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Fall Membership Meeting, Upcoming Executive Board Meeting October 6-7, 2014 Election and Call For Nominations New York City, NY lections for President, Canadian Vice President, and Midwestern L1K Membership Meeting & Election Representative will be held during our upcoming Fall Membership November 13, 2014 Meeting for terms beginning in January 2015. The Fall Membership Kerhonkson, NY E Meeting will take place at 4pm EST on November 13th at NERFA in Kerhonkson, NY. www.local1000.org We are currently seeking volunteers for a nominating committee to Find Local 1000 recommend candidates for election. If you are interested in running for on Facebook & Twitter office, joining the nominating committee or recommending a candidate, 212-843-8726 please contact Colin Dean at [email protected] for more information. E-mail: [email protected] Co-Office Managers: Colin Dean [email protected] Why didn’t we... (continued) Richard Coombs [email protected] begin a song, or to begin a parody. echo that you and Jeni are adding!” LOCAL 1000 OFFICERS: When the alarm sounded, we came “Charlie, yours sounds like the last President: back to share these ideas with verse; Scott yours goes before that... TRET FURE each other. Steve Deasy, you’ve got the melodic 608-469-4007 • [email protected] From the parody of a sea shanty, bridge.” “Eulberg, you got anything? Canadian Vice-President: KEN WHITELEY to a work chant, to melodic ballads, Let’s weave that with the rapping part 416-533-9988 • [email protected] to rap and a fully-worked out guitar for the break-down.” Vice President: accompaniment, we were all amazed We ran through it a couple of times, DEBRA COWAN to hear what was released when we then recorded the demo (which is 508-662-9746 • [email protected] reach for it. available to be heard on our website.) Secretary-Treasurer: SCOTT BERWICK Agreeing to trust each other, I used All of this happened in the final couple 518-734-3224 • [email protected] the technology of my smart phone to of hours of the retreat. Then Billy Midwestern Regional Rep capture all these “song seeds” before Kemp offered to transcribe it so you can AARON FOWLER we started trying to move forward on see it here! (And you can download it 316-207-4715 • [email protected] the group part of the creation exercise. and sing it—A song By Local 1000, for Western Regional Rep I originally imagined that we would Local 1000!) DANIEL BOLING 505-228-2530 • [email protected] choose one of the songs to complete, The song-singers and singer- Eastern Regional Rep but the gathered circle of collaborators songwriters of the AFM, wrote a song CHARLIE PILZER overruled that idea: “We have together, on demand, in a short period 301-891-9035 • [email protected] everything we need with ALL of the of time. This is the kind of bringing parts that have been shared.” our full selves to our art that our sister, New Deal Editor: Soon the ideas tumbled over each Holly Near, challenged and encouraged Scott Berwick other, coming from different voices us to do with her keynote in our second Contributing Editors: around the circle: “Tret, you’ve got retreat two years ago. Tret Fure, Debra Cowan, Joe Jencks, the chorus!” “What about this other Our next Gathering is scheduled for John McCutcheon, Steve Eulberg part as the pre-chorus?” “Steven and May 4-6, 2015 at the Ashokan Center Graphic Editor: Nick Bergwell Elise, you have verse 2, Aaron you in Olivebridge, New York. Member News Editor: have verse one!” “Sandy, yours is the Carry It On! Joe Jencks finish of verse 2; Renee—you’ve got MP3 available at http://local1000. NEW DEAL is the official organ of the the break-down, and we love that org/2014/09/carry-it-on/ North American Traveling Musicians Union, Local 1000, AFM 2 NEW DEAL • Summer 2014 Local 1000 Members Honored with Joe Hill Award by Elise Bryant of Congress to autograph her book and and the struggles for justice that they present them with a CD of her songs, created,” he says. “My experience is that or the past 36 years, labor-minded as well as a DVD recording of her labor unions are losing the power that musicians and other artists have labor chorus performing “The Great comes from songs of struggle. During Fgathered at the Great Labor Arts Migration, Motown, and Michael the rise of unions in the first half of Exchange to celebrate creativity and Moore.” “That was the most exciting the 20th century, there was never a solidarity. It is a weekend of workshops, experience to be there,” she says, adding. strike, march, picket line, or rally that films, discussion, poetry, jam sessions, “So now my whole chorus is in the wasn’t enlivened by songs. Music kept and open mikes, sponsored by the Labor Library of Congress.” the struggle alive. Can you imagine the Heritage Foundation. At this year’s Charlie King, who has been singing popular victories of the 20th century gathering, Local 1000(nongeographic) at labor conferences, rallies, and picket without ‘We Shall Overcome’ or members Pat Wynne of San Francisco, lines since 1970, says he was elated ‘Solidarity Forever’? I would love to see a California, and Charlie King of to receive the Joe Hill Award. “I’ve rebirth of interest by unions in song as a Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, received been attending the Great Labor Arts weapon in the struggle for justice.” the Joe Hill Lifetime Achievement Exchange since 1981 and have seen the Both Wynne and King are founding Award for their work in labor culture. award presented to Pete Seeger, Utah members of AFM Local 1000. King, who A longtime labor activist and Phillips, Hazel Dickens, Joe Glazier, is a former Local 1000 secretary-treasurer, organizer, Wynne conducts the Bay and more recently, Anne Feeney, Joe is also a member of the Industrial Area Rockin Solidarity Labor Chorus, Uehlein, and Jon Fromer,” he says. “It’s Workers of the World Local 630. which she founded in 1999. Wynne also thrilling to be counted in that number.” For more information about the Labor arranges many of the pieces performed “My career has been built on Heritage Foundation, Great Labor by the group whose members represent singing and writing songs about the Arts Exchange, and Joe Hill Award visit many different unions.