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Re: Janus Addiction Singer Helps free 2,300 slaves

Does he confess Christ?  Or is this just an
organization that he works with.  Because a couple of
years ago he was doing things like making out with my
sister in a club.  I guess I'll will have to look
around, or if anyone knows his current spiritual
status let me know.  Thanks!  :)
K




--- rhys daily <shadow at teuton_org> wrote:
> very cool (:
> 
> i had no idea jane's addiction was politcally active
> or aware. i shall
> really have to give them a listen now.
> 
> rhys
> 
> -------
> 
> Jane's Addiction Singer Perry Farrell Goes to Sudan
> on Slave Redemption
> Mission
> 
> December 11, 2001
> 
> AWEIL COUNTY, SUDAN (iAbolish) - Fresh off an arena
> rock tour with his
> band Jane's Addiction, singer Perry Farrell played
> to a new kind of
> audience last week: hundreds of newly-liberated
> slaves in southern Sudan.
> 
> [boombox.jpg]
> Perry Farrell provides music for newly freed slaves.
> 
> Farrell, who participated in a rescue mission led by
> the Swiss-based
> Christian Solidarity International (CSI), helped
> redeem over 2,300 slaves
> - and led a massive freedom celebration in the
> Sudanese bush.
> 
> Farrell just returned to Los Angeles following seven
> days in Sudan, where
> the CSI team liberated six different groups of
> slaves in Aweil County.
> Since 1995, CSI has freed over 60,000 slaves through
> an "Underground
> Railroad" in cooperation with local black African
> leaders and a network
> of Arab slave retrievers, who risk their lives to
> purchase the freedom of
> slaves.
> 
> Reached by phone in Zurich, CSI official Gunnar
> Wiebalck reported that
> Farrell immediately connected with the women and
> children who were
> liberated from bondage. Since 1983, militia forces
> armed by the Sudanese
> government have been terrorizing black African
> villages in southern Sudan
> with slave raids: shooting adult males and abducting
> women and children
> as chattel slaves.
> 
> Armed only with a boombox and his legendary voice,
> Farrell started up
> freedom parties at various redemption sites. "He
> began dancing and
> singing," said Wiebalck. "I wasn't sure what would
> happen, but then
> everyone joined in."
> 
> Belting out tracks from his new album "Songs Yet to
> Be Sung" (Virgin
> Records), Farrell sang about freedom with songs like
> "Happy Birthday,
> Jubilee", which evokes the biblical injunction to
> free those in bondage
> every 50 years.
> 
> Christmas sparklers, tree lanterns, and torches lit
> up the night sky,
> their light reflecting in the dust kicked up by
> hundreds of dancing feet.
> A local band quickly joined in, playing their
> instruments through
> Farrell's mic and battery-powered boombox.
> 
> "Everyone was dancing," Wiebalck recalled. "Even the
> Arab retrievers
> joined in. It was Christians, Muslims, and Jews all
> dancing together.
> Arabs, Africans, Americans, and Europeans - all
> celebrating the joy of
> freedom. I have never seen anything like it."
> 
> Farrell's party no doubt came as welcome relief in
> villages where the
> ever-present danger of bombs and slave raiders
> remains. One of the
> villages where Farrell performed had been bombed by
> the Sudanese Air
> Force just days earlier. One woman was burned to
> death, and another man's
> head was severed by shrapnel.
> 
> During the week-long visit, Farrell welcomed back to
> freedom women and
> children who had experienced all kinds of
> victimization. Hundreds had
> been gang-raped. Others had boiling water thrown on
> their chests by angry
> masters, or their throats slit by slave raiders.
> 
> Shocked by these stories, Farrell made the
> connection to the September 11
> terrorist attacks on the US, noting that Osama bin
> Laden lived in Sudan
> until 1996. "He saw that these women and children
> have been on the
> frontlines of a terrorist assault for years,"
> remarked Wiebalck. "It's
> the same kind of attack, in many ways."
> 
> Farrell was introduced to the modern-day
> anti-slavery movement by Aaron
> Cohen, of the Jubilee Freedom Foundation. In
> September of 2000, Farrell
> and Cohen came to Washington to watch escaped
> Sudanese slave Francis Bok
> testify to the Senate. A few months later, Farrell
> brought Bok on stage
> in front of a crowd of 40,000 to launch the American
> Anti-Slavery Group's
> website, iAbolish.com.
> 
> Farrell vows to return with dozens of celebrities
> and leaders - to visit
> the frontlines of terrorism in Sudan and to
> celebrate the preciousness of
> freedom with his African brothers and sisters.
> 
> --
> 
> -- 
> chomp while $carrots >= 1;
> 
> 
> 
> 
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