'Seeds of Change' benefit CD Parties

Please join us at Premier CD Release Parties in San Francisco and Livermore:

SAN FRANCISCO
The party will feature music and performance by: Entre Musicos, Fariba, Sherry Glasser, Cesar Cruz and more. The event is cosponsored by KPFA’s La Onda Bajita and Tri-Valley CAREs.

WHEN: Friday, July 22 at 7 PM
WHERE: New College of San Francisco, 777 Valencia St. (Near 24^th and
Mission BART)
Cost: $5-$8 sliding scale.

LIVERMORE
The party is a benefit for Tri-Valley CAREs and will feature music by: Last Clear Chance—an Indie Punk band. More bands TBA.The event is cosponsored by Tri-Valley CAREs and Unity Skate Shop.

WHEN: Wednesday July 27 at 6 PM
WHERE: Unity Skate Shop, 2172 Railroad Ave., Livermore (near the corner
of Railroad Ave. and Livermore Ave).
Cost: $5
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“May the remembrance of 60 years since the bombing of Hiroshima remind us not of the potential of humankind to destroy, but the value of each breath, each blade of grass and each individual’s dream. No life is worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother. In this time, let us commit ourselves to loving the planet as much as we love our nations and families,” explains CD contributor *Michael Franti of Spearhead. *Franti goes on to say, “My recent visit to Iraq, Israel and Palestine made me realize one thing, _all bombing is terrorism,_ from the twin towers, to a house in Baghdad, from a bus in Tel Aviv, to a community center in occupied Palestine.” Franti’s music and vision remind us that the true power of humanity rests in the peaceful people that are uniting around the globe.

The “Seeds of Change” CD offers music from many cultures and for all ages, providing songs of hope, inspiration and truth. Long time anti-nuclear activist *Utah Phillips*, a politically-conscious folk singer and master storyteller, contributed his song, “Enola Gay.” The song explains that the pilot Paul Tibbets named his aircraft, the Enola Gay, after his mother. It was the Enola Gay that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. His song offers a unique perspective of what a child in America experienced, thought and learned over time about the bombing of Hiroshima.

In addition to donating songs, some bands, including the *Company of Prophets*, a hip hop group from Oakland’s underground, created new songs for the compilation. Their song “Party at Ground Zero” speaks to the younger generation, integrating social justice issues with the nuclear
abolition movement. The songs and poems in the CD are woven together by the oral history of *Mr. Matsushima*, a hibakusha (an atomic bomb survivor) from the city of Hiroshima, who toured the Livermore nuclear weapons lab in April.

“People respond to music on a visceral level, it inspires us in a way that a lecture or the written word alone usually does not,” explains *Kelly Franger*, Tri-Valley CAREs intern. “Mr. Matsushima's story of survival embedded within the CD's passionate sounds of resistance to nuclear weapons will move not only the youth, but the youth in us all.”

Musicians and poets featured on the CD include: *Spearhead—*a socially and politically conscious band that combines reggae, hip hop, and soul to unite people with compassion and understanding; *Universal Language—*a musical melting pot, fusing traditional Latin music with grooves from all parts of the globe;* Tatsumaki—*a five member Japanese rock band from Nagasaki; *Cesar A. Cruz—*an internationally renowned poet, educator and human rights activist; *Clan Dyken—* an activist band that has played in clear cut forests, proposed nuke dumps, nuke test sites, Indian reservations and the Livermore nuclear weapons lab; *Emma’s Revolution—*an award-winning, activist songwriting duo of musical uprising of truth and hopes; and more!

CDs can be ordered at: http://www.trivalleycares.org.