Rock A Mole Productions
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An important new film: "The Ultimate Song"
"If musicians could help put an end to poverty, that would be the ultimate song."--Fredo Ballesteros, Boxing Gandhis
Rock A Mole Productions has just finished a documentary film, The Ultimate Song, that highlights the great importance of music in the battle to end poverty. The Ultimate Song includes interviews and/or performance footage of Ice T, Sara Hickman, Jackson Browne, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Bruce Springsteen, Brother Bank, Marah, Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule, Krown Ju-Elz, Steve Earle, Kindred, Wayne Kramer, and Brian Blade.
This is combined with interviews and action footage of the growing poor people's movement in the United States. The leaders from the ranks of the poor detail the importance of music in their work, how it helps break down the isolation of individuals and organizations and how it keeps spirits up during trying times.
The Ultimate Song explores a new relationship between musicians and poor people's organizations, where the poverty of musicians and their struggle to create is placed on the same footing as the general problems of high rent and low health care.
The Ultimate Song, filled with music from beginning to end, shows how the use of culture can help bring about the end of poverty for musician and fan alike. It tackles such questions as: "Are Poor People Lazy?," "What Color is Poverty?," "Musicians Are (Poor) People Too," "The Power of Music," and "What Can Musicians Do?".
"With our leaflets or our speeches, we can only speak to hundreds or thousands of people. Music speaks to millions."--Willie Baptist, Director of Education, Kensington Welfare Rights Union
A VHS copy of the Ultimate Song will be provided FREE to any musician who wants one. If that's you, just email us at rockrap@aol.com with your name and postal address. For everyone else, we request a $10 donation. Please send to: RRC, Box 341305, Los Angeles CA 90034.
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Quotes from the community
"I dug the message and showed it to all here at our label
and all the bands on the roster."--Chris Barber, Pop Sweatshop Records,
Olympia WA
"Very touching, very real."--Najashi, Dread Daze, Los Angeles
"If the message is to get people to think and act, then you will be successful."--Rick Ivanoff, Dog Star Music, Toronto
"The Ultimate Song was incredible. I want to participate."--Sondra Seven, Wound Girls, Las Vegas
"We are showing the film to other rappers around our country. We want to know more about the campaign for poor people's economic human rights because in my country this is a big problem."--Canal Simba, Daznundaz Family, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
"I think the Just Health Care campaign is great and I will help promote it in AfterFX Magazine and via my band, Think of 3, in the Philly area."--James Harvey, Philadelphia
"The way you are creatively educating people on significant issues is wonderful."--Donna DeWitt, President, AFL-CIO of South Carolina