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Michael Franti and Spearhead Give a Free Concert in San Francisco
Michael Franti and Spearhead Give a Free Concert in San Francisco
San Francisco -- Visionary musician and social activist Michael Franti (vocalist of the group Spearhead), along with other local artists, performed a free concert in Precita Park on Sunday. The purpose of the concert was to call attention to the prejudice that makes terror possible in the first place. Within days of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington DC, Arab Americans, Muslims and others have become the target of hate crimes.
Michael Franti states on his website, "We are putting on a concert in this Sunday to declare San Francisco as a 'Hate Free Zone.' In a multi-cultural solidarity effort against hatred and in support of peace, we will be honoring, standing, and singing our love for those who have lost their lives to terrorism all over the planet. Stay Human!" (http://www.stayhuman.org)
Organizers also called for reconciliation rather than retaliation in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks and the concert was dedicated to the memory of those who lost their lives as well as their families. The free concert was organized by Global Exchange, Six Degrees Records, and other groups in only two days but was attended by many thousands of people. (David Hanks/Global Exchange - Sunday 16 September 2001)
Michael Franti states on his website, "We are putting on a concert in this Sunday to declare San Francisco as a 'Hate Free Zone.' In a multi-cultural solidarity effort against hatred and in support of peace, we will be honoring, standing, and singing our love for those who have lost their lives to terrorism all over the planet. Stay Human!" (http://www.stayhuman.org)
Organizers also called for reconciliation rather than retaliation in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks and the concert was dedicated to the memory of those who lost their lives as well as their families. The free concert was organized by Global Exchange, Six Degrees Records, and other groups in only two days but was attended by many thousands of people. (David Hanks/Global Exchange - Sunday 16 September 2001)
For more information:
http://www.globalexchange.org/september11
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Somehow we must begin the slow and difficult process of helping each other move through our grief and rage and find the strength to stand for peace. If we do not succeed in broadening the base of support for peace, we will once again be marginalized, attacked and hunted down like socialists during McCarthy's time.
One thing we learned during the Persian Gulf war was that we have greater power to reach out to our own families, friends, co-workers, and neighbors who might be prone to support war than we do by almost any other tactic. This is particularly true when we come from a place of religious foundation: communities of faith are a great place to start these actions.
We must be careful and deliberate in our efforts. I have been inspired by yesterday's gathering to set up a website at http://www.911peace.org , and I am putting out a call for help with this project to facilitate the gathering of information and establishment of support resources for this purpose: to engage in personal actions to counter hate and educate our communities about the value of peace as a method of healing our wounds. I believe that the events of 9.11 were a spiritual challenge for each of us to break the cycle of violence in our own lives by resisting the urge to respond with anger, fear, and hatred. In so doing, we break the cycle, and help those souls whose lives were so abruptly ended last week to move on to eternal peace.
Please send me Email if you are interested in helping with the project, and check back at the site often to see what we have done.
Peace and healing, and whatever you do...STAY HUMAN,
stacey