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Word Up Recirculation: Benefit Concert for Injured Palestinian Journalist

Sunday, November 17, 2024 – 4:00pm to 6:00pm
RECIRCULATION A project of Word Up
876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)
New York, NY 10032

Cello and piano benefit concert for Gazan journalist Moamen Hermaid and his family. Pianist Robert Lind and cellist Alejandro Acosta will be playing Brahms/Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Rachmaninoff/Vocalise, Piazzolla/Milonga Sin Palabras, Schubert/Arpeggione Sonata in A.

Moamen Hemaid is a brave independent journalist in North Gaza. He was injured in a horrific attack and now his jaw is broken and his teeth shattered. To make matters worse, these injuries have become infected after he used funds meant for his treatment to save his community from starvation and thirst. AND NOW Moamen also has a terrible chest infection from breathing in toxic fumes and dust from the bombing while helping in rescue efforts. This is AT THE SAME TIME as the North of Gaza is being obliterated and annexed in this new campaign to ethnically cleanse the area of its population. He needs support for water, food, antibiotics, and for medical evacuation.

– Zelle: 518-364-1059
– Venmo/CashApp: AAAcello
– PayPal: baroquebarbie@gmail.com
– Follow Moamen on IG: @ moamen_hemaid     or on TickTock: @ moamen_hemaid_

Robert Lind grew up in southern New Hampshire, near Boston and took piano and music theory lessons at the New England Conservatory Preparatory Division. After majoring in music at Amherst College, he pursued advanced degrees in composition at the University of California at Berkeley and Brandeis University. Robert spent time as music director of summer stock theater companies, where he was accompanist for opera workshops. Non-music jobs then took over for several years but since retirement, he has returned to performing and composing.

Alejandro Acosta started his musical training at a early age, studying in both his native city of Bogotá and the town of Cota, where he spent his formative years. At the age of 8, he enrolled in the Music Conservatory preparatory program of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and later continued his studies at Oklahoma City University and Syracuse University. Subsequently, he became cello and chamber music professor at Universidad de Cundinamarca and performed regularly with the Bogotá Chamber Orchestra, Ensamble Barroco de Bogotá, Cuarteto Efferus, and Cuarteto Hadaly, among others. Having since returned to the States, Alejandro now works as a freelance musician in New York City.

Building the Bridge to a Post-Growth World | Climate Week NYC

As temperatures rise and the world careens past its carbon emissions goals, proponents of “de-growth” present a compelling framework to refashion our economic life around “human flourishing and ecological stability, rather than around the constant accumulation of capital” (Jason Hickel). Chris Whittaker–Fordham Law J.D. candidate, co-leader of Fordham’s Climate Law Equity & Sustainability Initiative, and Washington Heights neighbor–presents an introduction to de-growth theory that invites everyone to critically examine the assumptions that underlie our economic life, introducing the concepts of planetary boundaries, the myth of decoupling growth from extraction, how debt drives environmental degradation, and how public money and public banking could provide a path to a post-growth society. Hosted by Fort Washington Collegiate Church.