Finding Mary McGrath and Patrick Phelan
February 18, 2020
Recorded in October 2019 at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum in Dublin, Instioge, and Galway. Galway wall mural.
Category: Field Recordings
Your Family Is My Family Tu Familia Es Mi Familia
July 14, 2019
Voices from the Vigil Gathering for Immigrant Children, Friday, July 12, 2019, Oakland City Hall, Frank H Ogawa Plaza: Corrina Gould, Spokesperson of the Confederated Villages of Lisjan, Josie Camacho, APALA (Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO), Hiroshi Shimizu, Crystal City Pilgramage, representatives from Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, the Rev. Phillip Lawson, representative from the … More Your Family Is My Family Tu Familia Es Mi Familia
This Direct Action Brought To You By the Letter ‘L’
July 8, 2018
“You can totally say ‘no,’ but may I take your picture? I’ve never seen a hat like that.” I hold up my now wind-bent androgynous family decal-in-a-red-circle sign. It is July 2, 2018, two days after hundreds of thousands across the country demonstrated for #FamiliesBelongTogether. I am heading to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services … More This Direct Action Brought To You By the Letter ‘L’
$ Out of the Gun Industry
April 17, 2018
March 24, 2018. March for Our Lives, San Francisco. First hand account of Columbine shooting survivor who finds out she has investments in the gun industry. “It made me sick to my stomach.” Check your investments and retirement accounts and purge these publicly traded U.S. gun manufacturers: Sturm Ruger & Company Inc, NYSE ticker number … More $ Out of the Gun Industry
#ListenToThem
March 25, 2018
March 24, 2018, SF Bay Area The children are here and they are not going away. Powerful youth voices from the Bay Area March for Our Lives Rally in San Francisco includes 9th grader Maya Segal, one of the event organizers, 6th graders Dylan and Charlotte Dodson, Ayia Abraham, freshman at Margory Stoneman Douglas High … More #ListenToThem
Nylons in the Fog
July 5, 2017
Where high fashion meets the late of night above San Francisco.
Rise Up! No Time 4 Apathy!
September 18, 2016
A total psych for our national presidential election in 4 1/2 min from recordings mostly in Oakland, California between May 30, 2016 and June 6, 2016 leading up to our June 7th primary. The voices and sounds you hear are: Hillary Clinton, San Diego, CA, Memorial Day, May 30, 2016 Girls Quartet singing Little … More Rise Up! No Time 4 Apathy!
Eve of a California Primary
June 7, 2016
Recorded between May 30, 2016 and June 6, 2016, mostly in Oakland, California, leading up to California’s 2016 June 7th primary. The voices and sounds you hear are: Hillary Clinton, San Diego, CA, Memorial Day, May 30, 2016 Girls Quartet singing Little Mix (Wings), Oakland School of the Arts, Downtown Oakland Rally for Hillary, June … More Eve of a California Primary
World War II Letter Home, read on Memorial Day
May 28, 2016
A letter, read by a fellow World War II veteran, from a 35 year old Lieutenant and school principal from Illinois who was stationed in England when he learned of the birth of his baby daughter on December 13, 1943. Recorded on Memorial Day, May 30, 2005, Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA.
How Old You Are
January 15, 2016
If you spend a lot of time thinking how old you are You Put away Many days So you don’t Have the Days to think about. My mother, Anne G. Perry, in 36 seconds, on the practicalities involved when aging.
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