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The inspiration for this piece comes from a passage from Naomi Klein’s book, No Is Not Enough, regarding an experience she had at the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s camp resisting the Dakota Access Pipeline. I was at another part of camp when this event occurred. “I will never forget the experience of being at the main camp when the news arrived, after the months of resistance, that the Obama administration had finally denied the pipeline permit. I happened to be standing with Tokata Iron Eyes, a fiercely grounded yet playful thirteen-year-old from Standing Rock who had helped kick-start the movement against the pipeline. I turned on my phone video and asked her how she felt about the breaking news. ‘Like I have my future back,’ she replied, and then she burst into tears. I did too.”

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Far too long they tried to say that you and I were to go our separate ways. Here we stand in full circle with you, one by one we have joined hand in hand we find our strength. Now I see only when we come together as one a light shines a path before us.

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from This is Our Environment, released January 22, 2021

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Joseph Herbst New York, New York

Composer, arranger, copyist, and saxophonist Joseph Herbst uses music as a medium for storytelling, often as part of collaborative projects, in order to push ourselves to see the world in different ways while strengthening our sense of community.

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