Category Archives: New York

28 June 2019

Walking. Morningside Heights. Morningside Gardens.
With the exception of the first song, all the songs are reported to have been on the jukebox at the Stonewall Club during Stonewall Rebellion Week.
For Marsha P. Johnson – Bryce Dresser
Crystal Blue Persuasion – Tommy James & The Shondells
Grazing in the Grass – The Friends of Distinction
Romeo and Juliet – Henry Mancini
Honey Love – Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
The More I See You – Chris Montez
Don’t Let the Joneses Get You Down – The Temptations
Before the Parade Passes By – Barbara Streisand
More Today Than Yesterday – Diana Ross & The Supremes
Stand – Sly & The Family Stone
Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In – The 5th Dimension
It’s Your Thing – The Isley Brothers
Too Busy Thinking about My Baby – Marvin Gaye
Get Back – The Beatles
25 Miles – Edwin Starr
While You’re Out Looking for Sugar – Honey Cone
Don’t Bring Back Memories – Four Tops
The Windmills of Your Mind – Dusty Springfield
My Way – Frank Sinatra

 

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26 June 2019

Posted a day late.
Walking. Whitestone and Morningside Gardens
Working Class Hero – Green Day
Working on the Highway – Bruce Springsteen
Working at the Carwash Blues – Jim Croce
Joe Hill’s Last Will – John McCutcheon
Bread and Roses – Judy Collins
Which Side Are You On – Natalie Merchant
Weary Mothers – Joan Baez
The Hands That Built America – U2
Bracero – Phil Ochs
Joe Hill – Paul Robeson
The Rebel Girl – Hazel Dickens
Three Miles Down – Gil Scott-Heron
Solidarity Forever – Pete Seeger
The Internationale – Billy Bragg

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Stand with immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers

This material is probably most helpful to Presbyterians and people who live in New York City. But as long as it is assembled, it seems worth sharing … if it can help one person in such a time as this.

FOR IMMIGRANTS, REFUGEES, ASYLUM SEEKERS AND THEIR FAMILY AND FRIENDS

Helpful Numbers
Call the ActionNYC hotline at 1-800-354-0365 to receive free and safe immigration legal help.

Report an ICE Raid to the New Sanctuary Coalition. Call 646-395-2925 or send an email to info@newsanctuarynyc.org.

Know Your Rights
Know Your Rights – The Immigrant Defense Project provides two-page flyers in multiple languages that explain what your rights are and what to do in an encounter with ICE.

Know Your Rights Community Toolkit – these toolkits are available from the New York Immigration Coalition in many languages.

Know Your Rights – New Sanctuary Coalition

Immigrants & New York – a coalition of groups has created this infographic resource for immigrants in English, Spanish, and French.

Home Raids Poster – The Immigrant Defense Project provides a poster to hang in the home (and your church) with a reminder of your rights, what to say, and what to document in case of an ICE raid.

Preparations
How to Prepare Yourself for an Immigration Raid – Informed Immigrant

Prepare for an ICE Raid – New Sanctuary Coalition

Discernment and Planning Tools for Those Facing Deportation – this resource can help individuals who face deportation and their families explore options – PC(USA) Office of Immigration Issues

Use an English or Spanish Family Care to help undocumented members individuals prepare a family care plan so that they can ensure that their children will be cared for, their prescriptions can be filled, and they can have some sense of control over their lives in the event that they are detained – PC(USA) Office of Immigrations

Sanctuary
Find Sanctuary in New York – New Sanctuary Coalition

Sanctuary – what do people who may want to enter sanctuary need to think about – PC(USA Office of Immigration Issues

Sanctuary Discernment Guide – the PC(USA) Office of Public Witness offers this guide for congregations considering declaring themselves as a sanctuary congregation.

WHAT CAN WE DO? FOR EVERYONE
Pray.

Build and nurture relationships with immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in your neighborhood.

Contact Senator Gillibrand and Senator Schumer. Contact your Representative (or call 202-225-3121 and ask for your Representative by name to be connected to their office). Share your concerns. Ask what they will to do.

Help Detained Children identifies organizations providing aid to migrants. Donate, volunteer, and support these organizations.

Participate in the July 12th, 2019, Lights for Liberty: A Vigil to End Human Detention Camps – 7:00 PM on Foley Square.

Support the New Sanctuary Coalition’s Live In Faith Everyday Bond Fund that bonds out individuals who are detained so they can fight their cases from their communities instead of behind. It matters to children.

Learn about the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship’s Accompaniment Program in Aqua Prieta.

Give to and volunteer with groups working on immigration issues in New York City:

Use the We Choose Welcome Action Guide from the PC(USA) to welcome refugees.

Join Presbyterians for Just Immigration to receive information updates and action suggestions.

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25 June 2019

Walking. Morningside Gardens.
Massage. NK Body Philosophy (OK – I did not listen to any of these songs then.)
Lakota Song – Oglala Lakota Nation
Little Bighorn Song – Paul Plume
Crazy Horse Honor Song – Wilmer Mesteth
Wash Your Spirit Clean – Walela
Sitting Bull’s Medicine Song – Kevin Locke
Firedancer – Brule
It Is a Good Day to Die – Robbie Robertson & The Red Road Ensemble
Akua Tuta – Kashtin
The Little Bighorn March – Bill Miller
Bobtail Horse – Fire Crow
Got to Tell You – Indigenous
Tatanka – Luis Cachiguango
Garryowen & Valley of the Little Bighorn – Jack Gladstone

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24 June 2019

Treadmill. Stretching. Gym at the Shire.
Walking, Morningside Gardens,
Round Here – Counting Crows
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door – Warren Zevon
Real Real – Nina Simone
Volunteers – Jefferson Airplane
Hole in the Sky – Juliana Hatfield
Essas Emocoes! – Zeca Baleiro
Livin’ in the Red – War
Dulaman – Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh
Heartbreak Town – Dixie Chicks
Fool for You – Rod Stewart
Nashville – Indigo Girls
Forward – Beyonce
Just Another Whistle Stop – The Band
Yellow Ranger – Awkwafina
Leave My Blues at Home – The Allman Brothers Band
Enough of Me – Melissa Etheridge
Madanitche – Kadda Cherif Hadria
Dingle Regatta – The Pogues
Welcome the Traveler Home – John McCutcheon & Tom Chapin
Paz Y Libertad – Jose-Luis Orozco
Winter Is Cruel – Magdalen Hsu-Li

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22 June 2019

Treadmill. Elliptical (5 minutes but hey it has been a while).
Blink. At the same time as Nicole Kung.
Summer Days – Bob  Dylan
Hot Fun in the Summertime – Sly & The Family Stone
Here Comes the Sun – Richie Havens
Circle of Light – Walela
My Generation – The Who
Haloa Olohega – Te Vaka
Honky Tonk Woman – The Pogues
Heaven & Earth – Kelly Rowland
The Kilfenora Set – The Chieftains
I Want You – Marvin Gaye
Plastic Fantastic Lover – Jefferson Airplane
The Weight – The Band
Boudreaux – BeauSoleil
The Mess We’re In – Los Lobos
Stand By Me – The Blind Boys of Alabama
Give Me a Kiss – Jasmine Chen
Now Let Me Fly – Kim & Reggie Harris

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21 June 2019

This day combined a couple playlists and a variety of themes.
Walking. Morningside Gardens.
Stretching. Started at the Gym at the Shire, when the woman beside me started doing headstands in the middle of the room, retreated to the Shire itself.
Wandering – Peter Kater & R. Carlos Nakai
Exodus – Bob Marley & The Wailers
The Refugee – U2
No Human Is Illegal – The Wakes
Refugee – Eric Bogle
Give Peace a Chance – Aerosmith & Sierra Leone’s Refugee All-Stars
Matamoros Banks – Bruce Springsteen
Gourm – Etran Fintawa
Take Me to Cleveland – Robert Neustadt
Look in Their Eyes – David Crosby
A Safe Place to Land – Sara Bareilles
Running – Common & Gregory Porter
Living in the Promised Land – Willie Nelson
Goodman, Schwemer and Chaney – Tom Paxton
Those Three Are on My  Mind – Kim Harris & Magpie
Summer – War
Summersong – The Decemberists
Summtertime – RobertaFlack
Summer Sent You – Mary Black
Symmer Side of Life – Gordon Lightfoot
Summer Soft – Stevie Wonder
Summertime – Janis Joplin

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18 June 2019

Walking. Morningside Gardens.
Strength. Stretching. Gym at the Shire with NK Body Philosophy.
I Pity the Poor Immigrant – Joan Baez
A Simple Desultory Philippic – Simon & Garfunkel
Night Owl – Carly Simon
Rain Down Your Love – Bill Miller
Deguello de Crockett – Carter Burwell
Imagine – Eva Cassidy
Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison
Havana Moon – Chuck Berry
Kit Carson – Bruce Cockburn
Kiss – Prince & The Revolution
On N’a Pas Besoin – Paris Combo
San Andreas – Sugarcane Jane
So Far Gone – Magdalen Hsu-Li
My Closest Roaddogz – 2Pac
Road to Ruin – Black 47

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17 June 2019

Walking. Morningside Gardens.
The President Sang Amazing Grace – Zoe Mulford
Song of Our Country – Miles Davis
Taneytown – Steve Earle
Open Your Eyes – Angelique Kidjo
None of Us Are Free – Solomon Burke
Bobtail Horse – Fire Crow
Grandmother’s Ways – Sharon Burch
Futuro Esplendor – Los Miserables
Through with Buzz – Steely Dan
Sit Down by the Fire – The Pogues
The President Sang Amazing Grace – Joan Baez

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Emanuel

EmanuelPosterOn the fourth anniversary of the horrific, terrorist attack at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston by an avowed white supremacist, I had the opportunity to view a new documentary Emanuel.

The event shattered lives and rocked Charleston and the nation. Emanuel powerfully weaves the history of race relations in Charleston, the significance and impact of Mother Emanuel Church, and the hope that somehow emerges in the aftermath.

Featuring intimate interviews with survivors and family members, Emanuel tells a poignant story of justice and faith, love and hate, and examines the healing power of forgiveness.

Emanuel is playing in theaters across the country for two nights – June 17 (tonight) and June 19 (Wednesday). See if it is playing near you and check it out.

Clementa Pinckney
Tywanza Sanders
Daniel Simmons
Sharonda Singleton 
Myra Thompson
Cynthia Hurd
Suzie Jackson
Ethel Lance
DePayne Middleton-Doctor

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