I WOKE from my Old Man Nap, turned on the T.V. and a Cornell Professor tried to speak. I wanted to post on the demonstration Richard Farina instigated at Cornell and used ths blogs search engine. I found the demonstration led by Mimi Farina to stop munition trains from delivering arms to the Contras.
We hippies were for peace. We my have found the God of Peace, or created him, or her. We did not practice a religion. Due to the crisis on our campuses I reveal the crux of my novel ‘Where Art Thou. It appears Moses tried to convert the Canaanites by having them take the Vow of the Nazarite which forbid them to not get near their dead, and drink wine, that I suspect was used in the worship of the Elohim that came from Egypt, as did the worship of kings as close deities. In Ezekiel 9, we see the fictional wrath of the Lord aimed and getting the Jews to give up their Elohim completely. It did not work, and is the cause of the War of the Gods in the Land of the Palestinians – this very day!
On this day May 2, 2024, I declare PEACE between these Gods! The Peace Religion will be based in the State of New York. Write this on a piece of paper and keep it with you…..
“I am a New York Nazarite dedicated to the Peace of the Palestine Gods.”
This Peace predates the founding of the nation of Israel in 1948. The Canaanites were the Indigenous People of Israel. You are protected by State and Religious Rights! Peace…..Brothers and Sisters!
So be it!
John The Nazarite
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Many concerts were concerned with human rights issues in Central America, especially the U.S.-backed civil wars in Guatemala and El Salvador. They once set up to play on the abandoned railroad tracks outside the Concord Naval Weapons Center in California. Surrounded by military police, Fariña and Sears played a show for people protesting U.S. weapons being shipped to government troops in El Salvador.
In a Friday statement, the coalition said, “In our Liberated Zone (and at encampments across the country) we have called into question whether students ought to participate in institutions that are complicit in an ongoing genocide. If our actions were not meaningful in the fight for divestment — if our encampment were not a genuine threat to the legitimacy of this institution — Cornell would not have cracked down on students so severely within twenty-four hours without ever engaging with our demands.”
Suspension length?
When asked Tuesday morning if the length of the temporary suspensions had been decided or if student protesters will be subject to further disciplinary actions, university Media Relations Director Rebecca Valli offered no details on the issue.
Nearly 25 years after a train ran over him, Willson told CBS 5 why it was all worth it.
“I only know this from my friends telling me because I don’t have any memory of what happened for four or five days, including an hour or two before I got hit,” Willson said.
On September 1, 1987, Willson and several other Vietnam veterans were about to begin a hunger strike on the tracks leading out of the Concord Naval Weapons Station to block arms shipments headed for the Contras and President Ronald Reagan’s so-called “secret war” in Nicaragua.
“We took our position on the tracks. I was sitting on my rump and the other two veterans were crouching on their feet, all three of us between the rails,” he said.
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LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When either a man or woman consecrates an offering to take the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the LORD, 3 he shall separate himself from wine and similar drink; he shall drink neither vinegar made from wine nor vinegar made from similar drink; neither shall he drink any grape juice, nor eat fresh grapes or raisins. 4 All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, from seed to skin. 5 ‘All the days of the vow of his separation no razor shall come upon his head; until the days are fulfilled for which he separated himself to the LORD, he shall be holy. Then he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow. 6 All the days that he separates himself to the LORD he shall not go near a dead body.
https://www.bibleversestudy.com/acts/acts21-nazarite-vow.htm
Remembering Mimi Fariña as Bread & Roses celebrates its 50th anniversary
By PAUL LIBERATORE | p.liberatore@comcast.net | IJ correspondent
PUBLISHED: April 19, 2024 at 5:02 a.m. | UPDATED: April 19, 2024 at 6:32 a.m.
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Mimi Fariña founded Bread & Roses in 1974. Her legacy lives on in the Marin nonprofit 50 years later. (Martin E. Klimek/IJ archive)
One unforgettable day in 1974, a lovely young folk singer named Mimi Fariña came to my office in Mill Valley to tell me about a nonprofit she had just started. She was calling it Bread & Roses, a name inspired by a poem she’d read about how hearts can starve as well as bodies, how people may need bread to live, but they must also have roses — art, beauty, music — to feel truly alive.
Inspired by a B.B. King concert at Sing Sing Prison in New York, she said she aimed to bring free live music and entertainment to people shut away in institutions — jails, hospitals, senior homes, juvenile detention centers — anyplace where she and her fellow musicians could go in, sing and play a little and maybe brighten the lives of those who need it most.
She told me she was launching her fledgling organization with a special event to climax its first year — a New Year’s Day show at San Quentin with folk icon Joan Baez, Mimi’s older sister, and rock star Boz Scaggs. Would I be interested in writing about it?
She didn’t really have to ask. I was more than interested. What a great story. And I’ve never met a man who could say no to Mimi Fariña. But what is truly incredible is that Bread & Roses is still carrying out her vision 50 years later, producing 600 shows a year at 125 Bay Area institutions. And get this: Since 1974, Bread & Roses has served more than a million institutionalized people at over 20,000 shows with the help of nearly 3,000 volunteers. What a legacy.
In celebration of its 50th anniversary, Bread & Roses is presenting “The Golden Jam,” a fundraising evening hosted by her sister Joan and rock journalist Ben Fong-Torres on May 23 at the Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley. Marin folk legend Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and a host of Bread & Roses volunteers are set to perform. More information at givebutter.com/goldenjam.
“It always feels different when you know you’re doing something for somebody else,” Joan says of performing for Bread & Roses. “For Mimi, that was the whole incentive, having real empathy for people who live without the roses.”
Not long after we met, Mimi and I became friends when she enlisted me to help her write the programs for the now-historic Bread & Roses Festivals of Music she produced annually from 1977 through 1982 at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley. The lineups were mind-blowing, a who’s who of folk and pop music of the day: Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, Hoyt Axton, Melanie, Pete Seeger, Don McLean, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Richie Havens, Jackson Browne, Arlo Guthrie, Dan Hicks, Odetta, Judy Collins and Kris Kristofferson. It’s a long and impressive list.
In the San Francisco Chronicle, reviewer Joel Selvin wrote: “A richer, more satisfying collection of talent and music would be difficult to imagine.”
In 1997, as she was putting together what would be the last of her extraordinary series of Bread & Roses concerts on Alcatraz Island, Mimi and I began dating and became a couple. At the time, she was planning to retire from Bread & Roses after a 25th anniversary gala concert at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco in 1999.
But just as she was looking forward to the next chapter in her life, she was diagnosed with cancer. She was just 56 when she died of the disease in 2001.
Through her work with Bread & Roses, she touched so many lives and hearts that more than 2,000 people filled San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral for her memorial.
“Mimi filled empty souls with hope and song,” Joan said in her eulogy. “She held the aged and forgotten in her light. She reminded prisoners that they were human beings with names and not just numbers.”
Losing Mimi was devastating, but the work of Bread & Roses continued for the next 14 years under her successor, Cassandra Flipper, a soft-spoken former lawyer for Levi Strauss & Co. who had also headed a statewide association devoted to helping abused and neglected children.
“The transition was easier for me because not only did the audience members remember Mimi, but the performers, donors and everybody else did, too,” she says. “It was easier to connect with the past and build on it.”
Under her tenure, the name was updated to Bread & Roses Presents, which the nonprofit maintains to this day.
Marian Hubler, who has been on the Bread & Roses staff for 28 years, longer than anyone else, was inspired by Mimi to begin working for the organization, leaving her job as a state park ranger. And, after Mimi’s death, she felt a calling to stay on, to keep doing the work that her mentor started.
”After Mimi passed away, I just said that this is something I can do with my life,” she says. “I can help keep Bread & Roses going. Mimi’s dedication to the mission inspired me to stay.”
When he took over as executive director a decade ago, Dave Perron brought the energy and celebrity of sports to an organization that had always been primarily about music. A former executive director of the Oakland A’s Community Fund and until recently vice president of baseball and sports enterprises for the Prostate Cancer Foundation, his career has been at the nexus of sports and philanthropy. After collaborating with Mimi on a project when he was with the A’s, the gregarious Marin native accepted her invitation to serve on the Bread & Roses board of directors in the ‘80s, so he was more than familiar with Mimi’s mission when he took over the top job.
“What attracted me at first was the magic of Mimi Fariña, who could move people with such grace and charisma,” he said when I interviewed him in 2014. “She had all those great attributes of being innovative and persuasive.”
Perron guided Bread & Roses Presents through the pandemic and has forged successful fundraising partnerships with the Bank of Marin and other major donors.
“I look at philanthropy a little differently: How can it be mutually beneficial? How can we help you and you help us?” he says. “To raise money, you’ve got to be creative.”
Through his connections in the sports world, he’s been able to get celebrities like Billy Beane, Ronnie Lott, Pete Carroll and Jonny Moseley to emcee events and support the organization in other ways.
While he’s staged fundraising events with legacy artists like Graham Nash and Kris Kristofferson, he’s also realized his goal of bringing a younger generation into the fold with benefits by boygenius, Lucius, Hozier and Lukas Nelson. Fantastic Negrito headlines a Bread & Roses benefit at HopMonk Tavern in Novato in September and the War and Treaty will also perform for Bread & Roses in the fall.
The youth movement has also been reflected on the board of directors with 28-year-old Matt Jaffe as its youngest member. A professional singer-songwriter and guitarist, Jaffe has been a dedicated Bread & Roses volunteer performer for more than half his life, playing his first show when he was 12 years old.
“It was an incredible way to start performing because it introduced me to live music as a communal act, in which the line between audience and performer is erased,” he says. “That kind of connection has been built into what I want to do as a performing musician. To that end, Bread & Roses continues to underscore that performing music is a symbiotic event. And I’m so grateful for that.”
Jaffe’s first show was at Cedars of Marin, a Marin nonprofit with day programming and residential programs for individuals with developmental disabilities that Bread & Roses has been serving since the 1970s.
“You’d have to see it to believe it,” says Chuck Greene, Cedars’ co-executive director. “Our clients are not your typical audience. When somebody from Bread & Roses comes, they are obviously greeted well, but as soon as they start playing music, our clients are up and dancing and singing. It’s total involvement. And they love it. They look forward to it. It’s very meaningful, especially for the artists, which I think was one of Mimi Fariña’s initial goals: to connect artists with the community.”
No one has been involved with Mimi and Bread & Roses longer than 79-year-old Lowell “Banana” Levinger, a former member of the Youngbloods who began performing with Mimi as a duo in 1973.
I asked him what it was about her, what superpower she possessed, that could keep a nonprofit going for 50 years.
“She was so positive and outgoing and sincere and humorous,” he recalls. “Everybody loved her and wanted to help out with whatever ideas she had.”
Over the past half century, Levinger has done scores of Bread & Roses shows, for kids as well as for seniors. And it never gets old.
“Playing for old folks is really satisfying every time,” he says. “You’ve got people coming in and they’re in wheelchairs or half asleep, but when the music starts it brings them back to life. Pretty soon they’re nodding their heads and their eyes are open and they’re smiling. The healing power of music is absolutely amazing.”
Details: “The Golden Jam,” a fundraising evening hosted by Joan Baez and Ben Fong-Torres, with performances by Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Ron Artis II, Dirty Cello, Jason Crosby, Jeffrey Halford, Matt Jaffe, Lowell “Banana” Levinger, Tony Saunders and others
Veteran, Activist Recalls Losing Legs To Train In Concord Protest
February 4, 2012 / 12:05 AM PST / CBS San Francisco
CONCORD (CBS 5) — The Bay Area has been the center of political and social activism for decades. Whether you agree with his politics or not, the story of Brian Willson stands out.
Nearly 25 years after a train ran over him, Willson told CBS 5 why it was all worth it.
“I only know this from my friends telling me because I don’t have any memory of what happened for four or five days, including an hour or two before I got hit,” Willson said.
On September 1, 1987, Willson and several other Vietnam veterans were about to begin a hunger strike on the tracks leading out of the Concord Naval Weapons Station to block arms shipments headed for the Contras and President Ronald Reagan’s so-called “secret war” in Nicaragua.
“We took our position on the tracks. I was sitting on my rump and the other two veterans were crouching on their feet, all three of us between the rails,” he said.
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A videotape remains the only real-time record of what happened. The spotters and engineers aboard the munitions train ignored the screams of more than 40 protestors to stop.
“The train ran over me and I mean it ran through us at 17 miles an hour, more than three times the legal speed limit,” Willson said.
Two of the vets managed to jump away at the last second. Willson was run over by the 200,000 pound locomotive. The crushing blow from the train cut off his legs, left him with multiple broken bones and a plate in his head.
Authorities questioned him in the hospital days later, calling him a “domestic terrorist” before most Americans even knew what the term meant.
Willson is now 70-years-old, living in Portland, Oregon. He wrote a book about that day titled “Blood on the Tracks.” He spends his time writing, researching and hand-cycling his adaptive bike up to 20 miles a day.
After all these years, he explained why he sat down in front of that train. The answer goes back to his days as a young officer in Vietnam.
“I saw in one week somewhere between 700 and 900 dead Vietnamese. And they were all either mothers, young women and lots of children and a few elderly people. Most of the young men that would have been in those villages were not in those villages.” He was infuriated that the U.S. was inflating the enemy body count by including women and children.
His anger resurfaced 20 years later when it was revealed the Reagan Administration had begun supplying the Contras in Nicaragua with the same bombs and rockets that had killed so many in Vietnam. He thought something had to be done.
“You could see the crates of the rockets, the bombs going by slowly. I would be within five feet of the trains, standing there all summer watching this,” he said.
After the train incident, which he called “attempted murder,” Willson and the other veterans traveled the world. They went to Central America, the Palestinian territories and Baghdad to witness first hand what he calls human rights abuses. He said the recent Occupy Movement in the U.S. has given him a renewed hope that Americans are waking up again.
“They are talking. They are having general assemblies. I sat in and I just was amazed. I was almost in tears. These people are serious about building a new paradigm.”
Willson said he believes the actions of one can influence many. Five days after he lost his legs under the locomotive, more than 9,000 people disgusted with what happened crowded the weapons station gate and tore the tracks out of the ground. No trains rolled from the facility for the next two and a half years.
(Copyright 2012 by CBS San Francisco. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)
I Love Mimi
Posted on March 21, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
I awoke from my Old Man Nap, and searched for those I loved, who are now gone. I looked for a way to save Bill, and found it. I should have asked him to come live with me in New York.
Then I saw Mimi on the dance floor. I don’t remember if I danced with her. My fiend Keith did. I wanted to slow dance with her. I wanted to feel her response as I gently brushed the nape of her neck. This is what she wanted. Someone to replace Richard. The touch of Richard, the smell of Richard, the pressing of Richard back into her soul, her heart, her being that begs for the resonance of bonding – a complete bonding that hurtles you into the cosmic molecular state of our being – in complete trust.
I am going to paint Mimi. I found a painting her sister did of her. Mary Ann did a full size painting of her. I will love Mimi until my dying day. We deserve to be in love – forever! With our passionate stranger that the earth gave us, for our stay, for a little while, for so many lifetimes.
John Gregory
I made a group: Richard and Mimi Farina | Facebook
(4) Joan Baez – Love song to a stranger (live in France, 1973) – YouTube
Mimi the Muse
Posted on November 23, 2014 by Royal Rosamond Press
Mimi Farina-Baez walked the earth as the embodiment of the Pre-Raphaelite Muse. She was a modern day Troubadour. I met her at the last Monterey Pop Festival, and fell in love. She owned the look I loved, that I found in other women, and loved these women. My ex-wife was Mimi’s friend, and did a life-size portrait or her. My late sister, Christine Rosamond Benton, has the same Madonna look. Arwen has this look. The Ring movies borrow from the world the Pre-Raphaelites rendered. Tolkien was obsessed with Queen Rosamond and might have modeled Arwin after this Queen. I am going have Mimi be my model for my images of several historic Rosamonds. With the snipping tool I can capture certain angles. The living muses I tried to get to be my model, could not grasp my ambition to make ROSAMOND a brand name. Here is a woman totally groking on the name Cordelia and Rosamond for the name of her baby when she is born.
Jon Presco
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Rosamund[edit]
Cunimund had a daughter named Rosamund (or Rosemund). She was forced into marrying Alboin after the Gepids‘ defeat, but she arranged his assassination in 572 or 573.
In literature[edit]
Cunimund’s grim end and Rosamund are mentioned in J. R. R. Tolkien‘s story “The Lost Road”, when the character Alboin asks his father, Oswin Errol, about the origin of his name:
…and Oswin told his son the tale of Alboin son of Audoin, the Lombard king; and of the great battle of the Lombards and the Gepids, remembered as terrible even in the grim sixth century; and of the kings Thurisind and Cunimund, and of Rosamunda. ‘Not a good story for near bed-time,’ he said, ending suddenly with Alboin’s drinking from the jewelled skull of Cunimund…
—J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lost Road
In an early version of J. R. R. Tolkien‘s fantasy time-travel story The Lost Road, Tolkien considered placing one of his main characters in the person of Alboin.
In Meg Cabot’s Princess Diaries, the country of Genovia’s first ruler was a princess named Rosamund, based on the princess Alboin raped. In the book, Mia writes that Rosamund’s father was killed by a warlord, who made his skull into a cup and forced her to drink from it. She strangled him in his sleep with her braids and was given the principality of Genovia in honor of her brave deed.
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| Reply to: | Cordelia talk + suggestions? by Kitty |
I love Cordelia, but I think it is a little too long for a kid on it’s own. I like the nickname Cora, but if you prefer Coco or Delia or Lia or Cordie or something they could work too.
I like Cordelia Beatrice Rosamund.
Others could be Cordelia Helen Rosamund, Cordelia Joan Rosamund, Cordelia Undine Rosamund, Cordelia Anne Rosamund, Cordelia Alanis Rosamund, Cordelia Athenais Rosamund, Cordelia Juniper Rosamund, Cordelia Sage Rosamund, Cordelia Willow Rosamund, Cordelia Eve Rosamund, Cordelia Anthea Rosamund, Cordelia Gaia Rosamund, Cordelia Miranda Rosamund, Cordelia Mina Rosamund, Cordelia Wilhelmina Rosamund, Cordelia Isis Rosamund, Cordelia Isadora Rosamund, Cordelia Pelagia Rosamund, Cordelia Tamsin Rosamund, Cordelia Lilith Rosamund, Cordelia Terpsichore Rosamund, Cordelia Emerald Rosamund, Cordelia Avalon Rosamund, Cordelia Jane Rosamund, Cordelia Sahar Rosamund, Cordelia Arwen Rosamund, Cordelia Branwen Rosamund, Cordelia Isolde Rosamund, Cordelia Morwen Rosamund, Cordelia Lyra Rosamund, Cordelia Saffron Rosamund, Cordelia Fleur Rosamund, Cordelia Eleanor Rosamund, Cordelia Sylvie Rosamund, Cordelia Jade Rosamund, or Cordelia Peony Rosamund.
Sorry if some of those are incredibly long..
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