Salute to the 2018 Oakland Anti War Rally Participants

“Salute to Spring 2018 Oakland Anti-War Rally Participants”

(3 min/ 9 seconds) SF Bay Area Anti-War Rally Report on April 15 Tax Day Peace March from the Lake Merritt Amphitheater to downtown Oakland by Vic Sadot at 

Vic Sadot Broadside Balladeer YouTube Channel. (1920 x 1280) Vic uses a mix of photos and video clips and the “Truth Troubadour” CD licensed recording of “Masters of War” at CD Baby. 

This is a collection of video clips and photos from the April 15, 2018 "End the Wars at Home & Abroad Spring 2018 Action" in Oakland, CA. A crowd gathered at 11 am at the Lake Merritt Amphitheater in Oakland and marched to Oscar Grant Plaza for a second rally in center city Oakland. (Also known as Frank Ogawa Plaza). Cover photo and intro video clip by Gypsy Taub. Thanks! All other demonstration photos and video clips are by Vic Sadot. The photos and video clips are arranged into a short video presentation of the event with segments from the recording of Masters of War released on the "Truth Troubadour" CD, which is available at CD Baby. Vic Sadot on vocals and acoustic guitar. Eric Golub on violin.

TruthTroubadour (2017) – 18 songs sung by Vic Sadot. Featuring Eric Golub and Rob Sadot. 

OfficialSite for Vic Sadot Music

Vic Sadot joins Progressive Majority Creative Network

Today, March 18, 2017, Vic Sadot joined the Progressive Majority Creative Network and posted his profile at the new wordpress website. You are invited to check out Vic's new profile and links, and also to browse around to see the other artists getting ready for Sing Out actions. If you are a singer-songwriter looking to get active in the Trump phase of the Post 9/11 era, apply for a profile. Berkeley's Hali Hammer came up with the idea! Vist the Hali Hammer Artist Profile 

The photo selected for the profile is a screenshot from a Labor Project Video YouTube Channel Jail the Bankers post of Vic Sadot singing at an event by United Public Workers for Action. Steve Zeltzer, host of WorkWeek Radio on KPFA, was the key organizer. All shows are archived at WorkWeek Radio SoundCloud. There's a link to a "Truth Troubadour" YouTube playlist of Vic Sadot singing "live" at various SF Bay Area actions. Freeman Sullivan was also doing a live-stream of the October 2016 action.

Vic Sadot released a new 18 Song CD titled "Truth Troubadour" on CD Baby on December 2, 2016.  You can hit individual song buttons or “Preview Them All” to hear the songs. "Truth Troubadour" is the most acoustic and reflective CD that Vic Sadot has released. 17 of 18 of the songs have Vic on vocals and guitar, and some piano accordion. 

Eric Golub contributes his formidable talents on various stringed instruments, such as viola and violin, as well as a regular and a baritone ukulele. Rockin' Rob Sadot is featured on electric guitar on 3 of the songs. The lead-off song, Left My Mind, is the only rock song. Left My Mind has Dean A Banks on keyboards and Rob Rbeast Hunter on drums rocking it out on an old Joe Sadot song with Vic and Rob Sadot.

“Truth Troubadour” is the most acoustic and reflective CD of the four that Vic Sadot has listed at CD Baby: "Comin' Home (1997); "Broadsides & Retrospectives" (2005); "9/11 Truth & Justice Songs" (2011).

Some tracks on "Truth Troubadour" already have videos made for them people can watch them on "Vic Sadot" and "Truth Troubadour" YouTube channels. For example, “Full SpectrumDominance”, "Courage To Resist Free Chelsea Manning", and "In the Harbor of Love". "The Fog Watch" was adapted from a poem by Vic's Uncle George Reuter. The song takes you back into a time before we had paved roads, a time when it took farmers an over-night trek to deliver their harvest to the nearest local marketplace. 

Brothers Vic and Rob Sadot enjoy playing two songs written by their departed middle brother Joe Sadot (1978). They are Left My Mind and Lori, which features exquisite viola and ukulele improvisations from Eric Golub.

♫ Truth Troubadour CD by Vic Sadot was also published to CD Baby's YouTube Channel on Dec 11, 2016. This site allows full length play of the cover songs while the CD Baby sales site only allows 30 second listening clips of our 4 licensed cover songs. We were able to set the rest to full length review at the CD Baby sales site. To hear our full versions of "Masters of War" by Bob Dylan, "Working Class Hero" by John Lennon, and "Changes" and "United Fruit" by Phil Ochs visit Truth Troubadour at the CD Baby YouTube Channel playlist for this CD. 18 Songs in all! Love Songs & Broadsides for 2017 and the Post-9/11 Trump Era! 

Related Links:

♫ Vic Sadot Releases 4th CD on CD Baby – Berkeley Calling Blog 12-26-16

https://berkeleycalling.wordpress.com/2016/12/27/vic-sadot-releases-4th-cd-on-cd-baby

♫ “Truth Troubadour CD Is Ready For Review!” Truth Troubadour CD by Vic Sadot and the 18 songs on the disc were posted at CD Baby on Dec 2, 2016. Now we need some reviews! https://vicsadot.com/2016/12/14/truth-troubadour-cd-ready-for-review

Previous CD from 2011:

9/11 TRUTH &JUSTICE SONGS (9/11/11) by Vic Sadot

Courage To Resist - A Tribute to Bradley Manning, wikileaks, & GI Resisters

Courage To Resist - A tribute to GI Resistance in 2011 by Vic Sadot in support of Private Bradley Manning and wikileaks for exposing the lies, war crimes, and cover-ups by the corporate empire. Bradley Manning, Nicole Mitchell, Marc Hall, and others give us hope for truth and justice. If they can stand up when already bound up by the military control over their lives, then we can too!

Check out their real life stories of resistance at www(dot)couragetoresist(com)

The first version of the song which was made for video was a Valentine to Bradley Manning created by Code Pink activist Holly Harwood and posted to YouTube. The second version was a live recording by Vic Sadot. And the third version is this one using the studio recording featuring Eric Golub on viola and Vic on vocals and acoustic guitar with visuals selected by Vic to match the lyrics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TISIoFBmUFc

A Video Valentine for Bradley Manning by Code Pink Golden Gate Feb 14 2011

"Courage To Resist" by Vic Sadot is the name of the soundtrack for this Code Pink "Valentine Video to Bradley Manning". The song was written for a demonstration on Jan 12, 2011 at Old Berkeley City Hall to support Bradley Manning, wikileaks, and to close Guantanamo prison and release all the prisoners who have already been cleared. "Courage To Resist" is the name of the organization in support of US military people who have turned against war or who have become whistle-blowers about war crimes. Holly Harwood, Coordinator of Code Pink Golden Gate, came up with the idea of a video Valentine for Bradley Manning. She requested Vic Sadot's new studio recording of "Courage To Resist" with the wonderful viola of Eric Golub accompanying. It was recorded at Robot Envy Studio in Berkeley by owner/sound engineer Sammy Fielding on Feb 10, 2011. Many activists in the San Francisco Bay Area signed the Valentine posters for Bradley at recent events like the Code Pink march on Golden Gate bridge on Feb 14 and the Social Justice Committee of the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalist's "Country Joe Open Mic" on Feb 11. Their heartfelt statements in support of Bradley Manning are nicely intermixed with recent photos of people in the Bay Area taking their message to the streets. Blowing the whistle on war crimes is a duty, not a crime! Free Bradley Manning now! Prosecute the war criminals! Get involved! Contact "Courage To Resist"!
http://www.couragetoresist.org