From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2005 #403 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/joni Websites: http://www.jmdl.com http://www.jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Wednesday, October 26 2005 Volume 2005 : Number 403 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Rosa Parks njc [Bob Muller ] joni grave, njc ["Marianne Rizzo" ] Re: The News (NJC) ["Gerald A. Notaro" ] (NJC) Reminder- House Concert- Lynn Skinner sings Joni Mitchell [AsharaJM] Re: What Is The Album Where Joni's Voice Sounds The Best? [Wtking59@cs.co] njc Rosa Parks, 92, Founding Symbol of Civil Rights Movement, Dies ["Mar] Re: I Want My Joni Grave! [Patti Witten ] Re: I Want My Joni Grave! ["ron" ] Re: I Want My Joni Grave! [LCStanley7@aol.com] Desktop Pic [Mark-Leon Thorne ] RE: Desktop Pic ["Bree Mcdonough" ] RE: Reminder- Concert- Lynn Skinner sings Joni Mitchell (also in new york city, tomorrow, wednesday, 10/26 ["] njc, Peace Vigils on Wednesday, and the latest from Cindy Sheehan ["Patti] Re: I Want My Joni Grave! [Michael Paz ] Re: Desktop Pic ["mack watson-bush" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 04:15:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: Rosa Parks njc And here's the audio (from their live album): http://s57.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2YFI5OF6PVLMF04SBGWFLEW9UC This is a great song and brings back lots of memories for me. When Nathan was in 3rd grade, I went to his school on an off-Friday, had lunch with him, and then went back to his classroom and played and discussed two songs I had put on tape to share with his class - this one and "Black Man" by Stevie Wonder. (It was in February/Black History Month) I had typed up the lyrics (this was pre-internet days, so I had to play the song and stop/go to get all the words...painstaking but worth it. I played the song, and the part when they sing "put your hands in the air, and wave 'em like you just don't care" I had 25 or so 3rd-graders doing just that. It was pretty darn awesome. Hopefully I helped to open a few young minds that day. His teacher asked for the tape when I was done, which I gave to her gladly. I'll bet it's gotten a few more plays. Hope so. In any case, Rosa Parks is an incredible hero. Compared to her (as Joni would say): "We are all hopelessly oppressed cowards..." Bob NP: David Ruffin, "My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me)" Les Irvin wrote: Sister Rosa Parks (by The Neville Brothers) December 1, 1955, our freedom movement came alive. And because of Sister Rosa you know, we don't ride on the back of the bus no more. Sister Rosa Parks was tired one day after a hard day on her job. When all she wanted was a well deserved rest Not a scene from an angry mob. A bus driver said, "Lady, you got to get up cuz a white person wants that seat." But Miss Rosa said, "No, not no more. I'm gonna sit here and rest my feet." Thank you Miss Rosa, you are the spark, You started our freedom movement Thank you Sister Rosa Parks. Now, the police came without fail And took Sister Rosa off to jail. And 14 dollars was her fine, Brother Martin Luther King knew it was our time. The people of Montgomery sit down to talk It was decided all gods' children should walk Until segregation was brought to its knees And we obtain freedom and equality, yeah Thank you Miss Rosa, you are the spark, You started our freedom movement Thank you Sister Rosa Parks. We'll sing it again So we dedicate this song to thee for being the symbol of our dignity. Thank Sister Rosa Parks. - --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:08:04 -0400 From: "Marianne Rizzo" Subject: joni grave, njc >Smurf, who'd really prefer to be ground up into >little pieces and served at an exclusive Republican >fundraiser about two weeks after he dies he heheheh let them eat you those ravages. : -) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 04:21:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Smurf Subject: Re: I Want My Joni Grave! I don't exactly "want my Joni grave," and when I die I don't want to be put in the ground, but maybe I'll have a marker somewhere that says, "There is your song from me." - - --Smurf, who'd really prefer to be ground up into little pieces and served at an exclusive Republican fundraiser about two weeks after he dies _________________________________________________________________ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee. Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:02:15 -0400 (EDT) From: "Gerald A. Notaro" Subject: Re: The News (NJC) Michael Paz wrote: I am praying to hear from the > reat > of my Florida contingent (Ming? Jerry? JEB??? LOL sorry humor1) CHECK IN > EVERYBODY! Doing fine. The cold front that pushed Wilma south has arrived and turned the weather to Autumn. Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:20:55 EDT From: AsharaJM@aol.com Subject: (NJC) Reminder- House Concert- Lynn Skinner sings Joni Mitchell Just a reminder that if there are any JMDLers wishing to come to a fantastic house concert this Friday night, in the Boston area, please get in touch with me ASAP!! Lynn Skinner, a wonderful jazz singer from Denver, CO will be here this Friday night, October 28th, to sing lots of Joni and other songs, in my living room! Hugs, Ashara ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:31:46 EDT From: Wtking59@cs.com Subject: Re: What Is The Album Where Joni's Voice Sounds The Best? "Miles of Aisles"--hands down (w/"Court and Spark" a close second)! I think on much of the earlier stuff (particularly "Ladies of the Canyon") she almost sounds like a child. "Blue" is brilliant, but her voice sounds stressed and tense (prefer the revised versions on "Miles..."), and--beginning with "Hissing..."--she started sounding "chilly and cold" to moi. Just my 2 ". ;-) XXXOOO, Billy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:34:13 -0700 From: "Mark Scott" Subject: njc Rosa Parks, 92, Founding Symbol of Civil Rights Movement, Dies Here's a pretty good article about Rosa Parks that a friend forwarded to me. Mark E. in Seattle October 25, 2005 Rosa Parks, 92, Founding Symbol of Civil Rights Movement, Dies By E. R. SHIPP Rosa Parks, a black seamstress whose refusal to relinquish her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Ala., almost 50 years ago grew into a mythic event that helped touch off the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 1960's, died at her home yesterday in Detroit. She was 92 years old. Her death was confirmed by Dennis W. Archer, the former mayor of Detroit. For her act of defiance, Mrs. Parks was arrested, convicted of violating the segregation laws and fined $10, plus $4 in court fees. In response, blacks in Montgomery boycotted the buses for nearly 13 months while mounting a successful Supreme Court challenge to the Jim Crow law that enforced their second-class status on the public bus system. The events that began on that bus in the winter of 1955 captivated the nation and transformed a 26-year-old preacher named Martin Luther King Jr. into a major civil rights leader. It was Dr. King, the new pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, who was drafted to head the Montgomery Improvement Association, the organization formed to direct the nascent civil rights struggle. "Mrs. Parks's arrest was the precipitating factor rather than the cause of the protest," Dr. King wrote in his 1958 book, "Stride Toward Freedom. "The cause lay deep in the record of similar injustices." Her act of civil disobedience, what seems a simple gesture of defiance so many years later, was in fact a dangerous, even reckless move in 1950's Alabama . In refusing to move, she risked legal sanction and perhaps even physical harm, but she also set into motion something far beyond the control of the city authorities. Mrs. Parks clarified for people far beyond Montgomery the cruelty and humiliation inherent in the laws and customs of segregation. That moment on the Cleveland Avenue bus also turned a very private woman into a reluctant symbol and torchbearer in the quest for racial equality and of a movement that became increasingly organized and sophisticated in making demands and getting results. In Washington yesterday, Representative Melvin Watt, Democrat of North Carolina and chairman of the Black Congressional Caucus, said: "Rosa Parks is viewed as the person who really sat down and made African-Americans stand up in the process. I think she'll be remembered in a way that is very profound." Even in the last years of her life, the frail Mrs. Parks made appearances at events and commemorations, saying little but lending the considerable strength of her presence. In recent years, Mrs. Parks suffered from dementia, according to medical records released during a lawsuit over the use of her name by the hip-hop group OutKast.Over the years myth tended to obscure the truth about Mrs. Parks. One legend had it that she was a cleaning woman with bad feet who was too tired to drag herself to the rear of the bus. Another had it that she was a "plant" by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The truth, as she later explained, was that she, like thousands of other blacks, was tired of being humiliated, of having to adapt to the byzantine rules, some codified as law and others passed on as tradition, that reinforced the position of blacks as something less than full human beings. "She was fed up," said Elaine Steele, a longtime friend and executive director of the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development. "She was in her 40's. She was not a child. There comes a point where you say, 'No, I'm a full citizen, too. This is not the way I should be treated.' " In "Stride Toward Freedom," Dr. King wrote: "Actually no one can understand the action of Mrs. Parks unless he realizes that eventually the cup of endurance runs over, and the human personality cries out, 'I can take it no longer.' " Mrs. Parks was very active in the Montgomery N.A.A.C.P. chapter. She and her husband, Raymond, a barber, had taken part in voter registration drives and helped raise money for the defense of the Scottsboro Boys, a cause cilhbre among rights advocates, who asserted that nine black youths were wrongly accused of raping two white women in Alabama in 1931. At the urging of an employer, Virginia Durr, Mrs. Parks had attended an interracial leadership conference at the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tenn. , in the summer of 1955. There, she later said, she "gained strength to persevere in my work for freedom, not just for blacks but for all oppressed people." But as she rushed home from her job as a seamstress at a department store on Dec. 1, 1955, the last thing on her mind was becoming "the mother of the civil rights movement," as many would later describe her. She had to send out notices of the N.A.A.C.P.'s coming election of officers. And she had to prepare for the workshop that she was running for teenagers that weekend. "So it was not a time for me to be planning to get arrested," she said in an interview in 1988. On Montgomery buses, the first four rows were reserved for whites. The rear was for blacks, who made up more than 75 percent of the bus system's riders. Blacks could sit in the middle rows until those seats were needed by whites. Then the blacks had to move to seats in the rear, stand or, if there was no room, leave the bus. Even getting on the bus presented hurdles: If whites were already sitting in the front, blacks could board to pay the fare but then they had to disembark and re-enter through the rear door. For years blacks had complained, and Mrs. Parks was no exception. "My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrest," she said. "I did a lot of walking in Montgomery." After a confrontation in 1943, a driver named James Blake ejected Mrs. Parks from his bus. As fate would have it, he was driving the Cleveland Avenue bus on Dec. 1, 1955. He demanded that four blacks give up their seats in the middle section so a lone white man could sit. Three of them complied. Recalling the incident for "Eyes on the Prize," a 1987 public television series on the civil rights movement, Mrs. Parks said: "When he saw me still sitting, he asked if I was going to stand up and I said, 'No, I'm not.' And he said, 'Well, if you don't stand up, I'm going to have to call the police and have you arrested.' I said, 'You may do that.' " Her arrest was the answer to prayers for the Women's Political Council, which was set up in 1946 in response to the mistreatment of black bus riders, and for E. D. Nixon, a leading advocate of equality for blacks in Montgomery. Blacks had been arrested, and even killed, for disobeying bus drivers. They had begun to build a case around a 15-year-old girl's arrest for refusing to give up her seat, and Mrs. Parks had been among those raising money for the girl's defense. But when they learned that the girl was pregnant, they decided that she was an unsuitable symbol for their cause. Mrs. Parks, on the other hand, was regarded as "one of the finest citizens of Montgomery - not one of the finest Negro citizens - but one of the finest citizens of Montgomery," Dr. King said. While Mr. Nixon met with lawyers and preachers to plan an assault on the Jim Crow laws, the women's council distributed 35,000 copies of a handbill that urged blacks to boycott the buses on Monday, Dec. 5, the day of Mrs. Parks's trial. "Don't ride the buses to work, to town, to school, or anywhere on Monday," the leaflet said. On Sunday, Dec. 4, the announcement was made from many black pulpits, and a front-page article in The Montgomery Advertiser, a black newspaper, further spread the word. Some blacks rode in carpools that Monday. Others rode in black-owned taxis that charged only the bus fare, 10 cents. But most black commuters - 40,000 people - walked, some more than 20 miles. At a church rally that night, blacks unanimously agreed to continue the boycott until these demands were met: that they be treated with courtesy, that black drivers be hired, and that seating in the middle of the bus go on a first-come basis. The boycott lasted 381 days, and in that period many blacks were harassed and arrested on flimsy excuses. Churches and houses, including those of Dr. King and Mr. Nixon, were dynamited. Finally, on Nov. 13, 1956, in Browder v. Gayle, the Supreme Court outlawed segregation on buses. The court order arrived in Montgomery on Dec. 20; the boycott ended the next day. But the violence escalated: snipers fired into buses as well as Dr. King's home, and bombs were tossed into churches and into the homes of ministers. Early the next year, the Parkses left Montgomery for Hampton, Va., largely because Mrs. Parks had been unable to find work, but also because of disagreements with Dr. King and other leaders of the city's struggling civil rights movement. In Virginia, Mrs. Parks worked as hostess in the faculty dining hall at the Hampton Institute, a black college. Later that year, at the urging of her younger brother, Sylvester, Mrs. Parks, her husband and her mother, Leona McCauley, moved to Detroit. Mrs. Parks worked as a seamstress until 1965, when Representative John Conyers Jr. hired her as an aide for his Congressional office in Detroit. She retired in 1988. "There are very few people who can say their actions and conduct changed the face of the nation," Mr. Conyers said in a statement yesterday, "and Rosa Parks is one of those individuals." Mrs. Parks's husband, Raymond, died in 1977. There are no immediate survivors. Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Ala., on Feb. 4, 1913, the elder of Leona and James McCauley's two children. Although the McCauleys were farmers, Mr. McCauley also worked as a carpenter and Mrs. McCauley as a teacher. Rosa McCauley attended rural schools until she was 11 years old, then Miss White's School for Girls in Montgomery. She attended high school at the Alabama State Teachers College, but dropped out to care for her ailing grandmother. It was not until she was 21 that she earned a high school diploma. Shy and soft-spoken, Mrs. Parks often appeared uncomfortable with the near- beatification bestowed upon her by blacks, who revered her as a symbol of their quest for dignity and equality. She would say that she hoped only to inspire others, especially young people, "to be dedicated enough to make useful lives for themselves and to help others." She also expressed fear that since the birthday of Dr. King became a national holiday, his image was being watered down and he was being depicted as merely a "dreamer." "As I remember him, he was more than a dreamer," Mrs. Parks said. "He was an activist who believed in acting as well as speaking out against oppression." She would laugh in recalling some of her experiences with children whose curiosity often outstripped their grasp of history: "They want to know if I was alive during slavery times. They equate me along with Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth and ask if I knew them." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:45:56 -0400 From: Patti Witten Subject: Re: I Want My Joni Grave! Lori Fye wrote: > We all come and go unknown > Each so deep and superficial > Between the forceps and the stone These lines are in my top 10, and probably Hejira the album and the songs, are at the top of their respective lists, too. Patti - -- http://pattiwitten.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 21:28:52 +0200 From: "ron" Subject: Re: I Want My Joni Grave! hi >>>nuriel asked >>>>> Since we're all gonna die later on, why not quote a Joni lyric up >>>>> above our graves? Something that'll really make our loved ones cry >>>>> when they come to visit us. Or laugh, in case we're happy dead. Mine >>>>> would be "All his seadreams come to me". My mom's should go "You know >>>>> they dare not look away"... i waould have to go with one of the obvious one " we are stardust...." ron patti witten - i think about you ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:19:45 EDT From: LCStanley7@aol.com Subject: Re: I Want My Joni Grave! I didn't know I drank such a lot 'Till I pissed a tequila-anaconda The full length of the parking lot ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:00:19 +1000 From: Mark-Leon Thorne Subject: Desktop Pic Hi everyone. If you would like a copy of my first desktop picture, you can get it here. http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=39FPDL2MV4MWV0VF9BWPXPOXLD I hope to make a series of them. Watch this space. Mark in Sydney NP Happiness Is Easy - Talk Talk ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:01:09 -0400 From: "Bree Mcdonough" Subject: RE: Desktop Pic Mark's wallpaper has adorned my desktop since last night...I love it! It gave me chills...check it out!! Thanks ..Mark.. I look forward to your other creations. Bree >Hi everyone. If you would like a copy of my first desktop picture, you >can get it here. >http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=39FPDL2MV4MWV0VF9BWPXPOXLD > >I hope to make a series of them. Watch this space. > >Mark in Sydney > >NP Happiness Is Easy - Talk Talk ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:25:37 -0400 From: "patrick leader" Subject: RE: Reminder- Concert- Lynn Skinner sings Joni Mitchell (also in new york city, tomorrow, wednesday, 10/26 hey folks, sorry for the late notice, but lynn is also singing at the 55 bar in new york, tomorrow at 7 pm. my sister and i will be there, and i hope some of you will join us. feel free to email me privately. http://55bar.com/ patrick np - emmy lou, waltz across texas (rough mix) - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org]On Behalf Of AsharaJM@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:21 AM To: joni@smoe.org Subject: (NJC) Reminder- House Concert- Lynn Skinner sings Joni Mitchell Just a reminder that if there are any JMDLers wishing to come to a fantastic house concert this Friday night, in the Boston area, please get in touch with me ASAP!! Lynn Skinner, a wonderful jazz singer from Denver, CO will be here this Friday night, October 28th, to sing lots of Joni and other songs, in my living room! Hugs, Ashara ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 04:12:34 +0000 From: "Patti Parlette" Subject: njc, Peace Vigils on Wednesday, and the latest from Cindy Sheehan On Wednesday, October 26th, at 6:30 p.m. EST, there will be over 1,036 candlelight peace vigils across America. If you are interested, you can find out more at: http://www.moveon.org/event/events/index.html?action_id=29&id=6195-1448109-DSE0cxHdqTU8r.FvEx_2vg&t=2 And here is the latest message from Cindy Sheehan, which you can also read at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cindy-sheehan/ "Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the State becomes lawless and corrupt." Mahatma Gandhi Unfortunately the 2000th American death in Iraq is tragically coming up too soon. I am in Washington, DC now and along with a coalition of peace groups and local activists, we will be holding vigils at the White House for the rest of the week from 12 noon to 8 PM. Each day we will be passing out black wrist bands and we will have each person who picks one up write a KIA troop's name and number on it. Each wrist band will also stand for 50 innocent Iraqis killed. Everyday at 6 PM we will have a "die-in." We will ask everyone who is present at 6 PM to lie down and represent a dead soldier. At that point, the park police will give us 3 warnings before they arrest us. We are not encouraging people to get arrested -- it's a very personal decision. I am planning to not get up on the day after the 2000th soldier is killed. I may be arrested. Then when they let me out, I will go back and lie back down. We in America have let this criminal administration get away with murder for too long. Enough is enough. It's time to start practicing non-violent civil disobedience ( C.D.) on a large scale. On Tuesday the 25th we will be fasting for the length of the vigil in solidarity with the hardships that Americans and Iraqis are enduring on a daily basis. We are asking America to fast in solidarity with us. On Wednesday the 26th at 10:30 AM, we will be going to Arlington Cemetery to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Then to the White House for our vigil. On Thursday the 27th at 10:30 AM we will be delivering a wreath and signed sympathy cards to the Iraqi Embassy. We are asking people who come out to our vigil on the Lafayette Park side to bring sympathy cards. Then to the White House for our vigil. On Friday the 28th at 10:30 AM we will be delivering flowers and get well wishes to Walter Reed Hospital and we are asking people to bring get well cards to our vigil. Then off to the White House for our vigil. Tomorrow I will be calling on President Bush to answer my original question: "What Noble Cause?" There is absolutely no noble cause. Our children and the Iraqi people are dying and suffering for no cause except for power and money greedy criminals. The numbers are staggering. More American soldiers have been KIA in the first 32 months of Iraq so far then in the first 4 years of Vietnam. This isn't another Vietnam people, this is worse. We cannot allow the people who are running our country to keep on running it into the ground. It is time to exercise our sacred duty as human beings. Let's get peacefully radical. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:51:13 -0500 From: Michael Paz Subject: Re: I Want My Joni Grave! Probably my selection seeing how it was the first words I had with her Joan'ness about her words. Wanna come hand for some really bad bands on Sunday the 30th. I don't know most of these guys and am not excited about being there other than the work. COME HANG WITH THE FAM. Love Paz > I didn't know I drank such a lot > 'Till I pissed a tequila-anaconda > The full length of the parking lot ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 21:23:41 -0500 From: "mack watson-bush" Subject: Re: Desktop Pic Mark, tremendous work. Well done. mack np: Marvelous duet on Been Around the World from Lisa Stansfield and Barry White. wow! ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2005 #403 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe ------- Siquomb, isn't she? (http://www.siquomb.com/siquomb.cfm)