Call Mr. Robeson comes to Wellingborough

Black History Month 2016 and Hate Crime Awareness Week

Wellingborough Afro-Caribbean Association (WACA) 

presents in conjuction with

Northamptonshire Rights and Equality Council (NREC), UNISON, UNITE–the union, National Union of Teacher, Independent Socialists in Wellingborough (ISW), The Big Lottery

Paul Robeson is a world-famous actor, singer and civil rights campaigner. When he gets too radical and outspoken for the establishment's liking, he is branded a traitor to his country, is harassed, and denied opportunities to perform or travel.

This roller-coaster journey through Robeson’s remarkable life highlights how his pioneering and heroic political activism led many to describe him as the forerunner of the civil rights movement. It features some famous songs (including a dramatic rendition of Ol’ Man River), speeches, and a spectacularly defiant testimony to the US Senate House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s.

Friday   October 14th   2016

7.30pm

FREE Caribbean buffet food from 6.00pm

Rock Street Centre Rock Street

Wellingborough NN8 4LW

Tickets:

£6.00 in advance (see below)

£8.00 on the door

           

Disabled access             BSL Signers for the deaf

Advanced bookings: https://callmrrobeson.eventbrite.co.uk

Or tickets can be purchased from WACA and

NREC (cash or cheque – payable to WACA)

Further info: telephone Paul 07872836463

or iswwellingborough@gmail.com

     

A Tribute to Pete Seeger

Pete Seeger and Woodie Guthrie 1950

You know, this language that we speak

Is part German, part Latin and part Greek,

With some Celtic and Arabic all in the heap,

Well amended by the man in the street.

Choctaw gave us the word ‘okay’,

‘Vamoose’ is a word from Mexico way,

And all this is a hint, I suspect,

Of what comes next.

Chorus: I think that this whole world,

I think that this whole wide world,

Soon, mama, my whole world,

Soon gonna be got mixed up.

I like Polish sausage, I like Spanish rice;

Pizza pie is also nice.

Corn and beans from the Indians here,

Washed down by some German beer.

Marco Polo travelled by camel and pony,

Brought to Italy the first macaroni;

And you and I, as well as we’re able,

Put it all on the table.

(Chorus)

There were no redheaded Irishmen

Before the Vikings landed in Ireland;

How many Romans had dark curly hair

Before they brought slaves from Africa?

No race of man is completely pure,

Nor is any man’s mind, and that’s for sure;

The winds mix up the dust of every land,

And so will man.

(Chorus)

This doesn’t mean we must all be the same,

We’ll have different faces and different names;

Long live many different kinds of races,

And it’s difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Just remember the rule about rules, brother:

‘What’s right with one is wrong with another’;

And take a tip from La Belle France,

Vive la différence!

(Chorus)

Pete Seeger

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