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Parody-of-the-Month:
Will They Ever Be Taxed?
(To the tune of the MTA) words by Jack Hasling

JOIN US AT THESE EVENTS:

Sing at Tax the Rich demo
Mondays 5:00 -6:00
Solano Ave. nr old Oaks Theater

WEDNESDAY, MAY 9th National Occupy the Banks Day 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.: Sing with us in front of the B of A main Berkeley branch, 2129 Shattuck at Center.  There will be a continuation of this rally from 11:30 to 1 p.m. in front of the B of A in Oakland, 300 Lakeside Drive at Harrison. (Occupella may not be at the Oakland rally, but you’re welcome to come and sing to represent us!)
5 p.m. to 6 p.m.: B of A rally on Solano & Neilson (by Safeway) in Albany. (organized by the Tax the Rich group which demonstrates every Monday.

Bart Singing May 22nd Tuesday, 4:45-6:00 PM, 24th St Station, SF (This will be our only Bart sing in May. We're suspending Bart singing in June, July & August.)

May 31, Thursday, Noon-1:00 PM, Demonstration against the Bank of America
3250 Mission Street , between Valencia and 29th, SF

See calendar for more details

Sing with Occupella

Occupella organizes informal public singing at Bay Area occupation sites, marches and at BART stations. We sing to promote peace, justice, and an end to corporate domination, especially in support of the Occupy movement.

Music has the power to build spirit, foster a sense of unity, convey messages and emotions, spread information, and bring joy to participants and audience alike. See spirited clip of an action at BART. Check out the actions calendar and come add your voice. There are lots of ways to participate and everyone is welcome.
If you can talk you can sing.

Not in the Bay Area? We encourage you to make use of our online songbook and start a branch of Occupella in your community. And let us know what happens. We’ll post reports to this site.

We have an extensive online songbook of singable parodies, rewrites and traditional songs and some original songs written for OWS. Click on the “Song Book” button in the left column and select a song book category. Look for links for downloadable versions near the top of each song. Use our Contact page form to suggest more songs to add to our site.

The group is the creation of Bay Area singers and cultural workers Hali Hammer, Betsy Rose, Nancy Schimmel, Bonnie Lockhart and Leslie Hassberg. Drawing on years of experience as singers in activist cultural groups such as the Freedom Song Network, Red Star Singers and Singing For Peace, Occupella carries forward a long tradition of communities singing in the face of injustice and promoting positive visions of a world of peace and inclusion.

Occupella article and video in Huffington Post

Sing Out for Earth Day

We had about 200 singing at SF Earth Day- Country Joe MacDonald, Occupella, Freedom Song Network, Rockin' Solidarity Labor Chorus, La Pena Chorus, Jello Biafra, Liliana Herrera, and the ReSisters all sang verses. Stacy Samuels (Banjo Man) kicked off an intro at the same time as Ron Dressler in NYC. Will Scarlett had a harmonica solo in the middle. It was a blast!!! See video of SF Singout . Thanks to all of you who participated. - Love, Hali

Listen to Hali's interview
See the facebook page for reports from around the world and bits of video.


 

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