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| Sing To Me The Dream: Un Canto Solidario HISTORIC RE-ISSUE OF 1984 CONCERT TOUR WITH INTI ILLIMANI PLUS BONUS TRACKS; A TRIBUTE TO THE INFLUENCE CENTRAL AND LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTS HAVE HAD ON NEAR'S LIFE AND WORK. More information and sample tracks . . . |
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| Notes from trip to Chile December 2007 |
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| Powerful trip. We did so many things, met with so many people, it felt like 8 trips. Here are my notes, not in graceful order, but I hope you can get a sense of the journey. I travelled with Donna Korones (photographer) and emma’s revolution (Pat Humphries and Sandy O). Chile is a beautiful and complicated place. One might guess that simply by looking at the map. I am asked in every interview, “If Chile has been so important to you, why has it taken you so long to come visit?” It is not asked in a mean spirit. I explain that during the dictatorship it seemed that our work was in the US to oppose our country´s involvement and to expose the dictatorship. But after that, I have no excuse. And that is true. There is however, perhaps a further explanation. I live in a rather isolated country, one that is self-absorbed. One that will spend lots of money on things but say we can not afford to travel. We fear the unknown, the discomfort we will feel in another land, another language. Chileans say Chile is the last country anyone comes to. Even Latin Americans think of it as so far away. But I am here to testify, it isn’t that far away. And I am so glad I made the journey to Chile. Today as in the US, there is a myth that Chile is now a settled democracy. However, the pressure on the new president is huge, from both sides. The hope for relief that people had after the dictatorship were large and of course could not be satisfied to the extent they had imagined. The progressives know she is an improvement over terror and repression. But people want more than the lack of war. Food, shelter, culture, health, dreams. Enter a woman like Soledad Puebla who I write about below and who says she is not waiting for the president. EPES EPES celebrates 25 years with a commitment to women’s health and sustainability. Educación Popular en Salud Foundation. EPES was founded in 1982 during the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet as a health training project of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chile. One of the founders of EPES, Karen Anderson, now lives in Albany, NY. That is where I first met her and where she continues to work in women’s health. I did a workshop with her staff. Later on I got a call from her asking me if I wanted to go to Chile. She said I was receiving an invitation from Margarita Romera and The Park for Peace in Santiago to participate in a December 10th, 2007 event. And that EPES would like very much to help host the visit. This trip would not have been the same without the energy, research, logistical brilliance and good humour of the people at EPES. When we arrived at EPES office, there was such a warm, calm feeling - women and men working together in an obvious harmony. As is the way in Chile, we were greeted with kisses and refreshments. The Childcare Center We went to visit one of the projects EPES admires. It is run by the Lutheran Church. This is child care at its very best. There are infant rooms and a different space for toddlers and a third area for pre-school. When we arrived I immediately initiated a soccer game with 3 and 4 year olds (about my skill level!) I started with catch and quickly remembered that Latin Americans play catch with their feet ie soccer. Sandy O and Pat Humphries of Emma’s Revolution and I went from room to room singing. We sang "This Little Light Of Mine" and "What Color are the Clothes You Are Wearing." The children sang to us. A good time had by all. Soledad Puebla It is here we met Soledad. She is one of those people put on the earth to remind us that nothing is impossible. She was one of the leaders of a massive land takeover in the early 80’s where 20,000 people moved on to public land in the middle of the night and stayed. She is a powerhouse of a community leader focusing on women’s well being. She is one of those against-all-odds stories, coming from poverty and repression to getting a college degree. She was trained by EPES in keeping with their philosopy that training leadership is one of the best investments to be made to empower community. Soledad spoke about her life and work. Several things stuck out in my mind. She said that machismo doesn’t allow men to advance as they get stuck in the cruel stuff of patriarchy. However, she said that out of a necessity to survive, women advance. (I don’t think she was suggesting to keep machismo in place in order to inspire women!) She spoke of the 60 some women who have been killed by their partners in 2007. She works, as does EPES, to do education in the community around violence against women. Recently there was a large demonstration responding to the violence. A man on his way to the demo saw a woman being beaten by her partner. He did intervention and was shot by the perpetuator. The bullet put him in a wheel chair for life. 12 cities participated in the demo against femicide. 5000 marched in Santiago. Often the first conversation that comes up for women is when they report their children are being abused and that leads to women opening up and talking about the abuse they themselves are experiencing. We toured radical murals painted on the street walls protesting violence against women— some really bold public art. Soledad backs up to an earlier time. When she was a child, she and her uncle heard big trucks moving in and out of the shanty town late at night. They climbed a tower to see what was going on. What her young eyes saw was a line up of people standing blindfolded in a spot light and then they were all killed. For a long time she did not tell anyone what she saw. However, she did see a nun pulling bodies out of the river. She went to help her. She learned that Christianity is not sitting around praying. Even now, she is still called to testify as the struggle to find the disappeared continues, and of course the need to have those guilty of these crimes come to trial. Soledad went to work at a church. She heard the president of the church yelling at someone. A young woman came out, crying. Soledad suggested they go get a cup of coffee. The young woman was Karen Anderson who later co-founded EPES. So I felt a long time back connection to Soledad. Sitting over coffee and cookies, I sang "Hay Una Mujer Desaparecida" we all cried together. In 1981, poor people didnt even have band aids. By 1982, Soledad was trained by EPES. Soledad worked for 12 years as a health promoter. She learned that health is a right, not a privilege. She also learned to see the world consciously through women’s eyes. EPES does not just train individuals. They train organizations in prevention and awareness. Communities learn that there is no need to go to the hospital if it is something that can be cared for in the home or local clinic. EPES teaches community diagnosis, helps people identify the problem and to use resources that are available to them. Soledad spoke of what motivates activism. She said in the 80s it was hunger. Later, it was the struggle for democracy and rights and discovered that is more complex than hunger. This year there were about 165,000 illegal abortions, 28,000 had to go to hospital due to complications. Some of the women who gave the abortions are in jail. And yet the subject is not on the president’s adjenda. There is little to no government discussion of abortion. Soledad knows that president Michelle Bacholet is trapped. She is constantly having to weigh in on what issues on which to break rank as she does not have support inside the government. But as Soledad says, the people can not wait for the president.
On December 9, we joined human rights activists and relatives of the detenidos-desaparecidos at the Parque por la Paz - better known as Villa Grimaldi -- for the closing ceremony of a year-long initiative to honor and remember the women "disappeared" by the Pinochet dictatorship. Some 4,500 people were imprisoned in the Villa Grimaldi detention center between 1973 and 1978; most were tortured and 226 are among the desaparecidos who have never been seen again. I sang my song, "Hay Una Mujer Desaparecida." The song calls out the names of the disappeared, names which I took off a list back in the seventies when I wrote the song. It was overwhelming to stand before the wall of names and see the names of women whose names I had sung out so often Although Pinochet denied this interrogation/torture center. families of the disappeared as well as survivors from the prison have turned this nightmare into a healing and renamed it Park for Peace, a place of historic memory. I was honored to be asked to carry the plaque of the unknown prisoner. We met with families of the disappeared and spent many hours with one of the survivors of this torture prison. They gave us a private tour of the space before the event so we would have time to take it all in before I had to sing. Our guides did an amazing job of telling the story, walking that delicate line between telling the truth and not hurling so much at the listener that their system shuts down. At the ceremonies, there was a slide show of the women who "disappeared" from this center. Music played behind the presentation. It took 8 songs to get through the slide show. So many women, so young. A young woman watching with me began to weep and shake in my arms. It is very hard to take all this in. One of the survivors says that it is impossible to think of this place, this cruelty, with a rational mind. Some people refer to the Pinochet era as “a period of exception” or “a state of exception”. Some just come right out and say it was a dictatorship. In 1973 when the military coup took place and Pinochet took power, all government offices were shut down except the judicial branch which formed a committee to create laws, defacto laws, or decree laws. Although thousands were imprisoned, tortured, and “disappeared”, the regime denied it was happening. Pinochet even said “the left” killed each other. When people tried to use habias corpus, they could not because there were no bodies. Then finally, in 1978, bodies were found and there was some proof and the cases could go forward. 1000’s of cases have been filed but only a handful have been accepted. One of the great champions of the legal pursuit is Fabiolan Letelier, sister of the murdered Orlando Letelier who had been the ambassador from Chile to the U.S. during the Allende years. His car was bombed in Washington, DC and he and his assistant, Ronnie Moffiet, were killed. At the Park for Peace event, Isabel Letelier (Orlando's widow) sought me out to say hello. It had been years since we had seen each other in Washington, DC. She lives in Chile now. Isabel brought to the peace park a rose bush added to the garden in the name of Ronnie Moffiet. I was so moved by this act. Victor Jara We went to visit my old friend Joan Jara, Victor´s widow. She has built a powerful memory of him right next to her dance school (she is a dancer who trained in England and then came to dance in Chile). After getting the tour, and seeing a short video they have made, she impresses upon us that this is not to turn Victor into a god or icon. Joan would rather see his life, which was violently taken away, as an inspiration to future generations. I would say that the voice and songs of Victor have certainly done this. Because of Joan, because of the Chilean artists who have toured the world singing his songs, and of course, because of the exiles who lived all over the world who had the very difficult job of holding the story, Victor's music and Chile's story live on. Concert at El Bosque We sang at a free concert with Inti Illimani in a working-class neighbourhood of El Bosque hosted by the mayor with the spectacular behind-the-scene support of EPES. El Bosque is a sector of southern Santiago. The event was co-sponsored
Iquique At the ceremony of 100 year Anniversary of Santa Maria Masaquer in Iquique. I sang "Gracias a la Vida" with Quilapayun. I think I did the solidarity movement proud. The audience seemed surprised and pleased to hear that song sung by a gringa who has a pretty good accent and a lot of passion! Quilapayun performed "The Cantata Santa Maria de Iquique" that tells the story of these killings. Written by composer Luis Advis, this powerful piece is known and loved in Chile. People sing along on certain arias. It is powerful and moving.
The history of this nitrate mine and the Santa Maria Masaquer is grim. We drive up the mountain to vsit what is now an historic site. As we walk around, there is a heat that could kill even a dead dog. Hundreds of historians are gathered there to visit. There is a cultural event to close out their visit. The minister of education attends uninvited. The students demand she leave the room. Speakers are shouted down. She is not popular with the students as she has not responded to their need for lower tuition and other demands. The police arrive but the students shouted them down as well. Finally the minister of culture left, the police left. We had a very “Chilean” experience! During the shouting, the musicians were the only ones who can proceed. So they sing the story. They take on the challenge of performing the famous cantata that tells the story of the siege of Santa Maria in 1907 when over 26,000 workers and families walked away from the nitrate mine, away from the poverty, the despair, the punishment, the heat, the company store that strangled them even on a cool day. They were paid in tokens that they could only spend at the company store (as in the mining towns of our own Appalachia). The price of goods went up, the pay stayed the same or went down. There was no way to stay even much less get ahead The workers and their families went to the nearby town of Iquique to ask for a reply to their demands. As the cantata says, some understood. The carpenters, painters, tailors, cart drivers, boatmen, bakers, defenders of poor people. But the gentlemen of Iquique were afraid. It was too much to ask for them to see so many workers. And after all, they thought poor people were thieves and murderers. Houses and businesses closed. The workers were taken to the school of Santa Maria. The general of the army berated them for being clowns and told them to stop this foolish display. One worker spoke out that he would not. He would wait until they responded to the demands or they would have to kill him. So they did and then opened fire on all of them. They killed and killed and killed until thousands were dead. As we drive down the hill we share our van with students. I ask them if they talk about the past and how do they deal with the fact that some of their families sided with Allende and some with Pinochet? How do they discuss the past if one father was a torturer and one was a victim. They said they dont talk about it and then they immediately began to talk about it. My father, my uncle, my mother,my grandmother . . . They made it through the ride home without any accusation, only telling their own stories. Now we return to Santiago. No, first we stay up all night at a seaside cafe drinking the famous Chilean pisco sours! We have a last farewell lunch with EPES, sharing memories of the trip as well as laying out suggestions as to how to improve our international exchange. We all have learned something and will integrate the lessons into future work. Then we share Christmas Eve with Karen Anderson and The Letelier family. They are so generous to include Donna and I in their family holiday. As for the future, in my opinion, EPES is deserving of international financial support. Chile looks good right now so funding gets harder. But it is projects like EPES and The Park for Peace that have helped communities recover from the dictatorship and get back on their feet. If you want to make donations to either, you can go to their web sites. http://www.epes.cl/ http://www.villagrimaldicorp.cl/ To learn more about Quilapayun http://www.quilapayun.com/ To learn more about Inti Illimani http://www.inti-illimani.cl/ |
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| These notes in from Chris, a wonderful woman who traveled with us, helping so generously with translation as well as offering her most astute explanation of how things were in Chile and how they are going now as we was in Chile during the time of the dictatorship. She is Canadian and lives currently in Canada. H | ||||||
Dear peaceables, I usually keep my covering note to a minimum and let the links speak for themselves, but I’d like to share with you some highlights from my recent trip to Chile. The first was the open-air concert with Holly Near and Inti-Illimani, celebrating EPES's (Educación Popular en Salud <http://www.epes.cl/>) 25 years of struggle for health and dignity in Chile. Despite a few glitches in logistics, the concert was a huge success and left us all exhilarated and ready to take on the challenges of the next 25 years. Then there was the “axis” of the whole visit: Holly (with emma’s revolution - Pat Humphries and Sandy O) singing "Hay Una Mujer Desaparecida" in Villa Grimaldi, a former torture centre converted into a Peace Park and memorial to the disappeared and executed by the dictatorship. The event was the culmination of a year-long project to plant a rose garden there with a rose bush for every woman killed during the dictatorship. It was spine-tingling to hear Holly sing the names of women whose names were inscribed on small plaques in front of each rose bush—and to know that their loved ones were there listening. After the concerts in Santiago, we went north to the city of Iquique, where a number of events were scheduled to mark the 100th anniversary of the massacre of Santa Maria de Iquique.* One of them was a 4-day historical congress featuring cultural and academic presentations about the massacre. The closing ceremonies were held in an old saltpetre mining town in the Chilean pampa—unlike the grasslands of the Argentinean pampa,there is not a speck of green to be seen anywhere. The unrelieved aridity seems to increase the sense of vastness and there is an austere grandeur that calls to me more than more luxuriant landscapes do. But I digress . . . The closing ceremonies were disrupted by the not entirely unexpected but undesired presence of the Minister of Education and Culture. Given the presence of several hundred university students who are seriously unhappy about the state of educational reform, organizers were concerned that her attendance would distract from the purpose of the event. And so it did. The students' chants and calls for her to get out drowned out the speakers as they tried to go through the protocol of thanking everyone involved in organizing the conference. Meanwhile some older workers yelled at the students to be quiet and have some respect for the workers. Finally the organizers gave up on trying to speak and brought on a group of musicians to perform the Cantata de Santa María de Iquique. The Cantata universally known and beloved in Chile and the students quieted, mostly—until the Minister and her entourage left in the middle of it. They followed her out with catcalls and jeers and more than half the audience ran outside. Less than half the audience stayed put, possibly, like me, out of solidarity with the musicians. These valiantly played on and gave a very good performance of the Cantata, which was first recorded by the legendary group, Quilapayún—a hard act to follow. We heard shots fired outside and learned later that police had fired into the air in an attempt to restore order. It was a quintessentially Chilean moment. Because of problems with travel arrangements, I wasn’t able to stay for the major event of the anniversary, the performance of the Cantata de Santa María de Iquique by Quilapayún on the 1st, but I did get to hear them do a piece of it when they and Holly performed at a men’s prison near Iquique. This concert was organized by an NGO called Open Hands for Development, who felt that prisoners shouldn’t be excluded from the centennial commemoration. Chile has the highest rate of incarceration in Latin America, and the prison population is primarily poor, indigenous and young. The prison, like many in Chile, is concesionada – contracted to a private firm. Its location out on the pampa, surrounded by desert, is ideal for discouraging fantasies or escape – anyone fleeing would be highly visible for miles against the reddish-brown sand. There are about 1900 inmates at two different levels of security. Apparently only those at lower security level were invited to the concert – as we walked across an open quadrangle, we could hear shouts and whistles from a few tiny windows (think CD case) at the very top of a tall, otherwise blank, wall; these must have been the high security prisoners. When we 5 women entered the gym we were greeted by cheers and whistles from the several hundred prisoners assembled for the concert. We stood in the entrance for a few minutes, feeling like deer in a headlight. The prisoners were seated on bleachers at the back of the gym and there were chairs set out in rows for the “special guests;” none of us (female) guests especially wanted to cross the floor to those chairs. When we finally did, it was to another round of cheers. And so on for the 3 female performers: Holly, the cellist with Quilapayún and the actor who narrated the Cantata. Another scary moment happened during the first song: I glanced over at the door and there were 3 rows of guards standing across the entrance; possibly their positions – arms crossed and legs spread wide – were meant to be “at ease” but they looked very threatening, as if expecting trouble to erupt. Supposedly, they were there to protect us, but as vulnerable as I had felt when entering the gym, I felt more intimidated by their show of force than I had by the prisoners raucous welcome. Not coincidentally, most of the songs Quilapayún and Holly performed had themes of freedom and these clearly resonated with the audience. When Holly sang, “It Could Have Been Me,” and reached the lines “El pueblo unido jamás sera vencido,” it would be a huge understatement to say that the crowd went wild. Quilapayún picked the Popular Unity hymn for their first encore and, wisely, a quieter a capella piece for their second – otherwise I don’t know if the guards would have been able to get us out of there. I have never seen the power of music to excite, exhort and calm demonstrated so brilliantly in such a short space of time. Oh dear, I do go on Although I am physically tired from the intensity of the trip, I feel renewed and energized by it. Paz, peace, salaam, shalom, Chris * In December of 1907, thousands of saltpetre miners and their families walked hundreds of kilometres across the desert to the port city of Iquique to demand fair pay and decent working conditions. On Dec. 21, the Chilean authorities ordered attacked and burned the school where most of them were billetted, killing 3600 men, women and children. |
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| Sing To Me The Dream: Un Canto Solidario |
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| In conjunction with my long awaited trip to Chile I have reissued the 1984 live recording SING TO ME THE DREAM with additional material that did not fit on the original “record” and some special bonus tracks that represent solidarity work with Central and Latin American artists. The concert tour with Inti Illimani was an ambitious coalition project spearheaded by Redwood Records and Jeanne Bradshaw Rizzo from The Great American Music Hall. Organizations in many cities across the US came together to produce the concert tour. More importantly, the fact the Inti Illimani and I crossed boundaries to work together encouraged organizations to do the same and unusual coalitions were formed that had a long lasting affect on solidarity work in the United States. The music on this recording reflects the raw, spontaneous nature of the tour. High energy, vibrant emotion, divine creativity, and a united focus on ending the deadly reign of US backed Pinochet leap out of this recording. A few additional tracks are added to round out this tribute to the influence Central and Latin American artists have had on my life and work. Live Concert with Holly Near and Inti Illimani 1984 1. TINKU — Traditional 2. GYPSY — Holly Near and Jose Seves 3. TE DOY UNA CANCION — Silvio Rodriguez 4. SING TO ME THE DREAM — Holly Near and Jorge Coulon 5. COLIBRI — Jose Seves 6. EL ARADO — Victor Jara 7. WATCH OUT* — Holly Near 8. LA PAJITA — Gabriela Mistral and Horacio Salinas 9. LA MARUSA — Jorge Ball 10. WE’RE NOT ALONE — Holly Near 11. SHE * — Holly Near 12. MEDLEY: HAY UNA MUJER DESAPARECIDA / VOICES / IT COULD HAVE BEEN ME * — Holly Near 13. SAMBA LANDO — Horacio Salinas, Patricio Manns and Jose Luis Seves 14. GRACIAS A LA VIDA — Violeta Parra Studio Recording, 2000 15. HAY UNA MUJER DESAPARECIDA — Holly Near Live Concert with Holly Near & Mercedes Sosa, 1989 16. THEY DANCE ALONE — Sting 17. TODAVIA CANTAMOS — Victor Heredia Back to top of page |
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| Chilean Human Rights Activists, Health Workers and Artists to Honor and Host Holly Near in Chile (en Español) |
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"I do not separate my music from my heart, nor do I separate my ideas from my daily life. I open myself up to learning as much as I can about humanity and this mysterious life experience, but I do not relate to political work as series of 'causes'". Moment by moment, I integrate what I learn into my personal life, personalizing my politics. It is from this personal place that I write my songs." -- Holly Near December 2007 is the date for the historic visit by Holly Near to Chile. For over 30 years, this singer/songwriter/activist has worked with Latin American artists for social change to protest US-backed dictatorships and police states. A recognized cultural leader in the United States, Holly Near gives voice to issues that seldom get mainstream attention. In recognition of this work, Holly Near has been invited to Chile for a series of concerts and human rights events this December. Holly will be joined by the duo, emma's revolution, photographer Donna Korones and EPES founder, Karen Anderson. Following Chile's 1973 coup, Near met many exiled Chilean artists - including Inti Illimani, Joan Jara and Quilapayún -- in her travels around the world. She worked with La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley (California) to keep the spirit of Chilean resistance alive and to educate people in the US about the Pinochet dictatorship. These collaborations inspired Holly to write the song Hay Una Mujer Desaparecida, which was to become an anthem of solidarity for US audiences. Holly Near will reunite with Inti Illimani in Chile on December 7 for a concert at the Lo Blanco stadium in the El Bosque sector of southern Santiago. The concert is being organized by the EPES (Educación Popular en Salud) Foundation, a not-for-profit group working for community health and social justice. The concert, which marks the celebration of EPES 25th anniversary, is also a tribute to Holly's three decades of international solidarity. Sponsored by the Casa de Cultura (Cultural Center) and Mayor's office of El Bosque, the concert will gather 1,500 people to join with Holly and Inti Illimani in this celebration of song and solidarity. The concert will also feature the re-launching of the CD Holly recorded with Inti Illimani in 1984. On December 9, Holly will join human rights activists and relatives of the detenidos-desaparecidos at the Parque por la Paz - better known as Villa Grimaldi -- for the closing ceremony of a year-long initiative to honor and remember the women "disappeared" by the Pinochet dictatorship. Some 4,500 people were imprisoned in the Villa Grimaldi detention center between 1973 and 1978; most were tortured and 226 are among the desaparecidos who have never been seen again. Holly Near will also participate in the 100th-year commemoration of the massacre of Santa Maria de Iquique, where some 3,000 striking miners and their families were killed by government troops in the Chilean port city of Iquique. In 1907, workers from northern desert nitrate mines went on strike against deplorable working conditions. Local government authorities sent troops to confront strikers occupying the Santa Maria School, opening fire against the unarmed crowd. This horrific event, which took place on December 21, is now viewed as the catalyst that eventually forced the Chilean government to improve labor laws and social programs. In memory of this event, renowned Chilean composer Luis Advis wrote the Cantata Santa Maria de Iquique, first performed in 1970 by Quilapayún. On December 21, 2007, Quilapayún will perform at the final concert of the 100th year anniversary and has invited Holly to join them on stage. She has signed on in support of the 100th anniversary events along with hundreds of other social change artists and international activists. "I am honored by such generous invitations from human rights activists and artists of Chile," says Holly. "I look forward to this visit with great enthusiasm. And I appreciate so much the work of Karen Anderson and Rosario Castillo, the founders of the Santiago-based women's health organization EPES. They've been my key link to the organizations responsible for planning this visit. I look forward to seeing the work of EPES, and to reuniting with Inti Illimani and Quilapayún. It's been a long time since we've made music together." More about Holly Near A peace activist and advocate for human and civil rights, Holly has linked the multitude of issues refusing the idea of separate "causes." As part of her work for peace and human rights, Holly is a consummate singer and entertainer. As both participant and leader, she bears personal witness to the enormously important role that music plays in political action movements. In 2004, Holly joined Eve Ensler in the Mexican city of Juarez to march against the uninvestigated killing of hundreds of young women. In Toledo (Ohio), she sat as a witness to the testimony of women reporting rape and other violence against women. Holly helped raise funds for 10,000 Kites, a collaborative anti-war project between young people from Israel and Palestine who, in the spring of 2005, flew kites over the wall that separated them. In 2006, and once again in 2007, Holly will be among thousands of protesters in Columbus (Georgia) to demand the closure of the infamous School of the Americas, where military police from around the Americas are trained in the methods -- include repression and torture -- used to undermine democracy around the region. Near's portrait hangs at The Freedom Center in Cincinnati (Ohio) along with those of other social change artists, including Paul Robeson, Marion Anderson, Pete Seeger, Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, Joan Baez, Harry Belafonte, and Woody Guthrie. She has received numerous awards for her work for social change, including honors from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the National Lawyers Guild, the National Organization for Women (NOW), NARAL, Ms. Magazine's Woman of the Year Award, and the Legends of Women's Music Award. She was also among the 1,000 PeaceWomen nominated for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize. Press photo For more information see hollynear.com For information on EPES see www.epes.cl |
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