CT musicians Light Warriors combat hunger with album calling for oneness
Keith Loria
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Light Warriors is a Connecticut-based band with members from New Haven, Stamford, Norwalk and Bridgeport.Light Warriors / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
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Connecticut band Light Warriors created the Book of One album to promote oneness and combat hunger.Light Warriors / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
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Blending rock, funk and reggae with indie sensibilities, the Light Warriors is a Connecticut-based band with members from New Haven, Stamford, Norwalk and Bridgeport.
On March 5, the band released “Book of One,” a new album-length single that includes nine different versions of its song “One,” with reinterpretations being contributed by international artists around the globe.
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whole othe arab spring has been a tragedy pretty much for the united states interests in the region and what it led to. i think our problem is not that we didn t predict correctly it was hard to predict, there was no way you would know that in tunisia it might succeed but not elsewhere. the real problem is what we did when it became clear that the arab spring had failed. in egypt in a state in what was not in the end moving away from a dictator who couldn t hang on anyway wouldn t have done any good. but elm embracing the muslim brotherhood after they won and began destroying democracy. so we ended up with everybody hating us in egypt the brotherhood and, of course, the establishment. and look at syria. that was a place where we don t know. we might not have had a successful arab spring if we had done something at the point where there was a genuine democratic rebellion and a regime teetering. we did nothing and in the vacuum entered iran, entered
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