[Oe List ...] NEWS FROM THE HEARTLAND

[Janice Ulangca]

David, I love the song from your workshop!   I'll pass it on to a local group working on clean elections in New York, as part of a statewide effort.  Hm - wonder if Working Families Party or Citizen Action will fit into the last line somehow?  Will leave that for when I'm more awake.  Thanks for what you're doing in the great state - my home state - of Iowa.
Janice ULangca

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David & Lin Zahrt 
  To: Order Ecumenical ; Dialogue ICA 
  Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 12:28 AM
  Subject: [Oe List ...] NEWS FROM THE HEARTLAND


  Don't know how many of you watch NOW and BILL MOYERS' JOURNAL on PBS. That's almost the only TV I watch. It comes on Friday evening around here. Last Friday both David B. and Bill M. did a good deal of coverage on the affect of the lobby industry on the political decision making. 

  Some of you may know that I desire to write some parables, or get them written, put them to song, and begin to send the message, via song, that its time to make the shift from Empire to Earth Community. In the best-of-all-possible-worlds I would convene a vocal ensemble of some kind. The one I'm most familiar with is Barbershop Quartet. It could be a vocal ensemble of any kind. Once we get the group identified, the lyrics and the music worked up, we can work in dispersion and convene on occasion, and immediately prior to an event, to polish our presentation. The group might be named the Parabolics; or the Parody Partners!

  Meanwhile I've been preparing to have the 'ammunition' needed to begin creating songs and set a new story loose. I did a Song Writing workshop in Ames Fri nite, Apr 4, for an Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Leadership Workshop <www.iowacci.org/>. Sometime last year CCI helped Lorimor, IA, a community in which we worked in the early 80's, deny the construction of a Confinement Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) nearby the town of Lorimor.

  There were about 20 people in attendance for a CCI Leadership Weekend Workshop. After some contextual work on the issues we finally broke into three groups. One of the groups came up with this song. 

  TUNE: I've Been Working On the Railroad

  

I've been workin' on elections
, trying to change the way...


  Would somebody please list-en
, to what I have to say?

  

Can't you hear the people shouting
."Let us have our VOICE"

  
It’s time the politicians pay attention, They need to make the right choice.

  
(Chorus)


  Big Money's gotta go.
  Big Money's gotta go.
  
Big Money's gotta go away..y.
  Big Money's gotta go.
  Big Money's gotta go.
  
Big Money's gotta go away.

  Who's in the pocket of Big Bucks?

  Betcha' it's people we know..o..o..o
  
Guess who's in the Pocket of the Big Bucks??
  GOOD GRIEF: THEY'VE GOTTA GO!!
  V-O-I-C-E, V-O-I-C-E, V-O-I-C-E-e-e.
  V-O-I-C-E, V-O-I-C-E, Voter Owned Iowa Clean Elections.


  David


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