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Focus Initiatives Fundraiser

by Peter Oren

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1.
Here For It 04:31
The frame of mind needed to give your life Ain't something one just find overnight Been in line for the stars and stripes Many of us before we even knew An invisible weight From the flag pole hangs Outside fourth period with Mr. Lu There's a roomful of a painful sort Waiting for the bell to just set them loose Here for it leaning forward Fist clenched, an adrenaline boost if you ain't for us, you're the forest I'm coming to cut down for fuel Ain't no way to say no So further we go, criss-crossing the globe In insane mode in Dodge Durangos It's a stranglehold of a world bought and paid for The longer you wait for Change to be made for you You'll find your hind sore And your mind like deja-vu Here for it leaning forward Fist clenched, an adrenaline boost if you ain't for us, you're the forest I'm coming to cut down for fuel Tell me again I live in sin I like the fire in your eyes All this time you wasted talking Now yonder comes the night Here for it leaning forward Fist clenched, an adrenaline boost if you ain't for us, you're the forest I'm coming to cut down for fuel
2.
Compartmentalized connectivity It's like a lonesome cabin up in 5E I own less than half of my grief I haul it through airports and over cracked streets And it seems, some days All my hopes expire I beg you please Don't just cope, conspire Don't just cope, conspire No one needs a vigilante Despite what you see on the silver screen Is there any more American lead Than gun deaths and a violent lead And it seems some days All my hopes expire I beg you please Don't just cope, conspire Don't just cope, conspire And it seems some days All my hopes expire I beg you please Don't just cope, conspire Don't just cope, conspire

about

Police violence must be understood as part of institutional problems, not as isolated incidents. In response to the death of Dreasjon Reed, I felt compelled to raise money for a project that addresses an issue few consider: the failures of prison system, specifically a lack of resources for those leaving incarceration and rejoining the community.

So, here are two rough recordings available for download in support of Focus Initiatives, a group working to assist those leaving prisons in Marion County with the resources necessary to rejoin the community. Too often, the previously incarcerated return to the world without sufficient support systems in place.

Learn more at focusreentry.com. Donate directly at chuffed.org/project/focus-initiatives-indianapolis-re-entry-project-1-time-donation or
www.focusreentry.com/supportfocus

I'll add something to my website, peteroren.com, to track the funds raised for transparency sake and will make my records available for review should anyone care to check in on the flow of money.

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released May 8, 2020

Album art by Biff Vigil (instagram: biffvigil)

www.instagram.com/biffvigil/

All musical performances and mixing by Peter Oren

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Peter Oren Bloomington, Indiana

Reach out: peter@peteroren.com

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