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Freedom Aviation Moves Forward After Lynchburg City Council Vote

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Lynchburg, VA - Freedom Aviation's work to complete their merge with Virginia Aviation has cleared a huge hurdle.

By a 6-1 vote, Lynchburg City Council last night approved a measure that allows Liberty University-owner Freedom to negotiate a lease to become the sole Fixed Base Operator for Lynchburg Airport, providing services such as repairs and fueling.

Airport Commission members expressed concern that the lack of competition would drive up prices and limit service.

Freedom President Dave Young countered that a city run FBO would be a bad move for the City.

"Of the 66 airports in Virginia, the two thirds that are managed by municipality FBO's are small airports, and the main reason that occurs is because there is no profit motive there for a private entity," says Dave Young, president of Freedom Aviation.

Council will review the new lease later this year before giving full approval.

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Freedom Jam notes waiting to waft through winds

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The logo Freedom JamNo Bread perfectly sums up the spirit behind a festival which is all about playing your thing---everything else be damned!

Though the Freedom Jam movement was birthed in Bengaluru, its offshoot versions in this city have not just provided a platform for the performance and enjoyment of diverse genres of music whether it was jazz, blues, pop, hip-hop, honky-tonk or soul and funk, but greatly helped build the tourism appeal of the place.

After a break of a couple of years, the 12th edition of Freedom Jam returns to the city and will be staged over three days from February 27 with a variety of music by performers from the backyard, Chennai, Bengaluru.

The Freedom Jam gigs were seeded in Bengaluru in 1996 when Siddhartha Patnaik, who grew up in Puducherrys libertarian environment, and a few of his like-minded friends, got together to facilitate a performing space for rock bands in India.

In those days, the benchmark for quality was all about how well you did covers a dead-on copy. For instance, a Santana cover would be perfect if the musician timed the moment he would point the guitar away from the body to gain feedback. There was hardly any space for people who did original work, said Siddhartha, who had already formed a band Bajaa.

Though the maiden event hosted at Bengalurus Ravindra Kalakshetra with a handful of bands, the more important takeaway was that the Freedom Jam got entrenched as a tradition. Alongside the annual Freedom Jam gigs, the music enthusiasts also initiated a tradition of Sunday Jams for budding musicians. These jam sessions of open-ended playing have featured bands like Avial that went to make a name for themselves in the circuit. At one point, the Freedom Jam became big enough an event to attract patronage from MTV and Levis, says Siddhartha.

However, even after tasting corporate support, Freedom Jam remained true to its founding concept of providing a stage where artistes offer their performances without any fees and retaining their artistic freedom to express themselves without commercial constraints, while the audience enjoys the music for free.

This celebration of indie music later struck roots in Goa and Chennai. The venues have been flexible too---audiences have grooved to musicians playing by the seaside in Puducherry, in a shady raintree grove in Chennai or even under a large banyan tree in Goa.

Puducherry is no stranger to an international music culture. For well over a century, the former French enclave had been a hub for classical musicianship---the city must have the one of the highest number of Trinity College fellowships.

If you look back to the 1970s, this city had a vibrant live music scene, says Mathew Samuel, musician and former secretary of Tourism here.

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'Samson and Delilah' Uncovers Another Side of the Staple Singers

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February 25 2015, 10:46 AM ET

To coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Staple Singers' live record, Legacy Recordings is reissuing Freedom Highway Complete, which features nearly thirty minutes of previously unreleased material, including the recently premiered "View the Holy City." Alongside sermons and gospel standards, one standout track is a cover of Blind Willie Johnson's "Samson and Delilah." In the context of the Selma-Montgomery freedom marches and the rampant police brutality that ensued, the song takes on an angry and rallying tone. The call-and-response chorus repeats: "If I had my way / I'd tear this building down." Alongside gospel classics like "We Shall Overcome" and "When The Saints Come Marching In," the album serves as an important musical document in civil rights history.

Stream "Samson and Delilah" below, and look for Freedom Highway Complete when it sees release on March 3.

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The Courage And Ingenuity Of Freedom-Seeking Slaves In America

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In the opening of his new book, Gateway To Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad, Eric Foner lays out the inspirational story of Frederick Bailey a young slave in Maryland who teaches himself to read and write; plans to escape slavery by canoe, but gets caught; boards a train wearing seaman's clothes and carrying false papers; and after several unsettling detours and despite the fact that slave catchers are everywhere arrives in the free state of New York.

Detail of an illustration of Henry "Box" Brown at Philadelphia who escaped from Richmond, Va., in a box 3 feet long, 2 1/2 feet deep and 2 feet wide. Library of Congress hide caption

Detail of an illustration of Henry "Box" Brown at Philadelphia who escaped from Richmond, Va., in a box 3 feet long, 2 1/2 feet deep and 2 feet wide.

Frederick Bailey eventually changes his last name to Douglass, and the rest is anti-slavery history.

'Daunting Odds'

Throughout the book, Foner refers to men and women who defied dangers, and even death, to gain freedom.

"All fugitive slaves faced daunting odds and demonstrated remarkable courage," he writes.

He recounts the stories of Henry "Box" Brown, a slave who shipped himself in a crate from Richmond to Philadelphia; Peter Matthews, a fugitive who traversed 200 miles from Accomac, Va., to Philadelphia and was chased along the way by two men with guns; and Ellen Craft, who disguised herself as a man to escape servitude in Georgia.

Sure, ever-more enlightened lawmakers, anti-slavery forces led by black and white abolitionists and fear stirred by slave-instigated rebellions, as noted by Henry Louis Gates and others, pushed a nation toward emancipation.

But did riveting stories of brave freedom-seekers singly and collectively also eventually move the national political needle toward abolition?

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Freedom fighter Mayandi Bharathi dead

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Freedom fighter I. Mayandi Bharathi (98), a Gandhian and socialist, passed away here on Tuesday. He was hospitalised after a fall in his house while preparing to go for the Republic Day parade at 3 a.m.

He was one of the very few leaders of his generation to fight for both political and social freedom. Till August 1947, he fought for Indias freedom. Post-independence, he was involved in a relentless struggle against the ruling class, said S. Venkatesan, Sahitya Akademi winner.

Mayandi Bharathi, who had spent 13-years in prison, was a social activist, a powerful writer, an orator and a journalist. Mayandi earned the title, Bharathi, from his colleagues for unwavering passion for Subramania Bharathis songs. As per his recollection in 2007, Mr. Bharathis tryst with the freedom movement began when he was in the middle school. While watching a protest by supporters of the Congress party against a toddy shop near the present Government Hospital from his classroom, he ran out, emptied his bag and used it to supply stones for pelting at policemen.

Unlike many of his contemporaries, he never used his involvement in the freedom movement for personal gains, said Mr. Venkatesan.

The body of Mr. Bharathi will be kept at the CPI (M)s office before being taken for cremation at 3 p.m. on Wednesday.

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Senate Passes Religious Freedom Bill, Critics Call It Religious Discrimination

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The so-called "Religious Freedom" legislation takes another step today in the Indiana General Assembly.

The senate approved the bill today on a 40 to 10 party line vote.

The legislation is intended to protect religious business owners who don't want to provide services for same-sex weddings.

Critics however say the measure discriminates gay couples.

The bill now moves to the house.

"We are extremely disappointed that Indianas Senate voted to allow religious discrimination in many areas of life for Indianas families, workers and others. We have seen this over and over - bills that say they are about protecting one thing when the real goal is to target and discriminate against LGBT people, with vast implications for everyone else.

As written, this bill will upend the balance between religious freedom and freedom from imposition of others religious beliefs. Lambda Legal urges the Indiana House to halt this bill before causes damage and legal havoc between neighbors, employee and employer, and landlord and tenant. SB 101 extends religious exercise rights to for-profit companies of all sizes - no matter what goods they make or services they sell, they're treated much like churches. Freedom of religion is already protected by federal and state law, but this bill goes too far."

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Walk in Freedom and Health(Session 3)-Kim Foster at Malachi Family Ministries, Wichita, KS – Video

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Walk in Freedom and Health(Session 3)-Kim Foster at Malachi Family Ministries, Wichita, KS
Learn to deal with fear. We cannot be in faith and fear at the same time concerning the same thing. A person #39;s body and their actions will line up with their thoughts. What a person believes...

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