Not Just A Man - New Song for Rob Will by Paul Fairall and Sidney Danz

New Song for Rob Will: Listen the song

by Paul Fairall and Sidney Danz

NOT JUST A MAN


don’t know what I’m in for today
traffic light says go or stay
just like every other day
falling through the atmosphere
landing in the who knows where
just like every other day
and then a man
who’s been so wronged
learns the secret to your song
and lights the way

he’s not just a man
with serious eyes
there will be time
when you will find
the heart that beats within
just beneath the skin
he’s not just a man
he’s nobody’s fool
he knows what you do
comes from the truth
all that’s been held within
will see the light again
he’s not just a man

don’t know what i’m up for today
the willing have a way they say
to keep themselves
from giving in
he takes your hand & weaves a spell
leads you from the wishing well
leads you to the love he brings

he’s not just a man
with serious eyes
there will be time
when you will find
the heart that beats within
just beneath the skin
he’s not just a man
he’s nobody’s fool
he knows what you do
comes from the truth
all that’s been held within
will see the light again
he’s not just a man

standing apart from him
letting the moment in
letting the heart begin to see

he’s not just a man
with serious eyes
there will be time
when you will find
the heart that beats within
just beneath the skin
he’s not just a man
he’s nobody’s fool
he knows what you do
comes from the truth
all that’s been held within
will see the light again…

Announcing the launch of our website from art 2 freedom

 Dear Friends and Supporters of Robert Will

Despite the unwelcome news of the judge’s denial of our friend Rob’s motion  we are galvanized by the appointment of a new attorney for Rob as his case heads to the 5^th Circuit Court Of Appeals.

This is the time for dedicated supporters to pick up, dust off and fight harder than ever!

It takes money to ensure that Rob is finally properly represented. The most important thing we can do at this time is to raise the     

                                                                                    necessary funds for his legal counsel.

Artists from around the world are coming together to help Robert toward that goal, and ultimately, to save his life. 100% of the profits from sales of their art will be donated to Robert's defense fund. You have a chance to purchase one of these beautiful pieces and join these artists in Rob’s struggle for freedom!

From Art 2 Freedom will be launched very soon. Join us! Add to the growing numbers who have been moved by Rob’s case. Art is an integral part of Rob’s spirit. Like the unwavering support of his friends and supporters, art is what keeps him from despair.

Artists and Art lovers, come together through art. We can meet that challenge with your participation. 

Artists: please contact us: Donate@fromart2freedom.org

Art Lovers: Stay tuned for our launch date. Get ready to be inspired!

Rob Will Support Group.

Lethal Injustice Rob Will, e. V.

Keep Knocking and Never Ever Give Up! by Rob Will

Monday 2.6.12

 “Solidarity is a matter of holding firmly to what is planned…therefore when sages set things up, they use this means to get to know people beforehand and establish solidarity with them. Based on reason,virtue, humanity, justice, courtesy and culture, they figure out plans.”

                                               —The Master Of Demon Valley (China circa 500 BCE)

Damien Echols was just on the Democracy Now! news program and hearing guys who have been exonerated is always a rather surreal, or perhaps I should say hyper-real, experience. It’s inspiring, it reinvigorates my faith in Truth and re-reminds me that I will get out of this horrible place—we just have to keep pushing forward relentlessly!

This is one of the things Damien talked about; he spoke of how his supporters would always say that they just had to keep knocking and never-ever-ever give up and eventually doors will open. Excellent advice! (I think his wife Lori may actually have said this). Damien mentioned how his wife “did every single thing” and he didn’t even think about his case because if he did he would go insane. Anthony Graves—who was exonerated from Texas Death Row—has talked about how he thought of his case every day and I knew Anthony when he was here and he’d be on the grind constantly working on things daily (like I do!). Different people have different experiences I suppose.

Hearing about what Damien said concerning his wife’s awesome solidarity reminds me of the power of outside support. My people on the outside, my friends and supporters, are the absolute most vital part of all I do, of all we do. Damien also mentioned that he had to do 5 or 6 hours a day of meditation in order to remain sane (and he had a TV and could use the telephone daily). When asked about the conditions of prison he said that he had no words to describe it. This is something that people who have experienced living in super-seg isolation prisons often say. I’ve said this myself. How can you describe an environment that causes perfectly sane people to completely lose their minds?

Near the end of the interview the host, Amy Goodman—who I’ve been madly in love with for years!—asked Damien what message he had for others locked up and this is what he said: “Never give up!” Indeed. We must never give up. We must relentlessly push forward and cultivate Solidarity. Let the virtue of Truth be our guide in seeking real justice and let us consistently re-remind oursleves to hold firmly. We’re very reasonable and courteous people, yes, yes, of course—we’ll knock on doors very softly but if we don’t get the answers we need, Keep Knocking…and kick the damned doors down if we need to! This is the philosophy we must live by—constant motion, consistent exploration, non-stop action. The situation is very desperate, very extreme and we must never give up. In this spirit I’ll sign off with:

Unwavering Love & Solidarity

Rob

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http://www.freerobwill.org

NOTE: Volunteers for Robert Will type these handwritten updates that he sends from death row. Typos may occur and should not be considered to be the work of the author.

TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

You can help in ways big and small, literally. Visit our webpage for Rob and read his story. Learn about this remarkable young man who has been wrongfully sentenced to Texas Death Row for a crime he did not commit.

To help in our efforts to raise funds for his cause check out our web shop! There are solidarity items like the PERSEVERANCE unisex t-shirts with a bold graphic design. These are high quality 100% cotton shirts designed by designed by Dennis Schröder from Supportershirt and printed by DirAction from Hamburg. And they come is all sizes! Or choose among the other items offered here: http://www.freerobwill.org/#/shop/4555732242.

Our main goal is to bring attention to Rob’s case by raising awareness and raising the much needed funding for his legal defense.

Lethal Injustice Rob Will e.V. is also part of Rob Will Defense Committee. We are a non-profit organization approved and registered in a local court in Leipzig, Germany. We have a tax number and are authorized to issue receipts for all donations. All contribution from donations and merchandise will be used exclusively for Rob’s defense and for his campaign.

Please consider making a generous donation in one of two ways:

Sending money via www.paypal.com is very easy. Just click on the "send money" tab at the top of the paypal page. Insert our email address—lethalinjustice@gmail.com—for the recipient and follow instructions.

You can also make donations directly to our bank account:

Lethal Injustice Rob Will e.V.
Bank für Sozialwirtschaft
IBAN DE17860205000003507800
BIC BFSWDE33LPZ

Give the gift that keeps on giving. Be that person who spreads the word about Rob Will. Support Rob’s bid for freedom. Thank you all, in advance, for that perfect gift that will bring us all a generous return.

New Legal Update

February 17, 2012

Rob's attorney has been granted an extension of time to appeal the last court order. The new date is set to March 19, 2012. We'll keep you updated.


Rob Will Support Group.
Lethal Injustice Rob Will e. V.

Message To The Modern Artist by Rob Will

“Brave is he who knows fear but conquers fear, who sees the abyss, but with pride. Who sees that abyss but with the eyes of an eagle; who grasps the abyss with the talons of an eagle—that man has courage.”                    —Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

Artists like Neitzsche, right? You know, Friedrich Nietzsche the German philosopher who wrote Thus Spake Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil and so forth and so on. I mean all really interesting people post-Nietzsche love Nietzsche—you have the literary artists (Kafka, Hesse, Gibran), musical artists (Strauss, Jim Morrison), artists of the mind (Jung, Freud, Huey P. Newton) and many more. I’m not all that fabulous but I happen to love Nietzsche, to me he is a soul-stirring saint, a mystical sage, and a visionary prophet.

So, yes, Nietzsche is an Artist for Artists and in one of his more obscure works written when he was younger he told a story about the classic Greek writer Diogenes. Do you know Diogenes? Hmm, well, it doesn’t matter because I’ve just decided to steal Nietzsche’s story about Diogenes, customize it, and make it into my story about Nietzsche. That’s what all of the great Artists of history have done anyway: steal stuff. Even gods and goddesses do it. Jesus shamelessly told the stories of Tammuz, Osiris and Dionysus and all Venus did was straight up steal the stories of Aphrodite, Ashtarte, Isis—so, I’m in good company.

Do you know about the Viennese cafés? I have a wildly brilliant friend who has lived in Vienna all of his life and he tells me about these places and has even sent me pictures of them. And, interestingly, I just read a book, Wittgenstein’s Nephew, by Thomas Bernhard, that speaks about the cafés. Bernhard admits that he has the Viennese Coffeehouse Disease. The condition: obsessive frequenting of these cafés where various artists, intellectuals, literati and musicians hang out discussing intellectual artistry and musical literature and such things.

There we find ourselves: rich dark wood paneling, plush ornately carved furniture, tables filled with wine and drink resting in intricate glasses, steins, bottles. Stacks of books piled next to them, ancient looking scrolls and manuscripts. Four a.m., and only the most seriously afflicted are still there engaging in debate. That bastard Descartes leaps up from a table waving his terribly pretentious hat, spilling champagne from the glass in his other hand and declares: “I know the greatest modern thinker and artist and [insert blabbering dualistic nonsense here]!”

From another table Plato nearly chokes on his wine—spilling it all over his beard—to agree: “Yes! Such a good and virtuous man whom I know as well and [insert pompous statist authoritarian moralistic asinine rhetoric here]! A string quartet plays some nice light music, soft, some slower Vivaldi. Schopenhauer casts a distasteful glance toward a dark corner table that seems to be overflowing with beautiful intelligent women—dressed in sultry long gothic lace gowns—who are engaged in dialectical discussion. One man sits with them, quiet, a brooding look across his brow…

I’m set to be executed soon. Terrible, unfathomably terrible, I know, but my people out there are letting battleaxes blaze to prevent this from happening. I’ve thought that if I get out of here I’ll really be forced to go to France if I was thinking of having an intimate relationship with a woman. But then I’m constantly bombarded with tales (and pictures!) of beautiful women from Germany. Well, of course I’m still saving myself for Arundhati Roy, so…hell, I don’t know, but just imagine an international contingent of beautiful, artistic Vampire chicks (because Vampire chicks are hot) laughing, debating, drinking, and not paying much attention to anyone but themselves and their male companion at the corner table. And there he sits quietly whispering a few words every so often. Glasses and bottles clink and clang as all others toast to this great philosopher and artist who most everyone is so enamored with.

“A good man!” someone declares with certainty.” “A just man!” cried Hobbes with delight. Nods and exclamations of agreement come from a table of “great masters.” This great artist-philosopher has won all of the popular awards. Someone from a table marked “U.S. Congressional delegation” remarks with boastful pride that our great man was recently a keynote speaker at a White House luncheon…

Awhile back I saw an interesting picture of the rapper L’il Wayne in a Hip Hop magazine. In the picture he’s sitting in a chair with a very serious brooding look on his face and he’s holding a HUGE Desert eagle 50-caliber pistol on his lap. These L’il Wayne lyrics came to mind: I’ve lost my mind/it’s somewhere out there stranded/I think you stand under me if you don’t understand it. And it’s like, fuck, this is quite serious, terribly serious: It’s L’il Wayne, the poet rapper with a gun, a really BIG gun and he’s just sitting there staring, shit…

Back to our Viennese café: “the greatest of great modern men! Such a moral man!—has arrived!” declares a university professor with fanboy glee. The Vivaldi stops. A second s-s-s-scratches and an orchestral version of the star spangled banner plays as our good and just man enters the coffeehouse to a round of grand applause from all around (except the table in the dark corner). “Thank you! Thank you!” our great man triumphantly shouts. “Thank you! Thank you! And [insert egomaniacal, self-absorbed narcissistic self aggrandizing bombast here]!” S-s-s-scratch, the music stops and just as our great man is about to launch into the conclusion of his speech—

With lightning speed a scimitar blade slices through the air completely severing his head. His body drips to the floor to reveal: naked, young, beautiful, terrible—there stands Arundhati Roy, a live snake draped around her neck and waist; a golden serpent with ruby eyes fastened around her arm. She wears a necklace of skulls and in her right hand she holds the Truth that is her sword, its hilt shaped as an eagle with wings outstretched. Long black hair cascades down her body tracing the outer lines of her swollen breasts. In her left hand she holds our great man’s head that she has caught in mid air. A red diamond marks her forehead, the same bright scarlet of her full sensual lips. And all eyes go to those lips as her tongue slides across sharp fangs to part them. She raises her sword and with a slow deliberate seduction she licks the blood off of the blade from the hilt to the tip. And her penetrating Kohl-dark eyes stare.

“But, but, he was our great artist, our great philosopher, our great man,” whimpers a renowned critic of the day…Silence…And suddenly the quiet is shattered by the harsh metallic CLICK-CLACK of a weapon cocking—and all heads simultaneously jerk toward the dark corner in the back of the room. A table lamp flares higher and all else seems to go dark, only the figure sitting in the chair in front of the table is illuminated. He’s leaning slightly to the side, shoulders low, his head tilted forward. His right hand gripped tightly around the handle of the huge chrome 5o-caliber Desert eagle resting on the lap of his dark grey suit. Pin drop silence. Fuck. It’s Nietzsche and he has a gun, a really BIG gun—and thus he speaks, his voice low, deep and deadly serious: “A great philosopher and artist? But how can he be great if he has yet to disturb anyone?”…

So this is my message for the modern Artist: Go out and disturb someone. I do it all the time but I never really mean to. My Art movement partner—yes, I do things like start Art movements here in this little Orwellian Hell—calls this my “Barbarism,” but I tell him he’s absolutely ridiculous and all I do is challenge norms and challenge others to question, to think, to pursue, to create. So, yes, go out and disturb someone, many people actually, but the first person you should disturb? Yourself. (Then the rest will come naturally.)

IMPORTANT UPDATE

The federal court has denied Rob Will’s motion on January 16, 2012. Rob’s case is now headed to the Fifth Circuit. The clock is ticking! Rob needs our help and support now more than ever. We’ll be posting actions in the following days, please take part in them! Now is the time for everyone to be fully engaged in calling, emailing, writing, and doing whatever we can to get the word out about this ruling.

Drop a line to Robert and let him know he is not alone!

Thank you for your solidarity and support!

Find us at:

www.freerobwill.org

http://freerobwill.blogspot.com

Twitter @ freerobwill1

www.facebook.com/freerobwill

Contact Us:
freerobwill@gmail.com

 
Vinny Van by Rob Will

The first exhibition of Rob´s art at kukuun, Hamburg, Germany January/February 2012

Yoni Mudra

View from kukuun´s window to St. Pauli, Hamburg, Germany

 

on the left side a wall from cell imitation / and handwritten updates of Rob

desk from the cell imitation/ one of Rob´s favorite books and the art supplies they can by on death row, Polunsky Unit, Livingston, Texas

Inside of the cell imitation

Here you can see the D.R.I.V.E. Room as part of the exhibition: members of D.R.I.V.E. / last statements of murdered people/images of Rob´s Use of Force / a image tour through Texas Death Row/ list of all the murdered people since 1976

some last statements from executed people in Texas

List of the murdered people since 1976

 

Photos: Anja Walther http://www.lichtmalerin.com/home

Friends in Idaho!! Connie K Sales Art send us this message: Art in the Bar V - February 18, 12-10 pm! At the knitting Factory in Boise. I will be painting there on site where you can commission a small painting and take it home that day! 15% of my sales will go to the Rob Will Defense Fund. Come, and check it out! 

Important Legal Update


The judge appointed a new lawyer for Rob last week. He has received Rob's documents and is studying them to file an answer to the court due to February 16. As we know more we will post updates. We are giving all our support to Rob's new representation in this critical stage of the capital process. The fight is not over! Rob still needs your solidarity and commitment to gain his freedom.  We stand with Rob Will. Will you?