Another “GET YOUR DANCE ON” Event This Saturday!

SATURDAY OCTOBER 22:
MORE GOOD TIMES & OUR BIGGEST LINEUP EVERDJ Thornato (Cumba Mela) * Kaleidhaphonic * Didge Project Chill Space * Da’Riddim INya Drum Ensemble
+
Pre-party classes withJoneeba African Dance, taught by African Dance legend Djoniba Mouflet
+ his live drummers
((click here for a free class @ Djoniba’s studio))
Yoga with Julie Dohrman and Kevin Courtney + music by Srikalogy
7:30 :: Doors
8:00 :: Dance with Djoniba upstairs + 
Yoga with Kevin + Julie downstairs
9:00 :: 3 Rooms open + MASSIVE good vibes explodeThe saunas will be in full effect! Showers, towels, and lockers provided.

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Occupy Wall Street: CNN iReporter Paul Richards reports from Time Square (NY) & Jello Biafra praises the OWS and gives the demonstrators some advice!

Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

My friend and CNN iReporter Paul Richards aka Shaky Jones, on October 15, 2011 (Report 2) reporting from Times Square (NY) as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement (OWC). The below two videos are telling things which I also observed last Saturday. There is one thing I would like to point out, is that the OWC is not only a protest movement, but also a movement which wants to confirm with a loud physical voice that wrong doing has been happening for a long time. It’s about enough is enough. Do they know how  to correct all the misdoings? At this time no, but I think if this movement gets bigger and spreads through the whole country, somebody will come out and become a spokesman and leader of this movement.

 

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Occupy Wall Street – again another victory!!!! And music was an important part of it!

Text and video by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

Today, October 15th, was a special day for this movement: International Day of Action – Massive Global Uprising…here in NY city, in America and abroad (Italy, Japan, Canada, etc.). Read more about this unspoken revolution in http://www.occupywallstreet.com.

DooBeeDooBeeDoo was at Times Square in Manhattan when thousands of locals and tourists gathered to demonstrate their dissatisfaction about anything. Today our interest was to find out whether music was a positive force in this big rally. And YES it was! Music was everywhere. Either people were rapping slogans, singing folk songs, playing all kinds of instruments or even when discussing things, you could hear and feel music. – Personally I was very happy when I saw this sign (watch below video).

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