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You may have not been following this series of Communiqués for the NEW GUARD of DETROIT

These come from the pages of the Corktown Music Festival. The festival is BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE OF DETROIT. This is a free festival for all ages that features many genres of music, and embraces many forms of display and performance art. This is the third year for the festival which is held on the last Saturday of July.

15 principles of the NEW GUARD of Detroit

Communiqué of NEW GUARD of DETROIT: INDEPENDENCE (5/24/10~5/28/10)~Raison d’être

I NOT ONLY HAVE THE RIGHT TO STAND UP FOR MYSELF, BUT I HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY. I can’t ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won’t standup for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you’d be surprised that people say, “Can I be of help?” ~MAYA ANGELOU (contemporary U.S. writer and poet)

I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods out of my entrails. ~ GLORIA ANZALDUA (contemporary Tejana Chicana poet)

SELF-SUFFICIENCY… HAS THREE MEANINGS. The first is that one should not depend upon others for one’s daily bread. The second is that one should have developed the power to acquire knowledge for oneself. The third is that man should be able to rule himself, to control his senses and his thoughts. ~ VINOBA BHAVE (Indian social reformer, 1895~1982)

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Communiqué of NEW GUARD of DETROIT: SPEECH (5/31/10~6/4/10)~Raison d’être

YOU CAN CAGE THE SINGER
BUT NOT THE SONG. ~HARRY BELAFONTE (comtemporary U.S. singer and actor)

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the State was to make men free to develop their faculties… They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the sercet of liberty. They believed that freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think are means indispensable to the discovery and spread of political truth; that without free speech and assembly discussion would be futile; that with them, discussion affords ordinarily adequate protection against the dissemination of noxious doctrine; that the greatest menace to freedom is an inert people; that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American Government. ~ LOUIS D. BRANSEIS (U.S. Supreme Court associate justice, 1856~1941)

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all. ~ NOAM CHOMSKY (contemporary U.S. linguist and political activist)

Though the whole world grumble, I will speak my mind. ~ CICERO (Roman stateman, first century B.C.)

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Communiqué of NEW GUARD of DETROIT: INDEPENDENCE (5/24/10~5/28/10)~Raison d’être

I NOT ONLY HAVE THE RIGHT TO STAND UP FOR MYSELF, BUT I HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY. I can’t ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won’t standup for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you’d be surprised that people say, “Can I be of help?” ~MAYA ANGELOU (contemporary U.S. writer and poet)

I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods out of my entrails. ~ GLORIA ANZALDUA (contemporary Tejana Chicana poet)

SELF-SUFFICIENCY… HAS THREE MEANINGS. The first is that one should not depend upon others for one’s daily bread. The second is that one should have developed the power to acquire knowledge for oneself. The third is that man should be able to rule himself, to control his senses and his thoughts. ~ VINOBA BHAVE (Indian social reformer, 1895~1982)

I have a sense of going my own way, and I don’t really think much about whether it’s going against the grain. I don’t really want to spend a lot of time worrying about how I am perceived by other people. ~ KATHLEEN COLLINS (U.S. filmmaker, 1931~1988)

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Communiqué of NEW GUARD of DETROIT: RESPONSIBILITY (6/7/10~6/11/10)~Raison d’être

Only through human freedom and responsibility are history and salvation able to fulfill themselves. ~ LEO BAECK (German theologian, 1873~1956)

The weight of the universe is pressed down on the shoulders of each moral agent to hold him to his task. The only path of escape known in all the worlds of God is performance. You must do your work, before you shall be released. ~ RALPH WALDO EMERSON (U.S. philosopher, 1803~1882)

Rights that do not flow directly from duty well performed are not worth having. ~ MOHANDAS K. GANDHI (Indian spiritual and national leader, 1869~1948)

When the freedom they wished most for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. ~ EDITH HAMILTON (U.S. scholar and writer, 1865~1963)

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Communiqué of NEW GUARD of DETROIT: CREATIVITY (JUNE 14 ~18, 2010) ~Raison d’être

What that energy, which is the life of genius, above everything demands and insists upon is freedom; entire independence of all authority, prescription and routine- the fullest room to expand as it will. ~MATTHEW ARNOLD (English poet and critic, 1882~1888)

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

There is not a single true work of art that has in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it. ~ ALBERT CAMUS (French writer, 1913~1960)

I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved [and I cannot resist forming one on every subject], as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it. ~CHARLES DARWIN (English naturalist, 1809~1882)

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