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Rolling Back Social Progress

Rev Bill Crews OA Radio Commentator 2GB, Sydney

Vic Alhadeff CEO Jewish Board of Deputies, Sydney

SANDRA IZSADORE is a singer/activist/author/humanitarian born in Los Angeles California. Graduate of Redlands University. She has been featured in the Tony Award Broadway Musical FELA! Portrayed by Michele Williams of Destiny’s Child, Saycon Sengbloh, and Paulette Ivory. She has been featured in two documentaries: Beware of Mr. Baker, a documentary about drummer Ginger Baker, Finding FELA and My Friend FELA.

In late 1960, Sandra met and revitalized Africa’s revolutionary genius FELA KUTI. Upon meeting Sandra, Fela’s musical and political ideas changed radically, thus Afro-Beat was born. Sandra is the only featured vocalist on Fela’s music. The song Upside Down, which was a hit in 1977, up to today is considered a classic of Afro-Beat music. It is through her single-handed influence as a midwife for this genre. Sandra Izsadore is called The Queen Mother of Afro-Beat. Sandra Izsadore has immortalized in Fela’s own Biography Fela Fela This Bitch of a Life written by Carlos Moore in 1982, one chapter is dedicated to her. She currently lives with her husband in Los Angeles.

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Sanda and Dana offer an indepth view of why the majority is not only rolling back the rights of Blacks, but dark skined immigrants from all over the world. Recent roll backs are not just US and Australian but global requiring worldwide solidarity based on TRUTH to defeat in justice.

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