Artwork: Peace & Justice centre. 16th July 2014
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: An Assault on Workers.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) continues to be secretly negotiated among certain members of the US Congress and 11 countries including Australia, Brunei, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru,Singapore,and Vietnam. A major agreement affecting a third of all world trade, those participating in the TPP negotiations have kept its contents a close secret . . .

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http://www.pjcvt.org/2014/07/the-trans-pacific-partnership-an-assault-on-workers/

M-Audio 61es:  Finch.e

You Know It . . .

Artwork -  Yann Arthus-Bertrand. 
Islet and sea bed, Exuma Cays, Bahamas

Global warming is having and will continue to have significant negative effects on our oceans and the communities that depend on them. The loss of ice sheets in the arctic is having and will increasingly have adverse consequences for many species of marine mammals like polar bears, walruses, and ice seals. Warmer oceanic and riparian waters is resulting in increased marine diseases and invasive species, changes in weather systems, modifications in species distribution patterns, dead zones and coral bleaching. Larger and more frequent storms are accelerating shoreline erosion, loss of community infrastructure, increased fishing risks and adverse health consequences. Ocean acidification will harm calcium carbonate plankton, adversely affect shellfish larvae, hinder the ability of corals to build new reefs and cause serious food chain disruptions. Sea level rise will cause habitat loss from inundation, infrastructure damage, and climate refugees that will need to be relocated as their island and coastal homelands are eliminated. 

www.oceanfdn.org

M-Audio 61es -  Finch.e

Cyan

Image: Lord of War. 
Entertainment Manufacturing Company, Ascendant Pictures, Saturn Films. 2005.

The selling and buying of conventional weapons is big business. The total market value of arms trade is estimated to be about 70$ billion a year.
In April 2013 the UN General Assembly adopted the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), a pioneering treaty aimed at regulating global weapon trade. The purposes of Arms Trade Treaty are:
Contributing to international, regional peace, security, and stability . . .
Reducing human suffering . . .
Preventing  the use of arms against civilians . . .
Promoting cooperation, transparency and responsible action by states in the international trade in conventional arms, thereby building confidence among states . . .

Thoughts?

http://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/how-did-a-global-campaign-bring-about-a-un-arms-trade-treaty/

M-Audio 61es: Finch.e


Fret Less

Awakening does not mean an end to difficulty; it means a change in the way those difficulties are met.
Mark Epstein, The Trauma of Everyday Life

Image: Henry David Thoreau. July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862
Civil Disobedience 1849
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper2/thoreau/civil.html

Drum loop: GarageBand
Fender 'Musicmaster' Bass C.1980: Finch.e
Words & Music: Finch.e

Already Free

'String Theory': Will Easton.

Words & additional melody: Finch.e
Vocals: Phoebe Rose & Finch.e
Call to Prayer: Mohammed Gad. Karl Jenkins - The Armed Man. 1999

'When love takes wing...'
String Theory Of Love - Poem by Pradip Chattopadhyay

Image: William Wordsworth. 7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850. Poet

The World Is Too Much With Us
By William Wordsworth

The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.

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String Theory remix.

Image: "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
Aristotle. (384 – 322 BC)

Words & music: Finch.e
12 string and vocals: Finch.e
Arrangement, additional guitars & drums: Steve Wright . . .
http://www.stevewrightcomposer.com/

I Found Love

Image: Vintage Cinderella illustration
Kindness, Gratitude, Grace & Optimism

“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?"

To the Women of India (Young India, Oct. 4, 1930)
― Mahatma Gandhi

Words & music: Finch.e

Ordinary Girl

"I still keep asking myself - why am I doing this music? And the answer still comes loud and clear: 'because I want to hear it!' ..."

- Judge Smith, VDGG

Heneage

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