brass liberation orchestraLinks and Resources
A few other groups that make loud noises and roll on the streets:
- Cakalak Thunder (Greensboro, NC) myspace.com/cakalakthunder
- Chaotic Insurrection Ensemble (Montreal, QC) chaoticinsurrectionensemble.org
- Fiatti Sprecati (Florence, Italy) www.fiatisprecati.it
- Hungry March Band (New York, NY) www.hungrymarchband.com
- Loco Bloco (San Francisco, CA) www.locobloco.org
- Musicians Action Group (MAG) Band (SF Bay Area, CA) magband@sbcglobal.net
- Ottoni a Scopio (Milan, Italy) www.ottoniascoppio.org
- Rude Mechanical Orchestra (New York, NY) rudemechanicalorchestra.org
- Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band (Somerville, MA) slsaps.org
- Tittubanda (Rome, Italy) www.titubanda.it
- What Cheer? Brigade (Providence, RI) www.whatcheerbrigade.com
Groups we have worked with:
- AROC: Arab Resource
and Organizing Center
www.araborganizing.org - BAIRC:
Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition
www.immigrantrights.org - CPA: Chinese Progressive Association
www.cpasf.org - Coalition of Imokalee Workers www.ciw.org
- Coleman Advocates
for Children and Youth
www.colemanadvocates.org - EBASE: East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy
www.workingeastbay.org - IBU: Inland Boatmen's Union www.ibu.org
- ILWU: International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 and Local 6 www.ilwu.org
- Just Cause Oakland justcauseoakland.org
- La Raza Centro Legal www.lrcl.org
- Loco Bloco www.locobloco.org
- Midnight Special Law Collective www.midnightspecial.net
- MAC: Mission Anti-displacement Coalition mac-sf.org
- One3snapshot www.one3snapshot.com
- SUB-Mission Art Space (formerly Balazo 18 Art Gallery) www.sf-submission.com
- POWER: People Organized to Win Employment Rights www.peopleorganized.org
- SF Community Land Trust www.sfclt.org
- SF Pride at Work sfprideatwork.org
- UFCW: United Food and Commercial Workers www.ufcw.org
- UNITE-HERE Local 2 and Local 2850 www.unitehere.org
- Voice of Roma www.voiceofroma.com
Resources for Street Bands
- HONK! Festival of street bands (Somerville, MA) www.honkfest.org
- Puppetista's notes on drumming at demonstrations
- U.S. StreetBand mailing list
- Super Sonic Samba School (San Diego, CA) www.sssamba.org
Organizing Resources
- The Catalyst Project www.collectiveliberation.org
- Challenging White Supremacy Workshops www.cwsworkshop.org
- Colours of Resistance Network www.colours.mahost.org
- Riseup.net www.riseup.net
News and Information
- Al Jazeera english.aljazeera.net
- Alternative Information Center www.alternativenews.org
- Common Dreams www.commondreams.org
- Democracy Now! www.democracynow.org
- Electronic Intifada www.electronicintifada.org
