Ross and Lear team up to honor Nobel Peace Prize Winner Leymah Gbowee

Posted by on Nov 6, 2011 in Updates | 103 comments

I have been asked to sing another brand-new Tina Lear song written for my voice and to honor Nobel Peace Prize Winner Leymah Gbowee!!!!! The event will take place on November 15th 2011, 5:30pm-7:30pm at The Fund For The City of New York put together by Cap21.org

 

  •  Here is an excerpt from Ms. Gbowee’s website:

    In 2008, the critically-acclaimed and award-winning documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell, which is having its  U.S. television premiere on October 18 as part of PBS’s Women, War and Peace, featured a group of brave and visionary women who demanded peace for Liberia. Their demonstrations culminated in the exile of Charles Taylor and the election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa’s first female head of state.

    One particularly charismatic woman among them was Leymah Gbowee, (who former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert has said “should be a lesson to all of us”). Gbowee helped organize and then lead the Liberian Mass Action for Peace, a coalition of Christian and Muslim women who sat in public protest, confronting Liberia’s ruthless president and rebel warlords, and even held a sex strike. Gbowee emerged as an international leader who changed history, marking the vanguard of a new wave of women taking control of their political destiny around the world.

    Mighty Be Our Powers is Gbowee’s full story in her own words. It picks up before Pray the Devil Back to Hell and brings the reader up to date with Gbowee’s now-multinational efforts to empower women to bring peace to their countries. The book chronicles a very personal response to extreme adversity – the cycles of despair, hope, and exhaustion; the hard choice between family (Gbowee is a mother of six) and work; the doubts and decision-making of the leader of a trailblazing civilian protest.

  • http://praythedevilbacktohell.com/

103 Responsesto “Ross and Lear team up to honor Nobel Peace Prize Winner Leymah Gbowee”

  1. Soara-Joye Ross says:
    November 15, 2011 at 4:53 PM

    OMGOSH EVERYONE!!!! I can hardly contain myself today!!! This is definitely the most important day of my life thus far! Tina and I rehearsed “Because of One” for a good long while yesterday and found our rhythm with each other! The song is gorgeous and it fills me up more and more every time I sing it; as does Tina’s other song. She gets me and I get her! What a blessing!

    Anyway, today’s the day I will certainly let you know how amazing it all went!

    Peace, Light and Love to you all!!!!

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