At a Huntington’s Disease event in NYC. BIG big Pharna in attendance. Woody Guthrie Foundation (he had Huntington’s) his daughter was there as well as the wife of Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam.
This was 2009. Obama was announced as the Nobel Peace Prize winner that morning. I’d been at this organization for about a month after being out of work for 11 months. The 2008 collapse. I’d figured the family running this operation were what we’d now consider Christian Nationalists.
The Plaza overlooking Central Park. Ani gets on stage and does “Are you with us or against us” and right at these massive pharmaceutical powers - Beck Lundeck Lilly Pfizer etc. it was awkward.
She went right straight them. It was clear.
We’re a (money laundering as it turns out) charity so we’re the table in the back of the ballroom. We are in the Plaza ballroom. I’m in the worst seat and have to turn around with my back to the rest of the table including the president who employs me.
I’m dying. Hell yeah Ani! Fuck them! …,but physically I can’t move. I can’t get any read on the rest of the people I’m here with. Severe discipline.
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