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At Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland’s “Living Room”, Friday at Noon, October 28 (12 PM to 1:30 PM)
You are cordially invited to a free concert/super-rally/community sing-a-long extravaganza in Pioneer Courthouse Square on Friday, Oct. 28th at noon. Pink Martini presents “This Land Is Our Land”, in solidarity with the Occupy Movement, with the purpose of providing a thinking person’s guide to the Occupy Movement
From the Facebook Event:
The rally will open with a set of songs performed by Storm Large and Pink Martini and members of the Oregon Symphony, followed by a community sing-a-long with songs like “This Land is Your Land” and “Home on the Range”. Interspersed throughout will be short and inspiring speeches by political, labor and religious leaders.
‘This Land is Our Land’ rally will be a fun and festive gathering which articulates support for Occupy Portland / Occupy Portland and inspires people to get involved in a peaceful movement for social and economic justice.
Read the full statement and Facebook event information here or at the Justice Through Music site.
Wooot!*
* Woot has not been approved by the Occupy Portland General Assembly.
Lol… Looks like the GA couldn’t come to a consensus on “Wooot”.
I will never buy another Pink Martini CD or pay to go to one of their concerts.
It’s free
Ditto. Pink Martini can forget ever getting a dime from me for their music, and the Oregon Symphony is going to have to find another place for their donations. They’re essentially using my money to abuse our downtown public spaces. Terrible.
“* Woot has not been approved by the Occupy Portland General Assembly.”
Priceless
Its unfortunate that such a respected arts and culture institution like the Symphony should decide to politicize itself. It’s one thing for an individual to participate in this political statement – quite another for an institution that relies on government, corporate and patron funding to do so. Tho I must chuckle at the thought of an organization supporting a political cause that seeks the ultimate destruction of its funding base. Rather ironic actually. Cultural institution should remain just that: cultural institutions.
I think in a world that Occupy is actively engaged in creating, the symphony would be funded by tax dollars. Currently, all of our arts programs are seeing funding cuts due to the greed of the 1% manifested as an unwillingness to pay their fair share of the taxes. I have a feeling these musicians would rather not be actively political. However, desperate times call for desperate measures.
http://blog.oregonlive.com/portlandarts/2009/09/symphony_and_union_agree_to_sa.html
Great point, Arts Donor. Some of the largest donors to the Oregon Symphony are Umpqua Bank, RBC, and Wells Fargo. Perhaps these “horrible” banks will re-consider their giving. I know that my small company won’t be donating any money to the Oregon Symphony from this point forward (and, yes, we do actively support the arts and other non-profits).
Occupypdxer – you really are a simpleton, aren’t you? Do you have any clue as to the level of funding of the arts that comes from private donations? Without that support the arts would collapse. Your desire to confiscate income and wealth from the 1% will eventually result in no incentive to give, and for that matter without an incentive to continue growing their businesses – which will ultimately lead to lower tax revenues. If your group had its way, the artists would truly be starving – along with everyone else. That’s the problem with your marxist ideas – socialism makes everyone equally poor, not equally rich (that is, except for those who through political means have gained power – not by merit).
Eric, you’re confused on one basic principle – nobody wants to confiscate money from the 1% – to use that term is incorrigible and morally bankrupt. If you understood even a small part of the problem, you’d know that the top 1% has been steadily paying less than their share over the decades, resulting in the explosion we have now. If they were paying like they were 20 years ago, you wouldn’t see people in the streets because there’d be enough to cover everything. You’re turned around 180 degrees from reality on this – giving tax breaks to corporations and individuals who are CLEARLY not reinvesting in job growth or their communities is not working. American consumers are a HUGE revenue source – they will NOT stop selling to us just because they have to contribute the way they used to.
Indeed ironic. I see the largest contributor to the Oregon Symphony is The James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation. James F. Miller made his fortunes as an investor.
The Collins Foundation is also a large contributor. Collins made his fortunes in Forrest products and investing.
Would the largest contributors to the Oregon Symphony like Miller / Collins foundation be considered the 1%? Ha!
I also see the facebook page linked here makes little mention of the Oregon Symphony support or involvement.
[...] The rally will open with a set of songs performed by Storm Large and Pink Martini and members of the Oregon Symphony, followed by a community sing-a-long with songs like “This Land is Your Land” and “Home on the Range”. Interspersed throughout will be short and inspiring speeches by political, labor and religious leaders. ‘This Land is Our Land’ rally will be a fun and festive gathering which articulates support for Occupy Portland / Occupy Portland and inspires people to get involved in a peaceful movement for social and economic justice. From the Facebook Event: Read the full statement and Facebook event information here or at the Justice Through Music site. Pink Martini/Storm Large/Oregon Symphony Solidarity Concert Friday Noon | Occupy Portland [...]