A Beat For Peace - Stewart is involved

[giovanni]

Hi everybody from Giovanni.
Stewart Copeland is involved in a project called 'A Beat For Peace', that will be launched on January 9th from the association 'Italians for Darfur'; drummers from all over the world, including also Phil Selway (Radiohead) and Nick Mason (Pink Floyd) and the Italian well known drummer Tony Esposito, will give their support with videos and tracks; the project will be launched to 'make some noise' for the 5th Anniversary of the Peace Agreement between North and South Sudan, that lately seemed to be in danger, and it involves 14 countries.

I don't have images or more information about Stewart appearance yet; by now there are a few links (only in Italian) about the news:

http://www.corriere.it/cronache/10_genn ... aabe.shtml

http://www.fainotizia.it/2010/01/07/e-o ... beat-peace

www.italiansfordarfur.it

www.sudan365.org

Giovanni

[njperry]

Thanks, Gio.

Will Stewart be appreaing in person in Italy? Will he be performing?

[DirtyMartini]

I was just reading about this. There are supposed to be events held tomorrow night (January 9, 2010) around the world. Here's the official roster for the US:

http://www.savedarfur.org/pages/sudan36 ... -for-peace

In the United States events will take place in:

Washington, DC
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church
1313 New York Ave, NW; Washington, DC 20005
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Federal Building
11000 Wilshire Blvd; Los Angeles, CA 90024
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

San Francisco, CA
Congregation Emanu-El
2 Lake Street; San Francisco, CA 94118
6:45 PM - 8:45 PM

Boise, ID
Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial
777 South 8th Street; Boise, ID 83702
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

New York, NY
Washington Square Park (Holly Plaza West of the fountain)
W 4th St and Waverly Pl; New York, NY 10012
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Follow the link above for more details for each location. Also says that "Events are being held in Mali, Togo, Benin, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Kenya, London, Edinburgh, Italy, Norway, New Zealand, Cairo and other places to be confirmed."

Some more links (English):

http://www.unfreemedia.com/africa/2010/ ... .html#more

http://renascencemag.ning.com/xn/detail ... Event:1884

[Shangeris]

I can't find one in Italy!

[policefan]

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watch @ 2:30!

http://www.sudan365.org/en-watch.html

Gatherings are due to take place in a dozen cities across the world on Saturday when the film will be launched on http://www.sudan365.org and the front page of YouTube, organizers said in a statement.

http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainme ... story.html

[Philippe Again]

Stewart is also mentionned today on the electronic version of serious french newspaper "Le Monde" :
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/depeches/0,14 ... -37,0.html

Here is my little translation. I'm sure LuditeLady will make some good corrections so everyone can understand.

[b]Pink Floyd, Radiohead et The Police: trois batteries pour la paix au Soudan[/b]

[i][b]Pink Floyd, Radiohead and The Police: three drums for peace in Sudan[/b][/i]

Les batteurs des groupes Pink Floyd, Radiohead et The Police donnent samedi le "rythme de la paix" dans le cadre d'une campagne internationale visant à éviter de nouveaux conflits meurtriers au Soudan, à un an d'un référendum crucial sur la sécession du sud du pays.

[i]Drummers of bands Pink Floyd, Radiohead and The Police give on saturday the "Beat for Peace" in an international campaign to avoid new conflicts in Sudan, one year before the referendum on the secession of the southern part of the country.[/i]

Nick Mason, Phil Selway et Stewart Copeland battent la mesure dans un film au coeur de la campagne "Sudan365" qui exhorte les dirigeants mondiaux à tout faire pour éviter que la situation ne dégénère au Soudan au cours de la prochaine année.

[i]Nick Mason, Phil Selway and Stewart Copeland give the beat in a movie depecting the campaign "Sudan365" which urges the world leaders to do everything to prevent the situation from deteriorating in Sudan during the coming year.[/i]

"J'espère que ce film permettra à la population de se rendre compte de la très grande importance de cette année pour le Soudan", a souligné Phil Selway, du groupe phare du rock contemporain britannique Radiohead, dans un communiqué annonçant le lancement de la campagne "Sudan365".

[i]"I hope this movie will enable people to realize how very important is this year for Sudan," insisted Phil Selway, from the band-leading contemporary British rock Radiohead, in a statement announcing the launch of the Campaign Sudan365 "[/i]

Cette campagne internationale est organisée par un regroupement de neuf organisations dont Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch et l'influente coalition américaine "Save Darfur".

[i]This international campaign is organized by a coalition of nine organizations including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the influential American coalition "Save Darfur".[/i]

Des rassemblements sont prévus samedi dans une dizaine de villes à travers le monde dont Londres, Washington, Oslo, Calgary, Nairobi, Dakar, Le Caire et Wau, un hameau du Sud-Soudan.

[i]Rallies are planned Saturday in a dozen cities around the world including London, Washington, Oslo, Calgary, Nairobi, Dakar, Cairo and Wau, a small village in southern Sudan.[/i]

Ce samedi marque le 5e anniversaire de la signature de l'accord de paix global (CPA) ayant mis fin à 21 ans de guerre civile entre le nord, majoritairement musulman, et le sud, en grande partie chrétien, du Soudan à l'origine de deux millions de morts et de quatre millions de déplacés.

[i]This Saturday marks the 5th anniversary of the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended 21 years of civil war between the North, mainly Muslim, and the south, in majority Christian, of Sudan which caused originally two million deaths and four million displaced.[/i]

Cet accord de paix prévoit la tenue d'élections nationales, prévues en avril, et surtout d'un référendum sur la sécession du Sud-Soudan en janvier 2011, deux événements clés qui pourraient mener à de nouvelles flambées de violence, selon des analystes et des ONG.

[i]The peace agreement plan national elections due to April, and mostly a referendum on the secession of South Sudan in January 2011, two key events that could lead to new outbreaks of violence, according to analysts and Organisations.[/i]

[ltwoman]

Here is my little translation. I'm sure LuditeLady will make some good corrections so everyone can understand.

[/i]

Thank you for translating this, Philippe. I'm sure it'll be fine.

[DirtyMartini]

One more in English: http://www.france24.com/en/20100109-mus ... eace-sudan , which includes a photo of Stewart Copeland's hand gestures.

Nice to see the film is coming from Jamie Catto of 1 Giant Leap.

[njperry]

So I think I understand.

Today at rallies around the world concerning Sudan, there will be a film released called Sudan.365 which features drummers from around the world, including Stewart. The events mark the 10th anniversary of the end (to the degree it ended) of the civil war between the northern and southern parts of Sudan, as well bringing attention to the other big Sudan issue, Darfur.

I haven't seen anything that Stewart will be at the events (including one in LA) but he could, of course, show up.

Is that right?

[luddite lady]

Merci de l'article, Phiippe. Tu as fait une excellente traduction. C'est bon de te voir de nouveau sur ce site.

Thanks to everyone who brought this important issue to the forefront.

[njperry]

The Beat for Peace video is up on Sudan365.com.

Stewart appears at 2:29-3:39 playing a percussive rack and then briefly at 3:20 at the drum set.

[Philippe Again]

[quote="luddite lady"]Merci de l'article, Phiippe. Tu as fait une excellente traduction. C'est bon de te voir de nouveau sur ce site.[/quote]

Merci a lot !
I have so many things to do these days that I don't post messages or only a very few, but I'm still around.

Back to the topic: I'm surprised this initiative isn't mentionned at all on TP.com (last news is dated December 7h)... I thought it would deserve to be mentionned as it's not only about Stewart, it's about Sudan. Maybe this site is dead and I didn't notice it.

[policefan]

Look at all those great drummers!

Where are our nut drummers?
(if you go to act, you can submit your own video)

http://www.sudan365.org/en-watch.html

[Shangeris]

I find the video just amazing! I makes me clear that I wanna be a precussionist!

I also noticed that Stewart has the drum and percussion kit he used in La Jolla

P.S. And those steel drums are AWESOME!!!!!

[oneworld]

I really like this! So many drummers coming together around the world to raise awareness, I think it's great( and great to see the Maestro being part of it, of course).
Also, I think the editing of the whole thing is very good.