WeOwnTV and Blessed Sons team up to produce anti-corruption anthem and music video in partnership with Jeunesses Musicales International (JMI) and the World Bank Institute for their global campaign: Fair Play - Anti-Corruption Youth Voices Campaign. LOVE IT! great work Blessed Sons, Arthur, Baarmmy and Jah Son!!!!!

Corruption affects you and me. It ruins individual lives affects entire communities. We need to stand together, to step up and make our voices heard.

Check out online feature on the Sierra Leone's Refugee All stars band by "Supreme Master TV". I love the international vibe of this piece. Black Nature also really spreads out the message beautifully.

"Welcome gifted viewers to today’s edition of Good People, Good Works, featuring the musical group Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars. The Refugee All Stars are comprised of six Sierra Leonean musicians who, due to instability in their nation during the １９９０’s, left their home of Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone, and lived for years as refugees in the West African nation of Guinea."

PLEASE come vote for us!!! WeOwnTV is entered to win an amazing Webdesign Grant from Free Range Studios which would be a huge boost for the program. For those who have voted already: big big thanks!!! We are in first place in 'Arts' catagory and want to keep the voting strong through the contest end date - Dec. 1st.
Free RangeStudios - Youtopia Grant - VOTE & you decide what the world needs.

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Lungi Arrival: After almost 24 hours of travel we have arrived here in Sierra Leone. Very tired last night and was a bit rainy. We are staying in Benke village not too far form Lungi airpot. Woke up to roosters crowing, cheeping chicks, morning birds and that familiar sound of sweeping dirt in the compound. Was sunny though. Sun and rain = soooooo humid here. Benke is absolutely beautiful though. Majestic Banyan trees, palm trees, and winding walking paths lined with tall grass.

We were met at the airport by our chief local staff member Arthur Pratt: http://bit.ly/2Wimn3
Woke up and travelled to Dankama Guest House, the site where we are holding the workshop. Great space and the couple who runs the space is great. Ma and Pa Koroma. We brought a digital projector and purchassed a white UNHCR plastic tarp we are going to string up for evening screenings.AND the guest house has a classic old school PopCorn Maker :)

August 3, 2009: A NEW CHAPTER BEGINS

Visualizing a new creative future for Sierra Leone.

Dear Friends,

In just 3 WEEKS the WeOwnTV team will be heading out for our first workshop in Sierra Leone! 16 young women and men have been selected to take part in the program. They are excited to learn and thrilled with the opportunity these new skills will represent in their lives. With your support, WeOwnTV will make enormous positive change in their lives and help them realize their dreams.

I want to thanks all of you who came out to support us at Citizen Space last Wed. night. It was a really great event!!! Thank you to all who donated funds and equipment for our upcoming August workshop.