Member Since: 10/03/2007
Band Website: www.myspace.com/grassrootsstreetorchestra
Influences: Real Life. Open theological, spiritual, philosophical and political discourse. Majority World opinion. The deep heart of India. The works of Radicals, Anarchists, Marxists, Constructivists, Socialists and various other political traditions. Political Influences - Past & Present. Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatistas, Evo Morales, Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution, Bob Brown and Australian Indigenous and Radical leaders, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Jose Marti, Emiliano Zapata, Nelson Mandela, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mumia Abdul Jamal, Martin Luther King, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Augusto César Sandino, Malcom X, Bhagat Singh, Rani Lakshmibai, Bobby Sands, Leon Trotsky, Michael Collins, Ammon Hennacy, Goth Whitlam, Rohana Wijeweera, the inner voice of dissent against oppression and the repression of human dignity. Other Political Teachers and Writers. Dr. Anthony Van Fossen, C.H. Douglas, John Mearsheimer, Greg Palast, John Pilger, Noam Chomsky, Joseph Stiglitz. Spiritual Masters and Writers. Ma Anjali, Siddhartha Gautama, Jesus Christ, Prophet Muhhamad, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, William Tsiknas, David Deida, Andre Van Lysebeth, Adi Da, Paramahansa Yogananda, Nealle Donald Walsch, Carlos Castenada, James Redfield, Dan Millman Master Writers and Poets. RG Smith (Mentor), Bryce Courtenay (Mentor), Rohinton Mystry, Arundhati Roy, Kahlil Gibran, Aldous Huxley, E.A. Poe, Kiram Desai, Paulo Coelho, Rumi, Hafiz, Pablo Neruda. Musical Influences - Political, Spiritual, Lyrical. Tupac Shakur, Immortal Technique, Zac De La Rocka and Rage Against the Machine, KRS-One, Rakim, Wu-Tang, Saul Williams...
Record Label: Independant