June 4, 2025 • 46 mins
Emma’s Revolution’s award-winning duo, Pat Humphries & Sandy O, known for their fearless, truth-telling lyrics & harmonies, share their astute analyses of current tyrannical forces, sing songs of resistance & inspire pro-active engagement to keep democracy alive. Their songs have been sung to the Dalai Lama; they’ve sung with Peet Seeger, Holly Near, Joan Baez, the Indigo Girls, Jane Fonda, the Rev William Barber & are the subject of a documentary by the accomplished filmmaker, Tom Weidlinger.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
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Speaker 3 (00:30):
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Speaker 5 (00:54):
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Speaker 6 (00:56):
Hello, and welcome to It's Your Voice, the show that
hosts and enriching conversations in diversity. My name is Bihia Yaxon.
I am a diversity educator and I thoroughly enjoy enriching
my life by surrounding myself with diversity and offering courses
and training and coachings to help others learn how to
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identify patterns that are from our society that have excluded
people in general and how to step away from those
and develop new patterns in ourselves that are far more inclusive,
create more belonging, and just make life happier with the
richness of diversity. If you're interested in looking at any
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Know what you Want Coaching dot ordpress dot com. So
today I'm super excited because we have Emma's Revolution and
I will read a little information about that. Who will
be the headliners this Saturday, June seventh, Davis, California as
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part of a beautiful Pride celebration that's got an amazing
agenda which we'll share later, And I want to read
the information about them. They have been on my show before,
you might have seen them before. Here We're going to
also get some live music from Pat Humphreys and Sandy O.
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And the title of the show is We Are the Power,
which is the name of one of the songs they write.
So Emma's Revolution is Pat Humphries and Sandio is an
award winning activist duo. Their musicians singer songwriters, and they're
known for their fearless truth telling lyrics and harmonies. Pat
Humphries and Sandio will perform live music today and share
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their vibrant, when I think, legendary perspectives. You'll hear why
later if you don't know already. Their songs have been
sung to the Dalai Lama and they've shared stages with
Pete Steger, Holly near By, Us, Indigo Girls, Jane find A,
Amy Goodman, the Reverend William Barber, Bill mckibbn, Reggie Harris,
and many. Anymore, their historical contribution to the canon of
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songs for justice, which are sung all over the world,
is now the subject of an upcoming documentary being made
by the accomplished filmmaker Tom Widling, So we will hear
about that too. Emma's Revolution will Yeah, we're going to
talk about the power of music, that we are the power.
We're going to talk about handling tyranical times and democracy
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and music. And before they come on, which will be
in just a minute, if you live in or near Davis, California,
you can see them live in person this Saturday, June seventh.
They will rock the stage as the headliners for the
Davis Phoenix Coalition in the Davis Civic Park. Bill Welcome,
At and Sandy.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
Much great to be here.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Hi there, thanks for having us on the Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Thanks, I'm so happy. I'm so excited that you're going
to be playing live somewhere near me.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
We are too, We are too. It's going to be
a great Pride festival and we are headlining and also
eight A Vox, who was on things like The Voice
or America's Got To I can't remember one of those,
one of those shows singing, but an amazing singer. So
it's going to be a great event.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
It will be. I think I can stop that sound.
Let me flick about that guilty anyway, before we showed
them the whole agenda. I I am curious, how, I
don't know, do you want to start with the song?
I just so much love hearing you singing your harmonies.
How do you want to start? Because there's so many
things we can talk about, but I don't want to
talk too much myself.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Sure, yeah, yeah, sure, yeah, we will do this song
that you mentioned. That is a new song of ours
that we wrote right up at the top, that we
wrote when we were in Washington, D C. In mid
February when all the federal workers were starting to be
fired and pat actually we were on our way to
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a demonstration, and.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
Yeah, we were sitting outside the Health and Health and
Human Services Building, and I just thought, we have to
have something that's kind of geared toward what's going on
right now, and I thought it was really important to
remind people that there are many more of us than
there are of them. Remind everybody that really, when it
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comes down to it, we are the power. We just
have to be willing to exert that. So here's the
song on that theme.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Oh just because I sing with you from the top,
what's your note? Because I sing with you at the top,
we are power.
Speaker 8 (05:46):
We are power, and we know in our bones we
are not alone. And then we grow strong every day
we take down the times.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
We at that courage and we are strong and we
grow stronger every day, every day, every day, every day,
every day.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Due by generations, we will not obey.
Speaker 9 (06:14):
Every day, every day, every day, every day, we are
strong and we grow stronger every day.
Speaker 10 (06:25):
We are workers built the station from the ground. We
can shut this whole thing down, and we grow stronger
every day. The money and agreeable things.
Speaker 9 (06:36):
People love me.
Speaker 8 (06:38):
We are strong and meet.
Speaker 9 (06:40):
Stronger every day, ereday, every day, everyday, every day.
Speaker 8 (06:48):
Fuel by generations, we will.
Speaker 9 (06:51):
Not obey free day, every day, everyday, every day.
Speaker 8 (06:57):
We are strong and we grow stronger every day.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Day we have the season, we under truth, one of
the earth inductice is.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
The birth, and we grow stronger every day. We will
sing a job until we force the rich boys out.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
We are stronger, We.
Speaker 8 (07:17):
Grow stronger every day every day.
Speaker 9 (07:21):
We day, everyday, every day, fuel by generations, we will
not away have free day everyday, every.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Day, every day.
Speaker 9 (07:34):
We are strong and we grow stronger every day, every day,
every day, everyday, every day, fueled by generations. We will
not away every day, every day, everyday, every day.
Speaker 8 (07:52):
We have strong and we grow stronger day. We are
strong and we grow stronger every day.
Speaker 11 (08:01):
We have.
Speaker 8 (08:12):
Every day every day.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
I don't know how you do those harmonies every single time.
It's amazing. Oh my gosh, there's just so much to say,
Like I just I just love how you unapologetically say
the truth like it is true. You just tell the
truth and your lyrics and it just so much. The
impact is so much soothing and healing and encouraging for
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us to use power. It's so easy to forget we
have power. And I just like just noted like fuel
by generations and we go stronger. That's actually true. But
we can forget when we get isolated, or we get tired,
or we get exhausted. We're bouncing three jobs, we're getting discouraged.
It's just amazing the power. Did those words just came
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to you?
Speaker 12 (09:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Recently, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
You know, but I was watching it too, you know,
I was when the federal workers were first being fired.
There were not huge demonstrations around this. It was very
small groups of folks that were just spontaneously showing up
at all these different agencies, you know, and all the
these workplaces around Washington, and a whole lot of the
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organizing was by young people. So you know, it was
very exciting to see these young people just like standing
up in there in there, you know, sort of taking
that that power and saying well, we're going to do
this now, and we're going to build on this, and
we're going to build on it. Every single day. It
was you know, it was sort of it. It was
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a natural thing to just sort of follow after watching
this happened day after day after day. We were just
we went down, we finished our last gig in New York,
and I just decided to drive down and spend the
week in DC, and we did demonstrations at least one
a day, some to two times a day sometimes. Uh,
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we did a couple of benefits in the evening. We
just did absolutely everything we could possibly do while we
were there, and it was it was incredibly encouraging and exhilarating.
You know, it really recharged our batteries, which you know
we're very much in need of recharging at the time.
So yeah, it was you know, it was all those.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Actions that bed the coming of that song, and you know,
just actually being together with people and being out in
the streets and we were going to demonstrations like against
doge and against what's this thing called space X then
all sorts of things with people who felt like we did,
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who were feeling as traumatized and also as angry and
also as you know, just frustrated. Was really comforting to
know that there were people who felt as we did.
And the kind of songs that we do are meant
to be sung together, right, so that song has every
day everyone else could answer every day. And that kind
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of thing is just like the same as chanting at
a demonstration, or the same as listening to a speaker
and being energized by what they say. But the participation
is sort of the strength of the music that we do,
so we always want to give people away they're clapping
or playing a tambourine or knocking on pots or whatever,
but also singing a part. So that's always crucial to
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what we do. And I want to say a thank
you to you for being so out front there when
you were doing your introduction about who you are as
a diversity. You know, like you have diversity front and center,
and you have not back down from that.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
So thank you, Thank you appreciate that. Well. I wanted
to talk more about that participation piece, and because that
makes me think of that phrase joys resistance. But before
we go more into that which we all need in
this medicine and and power, I wanted to I just
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learned the other day that June first was the seventy
fifth anniversary of when Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine.
May let me I wrote it down. She wrote all
the Declaration of Conscience, Declaration of Conscience, and it's it's
so it was her she was talking about. She was
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trying to address mccartheism at that time, and so many
sentences in her declaration just really made me think of
the the incredible I don't want to say power, the
incredible attempt to truly take power out of people's hands,
out of citizens' hands, and to truly take over democracy
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and and dismantle it piece by piece. And and I
which made which made me think of when you said
in a couple of your lyrics, rich boys, and that
is just like just fact, just fact. That is fact.
There is no denying. There's a club of so rich
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they're out of their minds, like the consumption, the greed
has so overtaken. I think some of them actually may
not have been born with empathy. Empathy. I think that's
possible some of them. And I don't like to say
names because I don't want to give them the airtime, frankly,
but I just think, I think the lack of empathy
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and the gross over growth of reed is so unbelievably
cool that there are some days that like it hits me,
like you know, just one example. I mean, there's all
the cruelty in our country and uh, sorry, sometimes I
just the words just disappear, Like you were talking about
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workers being fired, Uh, people who have the right to
be here being kidnapped, taken away countries, they're not even
from that. There's unspeakably cruel. Hey, the United States having
you know, the largest percent of applying weapons that are
causing intentional proventional famine, like really starving, starving, starving to
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death people children, mostly children, and Gaza and and you know,
just not even sending like we could get we could
get those who were kidnapped back. There's so much we
could do. Yeah, there were if the greed was not
taking over who happened, who got? But who we put
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into who we put into power.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
Yes, absolute power does corrupt. Absolutely, there's no question. And
and you know, the the head of Those whose Names
shall not be made is a prime example of that.
I mean, the man is really deranged. I mean a
lot of those guys are really deranged. But the richest
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guy in the world could be doing incredible things to
heal the suffering, to be addressing you know, that the
real need in the world, and instead he's doing what
he's doing out of his mind.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Yeah, And it's such a contrast to stay a name
who does deserve airtime to what Bill Gates is doing.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah, And I was thinking about I always think about
Dolly Parton, who forever in her career. As soon as
she had money, she made sure it went to her communities.
She made sure that the money that she made on
her song from Whitney Houston singing her song, that went
back into the community that Whitney Houston grew up in
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and Taylor Swift in her era's tour where the tour
lifted up so many communities in terms of bringing business
to it. And she also gave back, you know, I
think she gave money to food pantry, she gave money
to her drivers. I mean, just sharing the wealth. So
there is a way to share the wealth. But there
seems to be a problem with you know, we know
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there's a problem with our culture, and our culture feeds
on and supports so far until we change it people
who want it for themselves. And when you're talking about
Israel and Gaza, I want to always say that there
are Israeli Jewish people and Israeli Palestinians who are against
what is happening in Gaza. They are against the leader
of that country and the leader of that country, just
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to not name names, but he is doing what the
person who's leading our country right now did. He's trying
to stay out of jail for and out of prison
and out of the court, and we really could have
another world, and that we could create in a way
that affirms democracy, affirms diversity, of firms caring for each other,
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and of firms caring for our planet. We need to
make it happen. That's part of the power we need
to show, and we certainly are showing it. I just
want to let folks know, you know, and I'm sure
you've seen it on the news, hopefully even on your
news station. But the resistance is growing, The resistance is strong,
The resistance has had effect, and that's what we have
to keep doing. We're going to be singing at the
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No Kings demonstration in San Francisco on June fourteenth, and
there are No Kings demonstrations happening in all fifty states.
There are also the Women's Marches putting on demonstrations on
June fifteenth, June fourteenth, sorry, that are happening all across
the country. And they are putting on circuses because they say,
when you elect a clown, you get a circus. So
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there's lots of ways for people to plug in. If
you're not the person who likes to go out into
the street for a circus or a demonstration. Call your representatives,
call your community leaders, let them know that you want
people to be safe in your community. When you were
speaking about people being taken.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Yeah, thank you. And I think going to the rallies
really helps, can help us move us into action. I
know that it can have a cynical thought that he
hears sometimes like oh, you know, what does marching do
Like a lot a lot it motivated, like it uplifts spirits.
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It reminds us that we can experience joy even in
times of tyranny and cruelty. We can get we must
and we get clarity from each other, clarity and like, oh,
here's the phone number you can call. And then that
I you know, I think last week, for the last
time I called to leave messages to my representatives. My
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voice was really shaking because for two reasons. One because
it's so upsetting that we literally have to say, please,
don't be cruel please, these are human beings, no matter
which group you're referring to, and you know things like
you know, due process doesn't matter what your status is,
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if you're here, you deserve due process. Then my voice
was also shaking because I was feeling like the empowerment
of like, oh, this is democracy. Oh, this is how
I participate in democracy.
Speaker 7 (19:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Oh, and it just like it's not just about like
making me feel better myself. It's like, I want to
be a part of affecting the change that you two
are describing. We can do.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Yeah, right, we need you too, that's what we're trying
to do. And yeah, yeah, it does take your voice shaking,
and you do it anyway just like you did. You know,
I'm wondering it's making me think, you so, everyone's voice matters.
And maybe I thought maybe we've been seeing we want
to sing you or not bad.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
Yeah, sure I was.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I thought we might sing this song that was it's
another newer one of ours, and it kind of speaks
to what you were just saying about having to raise
our voices and in the.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
Different ways that people raise their voices and from the
different places you know, their voices come.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah, And when everything started coming down after the election
and into January, we were feeling pretty I was pretty
pretty feeling pretty hopeless. And then people right might remember
that on the day after the election, sorry, not the
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day after the day after the thing that used to
be called an inauguration, but that what we saw was
so disturbing with all of those tech bros standing behind him,
because clearly he wanted to let us know that he
thinks they run the country. The next day there was
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an Inner Faith National Day of Prayer, and there was
a service at the Washington Cathedral, and folks might remember
there was very slight woman. She didn't have a loud voice,
but she spoke to those two people who had just
been sworn in the day before, and she spoke truth power.
She her name is Reverend Bishop Mary and Edgar Buddy,
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and she was so inspiring. Yeah, we're gonna get the
words there.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Good, you got it.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Yeah to me that I wrote the song and some
of the words and the feel of the song kind
of derived from how she delivered these very potent statements
that she said. And then some of the words are mine.
Speaker 11 (21:35):
You didn't like the word she said, how gently she
reminded you said leaders should be merciful, the people live beautiful.
Speaker 8 (21:48):
You didn't like the truth she told that immigrants are
human too.
Speaker 11 (21:54):
Red gus in safety, dread, it's our sacred love.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
Dyes your ringo. You are not gone. Let me remind you.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
You are one among a no less than no great.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
You are not gone, and you won't.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Use me.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
Justify the misery and hatred.
Speaker 13 (22:28):
So you told them that I spared you to bring
you to this moment, a moment you decide, allow you
to take everything and if nothing.
Speaker 8 (22:44):
You do not know me, my spirit or my teaching.
How you know my spared you to be seated over?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
You want not gone?
Speaker 8 (23:01):
Let me remind you.
Speaker 7 (23:05):
You are one.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
Among all, no less than no creak?
Speaker 6 (23:09):
You know you are not?
Speaker 8 (23:14):
Do you want use me.
Speaker 14 (23:17):
To justify the misery and hatred?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
A vote to travel far?
Speaker 7 (23:27):
Now?
Speaker 8 (23:29):
Why it?
Speaker 15 (23:29):
As she spoke them vision bringing comfort, her courage, bringing Ah,
there's that fastness of beacon.
Speaker 8 (23:43):
Even as you threaten.
Speaker 14 (23:45):
Resilience is awakened in ballion. What cand me remind you.
Speaker 8 (23:59):
Are no lessen.
Speaker 12 (24:05):
You God?
Speaker 16 (24:09):
You want us.
Speaker 9 (24:12):
To justify.
Speaker 12 (24:15):
And you want.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
Our full words? Gosh, I do want to let you
know that we had a little bit of trouble. Sometimes
you're you faded a little bit, Okay, a little bit
of technical, but the song still came across.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Okay, you'll get pat closer to the mic for the
next song. But you know, I just felt like We
need to take our inspiration where we get it, and
that's what we do for each other getting up there,
the Reverend, Bishop Mary and Edgar Buddy getting up there
and speaking truth to power.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
It was so early on.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
She was one of the first people, you know, after
they were sworn in, and she took a lot of
heat for it. But the more all of us speak up,
it protects those people who are in a very visible
position and allows them to speak up.
Speaker 12 (25:21):
Sorry to interrupt the it's a frequency issue. We have
the same problem with sound bowls. When people try to
make sound bowls, it's it's nothing you can do. You
guys were wonderful and it sounded great. It just there's
a certain frequency that does not pass overwhelm.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Ok.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Wow, it's like an alto range or second soprano range.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Thank you. That was our tech found engineer, Rebel. Thanks Rebel. Yeah,
how wild. Yeah, it's amazing. Thank you for you know,
reminding us of her powerful not just power for a statement,
but act of courage. And it is so true. I
know this is cliche, but it's amazing how it's courageous,
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how humans respond. If one person steps up, it just
gives us just like this door of flings wide open, like, oh,
oh my gosh, we can say that, Oh oh my gosh,
you can you can speak that directly and that clearly
and complete your sentence and yeah, just be so courageous.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
Yes, it is so inexious.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
It's great, infectious. That's a good word.
Speaker 9 (26:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
Yeah, I'm just thinking about I'm sorry, go ahead, no, no,
you go ahead.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
We're ready for whatever you have to say.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
I'm just wondering, like, I mean, I know what you're
you have a a I just want to like hear
like what you call what you your purposes as musicians,
like as as activists. There's a lot of different ways.
You know, I can say it and describe it, but
do you have a way maybe each of you individually
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are jointly a way of saying like, I mean, it's
so obvious and that's what we're celebrating, but what is
the purpose. It's kind of like what's your you know,
the role of an artist, you know, the rule of
a musician. I see how you use it, but I
just would love to hear you say how you would
describe it.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
I think one of the things that that's our job,
especially in more dire times, is to find ways that
we can nurture our own sense of hope and possibility.
It's it's very easy to get caught up in all
of the you know, all of the screens and all
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of the news and all of the you know, really
what is a pretty narrow depiction of what's going on
in the world, and we forget how much bigger the
world really is than you know, those daily reports, those
you know, constant twenty four to seven sort of barrage
of the bad news. So we think of it as
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our job to pay attention to that, because it's part
of what's going on, but also be mindful of the
things that that feed us, the things that bring us joy,
the things that remind us of our of our humanness,
remind us of our community, and and how big and
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vibrant and beautiful and nurturing that is. You know, we're
we're in the business of hope and passing along that
message so that people who are out there all the
time doing whatever they do, you know, juggling the three
jobs and the kids and the and the whatever, the
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ones that are on the you know, the front lines
in any name it, you know, any sort of place
within the US and and beyond where the folks that
have just run out of steam and are totally depleted
by whatever struggle they're in, to give them something that
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feeds them, something that feeds their heart. You know, what
I've learned from some of the traveling I've done around
the world is that cynicism is a sign of privilege.
That people who are really living under dire conditions can't
afford cynicism, because cynicism will kill them. And the places
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where I found people that were most remarkably and dramatically
hopeful were in places where people had the greatest need
and the most difficult circumstances, because they knew that they
needed hope in order to survive. And once I saw that,
I felt like, if they can hold hope, I can
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hold hope, and I can hold hope for them when
they need to put it down sometimes because they're too
exhausted to hold it anymore.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
Well, that's really helpful. That's really helpful to hear articulated.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Yeah, I'm sorry, I was going to add, so from
my perspective, there's also the other thing we do is
we're kind of like the troubadours of old. So pat said,
there are so many stories that we don't get to hear.
And back in the day when news was carried by
someone going from town to town and singing about it,
we are still doing that because people need to be
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reminded about what Bishop Mary and Edgar Buddy said, or
they need to hear about undocumented workers who were killed
in the trade centers or whatever, a story that we
don't get to hear every day. And when I was
thinking about it is because partly because that's how I
really wanted to learn my history. I was not a
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person who liked to, you know, read the history books
and hear about when this war happened and when that
war happened. But what did move me were songs that
told me the stories of what happened in those times.
So I remember I was in like fourth great and
I wrote some paper about what happened to Kent State.
It was because of Neil Young's song. So that's how
the information was transmitted to me. That's what the arts do,
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you know, because they reach in more than a fact,
and they move me and they move other people.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
Wow, thank you for that too, that's amazing. Do you
want to just tell me when you want to sing
another song.
Speaker 7 (31:26):
I certainly couldn't.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
What I was thinking is, you know, Pride started as
a protest pride. The whole concept of having queer pride
now we call it queer pride, right, and it didn't
have everybody's name in it in the beginning. But the
whole reason that started is because queer people in nineteen
sixty nine stood up and fought back against the cops
(31:49):
who were coming after them at a bar on Christopher
Street in New York City, the stonewall in. And it's
a party now, and it's also has to remember to
be a a protest now because we're in a situation
where and maybe we should do this love where where
our rights and our lives are in jeopardy. Who we
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love is used against us. People are you know, being
harassed on a higher level than they used to be
being attacked. All of that stuff has escalated thanks with
no thanks to this horrible administration back the other way.
So that's what we'll be doing at Davis Pride is
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kind of bringing some of the protests and some of
the party. So maybe, yeah, if you want to let
people know about what's happening at Davis Pride, and we'll
tune our instruments.
Speaker 6 (32:39):
Okay, Yeah, there's an amazing agenda. I will for those
who can't see the screen, I'm going to scroll and
let people know some of the other events will be happening.
So this is hosted by the Davis Phoenix Schoolition, which
is an amazing organization that's up all kinds of community
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events to increase love, decrease hate. And it's sponsored by
Sutter Health and Dignity Health. It's at the officially opens
at two fifty pm at the Davis Civic Park on
B Streets with Dixon B. And there is a band
that was formed in Davis called Noise Violation that starts
at three ten. There's a drag review at three thirty.
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LSD is the host, Billia Indeed more Eva changing and
at four o'clock there's a demonstration of Yolow line dancing.
Then there is a Sacramento Gay Men's Chorus at four ten,
the oldest and largest LGBT plus performing arts organizations in
the Sacramento region. I'm sure that'll be amazing. Carte Blanche
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is at four to fifty five, and then our headliners
AND's Revolution will be performing at five forty five. At
Drag showcase. After that. Another headliner that Andy mentioned Ada
Box that might be the there's a drag review at
seven twenty five pm. So amazing day Saturday, and are
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you ready?
Speaker 5 (34:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (34:28):
Will you be with me? Will you see me? Well?
Speaker 12 (34:32):
The world is far?
Speaker 6 (34:33):
We gonna go on.
Speaker 11 (34:36):
This far?
Speaker 8 (34:37):
Now, what's up to you? I stood up for you
going I might never have just the show hard ways
learned to day masking you. Will you be with me?
Speaker 12 (35:00):
Can you see me?
Speaker 8 (35:01):
And the world is part?
Speaker 6 (35:03):
You canna cut on me on this part? That's up
to me for this law.
Speaker 16 (35:25):
You don't understand unless were feels strong about old love
of everyone.
Speaker 8 (35:40):
Asking you will you be with me?
Speaker 6 (35:44):
Will you see me?
Speaker 8 (35:46):
When the world is hard? You cannot cout on.
Speaker 6 (35:49):
Me this part that it's up to you to be.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
For this low.
Speaker 8 (36:10):
Every day we'll be no book c Sam. The showing
that we.
Speaker 13 (36:17):
Reaching inside ourselves about the.
Speaker 8 (36:20):
Team is love we never know?
Speaker 7 (36:24):
Can we them? You?
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Can you be with me?
Speaker 8 (36:29):
Can you see me? Ere? When the word is we
cannot come on me on this book Now it's up to.
Speaker 6 (36:38):
Bea will you be with me? Ma?
Speaker 8 (36:43):
See me?
Speaker 6 (36:45):
When the where is but f this boots fell, it's
up to me the.
Speaker 8 (36:55):
Honest love.
Speaker 6 (37:37):
Gosh that it's hard not to cry. Oh my gosh,
this uh, the fact lyric about every day we're beaten up.
It's just it's so heartbreaking, and it's it's not my story,
but the founder of to tell about this particular beating.
(37:58):
I'm referring to the founder of Davis Phoenix Coalition. If
you ever have a chance to meet her, Gloria Partita.
That's why the Davis Phoenix coolis. She tells the story publicly.
Son was badly brutally beaten and it's amazing. This is
their eleventhy eleventh Pride celebration and it's just so incredible,
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the the port and community they have grown over the
over the years. And to the other lyrics, I want
to just repeat that I caught holding up this love.
Uh would you be with me? See me through? Can
I count on you to be there for this love?
It's just wow. That is so beautiful and it makes
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me think of a bumper sticker that does like it's
only love, right, it's love?
Speaker 7 (38:49):
Yeah, Oh gosh, what a thing to be afraid of.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Yeah yeah, And we had come so far really, you know,
and this is just such a brutal beating back on
so many fronts, right, LGBTQ rights, women's rights, immigrant rights, everything.
But we are gonna have to turn it around. I'm
going to have to push them out of control, you know,
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out of the seats of control and keep us moving forward.
Speaker 7 (39:20):
Yeah, we really have to be there for one another.
This is this is not really, as far as I'm concerned,
just a celebration of LGBTQ I A folks, you know,
it's really a coming together of the whole community so
that we can show to one another that we're there
for one another.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
So everyone's invited. It's a family event. I forget there's
a whole you know, there are other things that happen.
There are tables, I'm sure there are like activities and
kids and this and that. But yes, it's definitely a
community event.
Speaker 6 (39:50):
Yes, thanks for adding that. Yeah, there vendor's a lot
of fun activities for getting multi generational. Yeah, with tons
and tons of allies. Also.
Speaker 7 (40:03):
Yeah, I just.
Speaker 6 (40:07):
We have about five or six minutes left, so I
just want to, you know, have you say what else
you can think of right now that can help us
believe and remember because when moments it feels impossible that
we and Sandy, thank you so much the way you
just encapsulated. There's just so much push back and strategically
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kind of a continuous bombardment to confuse us and throw
us off, but that we can still, we can handle it.
We can be strategic. We've become strategic the inner resilience
of and it's not just Americans, but America has a
good practice of protesting and working for and demanding rights
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and going through moving forward and backlashes and then coming
back out just any more words or concrete thoughts, you know,
whether it's spirational words or other actions, anything else that
comes to mind to help us just keep keep the hope,
keep moving, keep more forward, moving forward, and you know,
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take a deep breath and replenish yourself when you need to.
Speaker 7 (41:19):
So yeah, I think that's a really really good point.
I think that it's very easy when you're feeling overwhelmed
and feeling fearful to stop taking care of yourself. I
think it's easy to isolate. And I think we have
to remember that we have to keep ourselves charged, you know,
we have to keep ourselves in shape so that we
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can go back out and do whatever it is we
can do to push back against this. And and you know,
part of our job is to be joyful in these times,
you know, being joyful as an active resistance. Give yourself
that give yourself the things that that make you feel
most like you, give yourself the things that empower you.
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And you know, do whatever you know, take naps, be
with people, you know, Uh, just take walks, you know, yes,
be out, go go outside, be in the sun. You know,
do the things that that can replenish you and and
get you out of that shake you out of that
sense that that everything is you know, is horrible and
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it's all over. It's not all over. We have been
through harder things as a people before. We are here
because our people survived and they survived much, much, much
harder times. And it's it's our it's our job to
continue and move in that trajectory. Fill those big shoes
that came before us. But that means taking care of
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ourselves as we as we go along now, because it's
the only way that we can take care of one another.
Speaker 6 (42:58):
Beautiful, Yes, I would you.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
Know I was thinking about. We are actually named for
an activist, Emma Goldman, who lived in late eighteen hundreds
into the early nineteen hundreds, and she was a fierce
defender of the rights of women and free speech. And
Pat often says these words, and it's true, and we
need all of that defense right now. But she also
knew that we need joy. And she's famous for this
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statement that she didn't actually utter, but she uttered the
essence of the statement. She was dancing at a party
and someone thought that that wasn't becoming of a serious
leader and writer, and she said, if I can't dance,
I don't want to be part of your revolution. So
we are going to be bringing the party to the
protest on Saturday. We've got a lovely band joining us,
electric guitar player Shelley Dody from the Bay Area, Dan
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Fisley on bass, and David Rokeach on drums, who also
happens to be my partner. So that's going to be fun.
And so we're going to be having both the upliftment
and the encouragement and just to having a beautiful time
together to celebrate who we are.
Speaker 6 (44:03):
Fantastic. I we have about one and a half or
two minutes. Is there a short song or should we
just wrap up with words?
Speaker 7 (44:13):
We could go out and keep on.
Speaker 6 (44:16):
Well, oh you're getting I'll just thank everybody now so
that we can just go out when Rebel needs to
shut down. Thank everybody. Thank you Rebel, thank you listeners,
thank you viewers, thank you Sandy, thank you Pat. Thank
you for everyone for coming to the Dean Davis Phoenix
Collision Saturday, June seventh and seeing Emma's revolution and others,
and the floor is yours.
Speaker 7 (44:35):
Thanks so much for having us on here. We really
appreciate it. Thanks Rebel. Can it keep on moving fallward, keep.
Speaker 8 (44:44):
On in fall, on, mov in fall, never turning bye,
never bye.
Speaker 5 (45:02):
I'm gonna keep on loving Bold, keep on laving Boney,
keep on loving Boney, never turning bad, never turning bad,
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Gonna show the seeds a j stee.
Speaker 8 (45:29):
So it's a space, so it's a jo, never turning bad,
never turning bad.
Speaker 3 (45:47):
Article.
Speaker 11 (45:48):
Let's speech an article. Let's speach of the.
Speaker 14 (45:57):
Arctic.
Speaker 4 (45:58):
Let's speech in logic girl, Let's pitch on the.
Speaker 6 (46:06):
In logic you.
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today I'm super excited because we have Emma's Revolution and
I will read a little information about that. Who will
be the headliners this Saturday, June seventh, Davis, California as
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part of a beautiful Pride celebration that's got an amazing
agenda which we'll share later, And I want to read
the information about them. They have been on my show before,
you might have seen them before. Here We're going to
also get some live music from Pat Humphreys and Sandy O.
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And the title of the show is We Are the Power,
which is the name of one of the songs they write.
So Emma's Revolution is Pat Humphries and Sandio is an
award winning activist duo. Their musicians singer songwriters, and they're
known for their fearless truth telling lyrics and harmonies. Pat
Humphries and Sandio will perform live music today and share
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later if you don't know already. Their songs have been
sung to the Dalai Lama and they've shared stages with
Pete Steger, Holly near By, Us, Indigo Girls, Jane find A,
Amy Goodman, the Reverend William Barber, Bill mckibbn, Reggie Harris,
and many. Anymore, their historical contribution to the canon of
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songs for justice, which are sung all over the world,
is now the subject of an upcoming documentary being made
by the accomplished filmmaker Tom Widling, So we will hear
about that too. Emma's Revolution will Yeah, we're going to
talk about the power of music, that we are the power.
We're going to talk about handling tyranical times and democracy
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and music. And before they come on, which will be
in just a minute, if you live in or near Davis, California,
you can see them live in person this Saturday, June seventh.
They will rock the stage as the headliners for the
Davis Phoenix Coalition in the Davis Civic Park. Bill Welcome,
At and Sandy.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
Much great to be here.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Hi there, thanks for having us on the Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Thanks, I'm so happy. I'm so excited that you're going
to be playing live somewhere near me.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
We are too, We are too. It's going to be
a great Pride festival and we are headlining and also
eight A Vox, who was on things like The Voice
or America's Got To I can't remember one of those,
one of those shows singing, but an amazing singer. So
it's going to be a great event.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
It will be. I think I can stop that sound.
Let me flick about that guilty anyway, before we showed
them the whole agenda. I I am curious, how, I
don't know, do you want to start with the song?
I just so much love hearing you singing your harmonies.
How do you want to start? Because there's so many
things we can talk about, but I don't want to
talk too much myself.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Sure, yeah, yeah, sure, yeah, we will do this song
that you mentioned. That is a new song of ours
that we wrote right up at the top, that we
wrote when we were in Washington, D C. In mid
February when all the federal workers were starting to be
fired and pat actually we were on our way to
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a demonstration, and.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
Yeah, we were sitting outside the Health and Health and
Human Services Building, and I just thought, we have to
have something that's kind of geared toward what's going on
right now, and I thought it was really important to
remind people that there are many more of us than
there are of them. Remind everybody that really, when it
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comes down to it, we are the power. We just
have to be willing to exert that. So here's the
song on that theme.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Oh just because I sing with you from the top,
what's your note? Because I sing with you at the top,
we are power.
Speaker 8 (05:46):
We are power, and we know in our bones we
are not alone. And then we grow strong every day
we take down the times.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
We at that courage and we are strong and we
grow stronger every day, every day, every day, every day,
every day.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Due by generations, we will not obey.
Speaker 9 (06:14):
Every day, every day, every day, every day, we are
strong and we grow stronger every day.
Speaker 10 (06:25):
We are workers built the station from the ground. We
can shut this whole thing down, and we grow stronger
every day. The money and agreeable things.
Speaker 9 (06:36):
People love me.
Speaker 8 (06:38):
We are strong and meet.
Speaker 9 (06:40):
Stronger every day, ereday, every day, everyday, every day.
Speaker 8 (06:48):
Fuel by generations, we will.
Speaker 9 (06:51):
Not obey free day, every day, everyday, every day.
Speaker 8 (06:57):
We are strong and we grow stronger every day.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Day we have the season, we under truth, one of
the earth inductice is.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
The birth, and we grow stronger every day. We will
sing a job until we force the rich boys out.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
We are stronger, We.
Speaker 8 (07:17):
Grow stronger every day every day.
Speaker 9 (07:21):
We day, everyday, every day, fuel by generations, we will
not away have free day everyday, every.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Day, every day.
Speaker 9 (07:34):
We are strong and we grow stronger every day, every day,
every day, everyday, every day, fueled by generations. We will
not away every day, every day, everyday, every day.
Speaker 8 (07:52):
We have strong and we grow stronger day. We are
strong and we grow stronger every day.
Speaker 11 (08:01):
We have.
Speaker 8 (08:12):
Every day every day.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
I don't know how you do those harmonies every single time.
It's amazing. Oh my gosh, there's just so much to say,
Like I just I just love how you unapologetically say
the truth like it is true. You just tell the
truth and your lyrics and it just so much. The
impact is so much soothing and healing and encouraging for
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us to use power. It's so easy to forget we
have power. And I just like just noted like fuel
by generations and we go stronger. That's actually true. But
we can forget when we get isolated, or we get tired,
or we get exhausted. We're bouncing three jobs, we're getting discouraged.
It's just amazing the power. Did those words just came
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to you?
Speaker 12 (09:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Recently, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
You know, but I was watching it too, you know,
I was when the federal workers were first being fired.
There were not huge demonstrations around this. It was very
small groups of folks that were just spontaneously showing up
at all these different agencies, you know, and all the
these workplaces around Washington, and a whole lot of the
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organizing was by young people. So you know, it was
very exciting to see these young people just like standing
up in there in there, you know, sort of taking
that that power and saying well, we're going to do
this now, and we're going to build on this, and
we're going to build on it. Every single day. It
was you know, it was sort of it. It was
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a natural thing to just sort of follow after watching
this happened day after day after day. We were just
we went down, we finished our last gig in New York,
and I just decided to drive down and spend the
week in DC, and we did demonstrations at least one
a day, some to two times a day sometimes. Uh,
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we did a couple of benefits in the evening. We
just did absolutely everything we could possibly do while we
were there, and it was it was incredibly encouraging and exhilarating.
You know, it really recharged our batteries, which you know
we're very much in need of recharging at the time.
So yeah, it was you know, it was all those.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Actions that bed the coming of that song, and you know,
just actually being together with people and being out in
the streets and we were going to demonstrations like against
doge and against what's this thing called space X then
all sorts of things with people who felt like we did,
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who were feeling as traumatized and also as angry and
also as you know, just frustrated. Was really comforting to
know that there were people who felt as we did.
And the kind of songs that we do are meant
to be sung together, right, so that song has every
day everyone else could answer every day. And that kind
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of thing is just like the same as chanting at
a demonstration, or the same as listening to a speaker
and being energized by what they say. But the participation
is sort of the strength of the music that we do,
so we always want to give people away they're clapping
or playing a tambourine or knocking on pots or whatever,
but also singing a part. So that's always crucial to
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what we do. And I want to say a thank
you to you for being so out front there when
you were doing your introduction about who you are as
a diversity. You know, like you have diversity front and center,
and you have not back down from that.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
So thank you, Thank you appreciate that. Well. I wanted
to talk more about that participation piece, and because that
makes me think of that phrase joys resistance. But before
we go more into that which we all need in
this medicine and and power, I wanted to I just
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learned the other day that June first was the seventy
fifth anniversary of when Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine.
May let me I wrote it down. She wrote all
the Declaration of Conscience, Declaration of Conscience, and it's it's
so it was her she was talking about. She was
(12:29):
trying to address mccartheism at that time, and so many
sentences in her declaration just really made me think of
the the incredible I don't want to say power, the
incredible attempt to truly take power out of people's hands,
out of citizens' hands, and to truly take over democracy
(12:54):
and and dismantle it piece by piece. And and I
which made which made me think of when you said
in a couple of your lyrics, rich boys, and that
is just like just fact, just fact. That is fact.
There is no denying. There's a club of so rich
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they're out of their minds, like the consumption, the greed
has so overtaken. I think some of them actually may
not have been born with empathy. Empathy. I think that's
possible some of them. And I don't like to say
names because I don't want to give them the airtime, frankly,
but I just think, I think the lack of empathy
(13:38):
and the gross over growth of reed is so unbelievably
cool that there are some days that like it hits me,
like you know, just one example. I mean, there's all
the cruelty in our country and uh, sorry, sometimes I
just the words just disappear, Like you were talking about
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workers being fired, Uh, people who have the right to
be here being kidnapped, taken away countries, they're not even
from that. There's unspeakably cruel. Hey, the United States having
you know, the largest percent of applying weapons that are
causing intentional proventional famine, like really starving, starving, starving to
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death people children, mostly children, and Gaza and and you know,
just not even sending like we could get we could
get those who were kidnapped back. There's so much we
could do. Yeah, there were if the greed was not
taking over who happened, who got? But who we put
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into who we put into power.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
Yes, absolute power does corrupt. Absolutely, there's no question. And
and you know, the the head of Those whose Names
shall not be made is a prime example of that.
I mean, the man is really deranged. I mean a
lot of those guys are really deranged. But the richest
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guy in the world could be doing incredible things to
heal the suffering, to be addressing you know, that the
real need in the world, and instead he's doing what
he's doing out of his mind.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Yeah, And it's such a contrast to stay a name
who does deserve airtime to what Bill Gates is doing.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah, And I was thinking about I always think about
Dolly Parton, who forever in her career. As soon as
she had money, she made sure it went to her communities.
She made sure that the money that she made on
her song from Whitney Houston singing her song, that went
back into the community that Whitney Houston grew up in
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and Taylor Swift in her era's tour where the tour
lifted up so many communities in terms of bringing business
to it. And she also gave back, you know, I
think she gave money to food pantry, she gave money
to her drivers. I mean, just sharing the wealth. So
there is a way to share the wealth. But there
seems to be a problem with you know, we know
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there's a problem with our culture, and our culture feeds
on and supports so far until we change it people
who want it for themselves. And when you're talking about
Israel and Gaza, I want to always say that there
are Israeli Jewish people and Israeli Palestinians who are against
what is happening in Gaza. They are against the leader
of that country and the leader of that country, just
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to not name names, but he is doing what the
person who's leading our country right now did. He's trying
to stay out of jail for and out of prison
and out of the court, and we really could have
another world, and that we could create in a way
that affirms democracy, affirms diversity, of firms caring for each other,
(17:03):
and of firms caring for our planet. We need to
make it happen. That's part of the power we need
to show, and we certainly are showing it. I just
want to let folks know, you know, and I'm sure
you've seen it on the news, hopefully even on your
news station. But the resistance is growing, The resistance is strong,
The resistance has had effect, and that's what we have
to keep doing. We're going to be singing at the
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No Kings demonstration in San Francisco on June fourteenth, and
there are No Kings demonstrations happening in all fifty states.
There are also the Women's Marches putting on demonstrations on
June fifteenth, June fourteenth, sorry, that are happening all across
the country. And they are putting on circuses because they say,
when you elect a clown, you get a circus. So
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there's lots of ways for people to plug in. If
you're not the person who likes to go out into
the street for a circus or a demonstration. Call your representatives,
call your community leaders, let them know that you want
people to be safe in your community. When you were
speaking about people being taken.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Yeah, thank you. And I think going to the rallies
really helps, can help us move us into action. I
know that it can have a cynical thought that he
hears sometimes like oh, you know, what does marching do
Like a lot a lot it motivated, like it uplifts spirits.
(18:25):
It reminds us that we can experience joy even in
times of tyranny and cruelty. We can get we must
and we get clarity from each other, clarity and like, oh,
here's the phone number you can call. And then that
I you know, I think last week, for the last
time I called to leave messages to my representatives. My
(18:48):
voice was really shaking because for two reasons. One because
it's so upsetting that we literally have to say, please,
don't be cruel please, these are human beings, no matter
which group you're referring to, and you know things like
you know, due process doesn't matter what your status is,
(19:08):
if you're here, you deserve due process. Then my voice
was also shaking because I was feeling like the empowerment
of like, oh, this is democracy. Oh, this is how
I participate in democracy.
Speaker 7 (19:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Oh, and it just like it's not just about like
making me feel better myself. It's like, I want to
be a part of affecting the change that you two
are describing. We can do.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Yeah, right, we need you too, that's what we're trying
to do. And yeah, yeah, it does take your voice shaking,
and you do it anyway just like you did. You know,
I'm wondering it's making me think, you so, everyone's voice matters.
And maybe I thought maybe we've been seeing we want
to sing you or not bad.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
Yeah, sure I was.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I thought we might sing this song that was it's
another newer one of ours, and it kind of speaks
to what you were just saying about having to raise
our voices and in the.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
Different ways that people raise their voices and from the
different places you know, their voices come.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah, And when everything started coming down after the election
and into January, we were feeling pretty I was pretty
pretty feeling pretty hopeless. And then people right might remember
that on the day after the election, sorry, not the
(20:31):
day after the day after the thing that used to
be called an inauguration, but that what we saw was
so disturbing with all of those tech bros standing behind him,
because clearly he wanted to let us know that he
thinks they run the country. The next day there was
(20:52):
an Inner Faith National Day of Prayer, and there was
a service at the Washington Cathedral, and folks might remember
there was very slight woman. She didn't have a loud voice,
but she spoke to those two people who had just
been sworn in the day before, and she spoke truth power.
She her name is Reverend Bishop Mary and Edgar Buddy,
(21:18):
and she was so inspiring. Yeah, we're gonna get the
words there.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Good, you got it.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Yeah to me that I wrote the song and some
of the words and the feel of the song kind
of derived from how she delivered these very potent statements
that she said. And then some of the words are mine.
Speaker 11 (21:35):
You didn't like the word she said, how gently she
reminded you said leaders should be merciful, the people live beautiful.
Speaker 8 (21:48):
You didn't like the truth she told that immigrants are
human too.
Speaker 11 (21:54):
Red gus in safety, dread, it's our sacred love.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
Dyes your ringo. You are not gone. Let me remind you.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
You are one among a no less than no great.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
You are not gone, and you won't.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Use me.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
Justify the misery and hatred.
Speaker 13 (22:28):
So you told them that I spared you to bring
you to this moment, a moment you decide, allow you
to take everything and if nothing.
Speaker 8 (22:44):
You do not know me, my spirit or my teaching.
How you know my spared you to be seated over?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
You want not gone?
Speaker 8 (23:01):
Let me remind you.
Speaker 7 (23:05):
You are one.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
Among all, no less than no creak?
Speaker 6 (23:09):
You know you are not?
Speaker 8 (23:14):
Do you want use me.
Speaker 14 (23:17):
To justify the misery and hatred?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
A vote to travel far?
Speaker 7 (23:27):
Now?
Speaker 8 (23:29):
Why it?
Speaker 15 (23:29):
As she spoke them vision bringing comfort, her courage, bringing Ah,
there's that fastness of beacon.
Speaker 8 (23:43):
Even as you threaten.
Speaker 14 (23:45):
Resilience is awakened in ballion. What cand me remind you.
Speaker 8 (23:59):
Are no lessen.
Speaker 12 (24:05):
You God?
Speaker 16 (24:09):
You want us.
Speaker 9 (24:12):
To justify.
Speaker 12 (24:15):
And you want.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
Our full words? Gosh, I do want to let you
know that we had a little bit of trouble. Sometimes
you're you faded a little bit, Okay, a little bit
of technical, but the song still came across.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Okay, you'll get pat closer to the mic for the
next song. But you know, I just felt like We
need to take our inspiration where we get it, and
that's what we do for each other getting up there,
the Reverend, Bishop Mary and Edgar Buddy getting up there
and speaking truth to power.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
It was so early on.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
She was one of the first people, you know, after
they were sworn in, and she took a lot of
heat for it. But the more all of us speak up,
it protects those people who are in a very visible
position and allows them to speak up.
Speaker 12 (25:21):
Sorry to interrupt the it's a frequency issue. We have
the same problem with sound bowls. When people try to
make sound bowls, it's it's nothing you can do. You
guys were wonderful and it sounded great. It just there's
a certain frequency that does not pass overwhelm.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Ok.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Wow, it's like an alto range or second soprano range.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Thank you. That was our tech found engineer, Rebel. Thanks Rebel. Yeah,
how wild. Yeah, it's amazing. Thank you for you know,
reminding us of her powerful not just power for a statement,
but act of courage. And it is so true. I
know this is cliche, but it's amazing how it's courageous,
(26:10):
how humans respond. If one person steps up, it just
gives us just like this door of flings wide open, like, oh,
oh my gosh, we can say that, Oh oh my gosh,
you can you can speak that directly and that clearly
and complete your sentence and yeah, just be so courageous.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
Yes, it is so inexious.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
It's great, infectious. That's a good word.
Speaker 9 (26:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
Yeah, I'm just thinking about I'm sorry, go ahead, no, no,
you go ahead.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
We're ready for whatever you have to say.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
I'm just wondering, like, I mean, I know what you're
you have a a I just want to like hear
like what you call what you your purposes as musicians,
like as as activists. There's a lot of different ways.
You know, I can say it and describe it, but
do you have a way maybe each of you individually
(27:06):
are jointly a way of saying like, I mean, it's
so obvious and that's what we're celebrating, but what is
the purpose. It's kind of like what's your you know,
the role of an artist, you know, the rule of
a musician. I see how you use it, but I
just would love to hear you say how you would
describe it.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
I think one of the things that that's our job,
especially in more dire times, is to find ways that
we can nurture our own sense of hope and possibility.
It's it's very easy to get caught up in all
of the you know, all of the screens and all
(27:42):
of the news and all of the you know, really
what is a pretty narrow depiction of what's going on
in the world, and we forget how much bigger the
world really is than you know, those daily reports, those
you know, constant twenty four to seven sort of barrage
of the bad news. So we think of it as
(28:04):
our job to pay attention to that, because it's part
of what's going on, but also be mindful of the
things that that feed us, the things that bring us joy,
the things that remind us of our of our humanness,
remind us of our community, and and how big and
(28:25):
vibrant and beautiful and nurturing that is. You know, we're
we're in the business of hope and passing along that
message so that people who are out there all the
time doing whatever they do, you know, juggling the three
jobs and the kids and the and the whatever, the
(28:45):
ones that are on the you know, the front lines
in any name it, you know, any sort of place
within the US and and beyond where the folks that
have just run out of steam and are totally depleted
by whatever struggle they're in, to give them something that
(29:07):
feeds them, something that feeds their heart. You know, what
I've learned from some of the traveling I've done around
the world is that cynicism is a sign of privilege.
That people who are really living under dire conditions can't
afford cynicism, because cynicism will kill them. And the places
(29:28):
where I found people that were most remarkably and dramatically
hopeful were in places where people had the greatest need
and the most difficult circumstances, because they knew that they
needed hope in order to survive. And once I saw that,
I felt like, if they can hold hope, I can
(29:51):
hold hope, and I can hold hope for them when
they need to put it down sometimes because they're too
exhausted to hold it anymore.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
Well, that's really helpful. That's really helpful to hear articulated.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Yeah, I'm sorry, I was going to add, so from
my perspective, there's also the other thing we do is
we're kind of like the troubadours of old. So pat said,
there are so many stories that we don't get to hear.
And back in the day when news was carried by
someone going from town to town and singing about it,
we are still doing that because people need to be
(30:26):
reminded about what Bishop Mary and Edgar Buddy said, or
they need to hear about undocumented workers who were killed
in the trade centers or whatever, a story that we
don't get to hear every day. And when I was
thinking about it is because partly because that's how I
really wanted to learn my history. I was not a
(30:48):
person who liked to, you know, read the history books
and hear about when this war happened and when that
war happened. But what did move me were songs that
told me the stories of what happened in those times.
So I remember I was in like fourth great and
I wrote some paper about what happened to Kent State.
It was because of Neil Young's song. So that's how
the information was transmitted to me. That's what the arts do,
(31:10):
you know, because they reach in more than a fact,
and they move me and they move other people.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
Wow, thank you for that too, that's amazing. Do you
want to just tell me when you want to sing
another song.
Speaker 7 (31:26):
I certainly couldn't.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
What I was thinking is, you know, Pride started as
a protest pride. The whole concept of having queer pride
now we call it queer pride, right, and it didn't
have everybody's name in it in the beginning. But the
whole reason that started is because queer people in nineteen
sixty nine stood up and fought back against the cops
(31:49):
who were coming after them at a bar on Christopher
Street in New York City, the stonewall in. And it's
a party now, and it's also has to remember to
be a a protest now because we're in a situation
where and maybe we should do this love where where
our rights and our lives are in jeopardy. Who we
(32:10):
love is used against us. People are you know, being
harassed on a higher level than they used to be
being attacked. All of that stuff has escalated thanks with
no thanks to this horrible administration back the other way.
So that's what we'll be doing at Davis Pride is
(32:31):
kind of bringing some of the protests and some of
the party. So maybe, yeah, if you want to let
people know about what's happening at Davis Pride, and we'll
tune our instruments.
Speaker 6 (32:39):
Okay, Yeah, there's an amazing agenda. I will for those
who can't see the screen, I'm going to scroll and
let people know some of the other events will be happening.
So this is hosted by the Davis Phoenix Schoolition, which
is an amazing organization that's up all kinds of community
(33:02):
events to increase love, decrease hate. And it's sponsored by
Sutter Health and Dignity Health. It's at the officially opens
at two fifty pm at the Davis Civic Park on
B Streets with Dixon B. And there is a band
that was formed in Davis called Noise Violation that starts
at three ten. There's a drag review at three thirty.
(33:27):
LSD is the host, Billia Indeed more Eva changing and
at four o'clock there's a demonstration of Yolow line dancing.
Then there is a Sacramento Gay Men's Chorus at four ten,
the oldest and largest LGBT plus performing arts organizations in
the Sacramento region. I'm sure that'll be amazing. Carte Blanche
(33:50):
is at four to fifty five, and then our headliners
AND's Revolution will be performing at five forty five. At
Drag showcase. After that. Another headliner that Andy mentioned Ada
Box that might be the there's a drag review at
seven twenty five pm. So amazing day Saturday, and are
(34:12):
you ready?
Speaker 5 (34:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (34:28):
Will you be with me? Will you see me? Well?
Speaker 12 (34:32):
The world is far?
Speaker 6 (34:33):
We gonna go on.
Speaker 11 (34:36):
This far?
Speaker 8 (34:37):
Now, what's up to you? I stood up for you
going I might never have just the show hard ways
learned to day masking you. Will you be with me?
Speaker 12 (35:00):
Can you see me?
Speaker 8 (35:01):
And the world is part?
Speaker 6 (35:03):
You canna cut on me on this part? That's up
to me for this law.
Speaker 16 (35:25):
You don't understand unless were feels strong about old love
of everyone.
Speaker 8 (35:40):
Asking you will you be with me?
Speaker 6 (35:44):
Will you see me?
Speaker 8 (35:46):
When the world is hard? You cannot cout on.
Speaker 6 (35:49):
Me this part that it's up to you to be.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
For this low.
Speaker 8 (36:10):
Every day we'll be no book c Sam. The showing
that we.
Speaker 13 (36:17):
Reaching inside ourselves about the.
Speaker 8 (36:20):
Team is love we never know?
Speaker 7 (36:24):
Can we them? You?
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Can you be with me?
Speaker 8 (36:29):
Can you see me? Ere? When the word is we
cannot come on me on this book Now it's up to.
Speaker 6 (36:38):
Bea will you be with me? Ma?
Speaker 8 (36:43):
See me?
Speaker 6 (36:45):
When the where is but f this boots fell, it's
up to me the.
Speaker 8 (36:55):
Honest love.
Speaker 6 (37:37):
Gosh that it's hard not to cry. Oh my gosh,
this uh, the fact lyric about every day we're beaten up.
It's just it's so heartbreaking, and it's it's not my story,
but the founder of to tell about this particular beating.
(37:58):
I'm referring to the founder of Davis Phoenix Coalition. If
you ever have a chance to meet her, Gloria Partita.
That's why the Davis Phoenix coolis. She tells the story publicly.
Son was badly brutally beaten and it's amazing. This is
their eleventhy eleventh Pride celebration and it's just so incredible,
(38:22):
the the port and community they have grown over the
over the years. And to the other lyrics, I want
to just repeat that I caught holding up this love.
Uh would you be with me? See me through? Can
I count on you to be there for this love?
It's just wow. That is so beautiful and it makes
(38:43):
me think of a bumper sticker that does like it's
only love, right, it's love?
Speaker 7 (38:49):
Yeah, Oh gosh, what a thing to be afraid of.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Yeah yeah, And we had come so far really, you know,
and this is just such a brutal beating back on
so many fronts, right, LGBTQ rights, women's rights, immigrant rights, everything.
But we are gonna have to turn it around. I'm
going to have to push them out of control, you know,
(39:15):
out of the seats of control and keep us moving forward.
Speaker 7 (39:20):
Yeah, we really have to be there for one another.
This is this is not really, as far as I'm concerned,
just a celebration of LGBTQ I A folks, you know,
it's really a coming together of the whole community so
that we can show to one another that we're there
for one another.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
So everyone's invited. It's a family event. I forget there's
a whole you know, there are other things that happen.
There are tables, I'm sure there are like activities and
kids and this and that. But yes, it's definitely a
community event.
Speaker 6 (39:50):
Yes, thanks for adding that. Yeah, there vendor's a lot
of fun activities for getting multi generational. Yeah, with tons
and tons of allies. Also.
Speaker 7 (40:03):
Yeah, I just.
Speaker 6 (40:07):
We have about five or six minutes left, so I
just want to, you know, have you say what else
you can think of right now that can help us
believe and remember because when moments it feels impossible that
we and Sandy, thank you so much the way you
just encapsulated. There's just so much push back and strategically
(40:30):
kind of a continuous bombardment to confuse us and throw
us off, but that we can still, we can handle it.
We can be strategic. We've become strategic the inner resilience
of and it's not just Americans, but America has a
good practice of protesting and working for and demanding rights
(40:53):
and going through moving forward and backlashes and then coming
back out just any more words or concrete thoughts, you know,
whether it's spirational words or other actions, anything else that
comes to mind to help us just keep keep the hope,
keep moving, keep more forward, moving forward, and you know,
(41:15):
take a deep breath and replenish yourself when you need to.
Speaker 7 (41:19):
So yeah, I think that's a really really good point.
I think that it's very easy when you're feeling overwhelmed
and feeling fearful to stop taking care of yourself. I
think it's easy to isolate. And I think we have
to remember that we have to keep ourselves charged, you know,
we have to keep ourselves in shape so that we
(41:42):
can go back out and do whatever it is we
can do to push back against this. And and you know,
part of our job is to be joyful in these times,
you know, being joyful as an active resistance. Give yourself
that give yourself the things that that make you feel
most like you, give yourself the things that empower you.
(42:05):
And you know, do whatever you know, take naps, be
with people, you know, Uh, just take walks, you know, yes,
be out, go go outside, be in the sun. You know,
do the things that that can replenish you and and
get you out of that shake you out of that
sense that that everything is you know, is horrible and
(42:30):
it's all over. It's not all over. We have been
through harder things as a people before. We are here
because our people survived and they survived much, much, much
harder times. And it's it's our it's our job to
continue and move in that trajectory. Fill those big shoes
that came before us. But that means taking care of
(42:53):
ourselves as we as we go along now, because it's
the only way that we can take care of one another.
Speaker 6 (42:58):
Beautiful, Yes, I would you.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
Know I was thinking about. We are actually named for
an activist, Emma Goldman, who lived in late eighteen hundreds
into the early nineteen hundreds, and she was a fierce
defender of the rights of women and free speech. And
Pat often says these words, and it's true, and we
need all of that defense right now. But she also
knew that we need joy. And she's famous for this
(43:23):
statement that she didn't actually utter, but she uttered the
essence of the statement. She was dancing at a party
and someone thought that that wasn't becoming of a serious
leader and writer, and she said, if I can't dance,
I don't want to be part of your revolution. So
we are going to be bringing the party to the
protest on Saturday. We've got a lovely band joining us,
electric guitar player Shelley Dody from the Bay Area, Dan
(43:46):
Fisley on bass, and David Rokeach on drums, who also
happens to be my partner. So that's going to be fun.
And so we're going to be having both the upliftment
and the encouragement and just to having a beautiful time
together to celebrate who we are.
Speaker 6 (44:03):
Fantastic. I we have about one and a half or
two minutes. Is there a short song or should we
just wrap up with words?
Speaker 7 (44:13):
We could go out and keep on.
Speaker 6 (44:16):
Well, oh you're getting I'll just thank everybody now so
that we can just go out when Rebel needs to
shut down. Thank everybody. Thank you Rebel, thank you listeners,
thank you viewers, thank you Sandy, thank you Pat. Thank
you for everyone for coming to the Dean Davis Phoenix
Collision Saturday, June seventh and seeing Emma's revolution and others,
and the floor is yours.
Speaker 7 (44:35):
Thanks so much for having us on here. We really
appreciate it. Thanks Rebel. Can it keep on moving fallward, keep.
Speaker 8 (44:44):
On in fall, on, mov in fall, never turning bye,
never bye.
Speaker 5 (45:02):
I'm gonna keep on loving Bold, keep on laving Boney,
keep on loving Boney, never turning bad, never turning bad,
(45:24):
Gonna show the seeds a j stee.
Speaker 8 (45:29):
So it's a space, so it's a jo, never turning bad,
never turning bad.
Speaker 3 (45:47):
Article.
Speaker 11 (45:48):
Let's speech an article. Let's speach of the.
Speaker 14 (45:57):
Arctic.
Speaker 4 (45:58):
Let's speech in logic girl, Let's pitch on the.
Speaker 6 (46:06):
In logic you.
Speaker 4 (46:07):
Let's pitch a logic gall Let's pitch of the
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