Two cherished friends of 492
Cafe, Dr. Howard Zinn and Australian
Punker turned Scotish Communist Folker Alistair
Hulett have crossed the rainbow bridge this week.
Two cherished friends
of 492 Cafe, Dr. Howard
Zinn and Australian Punker turned Scotish Communist Folker Alistair
Hulett have crossed the rainbow bridge this week.
Greenwald is the director/producer
of..."Iraq
for Sale: The War Profiteers" (2006), "Wal-Mart: The High
Cost of Low Price" (2005), and "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's
War on Journalism" (2004). Millions of viewers have seen these
films via grassroots "house parties" and independent online
DVD sales, a groundbreaking method of alternative distribution. Greenwald...produced
a trilogy of political documentaries: "Unprecedented:
The 2000 Election" (2002); "Uncovered: The War on Iraq" (2003),
which he also directed; and "Unconstitutional" (2004).
(more)
Chuck
Turner: Witness for the prosecution against Chuck
Turner evaporates.
3/6/09 -Two former
combatants, a Palestinian who resisted the occupation ...and
an Israeli soldier who now denounces violence, join forces to
speak out!
11/19/08 -Arlington
Street Church, Boston: 492
Cafe worked with Democracy Now cameraman Robbie
Leppzer, Christopher
Lydon, (The Connection, Radio Open Source, etc.) CCTV
Cambridge and Z-Mag while
managing sound and recording this, Chomsky's first post-election
talk. Here's the Report. ...It's even worse
than you thought!
Outdoor Sound Reinforement: Boston Common Peace Rally
10/11/08 -Boston
Common: Our biggest gig yet, a peace rally on Boston
Common. Hanley Sound assembled
the 12-foot speaker towers we used to deliver 3,000 Watts of
crisp and clear music and speech for two thousand peace-lovers
...while keeping the stage area comfortably quiet. Guests included Pat
Scanlon (shown,) Chuck
Turner, Joseph
Gerson and many others.
Mobile Sound Reinforement and Recording: Sacco
& Vanzetti Remembered
8/9/08 -Boston: For
the third consecutive year, 492 Cafe provided loud and clear
mobile sound solutions for the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration
Society's annual rallies and march through Downtown Boston.
Speakers include City Councilor Chuck
Turner, Dorotea Manuella, Sergio Reyes and others. (Listen)
Mobile Sound Reinforement and Recording:
From Iraq and Afghanistan Back Home to Dorchester -A Community Responds
to the Wounds of Violence
9/20/08 -Dorchester/Boston: 492
Cafe provided pro-bono sound reinforcement for this Dorchester
People for Peace event with a surprise visit from our favorite
poet by far, Veteran for Peace David
Connolly.
Recording Gig: Tavis Smiley; Zinn Interview
4/17/08 -Newton: Freeman
Z records Howard Zinn at his home, and at his convenience, sparing
him a studio visit (for Tavis
Smiley on Public Radio International.)
8/4/08 -JFK Library, Boston: Dissenters
risk arrest to give Nancy "impeachment's off the table" Pelosi
a piece of their collective mind. Hear our Radio
Report for a glimpse at how little Americans' rights are
by this Democrats ic Party leader!
5/31/08 -Boston: 492
Cafe team members Steve Cornie and Freeman Z are recognized by ADCMA for
work on the WZBC-FM program This
Week in Palestine, hosted by Sherif Fam.
5/16/08 -Jamaica
Plain: Responding to
a stage snafu, Freeman Z slaved over a hot digital editing
workstation to carve up this little
gem of a piece of David's inspirational stories, including
the government-censored struggle of Librarians prosecuted
under the Patriot Act.
4/30/08 -St.
Peter's Episcopal, Boston: This highly successful
benefit for the Gaza
Mental Health Foundation featured an impressive 7-piece
Arab-Jazz Fusion Brandeis Student Band, "Mochilla"
3/19/08 -Boston
Common: Check out this Report,
including AFSC's Paul
Shannon, Carlos and Mélida Arredondo, Military
Families Speak Out, Music from Vietnam Veteran Chuck
Williams and proof of how Citizen Rupert's Fox News distorted
the event.
We weren't hired for this year's anniversary
vigil, even after finding our own sponsor to pay the expenses!
...And it was pathetic!!! A dinky amplifier laid on the ground,
maybe twenty people attended, and nobody cared. Feel-good activism
that doesn't even feel good.
We had 200 people last year, even in pouring
cold rain! Way to go, meek people! You go. You just ignore cultural
realities, stand on your principles ...and help keep Halliburton
going strong.
Field-Test:
Acoustic
Artillery
3/14/09 -Freeman
Z was invited to help evalute sound equipment for The Smedey Butler
Brigade, a local chapter of the national Veterans
for Peace.
"The Smedleys," says
Freeman, "need a self-contained, portable PA system for
their public events. So we took a prospective unit out for a
test drive, to see whether it's right for their needs. There's
a lot to consider. ...We're dealing with concepts of acoustics
and numbers. But the bottom line is, if it sounds good, it
is good!"
INFO/FAQ/WTF
492 Cafe Studio 2005 (N.Cambridge, Mass.)
Head Anarchist In
Charge:
Freeman Z
I
offer this collection of thoughts, presented here through various
media, in hopes of helping to create a sustainable future for ourselves
and our descendants. I am doubtful
that such a future will come to pass. But each day, and in everything
we do (or don't) we have the opportunity to affirm life through
wisdom and compassion. I believe that the most perilous obstacle
to this future today, are the Democratic and Republican political
parties that "offer" a Coke-or-Pepsi front for a heartless,
opportunistic elite aristocratic cleptocracy. This is the spikey
dilemmasaurus of our time. Revolution is nothing more, and nothing
less, than a change of Government.
Thanks to our friends and
associates who have participated in the project, to my family for
their support, and especially to the people
whose voices are presented here.
