Never allow your wanton desires to interfere with the basic needs and interests of others and live simply so others may simply live
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Nikki Yanofsky
Fifteen year old Nikki Yanofsky is a young jazz-pop singer from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In the summer of 2006 when she was only 12 years old she became the youngest performer to headline her own show in the 29 year history of the Montreal International Jazz Festival. Since then, she has performed to sold-out crowds at each of the subsequent Montreal festivals. She has also performed at Montreal's Bell Centre, The Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival in Montego Bay, with Marvin Hamlisch at Carnegie Hall in New York City and the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and with The Count Basie Orchestra at the 2008 Luminato Festival in Toronto.
The following are highlights from her first release "Ella... of Thee I Swing." This Concert DVD comes with an Audio CD of the concert and has been on sale in Canada since late September, 2008.
The progress of social justice is slow and measured. Its growth depends on an increasing number of us becoming aware of the truth and consequences of our actions.
I believe that it is morally wrong to allow our wanton desires to interfere with the basic needs and interests of other sentient beings.
I believe the physical and psychological abuse – confinement, social deprivation, mutilation, genetic and reproductive manipulation, and profit exploitation – imposed by us on other animals is morally wrong.
I believe the suggestion that the exploitation of other sentient beings by humans can be achieved without cruelty, violence, or injustice is false and misleading.
As an advocate for all life, committed to compassion and justice, I refuse to take part in the exploitation of other sentient beings or to collaborate with those caught up in such injustice.
I pledge to do my best to live a life that conveys a clear, sincere and uncompromised message that is free of resentment, fear, exploitation, anger, cynicism, and manipulation.
Furthermore, I pledge to continue to support a broad range of nonviolent initiatives and programs that will hopefully one day eliminate the needless pain and suffering we inflict upon all the many wonderful creatures with whom we share this planet.
1 comment:
Lovely. I'm going to feature this video in my next post on Pop Impulse. Thanks for connecting me with this talent.
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