From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2007 #390 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 Website: http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Friday, September 28 2007 Volume 2007 : Number 390 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Pete Seeger: The Power of Song [frednow@aol.com] Re: shine at walmart [J Kendel Johnson ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:01:10 -0400 From: frednow@aol.com Subject: Pete Seeger: The Power of Song Pete Seeger: The Power of Song Words are insufficient, in quantity and quality, to recommend this film highly enough. Some people say there are no more heroes. Pete Seeger is a true hero ... as a man, as a musician, as an American, as a citizen of the world. His integrity, his humanity, his steadfast courage, and his unalloyed commitment to a better world are unassailable. (Not to mention his spearheading the miraculous clean-up of the Hudson River.) It was almost too much to take watching the clip of Pete singing his anti-Vietnam anthem Waist Deep In the Big Muddy on The Smothers Brothers Show, with this line from its last verse: Every time I read the paper, those old feelings come on/We are waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool says to push on. Having been blacklisted from radio and TV for 17 years(!) for expressing his opinions, The Smothers had the courage (and the cachet) to give him the forum he deserved ... the man who introduced the song We Shall Overcome to Martin Luther King, Jr. and to the civil rights movement in America, a man who unfailingly championed human rights for his entire career, for his entire life. He built his first house with his own hands as a young man, and he still swings a mean ax at age 88. (Not to mention his fantastic and innovative banjo chops!) Long live Pete Seeger, and please go see this film ... if it doesn't bolster your hope for humankind, nothing will. All best, Fred - -Fred Simon http://myspace.com/fredsimon ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:48:57 -0700 (PDT) From: J Kendel Johnson Subject: Re: shine at walmart Victor Johnson wrote: But doesn't each store pay the distributor a set amount, and then set their own sale price based on their own bottom line? So in that case, the only thing affected by the sale price would be the store's profit margin. It's well documented that Wal-Mart puts an excruciating squeeze on anyone who wants their products sold in its stores. The distributor agrees to a rock bottom amount just to get the product on the shelves, which means the record company sees lower cash flow. The artist doesn't see any income until all expenses are paid, so if there's less cash flow, there's less to pay expenses -- and less left over for the artist. Buying ANY product at Wal-Mart ultimately victimizes the individual who labored to create it. Check out the PBS Frontline episodes "Is Wal-Mart Good for America?" and "China From The Inside" (available on DVD from www.PBS.org or Amazon) or any number of other solidly-reported investigations into the company's business strategies and practices since Sam Walton's death. J np: Over The Rhine, If A Song Could Be President ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2007 #390 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------