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MANIFIESTO. Victor Jara's last song. "I don't sing for empty fame. My guitar sings to build a ladder to the very stars. There where everything ends, there where all things have their start, song that has shown itself valiant, that song will always give birth to new song."

Starbucks union organizers are fighting for dignified conditions for 'Third World' coffee pickers too. Here in Nicaragua, source of some of the world's finest coffees, but where, as the song says, a worker's daily pay 'will hardly pay for one Starbucks Mocha Java!' Lenin Triana and his merry band take this version of Woody's 'Union Maid' to the next - global - level. Support the union movement here: https://sbworkersunited.org

Original photos of the damage caused by 'peaceful protestors' during Nicaragua's upsurge of Contra-style mayhem in 2018. Plus 'selfie' videos posted by those same law-abiding people torturing and murdering police.

Nada puede reemplazar la poesía de su español original, por supuesto, pero desde que me quedé con Joan Jara en su casa de Santiago, y ella me prestó la propia guitarra de Víctor para tocar, la mayoría de sus canciones más queridas han florecido dentro de mí en estas versiones en inglés para cantar. Un gran misterio y un enorme privilegio. Nothing can replace the poetry of Víctor's original Spanish, of course. But ever since I stayed with Joan Jara in their little house in Santiago, and she lent me Víctor's own guitar to play, his best-loved songs have somehow flowered within me into these singing English versions. A great mystery and an enormous privilege.

'Pense oir al dulce Victor .... en la noche cantar.' La canción empezó en el jardín de Joan y Víctor Jara en Santiago de Chile, después de tocar la guitarra del propio Víctor.

Homage to the greatly-loved singer, songwriter and martyr, Víctor Jara on September 11th 2023, in preparation for the 50th anniversary of the Chilean massacre on September 11th, 1973: 9/11 ONE.

Spanish language version of 'Ode to Earth', from Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy/Freedom'. Fulfil Beethoven. Heal Earth. Heal ourselves.

Giving the lie to Nicaragua's so-called 'political prisoners', seeking power to return Nicaraguans to U.S. servitude to prop up a 'developed' way of life that's killing the planet, a first short clip from "We're Trying to Crush the World's Happiest Country" by Lee Camp of Most Censored News. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jkaP5i8FWY

Written after working with being-made-poor coffee pickers here in Nicaragua and finding myself in NYC, surrounded by Starbuckses filled with people paying a Nicaraguan picker's daily wage for a single cup. Coffee Justice NOW!

Bilingual version of Víctor Jara's celebration of working people. Himself a campesino by birth, Víctor was tortured and murdered during the Kissinger/Nixon/Pinochet coup in Chile (September 11th 1973: 9/11 One!) By Russian roulette and machinegun fire. For singing. His passion and courage, coupled with the sheer beauty of many of his songs, inspire generations to this day. !Que viva Víctor Jara!

They paid for murderous riots in Nicaragua, using U.S. funds. No heroes here!

TOOLS not TOYS. Cell phones: more revolutionary than the gun! Global phone strikes, flash mobs, tweet storms, demos, medical help, Mum in Australia, endless possibilities!