From: Americans for the Arts [mailto:advocacy@artsusa.org]
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 7:32 PM
To: Annette Jones-Wilson
Subject: Alert: Economic Recovery Arts Funding
January 27, 2009
Dear Annette:
The legislative action surrounding jobs funding for the arts in the Economic Recovery Package in Congress is picking up speed, and we need you to take action! Americans for the Arts has been working with Congressional leaders to build support for this emergency funding for local and state arts organizations to prevent job losses during this recession.
House
As you recall, last week the House Appropriations Committee approved a plan that included $50 million in supplemental grants funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, and a number of other provisions that can benefit the arts. Starting tonight, and continuing tomorrow, the House will be considering the recovery legislation on the floor, and a number of votes are expected.
Senate
The Senate will be starting their debate on the bill on Friday and continuing through next week. While the Senate Appropriations Committee did not include an arts jobs funding provision in their version of the bill, advocates still have several opportunities over the next few days to change the final outcome. Amendments could be made to the Senate bill or the House arts funding provision itself could prevail in the final House/Senate conference bill.
Please take two minutes to take action and ask your Member of Congress and Senators to support the arts in this legislation. Americans for the Arts has supplied you with fresh research and key quotes that support this funding -- your help in communicating this information to your Member of Congress is critical.
Thank you for your support of the arts!
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Inauguration day and Ethnic Diversity
Here is interesting quote from the today’s New York Times
“The president’s elderly step grandmother brought him an oxtail fly whisk, a mark of power at home in Kenya. Cousins journeyed from the South Carolina town where the first lady’s great-great-grandfather was born into slavery, while the rabbi in the family came from the synagogue where he had been commemorating Martin Luther King’s Birthday. The president and first lady’s siblings were there, too, of course: his Indonesian-American half-sister, who brought her Chinese-Canadian husband, and her brother, a black man with a white wife.
When President Barack Obama was sworn in on Tuesday, he was surrounded by an extended clan that would have shocked past generations of Americans and instantly redrew the image of a first family for future ones.
As they convened to take their family’s final step in its journey from Africa and into the White House, the group seemed as if it had stepped out of the pages of Mr. Obama’s memoir — no longer the disparate kin of a young man wondering how he fit in, but the embodiment of a new president’s promise of change”
So many of us, if we look, will find our own family quite diversified. My maternal Great-grandfather was of the Lake clan of Scotland. He married my Trinidadian Great-grandmother. My fraternal Great Grandmother was from the Yoruba clan of Nigeria. Her daughter, my Grandmother, was a slave in Wilmington North Carolina. She was a product of her Yoruba Mother and her English slave master. My offspring have further diversified the family. I have a Jewish Daughter-in-law and a Polish/German daughter-in-law. That’s just me. I haven’t mentioned the ethnic diversity that my 3 wives bring to our children.
There has been a consistence question among certain groups. The question was, who is this guy Obama and where is he getting all this money? They were suggesting a wider secret conspiracy. They just could not believe the people would support with their hard earned dollars the man they wanted. But we did. We gave our 10.00 and our 25.00 dollars until Obama collected more citizens’ funds than any political campaign in our history. We gave willingly because we believed in his dream of an open free and fully democratic America living the values of our constitution.
Linda and I held each other and cried great tears of joy and celebration when President Obama was sworn in. We cried again when cried again when the minister giving the Benediction quoted lines from the Negro National Anthem “God of our weary years, God of our silent tears” and I realized that the opening stanza of the anthem was so very appropriate to that day.
“The president’s elderly step grandmother brought him an oxtail fly whisk, a mark of power at home in Kenya. Cousins journeyed from the South Carolina town where the first lady’s great-great-grandfather was born into slavery, while the rabbi in the family came from the synagogue where he had been commemorating Martin Luther King’s Birthday. The president and first lady’s siblings were there, too, of course: his Indonesian-American half-sister, who brought her Chinese-Canadian husband, and her brother, a black man with a white wife.
When President Barack Obama was sworn in on Tuesday, he was surrounded by an extended clan that would have shocked past generations of Americans and instantly redrew the image of a first family for future ones.
As they convened to take their family’s final step in its journey from Africa and into the White House, the group seemed as if it had stepped out of the pages of Mr. Obama’s memoir — no longer the disparate kin of a young man wondering how he fit in, but the embodiment of a new president’s promise of change”
So many of us, if we look, will find our own family quite diversified. My maternal Great-grandfather was of the Lake clan of Scotland. He married my Trinidadian Great-grandmother. My fraternal Great Grandmother was from the Yoruba clan of Nigeria. Her daughter, my Grandmother, was a slave in Wilmington North Carolina. She was a product of her Yoruba Mother and her English slave master. My offspring have further diversified the family. I have a Jewish Daughter-in-law and a Polish/German daughter-in-law. That’s just me. I haven’t mentioned the ethnic diversity that my 3 wives bring to our children.
Inauguration day
How joyous. How wonderful. It is so hard to contain my joy and pride. We Americans have restored the rule of law and a Government by the people. We have harnessed the power of our collective political will.There has been a consistence question among certain groups. The question was, who is this guy Obama and where is he getting all this money? They were suggesting a wider secret conspiracy. They just could not believe the people would support with their hard earned dollars the man they wanted. But we did. We gave our 10.00 and our 25.00 dollars until Obama collected more citizens’ funds than any political campaign in our history. We gave willingly because we believed in his dream of an open free and fully democratic America living the values of our constitution.
Linda and I held each other and cried great tears of joy and celebration when President Obama was sworn in. We cried again when cried again when the minister giving the Benediction quoted lines from the Negro National Anthem “God of our weary years, God of our silent tears” and I realized that the opening stanza of the anthem was so very appropriate to that day.
“Lift Every Voice and sing till earth and heaven ring
Ring with the harmonies of liberty
Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea”
Ring with the harmonies of liberty
Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea”
Friday, January 16, 2009
Obama and Medical Things
I am very exited about the inauguration and President Elect Obama coming to Baltimore. Its too cold for me too be outside but I am having a gathering at my house for both events. We will laugh celebrate, cry, and drink some Champaign. We will remember bitter times and thank our ancestors for helping us endure. We will bury that bitterness with celebration and success.
I have pneumonia again but I am not hospitalized. I am on house rest with medications. I also have some big time medical decisions to make. They all evolve my spine. To do nothing I must continue to endure enscruiating pain and the possibility of paralysis. One operation requires inserting a needle into my lower spine and deaden 4 nerves. That will end most pain. The obvious danger is a mistake could cause paralysis. The second requires a much more complicated procedure. It requires complete anesthesia and opening up my back and manipulate the upper spine to prevent an old war injury from causing paralysis.
I have pneumonia again but I am not hospitalized. I am on house rest with medications. I also have some big time medical decisions to make. They all evolve my spine. To do nothing I must continue to endure enscruiating pain and the possibility of paralysis. One operation requires inserting a needle into my lower spine and deaden 4 nerves. That will end most pain. The obvious danger is a mistake could cause paralysis. The second requires a much more complicated procedure. It requires complete anesthesia and opening up my back and manipulate the upper spine to prevent an old war injury from causing paralysis.
Saturday, January 03, 2009
About Me
Things I have learned and things about me:
The gift of life is not ours to keep rather it is ours to share. Sweetly touching the lives of others is the ultimate godly act we can perform. Through this touch we enrich all our lives, our own as well as those we touch.
To make friends we must make ourselves receptive to love. We must reach out to family and others we meet. Love and friendship is something we give willing without expectations of anything thing other than the warm feeling of giving love.
I am unabashedly sexual, I am open and giving, I love, respect and admire women, I am fearful of women, I give love willingly, I am profoundly sad, I enjoy my life, I know that the meaning of life is life, I try to be a worthy Buddhist, I try with all my soul to be a good father, I love all my children, I would willing die for them. My children and friends are the main reason I remain in this existence
The gift of life is not ours to keep rather it is ours to share. Sweetly touching the lives of others is the ultimate godly act we can perform. Through this touch we enrich all our lives, our own as well as those we touch.
To make friends we must make ourselves receptive to love. We must reach out to family and others we meet. Love and friendship is something we give willing without expectations of anything thing other than the warm feeling of giving love.
I am unabashedly sexual, I am open and giving, I love, respect and admire women, I am fearful of women, I give love willingly, I am profoundly sad, I enjoy my life, I know that the meaning of life is life, I try to be a worthy Buddhist, I try with all my soul to be a good father, I love all my children, I would willing die for them. My children and friends are the main reason I remain in this existence
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