Zimbabwe Emergency Benefit Concert
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ZIMBABWE EMERGENCY BENEFIT CONCERT in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (112th & Amsterdam) Saturday :.February 9 • 8'pm ORGANIZED BY THE COMMITTEE TO SUPPORT THE PATRIOTIC FRONT OF ZIMBABWE all proceeds to IJO to ZAPU and ZANU PROGRAM HONORABLE JUDGE WILLIAM BOOTH MACHITO AND HIS ORCHESTRA-Featuring PAULA C. RANDALL ROBINSON-Executive Director of Transafrica BEAVER HARRIS/DON PULLEN & 3600 MUSICAL EXPERIENCE Ken Macintyre - Alto Saxophone Cameron Brown - Bass Francis Haynes - Steel Drums Ricky Ford -Tenor Saxophone CANAAN BAPTIST CHURCH OF CHRIST CONCERT CHOIR Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker - Minister Eugene Cooper - Musical Director DR. ANGIE DICKERSON-Executive Member U.S. Peace Council, Member World Peace Counci r INTERMISSION ROBERT VAN L1EROP-Mozambique Film Project ROD ROGERS DANCE COMPANY BOX 71 (1971) A study in confinement created in memory of George Jackson and the men of Attica. and dedicated to our brothers and sisters in South Africa. May their struggle win for them the right of self determination. Ori§inal Score by Sidney Smart Man Outside - Rod Rogers Man Inside - Noel Hall SOLO-Work in Progress Music by Noel Pointer Soloist - Noel Hall JIMMY OWENS-From the New York Jazz Quartet PRESENTATION TO ZANU - ZAPU ABDULLAH IBRAHIM (Dollar Brand) AND GROUP-South African Pianist and Composer SATHIMA - South African Singer Carlos Ward - Alto Saxophone Craig Harris - Trombone Alonzo Gardner - Bass Andrei Strobert - Drummer HUGH MASEKELA-South African's Premier Jazz Trumpeter Linda Tshabalala } Thandeka Agono Vocalists Thembi Mtshali Rene McLean - Saxophone Cecil Barnard - Piano Motoshiko Hino - Drums Asante - Percussron William Allen - Bass •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 11 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••, SPECIAL THANKS Bill Thorpe - Sound Engineer Frieda Jones - ArtWork Fay Greenbaum - Stage Manager Carl Jacobs - Sound System Jim Petosa - Cathedral St. John Pedro Silva - Graphic Design, the Divine Typesetting Yamaha Piano-Courtesy of Ostrovsky Piano & Organ Co. Hunt Printers-Tickets Cloise Fanin Printers-Flyers Amsterdam News-Advertisement .--~- The Zimbabwe Emergency Benefit Concert has been organized to express the solidarity of Americans and the Southern African Liberation movements with the Patriotic Front (ZAPU and ZANU) of Zimbabwe in the February elections COMMITTEE TO SUPPORT THE PATRIOTIC FRONT OF ZIMBABWE 126 W. 119 St. - New York, N.Y. 10026 l 866-3501 Richard Lapchick Rev. Wyatt T. Wal ker , Lyndonn Prince ACCESS international Freedom Mobi- Sylvia Dixon Johnnie Makatini lization South African Freedom African National Congress Leon Harris Day Coalition of South Africa Labor Chairman, N.Y. State Southern Africa Committee George Houser NAACP Theo-Ben Gurirab American Committee on Ronald Stevenson Southwest Africa Peoples Africa NAIMSAL Organization (SWAPO) Douglas Toomer Robert van Lierop Kitty Washington Black American Law Mozambique Film Project 2 Foundations at Applecrest Students Association Gerald C. Horne Larry Rand John Fletcher National Conference of United Church of Christl Black New York Action Black Lawyers Commission on Racial Committee/Black Student Rachel Lubell Justice Union of Hunter College Kathy Rothschild Cynthia West Stanley Kinard NCASF United Federation of Black United Front Vicki Ehrnstein Teachers(UFT) Cheryl Danley National Lawyers Guild (NLGi Melba Smith Campaign to Oppose Bank Carl Nichols United Methodist Office Loans to South Africa New Alliance Party for the United Nations Grace Du Breuil Cheryl Danley Sandy Pollack Coalition of Labor Union N.Y. Committee to Opose U.S. Peace Council Women Bank Loans to S. Africa Donna Walcavage Dennis Serrette Elombe Brath Women for Racial and Communication Workers Patrice Lumumba Coalition Economic Equality of America. Local 1101 Callistus Ndlovu Kasseem Said Heather Cottin Edeson Shirihuru Worker's World Party Sean Gervasi Patriotic Front of Zimbabwe Ralph Wodder Sybil Wong (ZAPU and ZANU) Joan Ells Concerned Citizens Com Dr. Joseph Wilson Zimbabwe Medical Fund mittee on Africa Rutgers University Drive Kevin Mercadel CPUSA (Organizations listed for identification purposes only) ENDORSERS Muhammed Ali Harry Belafonte Blac\< Liberat,on Press Coalition for a Free Nicaragua Jerry Colby-School for Marxist Education Committee Against Investment in South Africa Ossie Davis Ruby Dee Dominican Liberation Party Great Neck Committee on Human Rights IFCO Palestine Solidarity Committee Mary Wade-Nueva Alternativa Popular Panameiia The s1Fuggle in Zimbabwe is far from ove Although elections will take place in 2 wee~sJ Sou~h Africa and it~ a~lies are seek ing:to preven_ the birth of a genuinely independent Zimbabwe. the Commi':.l:ee to Support the Patriotic Fron,.: of Zimbabwe was formed in January 198' It is composed of over 30 communLy groups, Southern African liberation movements and support groups. Your participation in ~he COmlniLCee will help ,~o support the struggle of the Zimbab~\Tean people for genuine maj eni ty ru Ie. Please fill out Lhe form below if you f re int~rested in knowing more aboui~ :he S l:riJggle in Zimbabwe and helping wi th i:he wor~ of the committee. Name ---------------------------------------- Address--------------------------------- J COMMITTEE TO SUPPORT THE PATRIOTIC (ZANU-ZAPU) OF ZIMBABWE 126 W. 119 SI:. New York) NY 10026 212) 866-3501 .