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Tom Morello Enlists Perry Farrell, Anti-Flag for Kenyan Relief

Posted Mar 22nd 2008 3:00PM by Steve Baltin
Filed under: News, Album

Tom Morello is searching for a way to aid Kenyan refugees. And in his increasingly prolific world, the answer may be through a new Nightwatchman record, in addition to the upcoming one he has already finished, produced by Brendan O'Brien. "Half my family is Kenyan and so I felt that was something I'd like to lend a hand to," Morello tells Spinner. "So I got in touch with a popular Kenyan artist, Eric Wainaina, and we worked on a song together. That led to me writing a song, then doing a collaboration with Anti-Flag. Perry Farrell came down to the studio one day, and so what began as an idea of a single may have blown into another full-fledged album."

The potential album already has a title. "The name of that record will be 'Facing Mount Kenya,'" Morello says. While a video made the rounds recently of Morello joining Anti-Flag onstage in L.A. for Woody Guthrie's 'This Land is Your Land,' the pair collaborated on another cover for 'Facing Mount Kenya.' "We just played the Big Day Out tour together in Australia, where we rocked a cover of Midnight Oil's 'Beds are Burning,' so that's the song we're doing for this record."

http://www.spinner.com/2008/03/22/tom-m ... an-relief/

Tom

Nothing's Shocking wrote:Perry Farrell came down to the studio one day, and so what began as an idea of a single may have blown into another full-fledged album.

I guess we'll have to wait and see what comes of this.

They sure look like they have a good time jamming together.
I'd be interested in hearing whatever they wind up doing together.

What has the Red Cross done so far?

The Kenya Red Cross (KRCS) is the official chief coordinator of the relief effort and the ICRC is working to support its work. The Red Cross has been distributing food (from the World Food Programme, private donors and the government), clothing donated by Kenyans, and essential household items.

In the camps, it is working with a variety of UN agencies and other NGOs to ensure proper camp management and services and has organized water and sanitation facilities. It has arranged medical clinics and psycho-social support.

The ICRC tracing agency is helping to reunite families who were separated during the events, with a particular focus on unaccompanied children and the elderly. It also meets regularly with government and other authorities to raise issues of humanitarian concern and to urge them to take appropriate action.

What has been the ICRC's specific contribution?

Since the beginning of the crisis, the ICRC has been working closely with its counterparts at the KRCS, both in the field and at headquarters, providing technical assistance and expertise. Specifically, it has:

* provided 16 metric tons of a nutritional supplement (known as BP-5);
* delivered 16,500 kits of household items as well as 15,000 tarpaulins to be used as tents;
* dispatched water and sanitation equipment;
* provided medical kits to treat 350 wounded patients, and 300 additional kgs of medical material and consumables;
* sent surgical and forensic teams to help hospitals in the affected regions organize procedures for dealing with the crisis.


It has deployed full time ICRC staff (expatriate and Kenyan) to work with KRCS in Kisumu, Eldoret, Nakuru and Bungoma and has deployed 13 trucks and trailers and 17 light vehicles, as well as two ICRC planes and a helicopter which form the backbone of the Red Cross operations in Kenya.