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Freedom

Struggle

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Not going away

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Make Jazz not war

 

 

 

 

 

Struggle is a universal phenomenon.

Every society in every time has anti-social elements that require resistance. Frequently these elements are in positions of power. People have always resisted. From the American colonies to Jim Crow Mississippi, from Leopold’s Congo to apartheid South Africa, from the concentration camps, from the battlefields, from the ghettos and the plantations and the sweatshops and the refugee camps and the pogroms to the picket lines and marches and demonstrations; they have always resisted. They have expressed and recorded their resistance in dance and song and pictures and words.

We recognize and respect their struggle and its commonality. We draw inspiration from it and honor it by relating it to today’s struggle and by continuing to resist. Part of this is recognizing that people have endured and persevered through times that were worse than what we endure now. They had the strength to endure and persevere. We have that same strength.