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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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.

Black Nature and I presented our plans for the WeOwnTV workshop and spoke at the Marin School (www.themarinschool.org) in Sausalito, CA last Thursday night. Wonderful night. We were invited by Kieran Ridge who teaches English, Film and Journalism at the High School. Kieran is an amazingly warm and supportive individual and has been a big supporter of us for a few years now. Two years back he invited Nature and I to screen the SLRAS documentary www.refugeeallstars.org and do a Q&A. We were both blown away by the students. They were all interested and engaged in the film; they hosted the entire evening with student presenters; the Q&A was moderated by a student etc... etc... A community of creative, supportive educators and a passionate student body.