A call to arms against the predatory financial industry that brought
us the housing & credit crisis

Koko Dozo will headline a diverse gang of committed, pissed-off
musicians out to get YOU pissed. Focused on the legalized
loan-sharking that has fueled the subprime crisis and predatory credit
card practices and school loans.

LINE-UP:

* Koko Dozo, w/ special guest & MC, La Bruja
* Brooklyn's Soulchild Theophilus London (norm Rex)
* Joe Bendik
* One Word Song
* William Rottman
* Prez Powerz
* Mammi-ama Ofori

Reality Check by Danny Schechter 'The News Dissector,' journalist,
Emmy award-winning filmmaker, author and agitator

WHEN: Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
WHERE: Public Assembly (formerly known as Galapagos)
70 N. 6th Street (between Kent and Wythe Aves.)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211
Subway Line: L to Bedford Ave.
TIME: 8pm
COST: $5

http://www.homesweethomeproject.com

Home Sweet Home was written in 1823; and though the language sounds
really ancient and drippy -- it gets to the heart of the fact that a
person's HOME has deep primal importance; but to the financial
corporatocracy a home is just a piece of property that gets bought,
sold and scammed for profit. The millions of Americans who signed onto
subprime mortgages and other scams believed they would have homes that
they would eventually pass onto their children. Many of those
mortgages were offered to high risk buyers that the lenders knew would
ultimately be unable to pay off. By selling off the debt to hedge
funds and other securities, the lenders could offer dangerously risky
mortgages with no risk. They cared nothing about the people who would
invest in the risky debt and -- worse -- cared nothing about the
people whose lives would be devastated by the loss of their homes.

With three and a half million families facing foreclosure because of
this government-sanctioned crisis, why aren't millions of people out
in the streets demanding rescue and justice? The Home Sweet Home
Project hopes to get people up off the sofa and out into the streets.
This is not a liberal or conservative issue. It's a national disease
that is striking people of every economic class -- even the rich are
losing homes due to foreclosure, every ethnic group, red states and
blue states. That is why we want musicians of every type: rock, rap,
country, blues, r&b, folk.

We want to post your version of Home Sweet Home on the site with links
to the lyrics. We want these songs to reach people and spearhead a
movement for change. Not only is this song familiar in one form or
another to practically all Americans -- it's also in the public domain
so we don't have to license it. Here's the rules:

You're free to change the lyrics on the verses. But use the chorus
lyrics as is -- sung or rapped. On the verses you can be loose with
the melody and feel free to reharmonize (alter the chord progression);
but -- again -- on the choruses stay pretty true to the original.
Instrumental versions are welcome too.

The idea is to work the issue of people losing their homes because of
predatory mortages. That covers a lot of topical and emotional
territory that can be explored: from sentimentality to rage. My own
political songs tend to be pretty hard edged (Duck, News Goo, D.C.
Whore recorded by Koko Dozo) but the Polarity/1 version of Home Sweet
Home is very sentimental -- a first for me. No need to try to kick
every aspect of the issue -- it's probably best to find one angle and
make a strong message.

This is not about getting ironic or parodying the sentimentality of
the original song. The whole point is to get people active about
regulating the financial industry and informing those at risk of
foreclosure about where they can get help. Everybody is victimized by
this -- whether it's mortages, school loans or credit cards that jack
up their interest rates at will.

http://www.homesweethomeproject.com

KOKO DOZO truly is music for the Space Age. It's ultra modern and it's
made using the latest technology and olde skool organic matter. Are
other people out there in space? Who knows? Koko Dozo believes that
such beings have been sitting around for billions of years waiting for
the music to start. And Koko Dozo is bringing the party to the space
persons. TheyÕre beaming up sound waves that vibrate in the key of
GROOVE, dipped in the house special surreal sauce. Urban organica.
Celestial demonica. Yeah...Space Is The Face.

http://www.kokodozo.com