The ‘Jazz for Justice Project’ is an initiative founded in 2006 by UT professor, Dr. Rosalind 
Hackett, to raise funds, awareness, and support using the power of music as psycho-social healing in northern Uganda. Students, Faculty members and members of the community, together with musicians in the local, national and international jazz community, came together to help these young people overcome their trauma and rebuild their lives. All of the proceeds from JfJ concerts benefit the Northern Ugandan Girls’ Education Network (NUGEN).
Hackett, to raise funds, awareness, and support using the power of music as psycho-social healing in northern Uganda. Students, Faculty members and members of the community, together with musicians in the local, national and international jazz community, came together to help these young people overcome their trauma and rebuild their lives. All of the proceeds from JfJ concerts benefit the Northern Ugandan Girls’ Education Network (NUGEN).The event will take place on Friday October 17, 2008, featuring some of the biggest names in jazz who will lend their talents to benefit the children of war-torn northern Uganda. The third annual Jazz for Justice concert will kick of at 8:00 PM at the new venue Barataria in Old City Knoxville.
This year's musicians include: Jeff Coffin of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, RB Morris Band, Kelle Jolly and Will Boyd and their band, Pianist Wendell Werner, Bass vocalist Jonathan Blanchard from Atlanta, Rosemary Haskins and Guy Farmer from Nashville (acoustic duet), Boling, Brown and Holloway, Joe Mazzaferro, Ricky Starr, Jah Niceness, Natti Love Joys, Jeff Sipe w/ Vince Llagan and Mike Seal, Renato Buchert (Emily Mathis, Daniel Kimbro and Graham Butler)
In aids of the victim
s of the brutal civil war that raged in Northern Uganda for over twenty years, more than 25,000 children were kidnapped and forced to become fighters, sex slaves or domestic servants. Nearly 2 million people were displaced from their villages and resettled in squalid camps. Tentative peace has lasted a year but the task of psycho-social healing and resettlement is overwhelming.----------------------
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News with an African perspective
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Life over Debt Campaign
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Political activism and research
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Books on Africa and the Diaspora
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Virtual library for Africa
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Space for change in Africa
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Debate on democracy
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Weekly Forum for Social Justice
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Internet resources on Africa
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Genocide in Uganda:http://cegun.org/
1 comment:
thanks Willy for taking the trouble to publicize our activities! Excitement is building for the concert and our new more spacious venue!
Rosalind
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