[Sosfbay-discuss] Fwd: Appeal to Members of the Green Party of California to Help Vic Sadot Get Settled in California

Mon Oct 6 19:38:11 PDT 2008

Subject: Appeal to Members of the Green Party of California to Help 
Vic Sadot Get Settled in California

Appeal To Members of the Green Party of California to Help Activist 
Singer-Songwriter Vic Sadot

The message below was originally sent in late August from Dave 
McCorquodale, Green Party of Delaware, to try to line up some help 
from Green Party of California activists for activist 
singer-songwriter Vic Sadot. My truck engine blew in Evanston, 
Wyoming, and I was stranded there for two weeks while I waited for a 
used engine to be delivered and installed. My meager resources 
evaporated. An appeal for gas money from friends back in Delaware 
finally enabled me to get to San Francisco. I had a place to stay for 
a week in Oakland, but I spent the last three days living in the back 
of my truck. And that's where I will be tonight again. Nonetheless, I 
played for Cynthia McKinney at the Marin County Green Party 
fundraiser for her last Sunday and she called out the names of my 
songs. I also played for the Green Party at Foothill Community 
College last Wednesday where Carol Brouillet spoke to the students. I 
also attended the Thursday meeting of the Northern California 9/11 
Truth Alliance. I hope you will check out what Dave wrote on my 
behalf and the links to the songs I sing. I think I could be a great 
asset to the Green Party of California if I can manage to stick 
around long enough to find a way to relocate here. Vic Sadot

Green Friends,
    I am writing to ask you to help Vic Sadot when he is in the San 
Francisco Area. He is traveling
to California and will spend some time in Templeton and some time 
around SF. He doesn't have much resources. He's a talented musician, 
a supporter of Cynthia McKinney, and active in the 9/11 Truth 
movement. (Sadot is pronounced as Sa-doe)

Vic is a Green Party member known for his topical songs and also for 
his Cajun/Zydeco band called Planete Folle (Crazy Planet). He has 
just completed a one year VISTA assignment and is planning to visit 
an old friend from Delaware and his wife. They live in Templeton, CA.

Last September Vic met Cynthia McKinney at a local Delaware living 
room (Green Party) gathering when whe was traveling by car from Maine 
to Louisiana. Vic gave Cynthia a CD for her road trip, and he got the 
following endorsement not long after that.

Vic's resources are somewhat marginal. So Vic would welcome any help 
along the way, such as places to crash, places to play, introductions 
to musicians and activists who may need a singer-songwriter in the 
tradition of Woody Guthrie, Phil Ochs, and Bob Dylan. He's been 
giving away his political songs on the internet at places like 
MySpace and LastFM. Check them out! You can reach Vic at 
<mailto:frogjogger at aol.com>frogjogger at aol.com (or call him on his cell phone
302-607-1884).

Cynthia McKinney, former 6 term Congresswoman from Georgia, current 
Green Party Presidential candidate and a convenor of tribunals 
investigating 9/11 & criminal negligence in the response to Hurricane Katrina.

Vic Sadot's music produces in me a wide range of reactions from awe 
to action to tears. Cheney's in the Bunker produces awe because every 
line of that song is power-packed with information that most people 
don't know because it was omitted from the 9/11 Commission report. 
Ballad of William Rodriguez and Ballad of Pat Tillman give you so 
much information and make you want to act to find the truth about 
9/11 and reach out to Pat Tillman's parents for their tremendous loss 
and the Pentagon's lies about it.

Finally, The Kidnapping Coup, about the US-inspired kindapping of 
Haiti's President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, brings me to tears. On 
song after song, Sadot tells us too much of the sad, sad truth. Not 
only have I found in Vic a new friend who understands my passion for 
what is right, I've found someone who knows how to artistically 
communicate the critical issues of our day. I listen to Vic's songs 
every day, either while listening to them on CD, or while replaying 
them in my head.

Vic Sadot's Crazy Planet Band at MySpace offers free political songs 
in mp3 format: Cheney's in the Bunker, Ballad of William Rodriguez, 
Are You a Citizen or Are You a Slave, Mad Cowboy Disease, Ballad of 
Pat Tillman,
and Vic's tribute to Phil Ochs called Broadside Balladeer.
<http://www.myspace.com/vicsadotscrazyplanetband>http://www.myspace.com/vicsadotscrazyplanetband 

One reason Vic came to California is that he is one of the 30 plus 
featured songwriters on No Lies Radio,
based in San Francisco, the only station to broadcast Green Party 
Presidential contender debates and the 2008 Convention:
<http://www.noliesradio.org/>http://www.noliesradio.org

Vic Sadot Booking Kit at Sonicbids.com
<http://www.sonicbids.com/vicsadot>http://www.sonicbids.com/vicsadot

Vic is also a prolific essayist or blogger as we say these days. He 
has posted lyrics and discussions for numerous songs and topics at 
Last FM internet radio base in the UK:
<http://www.last.fm/music/vic+sadot>http://www.last.fm/music/vic+sadot

The official site of Vic Sadot Music Projects:
<http://www.vicsadot.com/>http://www.vicsadot.com

CD Baby has Vic's Broadsides & Retrospectives CD and they can be 
bought as single mp3's.
The Best of 25 Years of Vic Sadot Recordings: 19 original folk, rock, 
blues songs.
<http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/vicsadot2>http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/vicsadot2

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