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Carnegie Council on The Evolution of Occupy
Julia Taylor Kennedy at the Carnegie Council forEthics in International Affairs speaks with Karanja Gaçuça, Diego Ibanez, Jamie Kemmerer, and difrent: founder Stephan Said about Occupy’s successes and failures, and visions for the future of social change activism.
Chris Hedges popular interview on Occupy Wall Street
The award winning journalist in this video at OWS posted by munderlarkst. No comment really necessary hear. It’s worth hearing what he has to say, and beautiful to see him become emotional at the end thinking about the future he hopes it will help change for the better for his children.
Jeff Sachs at OWS on the need for systemic change
Arman Rousta captured Jeff Sachs at OWS. Sachs is one of many economists who has for over 15 years uncovered the inherent relationship between equal economic and social opportunity, development, human rights, freedom and democracy. At difrent: we believe bringing voices like his and others at the institutional and academic level together with musicians and [...]
Sept 15- Oct 14. The Central Asian Modern Music Festival, Kabul & New York.
Sound Central is Afghanistan & Central Asia’s first regional rock music festival, as well as Afghanistan’s first rock festival since Ahmad Zahir’s show in 1975. It will be held in Kabul, with opening and closing nights in New York, September 15th to October 14th, 2011.
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Gaga for Gandhi – Music For Social Change On the Rise
Over the past couple years, artists, labels, social change movements and development organizations, including governments, have realized the potential of music as a vehicle for empowering, funding, and increasing capacity for initiatives. Reaching a mass audience that’s turned away from the monopolized, cookie cutter music served up by an industry which is falling apart and [...]
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difrent: has a clear mission, to be the world’s leading source for music and culture for social change, featuring artists and organizations who are making a better world. Our aim is to help galvanize a positive movement that’s FOR something, not against, one that we can take to scale for the change we need to [...]
Egyptian singer receives 2011 Freemuse Award
Ramy Essam, known for his role in the Arab Spring at Tahrir Square, will receive the award at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, on Monday 21 November 2011.
NBC discusses difrent:
NBC’ Chuck Scarborough sat down with Stephan to discuss difrent: on the International Day of Peace and the vision for lifting the voices of unity worldwide through music.
PRI’s The World Interview
PRI’s The World interviews Stephan about 9/11 on the 10th anniversary and discussing how the inspiration for creating difrent: and writing Take A Stand both emenated from his desire to bring people together across every conceivable border, from nations to musical styles.
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Artists & Changemakers Unite to be difrent: Music & Culture 4 the Global Generation
Vusi Mahlasela, Pete Seeger, Warren Haynes, Amadou and Mariam, and more join Stephan Said to build difrent: a one-stop for music and culture for social change to unite movements worldwide in a new model for music that promotes initiatives making a better world on a constant basis. Sign-Up, join us on Facebook, Twitter, suggest artists, thinkers, initiatives for us [...]
Graham Nash and David Crosby at Occupy Wall Street
Graham Nash and David Crosby showed up yesterday at Occupy Wall Street and sang “Teach Your Children.” Best sound heard of anyone of them out there so far. Another great video from our friend Sandi Bachom. Here’s the link: http://youtu.be/444Z2MilczI
Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Tao Rodriguez, Stephan Said, Tom Chapin “This Little Light”
A video by Sandi Bachom now going viral of more than a thousand gathered n Columbus Circle joining together to sing and play “This Little Light of Mine” just past midnite July 22, 2011. SInce it first went up, the videos been forwarded through the Occupy movement, and used by sites from AP to CNBC.
Tom Morello at Occupy LA
Rage Against The Machine guitarist and Nightwatchman Tom Morello just sang at Occupy LA and is heading to NYC to join the crowds and musicians at Liberty Sq.
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