Feeney / Heartland Cafe"
You can also order by mailing a check for $15 to:
Labor Beat, 37 S. Ashland, Chicago, IL 60607
*****************************************************
PRICE HIKE COMING ON LAST TOUR OF IRELAND IN 2008
The September tour of Clare, Kerry and Cork is filling up.
Your $1750 tour cost includes all ground transportation, all hotels, all breakfasts, three dinners, and many extras. If you reserve now, or if you've already reserved a seat on this tour, you are still guaranteed the original rate of $1750. This is a fantastic bargain, as anyone who has travelled recently in Ireland can tell you.
http://www.annefeeney.com/Pages/enchantedwaytours.html
is the link on my webpage to describe the tours..
http://www.enchantedwaytours.ie/?page_id=13
particularly describes the Clare, Kerry and Cork tour.
Unless the dollar makes a huge comeback between now and the end of July, my Irish partner, Tom Pigott, has asked me to raise the price on this tour of Ireland, which begins on September 30, 2008 and ends on October 9, 2008. We'll decide closer to the end of the month how much we need to raise the tour cost to compensate for the dollar's shrinking value abroad ... but if you've been seriously thinking about this tour, now would be an excellent time to commit. The price will go up on August 1st.
*********************************************
LINK OF THE MONTH
Quite a few of you sent this link to me, but for those of you who haven't seen it yet, check out:
"I'M VOTING REPUBLICAN"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FiQJ9Xp0xxU
**********************************************
DONEGAL WOMAN - A BOOK
I just finished reading "Donegal Woman," by activist Séan Throne. It's a vivid depiction of rural life in Donegal at the turn of the 20th century, to which Throne has a very personal connection. Born in Lifford, Co. Donegal, Throne was involved in the civil rights movement in Derry and an eyewitness to Bloody Sunday in 1968. Throne now lives in Chicago. Donegal Woman is a combination of family history, historical fiction, manifesto and documentary -- I found the book very compelling. If you'd like to order a copy, the book is $23. You can order it directly from the author - loughfinn@aol.com - and have it signed by the author.
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BOOKING FALL 2008 and WINTER 2009
Midwest in the Fall with Anne Feeney & the Ornery Duffers
I'd love to do a CD-release tour for DUMP THE BOSSES OFF YOUR BACK through Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Arkansas with the fabulous Oliver Steck on accordion and a yet-to-be-named tuba player .... (now that's some Ornery Duffers!) If you'd like to see this powerhouse trio in your town, email me at anne@annefeeney.com
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Northwest after Western Workers in 2009 with Rebel Voices
After the Western Workers' Labor Heritage Festival in San Francisco (Jan 16-18), I plan on taking the train to Portland and doing a tour with Susan Lewis and Janet Stecher (Rebel Voices - http://www.rebelvoices.com/) at least as far as Seattle, but possibly on up to Victoria. If you're anywhere along that route and would like to host a concert for us, contact me at anne@annefeeney.com
*********************************************
2009 IRELAND TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED!
If you can't make it in September, Tom Pigott (http://enchantedwaytours.ie) and I have agreed on our 2009 tour dates:
May 19-28 (probably Clare, Galway & Kerry)
June 30- July 9 (probably Donegal/Derry - I'll be celebrating my birthday on this tour!!)
August 25-September 3 (probably Cork, Kerry & Clare)
The 2009 tour cost will be $1950 and the single supplement $350. To guarantee a seat, send $250 (fully refundable until eight weeks prior to departure) to:
Anne Feeney
2240 Milligan Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15218
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FAMILY NEWS & BIRTHDAYS
Today is the birthday of socialist activist Helen Keller, my former brother-in-law Mark Sever, and Captain Kangaroo!
My Aunt Claire O'Connor has moved to:
Eden Gardens, Room 206
1385 Silver Bluff Rd
Aiken, SC 29803
send her a card!
July Birthdays
Anne Feeney - July 1
Carolyn Weldon's husband Patrick - Jul 3
Suzanne Beers - Jul 3
Michael Grefenstette - Jul 8
Kristen Grefenstette - Jul 9
Judy Lane McCahill - Jul 10
Eileen Metcalfe - Jul 14
Erin Grefenstette Henninger - Jul 18
James McCahill - Jul 25
Karen McCahill - Jul 25
JoAnne Metcalfe -
Marlo Mary Henninger - Jul 30
Monique Murad - Jul 30
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(all the details about where and when appear in Swedish at http://www.goatbridge.com/bokning.asp, and are continuously updating at http://annefeeney.com/calendar.html)
SUMMER IN SWEDEN!!
Borlange - 27 & 28th of June
Skellefteå - 18th July
Gnesta - 19th of July
Smedjebacken - 22nd of July
Årjäng - 23rd of July
Falun - 26th of July
Leksand - 30th of July
Stockholm - 6th of August
This weekend I am performing at a very cool festival - the Peace and Love Festival - in Borlange Sweden. Manu Chao, Suzanne Vega, the Sex Pistols and Roky Erickson are on the bill too! Cool beans. I still have lots of places I'd like to visit on this tour - email my agent Fredrik@goatbridge.com if you want to put together a gig in Göteborg, Lund, Malmö, Östersund, Sundsvall, Örebro, Kiruna, Gotland ... Fredrik is terrific!
********************************************
GENERAL INFO:
BUY CDS: http://cdbaby.com/all/unionmaid
BUY NEW CD: http://cdbaby.com/cd/annefeeney7
Thank you so much for your interest in my music and work. I couldn't do this without you! Let me know what you're up to!
If you'd like to subscribe and have The Fellow Travelers' Advisory delivered to your mailbox every month, please visit http://annefeeney.com/newsletter.com and sign up. Over 10,000 other happy subscribers have done the same!
You can also digitally download all my stuff at CDBaby, or Apple I-Tunes http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=75034988 and most other online services.
My cell is 1-412-877-6480
For this summer, email is better - anne@annefeeney.com
******************************************************
IN THIS ISSUE:
REPORT FROM THE FIRST IRELAND TOUR
*Acquittal of the Raytheon 9*
*Defeat of the Lisbon Accord*
FISA FILIBUSTER
CONCERT DVD NOW AVAILABLE
PRICE HIKE COMING FOR SEPT/OCT IN IRELAND - BOOK NOW!!
LINK OF THE MONTH
DONEGAL WOMAN - a book
BOOKING FALL 2008 and WINTER 2009
2009 IRELAND TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED
FAMILY NEWS/JULY BIRTHDAYS
UPCOMING TOUR DATES
*******************************************************
REPORT FROM THE FIRST IRELAND TOUR
There were 21 of us on this first tour of Ireland - a real international group we were, too! Irish, American, Swedish, Canadian & Danish - and now all friends for life! We went to Kerry, Clare and Galway.
(This group photo taken by Tom Pigott on Guy Zahller's camera...)We visited Padraic Pearse's summer house, a dozen fabulous pubs to hear traditional music and ballads, the Cliffs of Moher, Lady Gregory's house at Coole Park, and took in some of the most amazing scenery Ireland has to offer... AND ... we made some great music of our own!
I sure didn't have to do all the singing on this trip! Our tour was enlivened by the musical presence of Nell and Laurie Postans and Molly Newman of Victoria, BC as well as the singing of our fearless tour leader, Tom Pigott, birthday girl Marie Berlev of Copenhagen, Denmark and Nettie (also celebrating her birthday on this trip!) Sabin and Linda Turney of Chicago - and really, when we all sang together - (frequently) - it sounded great.
My husband, Julie Leonardsson, took great photos and made many wonderful sketches during the tour... You can see them at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/annefeeney/sets/72157605809447284/
And our Danish friends have posted their photos at:
http://rejser.berlev.dk/#2.0
We had plenty to celebrate on this tour. On June 11th, we were overjoyed to learn that the Raytheon 9 were acquitted.
"The six anti-war activists who occupied arms manufacturer Raytheon's offices in Derry and destroyed its computers have been acquitted by a jury in Belfast.
Derry Anti War Coalition calls on the office of the Attorney General and the Crown Prosecution Service, in light of the jury's verdict of 'not guilty' to criminal damage charges, to institute an investigation into the activities of Raytheon at its various plants across the UK, with a view to determining whether Raytheon is a criminal enterprise."
Read the full article, as well as the powerful statement of the Raytheon 9, that begins...
"We said from the beginning that we came to this court not as the accused but as the accusers of Raytheon."
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/87945
... There was NOTHING about it in the Irish Times - Ireland's major daily.
Then, on the 13th of June, Ireland overwhelmingly rejected a militarised corporatized federal Europe and defeated the "Lisbon Accord." In Clifden my friend Niall Farrell, who had been working tirelessly for the treaty's defeat, filled everyone in on all the details and explained why the defeat of the treaty was a victory for working people everywhere.
In that case, the vote was widely covered in the media as a huge "embarrassment" for Ireland, and a "failure." Perhaps, the pundits opined, the people were too stupid to understand how important it was to vote YES... perhaps there should be another vote to see if they could get it right.
It's obvious that media consolidation is burying the truth everywhere, not just in the United States.
Anyway, the tour was exhilarating and uplifting! I wish you could have all been there!
********************************************
FISA FILIBUSTER
As I'm going to press with this issue it looks like there may still be some hope to stop this latest hateful version of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act - retroactively legalizing the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program.
Call your Senators today and ask them to support the Feingo-Dodd filibuster and oppose any version of FISA that grants retroactive immunity for warrantless wiretapping.
http://www.truemajority.org/FISAcalls/call_save_filibuster.php
**************************************************
CHICAGO CONCERT DVD AVAILABLE!
"Anne Feeney - Songs of Struggle at the Heartland Cafe" is airing on Chicago's Labor Beat TV show this month.
Filmed before a live (and lively!) audience at Chicago's Heartland Cafe on May 18, 2008, this three camera DVD came out really well.
You can watch the video on Google Video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4868765863170585425&hl=en
Or order a DVD: $15 by PayPal, go to www.laborbeat.org/3/forml604.htm and fill out the form with your mailing address, and title of the DVD "Anne Feeney / Heartland Cafe"
You can also order by mailing a check for $15 to:
Labor Beat, 37 S. Ashland, Chicago, IL 60607
*****************************************************
PRICE HIKE COMING ON LAST TOUR OF IRELAND IN 2008
The September tour of Clare, Kerry and Cork is filling up.
Your $1750 tour cost includes all ground transportation, all hotels, all breakfasts, three dinners, and many extras. If you reserve now, or if you've already reserved a seat on this tour, you are still guaranteed the original rate of $1750. This is a fantastic bargain, as anyone who has travelled recently in Ireland can tell you.
http://www.annefeeney.com/Pages/enchantedwaytours.html
is the link on my webpage to describe the tours..
http://www.enchantedwaytours.ie/?page_id=13
particularly describes the Clare, Kerry and Cork tour.
Unless the dollar makes a huge comeback between now and the end of July, my Irish partner, Tom Pigott, has asked me to raise the price on this tour of Ireland, which begins on September 30, 2008 and ends on October 9, 2008. We'll decide closer to the end of the month how much we need to raise the tour cost to compensate for the dollar's shrinking value abroad ... but if you've been seriously thinking about this tour, now would be an excellent time to commit. The price will go up on August 1st.
*********************************************
LINK OF THE MONTH
Quite a few of you sent this link to me, but for those of you who haven't seen it yet, check out:
"I'M VOTING REPUBLICAN"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FiQJ9Xp0xxU
**********************************************
DONEGAL WOMAN - A BOOK
I just finished reading "Donegal Woman," by activist Séan Throne. It's a vivid depiction of rural life in Donegal at the turn of the 20th century, to which Throne has a very personal connection. Born in Lifford, Co. Donegal, Throne was involved in the civil rights movement in Derry and an eyewitness to Bloody Sunday in 1968. Throne now lives in Chicago. Donegal Woman is a combination of family history, historical fiction, manifesto and documentary -- I found the book very compelling. If you'd like to order a copy, the book is $23. You can order it directly from the author - loughfinn@aol.com - and have it signed by the author.
***********************************************
BOOKING FALL 2008 and WINTER 2009
Midwest in the Fall with Anne Feeney & the Ornery Duffers
I'd love to do a CD-release tour for DUMP THE BOSSES OFF YOUR BACK through Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Arkansas with the fabulous Oliver Steck on accordion and a yet-to-be-named tuba player .... (now that's some Ornery Duffers!) If you'd like to see this powerhouse trio in your town, email me at anne@annefeeney.com
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Northwest after Western Workers in 2009 with Rebel Voices
After the Western Workers' Labor Heritage Festival in San Francisco (Jan 16-18), I plan on taking the train to Portland and doing a tour with Susan Lewis and Janet Stecher (Rebel Voices - http://www.rebelvoices.com/) at least as far as Seattle, but possibly on up to Victoria. If you're anywhere along that route and would like to host a concert for us, contact me at anne@annefeeney.com
*********************************************
2009 IRELAND TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED!
If you can't make it in September, Tom Pigott (http://enchantedwaytours.ie) and I have agreed on our 2009 tour dates:
May 19-28 (probably Clare, Galway & Kerry)
June 30- July 9 (probably Donegal/Derry - I'll be celebrating my birthday on this tour!!)
August 25-September 3 (probably Cork, Kerry & Clare)
The 2009 tour cost will be $1950 and the single supplement $350. To guarantee a seat, send $250 (fully refundable until eight weeks prior to departure) to:
Anne Feeney
2240 Milligan Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15218
***************************************************
FAMILY NEWS & BIRTHDAYS
Today is the birthday of socialist activist Helen Keller, my former brother-in-law Mark Sever, and Captain Kangaroo!
My Aunt Claire O'Connor has moved to:
Eden Gardens, Room 206
1385 Silver Bluff Rd
Aiken, SC 29803
send her a card!
July Birthdays
Anne Feeney - July 1
Carolyn Weldon's husband Patrick - Jul 3
Suzanne Beers - Jul 3
Michael Grefenstette - Jul 8
Kristen Grefenstette - Jul 9
Judy Lane McCahill - Jul 10
Eileen Metcalfe - Jul 14
Erin Grefenstette Henninger - Jul 18
James McCahill - Jul 25
Karen McCahill - Jul 25
JoAnne Metcalfe -
Marlo Mary Henninger - Jul 30
Monique Murad - Jul 30
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Anne Feeney's Fellow Travelers' Advisory - JUNE 2008, VOLUME FOUR, #3
Thanks so much for subscribing to my email news ... My life and work would be impossible without your support! I had planned a nice newsy letter for you this month, but I'm camping at the Kerrville Folk Festival and I'm underslept and over-sunned ...
CD!!!
If you haven't already gotten it, I hope you'll get my new CD - "Dump the Bosses Off Your Back" - at CDBaby... http://cdbaby.com/cd/annefeeney7 - It's getting great reviews and one of the songs - "How Long?" - is the featured song at Labor Notes this month... http://labornotes.org
RADIO LIVE!!!
I'm off from here to Pensacola (by Greyhound - yes, riding the dog...) for RadioLive! which you can listen in to at
http://wuwf.org/radiolive/radiolive.shtml on Thursday night at 6PM EDT
IRELAND!!
I'm off to Ireland, Sweden and Denmark for the summer.. I'm so looking forward to it. I won't be back in the states until August 25th. For now, email is the best and sometimes the only way to get hold of me...
UTAH PHILLIPS (1925 - 2008)
How lucky we are that Bruce "Utah" Phillips was so very generous with his time, his music, his humor and his wisdom. He has left all of us with so much. Seventy three years does not seem very long to me any more. I will feel forever grateful to him for the time he shared with me. My heart breaks for his wonderful wife, Joanna Robinson, and all his family and friends. It somehow seems appropriate that Utah's gigantic heart was his weakness... He had a tremendous love for us all. This is the link to the obituary in the New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/arts/music/27phillips.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
BURGER KING VICTORY FOR CIW
check out http://ciw-online.org for this exciting story!
LINK OF THE MONTH
http://3trillion.org/
SOAW VICTORY!!
Check out http://soaw.org to read about the huge victory in Congress! See you in November @ Ft Benning!
CELL PHONE USERS - at least get a headset!
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/mobile-phones-more-dangerous-than-smoking-802602.html
RAYTHEON 9 TRIAL ENTERS SECOND WEEK IN DERRY
The defense opens its case in the trial of 9 Irish peace activists who exposed RAYTHEON Ireland's complicity in the manufacturing of bombs used in the massacre at Qana. More on this story when we have a verdict...
In the meantime... http://www.raytheon9.org/
READ & SIGN THIS PETITION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2008/04/28/china18656.htm
FABULOUS MURALS
When you come to Pittsburgh, be sure to check this out -
www.vankamurals.org
ON STRIKE STILL
Last month I had a chance to visit the Conn Selmer strikers in Elkhart, IN - on strike for two years now!
http://www.etruth.com/Know/News/Story.aspx?id=449745
and I enjoyed my time with the courageous AFSCME strikers against Heartland Health in Effingham, IL... Today is the one year anniversary of their strike
http://www.afscme31.org/articleDetail.asp?objectID=1165
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
To Claire O'Connor (89!)
325 Magnolia Lake Court
Aiken SC 29803
Sara Engstrom
Dave Larkin
and Happy 7th Wedding Anniversary to Erin Grefenstette and Mark Henninger
There's so much to tell, but it's already June 2nd and my access to computers is limited here. So, thanks for reading ... Here's the schedule so far...
Thursday, June 5th, 2008 6:00 PM
Live on WUWF RadioLive!
Museum of Commerce
Pensacola, FL
http://wuwf.org/radiolive/radiolive.shtml
Price: free
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 8:00 PM
Gone to Ireland
Tour Ireland with me - June 10-19th
http://www.annefeeney.com/Pages/enchantedwaytours.html
Friday, June 20th, 2008 8:00 PM
Touring Sweden and Denmark
Sweden
http://www.goatbridge.com/bokning.asp
fredrik@goatbridge.com is handling all my bookings in Europe from June 20 up to August 13th...
Friday, August 15th, 2008 8:00 PM
Tour Ireland with me!
Gone to Ireland August 15-24th
http://www.annefeeney.com/Pages/enchantedwaytours.html
Saturday, September 6th, 2008 7:30 PM
Concert at Collette's
Collette's Crepes
1611 Virginia Avenue, Suite #501
North Bend, OR 97459-2759
(541) 751-1475
http://www.colettescrepes.com/1294187.html
Price: $15 suggested
Sunday, September 7th, 2008 8:00 PM
House Concert
Ken and Janet Bates' place
89569 Sunny Loop Lane
Bandon, OR 97411
Thursday, September 11th, 2008 12:00 PM
PJSA Conference
Portland State University
Portland, OR
this conference runs through Sept 14th
more details later
tom hastings is the contact
hastings(@)pdx.edu
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 8:00 PM
Tour Ireland with me! September 30-October 9th
plenty of seats on this tour, which will feature the best airfares of the year
http://www.annefeeney.com/Pages/enchantedwaytours.html
CD!!!
If you haven't already gotten it, I hope you'll get my new CD - "Dump the Bosses Off Your Back" - at CDBaby... http://cdbaby.com/cd/annefeeney7 - It's getting great reviews and one of the songs - "How Long?" - is the featured song at Labor Notes this month... http://labornotes.org
RADIO LIVE!!!
I'm off from here to Pensacola (by Greyhound - yes, riding the dog...) for RadioLive! which you can listen in to at
http://wuwf.org/radiolive/radiolive.shtml on Thursday night at 6PM EDT
IRELAND!!
I'm off to Ireland, Sweden and Denmark for the summer.. I'm so looking forward to it. I won't be back in the states until August 25th. For now, email is the best and sometimes the only way to get hold of me...
UTAH PHILLIPS (1925 - 2008)
How lucky we are that Bruce "Utah" Phillips was so very generous with his time, his music, his humor and his wisdom. He has left all of us with so much. Seventy three years does not seem very long to me any more. I will feel forever grateful to him for the time he shared with me. My heart breaks for his wonderful wife, Joanna Robinson, and all his family and friends. It somehow seems appropriate that Utah's gigantic heart was his weakness... He had a tremendous love for us all. This is the link to the obituary in the New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/arts/music/27phillips.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
BURGER KING VICTORY FOR CIW
check out http://ciw-online.org for this exciting story!
LINK OF THE MONTH
http://3trillion.org/
SOAW VICTORY!!
Check out http://soaw.org to read about the huge victory in Congress! See you in November @ Ft Benning!
CELL PHONE USERS - at least get a headset!
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/mobile-phones-more-dangerous-than-smoking-802602.html
RAYTHEON 9 TRIAL ENTERS SECOND WEEK IN DERRY
The defense opens its case in the trial of 9 Irish peace activists who exposed RAYTHEON Ireland's complicity in the manufacturing of bombs used in the massacre at Qana. More on this story when we have a verdict...
In the meantime... http://www.raytheon9.org/
READ & SIGN THIS PETITION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2008/04/28/china18656.htm
FABULOUS MURALS
When you come to Pittsburgh, be sure to check this out -
www.vankamurals.org
ON STRIKE STILL
Last month I had a chance to visit the Conn Selmer strikers in Elkhart, IN - on strike for two years now!
http://www.etruth.com/Know/News/Story.aspx?id=449745
and I enjoyed my time with the courageous AFSCME strikers against Heartland Health in Effingham, IL... Today is the one year anniversary of their strike
http://www.afscme31.org/articleDetail.asp?objectID=1165
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
To Claire O'Connor (89!)
325 Magnolia Lake Court
Aiken SC 29803
Sara Engstrom
Dave Larkin
and Happy 7th Wedding Anniversary to Erin Grefenstette and Mark Henninger
There's so much to tell, but it's already June 2nd and my access to computers is limited here. So, thanks for reading ... Here's the schedule so far...
Thursday, June 5th, 2008 6:00 PM
Live on WUWF RadioLive!
Museum of Commerce
Pensacola, FL
http://wuwf.org/radiolive/radiolive.shtml
Price: free
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 8:00 PM
Gone to Ireland
Tour Ireland with me - June 10-19th
http://www.annefeeney.com/Pages/enchantedwaytours.html
Friday, June 20th, 2008 8:00 PM
Touring Sweden and Denmark
Sweden
http://www.goatbridge.com/bokning.asp
fredrik@goatbridge.com is handling all my bookings in Europe from June 20 up to August 13th...
Friday, August 15th, 2008 8:00 PM
Tour Ireland with me!
Gone to Ireland August 15-24th
http://www.annefeeney.com/Pages/enchantedwaytours.html
Saturday, September 6th, 2008 7:30 PM
Concert at Collette's
Collette's Crepes
1611 Virginia Avenue, Suite #501
North Bend, OR 97459-2759
(541) 751-1475
http://www.colettescrepes.com/1294187.html
Price: $15 suggested
Sunday, September 7th, 2008 8:00 PM
House Concert
Ken and Janet Bates' place
89569 Sunny Loop Lane
Bandon, OR 97411
Thursday, September 11th, 2008 12:00 PM
PJSA Conference
Portland State University
Portland, OR
this conference runs through Sept 14th
more details later
tom hastings is the contact
hastings(@)pdx.edu
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 8:00 PM
Tour Ireland with me! September 30-October 9th
plenty of seats on this tour, which will feature the best airfares of the year
http://www.annefeeney.com/Pages/enchantedwaytours.html
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Bruce “Utah” Phillips Passes
Bruce “Utah” Phillips Passes - Sing Out! News
Saturday morning, May 24th, we received word that Utah Phillips — the great storyteller, songwriter, activist, raconteur, organizer, hobo and more — died last night at his home.
utah phillips - google news search
Saturday morning, May 24th, we received word that Utah Phillips — the great storyteller, songwriter, activist, raconteur, organizer, hobo and more — died last night at his home.
utah phillips - google news search
Monday, May 12, 2008
Don't Pay the Ransom -- I've Escaped!
Thanks so much to everyone who has expressed concern for me during this health scare.. Your kindness means more to me than I can express... here's the latest...
I got home from the Susquehanna Music and Arts Festival at 8 last night. I listened to my "Stress Free Surgery" cassette and began fasting at midnight.
I went in for the surgery this morning... was fitted with the IV and taken to the sonography suite and given a topical anesthetic while they inserted a wire into my bosom to mark the path to the metal marker they implanted when they did the biopsy.
Next it was on to the mammography suite to get films to make sure that the wire was actually AT the metal marker.
That proved to be difficult to the point of impossible ... the 'spot' was very hard to find because it got sooooooooooooooo small after the biopsy.
From there we went back to the surgery suite... The anesthesiologist came in, discussed all the medication I would be receiving and I signed all the consent forms.
My surgeon came in prior to the trip the O.R. and after some discussion my doc said she wasn't 100% committed to the idea of doing the surgery today.
Soooooooooooo, we're going to watch this lump for a few months and see what happens...
A REPRIEVE!!!
TA DA!!
I'm delighted...
So far the keyword for this adventure isn't "scary" or "painful"... it's EXPENSIVE...
I got home from the Susquehanna Music and Arts Festival at 8 last night. I listened to my "Stress Free Surgery" cassette and began fasting at midnight.
I went in for the surgery this morning... was fitted with the IV and taken to the sonography suite and given a topical anesthetic while they inserted a wire into my bosom to mark the path to the metal marker they implanted when they did the biopsy.
Next it was on to the mammography suite to get films to make sure that the wire was actually AT the metal marker.
That proved to be difficult to the point of impossible ... the 'spot' was very hard to find because it got sooooooooooooooo small after the biopsy.
From there we went back to the surgery suite... The anesthesiologist came in, discussed all the medication I would be receiving and I signed all the consent forms.
My surgeon came in prior to the trip the O.R. and after some discussion my doc said she wasn't 100% committed to the idea of doing the surgery today.
Soooooooooooo, we're going to watch this lump for a few months and see what happens...
A REPRIEVE!!!
TA DA!!
I'm delighted...
So far the keyword for this adventure isn't "scary" or "painful"... it's EXPENSIVE...
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Print out this coupon to save $$ at this wonderful festival!!
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Susquehanna Music and Arts Festival
Darlington, Maryland * May 9-11, 2008
Special Coupon from Anne Feeney
$5 off daily ticket|| $10 off weekend ticket * http://www.smaf.info
Tom Kimmel, SONiA & disappear fear, Dreamsicles, Dan Warner,
Anne Feeney, Spirit Wing, Chris Chandler, Joe Jencks
and many more! Plus workshops and children's stages.
Camping, hot showers, cabins, singer-songwriter contest.
============================================================================
Susquehanna Music and Arts Festival
Darlington, Maryland * May 9-11, 2008
Special Coupon from Anne Feeney
$5 off daily ticket|| $10 off weekend ticket * http://www.smaf.info
Tom Kimmel, SONiA & disappear fear, Dreamsicles, Dan Warner,
Anne Feeney, Spirit Wing, Chris Chandler, Joe Jencks
and many more! Plus workshops and children's stages.
Camping, hot showers, cabins, singer-songwriter contest.
============================================================================
Friday, April 25, 2008
The Egg and I
Well, the doc says the lump has to come out. I've got an MRI scheduled
(if my f%#!ing insurance company okays it) for April 29th. She should be
able to determine after the MRI if the lump is in breast tissue (in which
case she says it's a "partial mastectomy") or in muscle tissue (in which case i
forget what she said it was... as soon as she said the word "mastectomy"
my heart started racing and i forgot i was an adult).
Once the bugger is extracted (it's VERY small now... 1 cm at most) they'll
be able to figure out what it is, and we'll come up with post op
treatments.
She says it's a miracle that this lump engorged with blood so that it
could be detected, and that the core biopsy caught the atypical cells ...
she thought it much more likely that the biopsy would have just picked up
blood from the tumor. She makes it sound like this will be pretty simple
and the recovery very quick.
The Lump-outa-me (so far, I just can't use that "m" word) is scheduled for
12 May. She says I'll be fine to drive to Madison the next day to perform
at the Utah Phillips benefit.
So.. that's the news... sounds like I'm a lucky girl
Thanks for your concern.
Love
Anne
(if my f%#!ing insurance company okays it) for April 29th. She should be
able to determine after the MRI if the lump is in breast tissue (in which
case she says it's a "partial mastectomy") or in muscle tissue (in which case i
forget what she said it was... as soon as she said the word "mastectomy"
my heart started racing and i forgot i was an adult).
Once the bugger is extracted (it's VERY small now... 1 cm at most) they'll
be able to figure out what it is, and we'll come up with post op
treatments.
She says it's a miracle that this lump engorged with blood so that it
could be detected, and that the core biopsy caught the atypical cells ...
she thought it much more likely that the biopsy would have just picked up
blood from the tumor. She makes it sound like this will be pretty simple
and the recovery very quick.
The Lump-outa-me (so far, I just can't use that "m" word) is scheduled for
12 May. She says I'll be fine to drive to Madison the next day to perform
at the Utah Phillips benefit.
So.. that's the news... sounds like I'm a lucky girl
Thanks for your concern.
Love
Anne
Anne Feeney's Fellow Travelers' Advisory - MAY 2008, VOLUME FOUR, #2
Thanks for reading the Fellow Travelers' Advisory ... I know you're all busy folks - your support of my music and my work means more than I can say ... I REALLY couldn't do it without you!
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New CD & CD Release Parties!!
As soon as you see this, I hope you'll all go right to http://cdbaby.com/cd/annefeeney7 and order "Dump the Bosses Off Your Back" (if you haven't already). This is my best CD ever!
For several days "Dump the Bosses Off Your Back" was one of the top ten best-sellers at CDBaby! Whoo-hoo! thank you! The feedback I've been getting on this CD is wonderful. It's getting a lot of airplay, too.
If your favorite folk show isn't listed here:
http://fellow-travelers-advisory.blogspot.com/2008/04/ta-da-its-ready.html
let me know, and I'll send a CD on to the station with your compliments!
There are several upcoming CD release parties:
Pittsburgh - April 26th - Club Cafe
Botto House National Labor Museum, NJ - MAYDAY
St Catharine's/Niagara, ON - May 3rd - Arts Centre
Toronto - May 4th - Free Times Cafe
Susquehanna Music and Arts Festival - Mothers' Day weekend - May 9-11 - Darlington, MD
Chicago - May 18th -
Kerrville (TX) Folk Festival - May 24th - June 3rd
Pensacola, FL - June 5th
Details for all of these shows are continuously updating at http://annefeeney.com/calendar.html After that, I'll be in Europe until August 27th.
I'm still not booked for Labor Day, 2008!!
(PLEASE -- don't wait until I come to your town to get my new CD - I could really use your help getting the considerable expense of this CD retired ... and if you're already enjoying your copy, how about buying it for a couple friends? - THANKS!!)
If you like "Dump the Bosses Off Your Back," please consider posting an announcement for the cd to your friends. It would mean a lot to me. I've tried to make it real easy for you. You can cut and paste this blurb http://fellow-travelers-advisory.blogspot.com/2008/04/forward-this-release-to-your-friends.html into an email. Thanks!!
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The Easter Bunny brings me a Breast Egg
I was horrified to discover a LARGE lump on my left breast on Easter morning. It measured 3+ cm (more than an inch) in diameter when I went for the mammogram and biopsy three days later.
The biopsy turned up some atypical cells, and surgical removal is probably indicated. Miraculously, the lump has gotten MUCH smaller since then... less than 1 cm. I see a breast surgeon at 3PM on the 24th and I'm holding my breath until then... but it seems unlikely that this is anything serious, since it is getting smaller...
This adventure has left me with almost $2000 in medical bills that my insurance doesn't cover (I switched to one of those high-deductible plans a few months ago, but this came up before I set aside a medical savings account with the deductible in it...)
I've been in touch with so many of my wonderful women friends who have come out healthy and happy on the other side of this journey ... No matter what the news is on Thursday I am optimistic...
But before the June Fellow Travelers' Advisory comes out, I want all you women out there who have been procrastinating on a mammogram to go DO IT!
I'll post something on my blog as soon as I know what's up...
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MAYDAY
I am so looking forward to the annual Mayday celebration at the American Labor Museum at Botto House in Haledon, NJ. This will be Julius Margolin's return to show-biz after his hospitalization.. What a joy it will be to see him and work with him again.
The amazing Chris Chandler will be there too - and he and I have been collaborating on a new piece of his over the telephone that we'll be debuting at Botto House.
I hope that your community is figuring out a way to honor International Workers' Day. The ILWU plans to shut down the ports of the West Coast to protest the war on May 1, 2008. Madison always has a great Mayday celebration, and it looks like Minneapolis/St Paul is planning a gala celebration this year... Still it looks as though most of the Mayday festivals are again being held outside the US this year. It's ironic, since Mayday honors the sacrifice of Chicago's Haymarket Martyrs in the battle for an eight hour day.
Wherever you are on May 1st, I hope you'll raise a glass with a friend and sing (to the tune of Daisy, Daisy):
Mayday, Mayday
That's the real workers' day
Labor's history says
Don't give your day away
It's time that the working class sez
"Stick Labor Day up your (orifice of choice)"
Now ain't it great
To celebrate on the glorious First of May!
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Coalition of Immokalee Workers' Fair Food Campaign
Visit CIW at http://ciw-online.org for the latest news in the exciting Fair Food Campaign being waged with Burger King.
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School of the Americas....
If you take a visit to http://soaw.org you'll be appalled to see our tax dollars being used to fund a terrorist training camp right here in the US.
If you want to quit training military and paramilitary types from central and south america in torture and counter-insurgency techniques, School of the Americas Watch has made it very simple for you.
Just click here and SOA Watch will figure out who your member of congress is, tell you how s/he voted on funding for the SOA, and send a letter from you to that member of congress.
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Labor Notes Fracas
This year's Labor Notes conference was livened up by the presence of a boisterous bunch of misguided SEIU members who attempted to crash and disrupt the annual Labor Notes banquet. They had been told this was a "union busters' banquet." A couple hundred members of Andy Stern's purple ocean washed into the lobby of the Hyatt Dearborn, and tried to push their way into the ballroom, where 900 union activists were gathered for Labor Notes' annual fundraising dinner.
The controversy centered over Labor Notes decision to invite Rose Ann De Moro to speak to the conference attendees. (As it happened, Rose Ann wasn't even there.) Rose Ann is one of the most articulate advocates for national health care in the nation, and her union, the California Nurses' Association, has achieved extraordinary victories - like mandated staff-to-patient ratios in California.
More recently, Rose Ann's union, the National Nurses' Organizing Committee, interfered in a scheduled union election in Ohio, between SEIU and Catholic Healthcare Partners. Good arguments can be made for both SEIU and NNOC's positions - but SEIU didn't come to debate. They would have been welcome to participate in the many lively workshops at the conference that weekend. Instead they opted to appear in the middle of the dinner, pushing, shoving, shouting and disrupting. One longtime Detroit activist and former Labor Notes staffer, Dianne Feeley, (a UAW retiree) sustained a head wound that required several stitches.
My pal Ron Kaminkow went out to engage the rowdy SEIU members in dialog. While most of the SEIU members shouted him down and refused to engage in conversation, a couple did speak to Ron. He said they seemed genuinely surprised to learn that the banquet was being served by union members to union activists - locomotive engineers, electricians, plumbers, pipefitters, teachers, writers, teamsters, auto workers - even other members of SEIU - all there to honor a 911 rescue worker suffering severe respiratory ailments, several African-American women on strike since February against 50 per cent pay cuts at a nearby UAW-represented American Axle Plant; some Black and Latino day laborers from Baltimore who led a "living wage" campaign to aid their fellow stadium cleaners at Camden Yards; and three New York City cabbies from the Taxi Workers Alliance that led last Fall's strike by 10,000 yellow cab drivers.
The Hyatt called the Dearborn police as the banquet staff retreated to the kitchen until the food could be served safely. When the police arrived, the SEIU contingent departed, shouting "We'll be back." I hope they register for the conference next time.
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Come to Ireland with me!
2008 is going to be a great year ... I can't believe that I'll get to spend over a month in Ireland touring around with dear friends.
The August tour to Ireland is full. I still have two spots for the June 10-19 tour of Kerry, Clare and Galway, and 11 for September's tour of Cork, Kerry and Clare. If you're interested, check out http://www.annefeeney.com/Pages/enchantedwaytours.html and email me with any questions you have.
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MAY BIRTHDAYS -
My sister, Kathleen Feeney - May 3, Pete Seeger - May 3, 1919, my cousin, Antonito Blanco - May 3, 2007, my cousin Paul Eric Grefenstette - May 10, my high school sweetheart, Bill Deegan - May 10, my cousin Tony Mumphrey - May 15, my cousin Kevin McCahill - May 15, Utah Phillips - May 15, 1935, my cousin Terry Donovan - May 23.
Birthday greetings can be sent to:
Pete Seeger
Box 431
Beacon, NY 12508
and
Utah Phillips
PO BOX 1235
Nevada City, CA 95959
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UPCOMING DATES
Saturday, April 26th, 2008 7 - 9PM
CD Release for Dump the Bosses Off Your Back with Anne Feeney AND many Ornery Duffers!
Club Cafe
56-58 South 12th Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15203
http://clubcafelive.com
Price: $10
doors open at 6PM, the show will start by 7PM - Celebrate the release of my best CD ever!!
Thursday, May 1st, 2008 7:00 PM
Mayday Celebration
Botto House American Labor Museum
83 Norwood St
Haledon, NJ
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 8:00 PM
St Catherine's & District Labour Council Mayday Celebration
Niagara Arts Centre
Niagara/St Catherine's, ON
Canada
ballen (@)cogeco.ca>
Sunday, May 4th, 2008 8:00 PM
Anne Feeney and Peter Kastner
Free Times Cafe
320 College St.
Toronto, ON
(416) 280-6456
Friday, May 9th - Sunday May 11th, 2008
Susquehanna Music and Arts Festival
Ramblewood Resort
2564 Silver Road
Darlington, MD 21035
http://www.susquehannamusicandartsfestival.com/
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 8:00 PM
Benefit Concert for U Utah Phillips
Barrymore Theater
2090 Atwood Ave
Madison, WI 53704
Larry Penn, Lou and Peter Berryman, David HB Drake, Anne Feeney and more!!
Thursday, May 15th, 2008 8:00 PM
Regina Polk Women's Labor Leadership Conference
Pheasant Run Resort
St Charles, IL
this event runs through May 18, 2007.
Sunday, May 18th, 2008 4:00 PM
Chicago CD Release for Dump the Bosses Off Your Back! - 4PM till 7PM
Heartland Cafe
7000 North Glenwood
Chicago, IL 60626
773-465-8005
http://www.heartlandcafe.com/hc_index.htm
Price: $15
The Chicago IWW, the Greens and several other progressive groups are sponsoring this concert! Your ticket benefits the group of your choice!
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 7:00 PM
Out of This Furnace Benefit Concert
with Smokestack Lightning!
Braddock Elks Lodge #883
Library St
Braddock, PA
Price: $ lots-it's a fundraiser!!!
lauracsmiley(@)yahoo.com is the contact
Saturday, May 24th - Wednesday, June 4th
Kerrville Folk Festival
Kerrville, TX
I'll be doing my annual pilgrimage to one of my favorite festivals to relax and visit with all my pals
http://www.kerrvillefolkfestival.com/
Thursday, June 5th, 2008 7:00 PM
Live on WUWF RadioLive!
Museum of Commerce
Pensacola, FL
http://wuwf.org
Price: free
Friday, June 20th, 2008 8:00 PM
Touring Sweden and Denmark
Sweden
http://www.goatbridge.com/bokning.asp
fredrik(@)goatbridge.com is handling all my bookings in Europe from June 20 through August 13th...
email him if you have any suggestions!
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CDs available at http://cdbaby.com/all/unionmaid
THANKS!
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New CD & CD Release Parties!!
As soon as you see this, I hope you'll all go right to http://cdbaby.com/cd/annefeeney7 and order "Dump the Bosses Off Your Back" (if you haven't already). This is my best CD ever!
For several days "Dump the Bosses Off Your Back" was one of the top ten best-sellers at CDBaby! Whoo-hoo! thank you! The feedback I've been getting on this CD is wonderful. It's getting a lot of airplay, too.
If your favorite folk show isn't listed here:
http://fellow-travelers-advisory.blogspot.com/2008/04/ta-da-its-ready.html
let me know, and I'll send a CD on to the station with your compliments!
There are several upcoming CD release parties:
Pittsburgh - April 26th - Club Cafe
Botto House National Labor Museum, NJ - MAYDAY
St Catharine's/Niagara, ON - May 3rd - Arts Centre
Toronto - May 4th - Free Times Cafe
Susquehanna Music and Arts Festival - Mothers' Day weekend - May 9-11 - Darlington, MD
Chicago - May 18th -
Kerrville (TX) Folk Festival - May 24th - June 3rd
Pensacola, FL - June 5th
Details for all of these shows are continuously updating at http://annefeeney.com/calendar.html After that, I'll be in Europe until August 27th.
I'm still not booked for Labor Day, 2008!!
(PLEASE -- don't wait until I come to your town to get my new CD - I could really use your help getting the considerable expense of this CD retired ... and if you're already enjoying your copy, how about buying it for a couple friends? - THANKS!!)
If you like "Dump the Bosses Off Your Back," please consider posting an announcement for the cd to your friends. It would mean a lot to me. I've tried to make it real easy for you. You can cut and paste this blurb http://fellow-travelers-advisory.blogspot.com/2008/04/forward-this-release-to-your-friends.html into an email. Thanks!!
********************************************
The Easter Bunny brings me a Breast Egg
I was horrified to discover a LARGE lump on my left breast on Easter morning. It measured 3+ cm (more than an inch) in diameter when I went for the mammogram and biopsy three days later.
The biopsy turned up some atypical cells, and surgical removal is probably indicated. Miraculously, the lump has gotten MUCH smaller since then... less than 1 cm. I see a breast surgeon at 3PM on the 24th and I'm holding my breath until then... but it seems unlikely that this is anything serious, since it is getting smaller...
This adventure has left me with almost $2000 in medical bills that my insurance doesn't cover (I switched to one of those high-deductible plans a few months ago, but this came up before I set aside a medical savings account with the deductible in it...)
I've been in touch with so many of my wonderful women friends who have come out healthy and happy on the other side of this journey ... No matter what the news is on Thursday I am optimistic...
But before the June Fellow Travelers' Advisory comes out, I want all you women out there who have been procrastinating on a mammogram to go DO IT!
I'll post something on my blog as soon as I know what's up...
*********************************************
MAYDAY
I am so looking forward to the annual Mayday celebration at the American Labor Museum at Botto House in Haledon, NJ. This will be Julius Margolin's return to show-biz after his hospitalization.. What a joy it will be to see him and work with him again.
The amazing Chris Chandler will be there too - and he and I have been collaborating on a new piece of his over the telephone that we'll be debuting at Botto House.
I hope that your community is figuring out a way to honor International Workers' Day. The ILWU plans to shut down the ports of the West Coast to protest the war on May 1, 2008. Madison always has a great Mayday celebration, and it looks like Minneapolis/St Paul is planning a gala celebration this year... Still it looks as though most of the Mayday festivals are again being held outside the US this year. It's ironic, since Mayday honors the sacrifice of Chicago's Haymarket Martyrs in the battle for an eight hour day.
Wherever you are on May 1st, I hope you'll raise a glass with a friend and sing (to the tune of Daisy, Daisy):
Mayday, Mayday
That's the real workers' day
Labor's history says
Don't give your day away
It's time that the working class sez
"Stick Labor Day up your (orifice of choice)"
Now ain't it great
To celebrate on the glorious First of May!
*******************************************
Coalition of Immokalee Workers' Fair Food Campaign
Visit CIW at http://ciw-online.org for the latest news in the exciting Fair Food Campaign being waged with Burger King.
********************************************
School of the Americas....
If you take a visit to http://soaw.org you'll be appalled to see our tax dollars being used to fund a terrorist training camp right here in the US.
If you want to quit training military and paramilitary types from central and south america in torture and counter-insurgency techniques, School of the Americas Watch has made it very simple for you.
Just click here and SOA Watch will figure out who your member of congress is, tell you how s/he voted on funding for the SOA, and send a letter from you to that member of congress.
********************************************
Labor Notes Fracas
This year's Labor Notes conference was livened up by the presence of a boisterous bunch of misguided SEIU members who attempted to crash and disrupt the annual Labor Notes banquet. They had been told this was a "union busters' banquet." A couple hundred members of Andy Stern's purple ocean washed into the lobby of the Hyatt Dearborn, and tried to push their way into the ballroom, where 900 union activists were gathered for Labor Notes' annual fundraising dinner.
The controversy centered over Labor Notes decision to invite Rose Ann De Moro to speak to the conference attendees. (As it happened, Rose Ann wasn't even there.) Rose Ann is one of the most articulate advocates for national health care in the nation, and her union, the California Nurses' Association, has achieved extraordinary victories - like mandated staff-to-patient ratios in California.
More recently, Rose Ann's union, the National Nurses' Organizing Committee, interfered in a scheduled union election in Ohio, between SEIU and Catholic Healthcare Partners. Good arguments can be made for both SEIU and NNOC's positions - but SEIU didn't come to debate. They would have been welcome to participate in the many lively workshops at the conference that weekend. Instead they opted to appear in the middle of the dinner, pushing, shoving, shouting and disrupting. One longtime Detroit activist and former Labor Notes staffer, Dianne Feeley, (a UAW retiree) sustained a head wound that required several stitches.
My pal Ron Kaminkow went out to engage the rowdy SEIU members in dialog. While most of the SEIU members shouted him down and refused to engage in conversation, a couple did speak to Ron. He said they seemed genuinely surprised to learn that the banquet was being served by union members to union activists - locomotive engineers, electricians, plumbers, pipefitters, teachers, writers, teamsters, auto workers - even other members of SEIU - all there to honor a 911 rescue worker suffering severe respiratory ailments, several African-American women on strike since February against 50 per cent pay cuts at a nearby UAW-represented American Axle Plant; some Black and Latino day laborers from Baltimore who led a "living wage" campaign to aid their fellow stadium cleaners at Camden Yards; and three New York City cabbies from the Taxi Workers Alliance that led last Fall's strike by 10,000 yellow cab drivers.
The Hyatt called the Dearborn police as the banquet staff retreated to the kitchen until the food could be served safely. When the police arrived, the SEIU contingent departed, shouting "We'll be back." I hope they register for the conference next time.
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Come to Ireland with me!
2008 is going to be a great year ... I can't believe that I'll get to spend over a month in Ireland touring around with dear friends.
The August tour to Ireland is full. I still have two spots for the June 10-19 tour of Kerry, Clare and Galway, and 11 for September's tour of Cork, Kerry and Clare. If you're interested, check out http://www.annefeeney.com/Pages/enchantedwaytours.html and email me with any questions you have.
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MAY BIRTHDAYS -
My sister, Kathleen Feeney - May 3, Pete Seeger - May 3, 1919, my cousin, Antonito Blanco - May 3, 2007, my cousin Paul Eric Grefenstette - May 10, my high school sweetheart, Bill Deegan - May 10, my cousin Tony Mumphrey - May 15, my cousin Kevin McCahill - May 15, Utah Phillips - May 15, 1935, my cousin Terry Donovan - May 23.
Birthday greetings can be sent to:
Pete Seeger
Box 431
Beacon, NY 12508
and
Utah Phillips
PO BOX 1235
Nevada City, CA 95959
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UPCOMING DATES
Saturday, April 26th, 2008 7 - 9PM
CD Release for Dump the Bosses Off Your Back with Anne Feeney AND many Ornery Duffers!
Club Cafe
56-58 South 12th Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15203
http://clubcafelive.com
Price: $10
doors open at 6PM, the show will start by 7PM - Celebrate the release of my best CD ever!!
Thursday, May 1st, 2008 7:00 PM
Mayday Celebration
Botto House American Labor Museum
83 Norwood St
Haledon, NJ
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 8:00 PM
St Catherine's & District Labour Council Mayday Celebration
Niagara Arts Centre
Niagara/St Catherine's, ON
Canada
ballen (@)cogeco.ca>
Sunday, May 4th, 2008 8:00 PM
Anne Feeney and Peter Kastner
Free Times Cafe
320 College St.
Toronto, ON
(416) 280-6456
Friday, May 9th - Sunday May 11th, 2008
Susquehanna Music and Arts Festival
Ramblewood Resort
2564 Silver Road
Darlington, MD 21035
http://www.susquehannamusicandartsfestival.com/
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 8:00 PM
Benefit Concert for U Utah Phillips
Barrymore Theater
2090 Atwood Ave
Madison, WI 53704
Larry Penn, Lou and Peter Berryman, David HB Drake, Anne Feeney and more!!
Thursday, May 15th, 2008 8:00 PM
Regina Polk Women's Labor Leadership Conference
Pheasant Run Resort
St Charles, IL
this event runs through May 18, 2007.
Sunday, May 18th, 2008 4:00 PM
Chicago CD Release for Dump the Bosses Off Your Back! - 4PM till 7PM
Heartland Cafe
7000 North Glenwood
Chicago, IL 60626
773-465-8005
http://www.heartlandcafe.com/hc_index.htm
Price: $15
The Chicago IWW, the Greens and several other progressive groups are sponsoring this concert! Your ticket benefits the group of your choice!
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 7:00 PM
Out of This Furnace Benefit Concert
with Smokestack Lightning!
Braddock Elks Lodge #883
Library St
Braddock, PA
Price: $ lots-it's a fundraiser!!!
lauracsmiley(@)yahoo.com is the contact
Saturday, May 24th - Wednesday, June 4th
Kerrville Folk Festival
Kerrville, TX
I'll be doing my annual pilgrimage to one of my favorite festivals to relax and visit with all my pals
http://www.kerrvillefolkfestival.com/
Thursday, June 5th, 2008 7:00 PM
Live on WUWF RadioLive!
Museum of Commerce
Pensacola, FL
http://wuwf.org
Price: free
Friday, June 20th, 2008 8:00 PM
Touring Sweden and Denmark
Sweden
http://www.goatbridge.com/bokning.asp
fredrik(@)goatbridge.com is handling all my bookings in Europe from June 20 through August 13th...
email him if you have any suggestions!
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CDs available at http://cdbaby.com/all/unionmaid
THANKS!
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