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Interesting trend...

I am jumping big chitty ship and moving to the Haliburton area.

Once settled in, it willl become a place for fellow healers/musicians/nature lovers/artists/sustainable builders/off grid thinkers to make some magic... So be in touch...

Great news Dave! Been jonesing for the loopy sounds and dance crazed crowd since Collingwood! Also great to hear there will be tapers out to witness!

20$ is fair for Garaj Mahal.

Lots of people would find thier way to town see this show.

Cops Everywhere? Apparently some are clutching to the illusion that there is still room for choice in the matter.

Arrested protester predicts police 'aggression' at Bush-Harper-Calderon summit

Last Updated: Monday, August 13, 2007 | 4:15 PM ET

CBC News

One of two men charged at a weekend protest in Ottawa says he expects much more "police aggression" at the North American Leaders Summit next week in Montebello, Que.

"I think this is just a taste of the police aggression that people who go to Montebello might be facing," Dan Sawyer, who helped organize the protest, told CBC News on Monday.

Sawyer, 32, and Matthew Morgan-Brown, 31, were arrested and charged with assaulting police after a demonstration by an estimated 50 to 80 people outside the Fairmont Château Laurier hotel on Saturday.

The protest was against the 2005 Security and Prosperity Partnership pact, which will be discussed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, U.S. President George W. Bush and Mexican President Felipe Calderon at the summit in Quebec on Aug. 20 and 21.

The agreement was signed between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico in 2005 to boost co-operation on security, trade and public-health issues, but opponents of the pact fear it will erode Canadian sovereignty in areas such as natural resources, security and military issues.

Protesters 'confrontational and aggressive': police

The Ottawa police said in a news release that the arrests took place because several of the protesters were "confrontational and aggressive."

Ottawa Police Const. Alain Boucher said Sawyer was arrested after an officer tried to stop some graffiti from happening and Sawyer allegedly intervened, ending up in an altercation with the officer. Boucher said he did not know the circumstances of Morgan-Brown's arrest.

But Sawyer said police approached him and about seven others after the protest ended.

"At the time of my arrest, all I was doing was walking home," he said Monday, adding that he has not been told the time or other details of his alleged assault on a police officer.

Sidewalk chalk crackdown was 'overkill': Sawyer

Sawyer said the arrests are not the only action police took Saturday at the protest outside the hotel, which was chosen because it is part of the same chain as the Fairmont Château Montebello where the summit will take place.

"What I saw was police charging the crowd, tackling people, grabbing other individuals, pulling them off to the side, threatening to make arrests, threatening with pepper spray," said Sawyer, who added that police seemed to be responding to protesters who wrote on the sidewalk with chalk.

"Which to me seems definite overkill by the police.… It's just chalk."

Police trying to crack down on organizers: Sawyer

Sawyer accused the police of making the arrests to try to quell dissent by cracking down on protest organizers, arguing that the conditions of his bail were proof.

Both men were released Sunday after agreeing to abide by a list of conditions, which include engaging in good behaviour, keeping the peace and not going within 500 metres of several sites that include the Fairmont Château Laurier and the U.S. Embassy. In Morgan-Brown's case, they ban him from associating with Sawyer.

Sawyer said he plans to appeal conditions that:

Ban him from the area bounded by Rideau Street, Sussex Drive, the Rideau River and the Ottawa River, an area where he says none of the demonstration took place.

Prohibit him from participating in or attending any demonstration against the SPP.

"I think that points directly to the reason for the arrests, in that they're trying to get organizers … out of play," said Sawyer, who said the conditions violate his Charter rights to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly.

"I really hope that doesn't dissuade people because SPP needs to be opposed."

Police shoved protesters: footage

CBC footage from Saturday showed protesters chanting "So-so-so-solidarité!" as one man was handcuffed and put in a police car.

Fellow protester Shannon Willmott identified the man as Sawyer.

Afterward, the footage shows a male officer approaching some of the other protesters, shoving two of them, then chasing and arresting a protester who shoved back. That man was Morgan-Brown, Willmott said.

As the men were questioned inside a police station, other protesters such as Denis Rancourt stood outside demanding answers about why the men were arrested.

"I think it's a procedure for discouraging organizers [of protests], for intimidating," he told CBC's French-language service Radio-Canada. "I think they're techniques of a police state."

Police have already said they will have a large presence at protests at the summit in Montebello to maintain peace and order.

gates and guns and the removal of rocks from the gardens... now that's paranoid!

what do you think about this stuff?

Canadians who are following the issue are aware that the Canadian Government has made it illegal to protest the upcoming summit; and that the 25 KM security barrier will be manned by a joint RCMP and US ARMY force. Such activity concerns me. Having US Army conducting operations on Canadian soil in order to protect corporate interests. Is that so wrong?

RCMP, U.S. Army block public forum on the Security and Prosperity Partnership

The Council of Canadians has been told it will not be allowed to rent a municipal community centre for a public forum it had planned to coincide with the next Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit in Montebello, Quebec on August 20 and 21.

The Municipality of Papineauville, which is about six kilometres from Montebello, has informed the Council of Canadians that the RCMP, the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) and the U.S. Army will not allow the municipality to rent the Centre Communautaire de Papineauville for a public forum on Sunday August 19, on the eve of the so-called Security and Prosperity Partnership Leaders Summit.

“It is deplorable that we are being prevented from bringing together a panel of writers, academics and parliamentarians to share their concerns about the Security and Prosperity Partnership with Canadians,†said Brent Patterson, director of organizing with the Council of Canadians. “Meanwhile, six kilometres away, corporate leaders from the United States, Mexico and Canada will have unimpeded access to our political leaders.â€

As well as being shut out of Papineauville, the Council of Canadians has been told that the RCMP and the SQ will be enforcing a 25-kilometre security perimeter around the Chateau Montebello, where Stephen Harper will meet with George W. Bush and Felipe Calderón on August 20 and 21. According to officials in Montebello, there will be checkpoints at Thurso and Hawkesbury, and vehicles carrying more than five people will be turned back.

For more information, contact:

Stuart Trew, media contact: Tel.: (613) 233-4487, ext. 228; Cell: (613) 292-2218; strew@canadians.org.

For more information about the Security and Prosperity Partnership, visit IntegrateThis.ca.

More links:

1999: The Fraser Institute calls for the Amero – one North American Currency

May 21, 2007: Bank of Canada Governor says that a single North American currency is possible

May 12, 2007: Don't worry, North American Union does not exist

April 25, 2007: NDP successfully lobbied to have the first ever parliamentary hearing on the SPP

AD, its not a 1 day summit; check out the Deep Integration Timeline several links down:

Links:

Canadian Council of Chief Executives SPP strategy outline 2003

Telegraph UK article discussing freight superhighway which will link Canada to Mexico

The Trans-North-America Superhighway in more detail

PDF of Deep Integration Timeline

Common Frontiers- a good general resource

Thats sweet in a Rumsfeld/Hussein handshake kind of way.

History in the making.

Great sounding record of the Toronto YMSB premiere.

Glad to see you made it out Brad.

Thanks for tapin.

Though designed to facilitate bluegrass jamming, these 10 JAMANDMENTS have universal merit:

I. Thou Shalt Tune Thy Instrument.

~ Electronic tuners make this easy.

II. Thou Shalt Keep Steady Rhythm.

~ Count beats if necessary.

III. Thou Shalt Take Turns Choosing Songs.

~Announce the key. Vocalists always choose their key.

~ Choose a song you can complete.

IV. Thou Shalt Not Speed.

~ Start songs at a reasonable tempo. Speed up according to abilities.

V. Thou Shalt Signal Who Has The Solo.

~ Follow a pattern when taking solo leads.

VI. Thou Shalt Listen To Others.

If you can't hear the lead, consider yourself too loud.

VII. Thou Shalt Welcome Others.

~ Include everyone in your jam. Help everyone sound as good as they can.

VIII. Thou Shalt Not Steal Other Musicians From An Active Jam.

~With time, players move around anyway.

IX. Thou Shalt Try New Material.

~ Original & different tunes are OK occasionally.

X. Thou Shalt Be Considerate Of Pickers (and Others).

~ Explain when you're rehearsing, not jamming. Help beginners.

As in the smoke rising in front of Greg Allman?

Show me your thumb if your really dumb

I was just trying to remember what tunes we heard last night...

Your list:

Black Napkins

Illinois Enema Bandit

Joe's Garage

Muffin Man

Pygmy Twilight, City Of Tiny Lites

My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama

Dirty Love

Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy

Dumb All Over

What's New in Baltimore

Dupree's Paradise

Uncle Remus

Willie the Pimp

San Ber'dino

A few you missed:

Andy

Brown Shoes Don't Make it

Advance Romance

Wind up Workin in a Gas Station

G-Spot Tornado

+ "Don't Be A Human"

Anyone notice? Did we hear A Pound for a Brown? - What else?!

Don't be a Human!

Sounds like there's lots of tickets available at the venue, and more still in the hands of scalpers. Hopefully a repeat of the time I scalped a scalper at an underattended show and paid $5 to see Santana at Skydome...

Freedom day!

Since 2002, the Ottawa-based band has been keeping the classic sounds of raw, gritty groove alive and well in Canada. Their style combines jazz, funk, African and Latin music with messages touching on politics and spirituality.

The blaring horns, retro keyboards and polyrhythmic beats show the influence of James Brown, Herbie Hancock, Fela Kuti and Tito Puente, but the sound remains refreshingly original. Their stylistic variety is in part due to the diverse musical backgrounds of the band's individual members : jazz, funk, blues, reggae, classical, and traditional Cuban, Brazilian and West African percussion.

The Souljazz Orchestra has had the chance to collaborate with notable artists such as Beautiful Nubia and Mighty Popo, and has opened up for Etta James, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, John Lee Hooker Jr., The Sadies, Fred Eaglesmith, and more. The band has appeared at the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Ottawa Jazz Festival, the Ottawa Blues Festival, and the Ottawa Tulip Festival.

The Souljazz Orchestra released their second album, Freedom No Go Die, in September of 2006. This high-energy release focuses mainly on afrobeat music, and features the vocal stylings of Mighty Popo, Alanna Stuart and Marielle Rivard. The album is already creating quite a stir in the dancefloor jazz scene, prompting legendary DJ Gilles Peterson from BBC Radio 1 to enthuse, "That's made for music, that is!" Exclaim! Magazine went on to state that "the Ottawa quintet [...] craft a sound as tight as the power fists that adorn the cover. Songs of resistance, revolution and positivity in the best of the afrobeat tradition." The album is soon to be re-released worldwide through Do Right! Music, a Toronto-based label showcasing Canada's best new jazz, funk, hip-hop and electronic music.

The Souljazz Orchestra's all-original debut album, Uprooted, was released in April of 2005, also to critical acclaim. The Ottawa Fulcrum stated that the album "captures the energy and bounce that is characteristic of their live show" and that it is "definitely an all-around feel-good album, in that James Brown kinda way", while the Ottawa Sun noted that the band "lend itself equally well to afrobeat, modern jazz or JBs-style funk".

Both releases have received worldwide airplay, mostly through public and campus radio, topping many Canadian station charts at #1.

Artist Information:

Steve Patterson tenor sax

Zakari Frantz alto sax, soprano sax, flute

Pierre Chrétien electric piano, organ, clavinet, analog synth

Phil Lafrenière drums, percussion

Ray Murray alto sax, baritone sax

All members sing and play percussion as well.

12:30 P.M. - like in 40 minutes!!! Main Stage Kew Gardens

fugged up scheit

Caught the tail end of a great show last night. Wish I made it earlier. The town drunks played their part all too well.

Dat-Head?

Logistically challegned fools, thank you very much; if I had had the means to get there, I might have made the trek.

Aloha,

Brad

Had tapers come out, they would have had to bolt down the micstands to keep them standing.

[color:red]Condor

[color:red]HOLY FAACK!

That show was off the charts, through the roof, and then some!

About 15 minutes into Dave's first set, the crowd pushed the chairs and tables aside. The music got very intense. The dancing was borderline mosh-pit crazy at times. There was praying and worship going on?! - pretty funkin freaky. Drinks spilling and glass breaking didnt stop long-haired barefoot freaks from tearing up the floor till well after last call. Even the freaks in normal people disguise were letting loose.

Awesome energy all around!

Questions:

Was that the first time Dave played Condor in solo performance? When is the next Dave show in Collingwood? Where were the freakin tapers?!? Fools.

Condor!

Great show Dave! Honored to be there for it!

Extra space in the car if anyone's needs a lift up from T.O.

Last Dave show in Collingwood was great. Sweet venue too!

Is Toronto still happening?