Martin L. King, Jr. Holiday Dinner Party and Sunday Brunch EACH ONE FEED ONE

If we are 10,000 Multicultural Alumni, then we are 10,000 strong. On January 16 & 17, 2010, we can join together in our global destinations; make our education at NYU mean, that someone other than ourselves and personal economic gain is fed. We can network for the needs of our global communities in need.
Please join me on getting this done. We can from where ever we are have this Martin L. King. Jr. Holiday "Dinner Party," affair a global dinner party in every country that we live in or came from. I would like all of my dinner parties to be done this way.
Let's encourage all of the (feed the hungry) global organizations combine and do this.
Let's get a dinner party for these children of America, Africa, Asia and Europe that we haven't seen much of and provide this dinner party for them where they are. We have had so much free food at NYU both as students, employees and alumni, that if I were hungry I probably could right now find a function that I could get a bite to eat.

So, I know that the NYU community has a lot of big hearts there, that make sure we all can come together, break some bread and sip a beverage. Let' s make the organization's name stand for so much more than a network of self-seekers, networking to feed off of each other's success only. Because, we do need to do that also. Because, that's what it takes to keep our degrees meaningful and provide earning potential.

So, let us not forget to communicate with each, and not to forget the goodness of assembling ourselves. We need to network to help each other so that our degrees can be a benefit to our global families as well. That all the families of this earth are fed.
We don't need black ties for our guest and we don't need expensive halls. Let us feed them in their culture's light. If it is to sit at a table or to sit on a flat ground let us lay their food for them as would enable us to seat them stretched across side by side each one feed one. The cost of the table will fit the cost of the extra food. Let them choose whether and how they sit and eat, let us trust that their culture doesn't have to match ours eye for eye. Let them show us how they have a dinner party that's communal and focused on every member of the community breaking and sharing bread and drink. Stay away the alcohol let them have some pure juice and each a pure glass of water with their meal and bread.
Yes we can "10,000 strong, each one feed one.," 10,000 Multicultural Alumni of NYU we can do this. We are the world at NYU, in The United States of America, children of common ancestry of global greatness. One Love, it's time. (c)"1980 Africans Abroad," by Itha Alleyne

"Great Minds Behind the Scenes in Black Music," in Loving Memory of Mr. Alvin "Skip" Miller 1946-2009

Poem: "A Real Gift" by my son J.Das Neves,'99 @age11.

He was 3 when he met Mr. Skip Miller at RCA when I interned there 1991/92. For my Graduate Thesis, "Great Minds Behind the Scenes in Black Music," through which I met Mr. Miller, Mr. London and other Black Music executives and staff at RCA. The true present day Great Minds Behind the Scenes in the Music Industry. A Privilege. He showed all the dignity, respect and love for his role in history, that keeps our heads held high. From his labour of Love he left a compilation of black music cataloged from the vaults of the original RCA 1901-1991 recordings. He called it "a labour of love," Billboard Mag. June 1992. I dedicate this Christmas poem to the family of families we all are. With condolences to the entire Miller Families.
"A Real Gift"
A Christmas Gift is a day we live. The time we have with family. The day you know God, and the everlasting life. And, the Gift that makes room for you. Thank you God! Thank you Jesus!! Praise the Lord!!! He wrote this our first Christmas without his Grandmother, he so loved.

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PEARLS written by Sade; performed by Sade and performed in contrast by India.Aire

The India.Aire performance is more enchanting romanticized verse of Sade's Pearls. The two versions one sung by Sade it's author and the other by India.Aire can best be understood from the personal experience of the metaphor of new shoes and how they do hurt the feet. Sade was born in Nigeria and lived there in the earlier part of her youth. For people all over the world this metaphor is striking and deep. When we compare the importance of shoes in our society as a need to the reality that shoes are mostly not worn in rural parts of Africa where so many people women and child spent large portions of their time traveling long distances with a load on their head and perhaps added a child on the woman's back. New shoes American style shoes sent there would be unwelcome, only from the fact that they hurt like hell when you get a new pair of shoes sent to you that wasn't fitted to your foot. My mother-in-law, God rest her soul, I was told, she would take off her new shoes and carry them in her hand whenever the family had to walk to town or to church. The value of the new shoes was that it showed she had them and the value of them. However, the pain they caused her feet to try to walk in them for miles was so painful that she CARRIED AND cared FOR them in her hand. As her son stated she didn't like wearing her shoes. Sade's version of this song really express the fact through this metaphor that we who are All "Africans Abroad," measure everything we don't experience, that we lack truth about, we measure people's needs by our own priorities. We see people without shoes walking in Africa for miles and miles we immediately think they lack something that we need, because we have lost any adaption to walking bare feet. So when we see Some Africans in tou tous, or g-wraps we think of sexual things or we think of poverty rather than culture. So We don't really know what the people we are looking at need from there point of view. African that was naked or barely clad were clothed, and African that was clothed and arrayed in fine clothe were stripped and all that were in this condition and shipped out or left at home in Africa, Asia or Europe, or the America's could only be judged, and dealt with through the eyes of others away from their reality regardless of color, creed or nationality. Together the two version gives you what is the two sides to the lives of the people all around the world that we either just romanticize or criticize. India.Arie tell of the times that we smile through our pains and have the sensuality of our being human and ourselves as sexual sensuous mankind. Sade tell of the experience and the understanding of why shoes is not the important need of these people. But the pain of their daily lifestyle to hard work, long trips just to get basics like food and or to sell and trade goods for survival on ones head, while the disputes between the lies and lines draw by indifference of mankind to the human rights of all living things sharing this planet Earth. What do these people need that we cannot see or measure by our own needs? I can't speak for them, but I can communicate with them if I listen to the pounding of my heart and I know that it can hurt with or without new shoes. LOVE AND PEACE. (C)"1980 Africans Abroad," by I.M. Alleyne A work-in-Progress. www.theannalsadn.com and www.jdhspeducationalitems.vpweb.com

HEALTHY HEARTS NEED HELPING HANDS

PARTICIPATE AND DONATE

From: Angelia Wedderburn
Subject: Join My National Wear Red Any Day Group
To: imadasneves@yahoo.com
Date: Saturday, October 17, 2009, 12:17 AM


Healthy Hearts Club is inviting all members to recruit five friends,family members or co-workers to join our club.

Hello

I’d like to invite you to support National Wear Red Day.

You may not know this, but the number one killer of women is heart disease. And every year more than 460,000 women die from this largely preventable disease.

National Wear Red Day is a day to recognize the women who have died from this disease, to build awareness of the statistics, and to encourage all women to make a choice to beat heart disease. This year National Wear Red Day is February 5. National Wear Red Day is for women like Theresa. As a busy mom, Theresa kept putting off a check-up, but called her doctor when she felt tired, short of breath, and started having back and chest pains. “I had a feeling that it was my heart, but all the tests were saying it wasn’t, “ Theresa said. Two months later, Theresa had a massive heart attack at a family birthday party. She was 38. You can read Theresa’s story at www.GoRedForWomen.org/stories.

As a supporter of Go Red For Women, the American Heart Association’s initiative to build awareness and raise funds towards the cause of women and heart disease, I have created a group that you can join, (Healthy Heart Club). Support the cause by wearing red and donating $25 or more to support the science and research of the American Heart Association that benefits all women, men and children.

On behalf of women everywhere, please join me to fight and beat this deadly disease.
Thank You for your support.
Angelia

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THERE IS A FATHER FOR THIS CHILD ALSO

www.nationnews.com "Searching for mother of abandoned baby" comment to news item.
IT NEVER SEEMS TO OCCUR TO ANYONE REPORTING OR INVESTIGATING THIS TYPE OF CASE THAT MANY MORE TIMES THAN NOT THE FATHER'S ARE INVOLVED IN THE ACT AND MAY HAVE BEEN THE ONE TO HAVE ASSISTED IN THE DELIVERY AND ABANDONMENT. OR THIS CHILD IS A PRODUCT OF A CRIME AGAINST AN UNDER AGE CHILD WHO HAS A SITUATION THAT WAS PERPETRATED ON THEM BOTH. ITS TIME SOCIETY STOP THE GENDER BIAS ON FEMALES AS THE ONE WHO ALWAYS DOES THE BABY ABANDONING JUST AS THEY ALSO HAVE THE GENDER BIAS FOR THE MALE CAST IN OF NOT BEING A RAPE VICTIM IF HE HAS BEEN. THERE IS JOINT RESPONSIBILITIES HERE FOR THE PARENTS OF THE CHILD AND THERE ARE TWO SETS OF FAMILIES THIS CHILD IS A MEMBER OF UNKNOWN AS THEY MAY BE. IF THE SITUATION IS ONE WHERE A TOURIST COUPLE HAS DONE THIS AND LEFT THE ISLAND, WHAT WILL THEY DO. SHE SEEMS TOO YOUNG TO DETERMINE HER NATIONALITY FROM THE PHOTO, SO HOPEFULLY THERE WILL BE SOME FAMILY THAT CAN HELP HER GET PAST THIS HURT AS SHE GROWS AND SHIELD HER FROM KNOWING THIS BECAUSE OF THE LIFE LONG DAMAGE IT COULD DO MENTALLY. THAT THIS STORY SHOULD NOT FOLLOW HER IN HER ADOPTION IF IT OCCURS. PEOPLE SOMETIMES CAN BE CRUEL TO A CHILD'S ESTEEM EVEN WHEN THEY ARE ADULTS IT CAN HARM TO KNOW THIS. SHE IS MEANT TO HAVE SURVIVED OR ELSE THEY WOULD HAVE JUST KILLED HER RATHER THAN LEAVE HER ALIVE. THEY WANTED HER TO BE FOUND. TOO BAD THEY DON'T HAVE A WAY TO PINPOINT THE FATHER TOO. NEW DNA TEST ALREADY CAN DO THIS THESE DAYS. THESE PEOPLE NEED SERIOUS HELP TO HAVE THIS HAPPEN. WE ACCEPT AS A SOCIETY THE IDEA THAT A CHILD ONLY BELONGS TO THE WOMAN THROUGH THE PREGNANCY AND DELIVERY. CHILDREN ARE FIRST BIRTHED FROM THEIR FATHERS INTO THEIR MOTHERS AND KEEPING THAT DATE IS JUST AS IMPORTANT AS THE DELIVERY DATE. CHILDREN FIRST BEING ABANDONED BY THEIR FATHERS BEFORE THEY ARE BORN IS JUST AS HARMFUL SOCIALLY AND MENTALLY, BUT SOCIETY HAS ADAPTED TO THIS FORM AS ACCEPTABLE AND LESS DAMAGING. YET WE ALL KNOW HOW GOOD IT IS WHEN FATHERS ARE SUPPORTIVE PARTNERS IN THEIR PREGNANCY AS A COUPLE.