Democracy Now! Goes to Haiti

Manno singing in Miami
photo by Sharif Kouddous

This is Manno Charlemagne singing at the Tap Tap Restaurant in Miami. Sharif took this photo on his way to Haiti with the Democracy Now! crew. They will be reporting from there tomorrow.

Manno did the music for the film Bitter Cane, which I made in 1983 along with Pennee Bender and Kim Ives. Manno watched all of our interviews then used the words from the interviews in the music he sang for the film. I don't think there are too many documentaries which have that quality of sychronized music track! For a while Manno was Mayor of Porte au Prince (during the Aristide years.) To get a copy of Bitter Cane, go to http://www.deedeehalleck.org/store.html

This is the hotel room where the Democracy Now! staff (Elizabeth, Sharif, Amy) are staying in Haiti!

Bread and Puppet 2009

This is the side show that Nadine Bloch, Margo Bloch, Iolanthe Boneham Brooks and Helen Finagar produced.The web site for the Young Activist Club is http://sites.google.com/site/youngactivistclub/links

Another struggle going on in school lunchrooms is the quest for healthy locally produced food. A wonderful new tape is What's on Your Plate?
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This is the opening of the Dirt Cheap Money Circus:
The Circus part two

What is the power that is stronger than the power of metal?

and Bread and Puppet's contahistoria called FOREVER: