Summer 2010

Summer Travels 2010

Pat Wictor, Reggie Harris, Greg Greenway, & Joe Jencks at SUUSI.

PR Posters

2023 11x17 Concert Poster

Promo Photos

Joe Jencks (credit) Bunny Moreau

Ireland

SOA Watch 2007

A Mime for Peace & Justice- Remembers the Dead and Disappeared of Central America

AMAZING. I got about 20 shots of this fellow. His attitude was so solemn and earnest and reverent. I was deeply moved.

PR Posters

Concert Flyer

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Joe Jencks w/ Guitar

Selma 2015

Rally before the March - Selma 2015

Selma 2015

Lynn & Joe with Dr. C.T. Vivian

SOA Watch 2007

Holly Near & Pat Humphries at SOA

Two amazing women, mentors, friends, and great voices for peace. Thanks for all you do!

Promo Photos

Joe Jencks (Swarthmore)

Selma 2015

Crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma - March 2015

SOA Watch 2007

Crosses on the gates of Ft. Benning

Sunday morning we sang the names of the Dead and Disappeared for 3 hours while the 27,000 assembled protesters placed crosses on the gates of the fort and sang "Presente!" after each name was sung. What an amazing witness for peace!

Promo Photos

Joe Jencks

Selma 2015

Greg Greenway and Reggie Harris in the march in Selma 2015

SOA Watch 2007

Charlie King, Chris Inserra Sing the names of the Dead and Disappeared of Central America

What can I say, more of my heroes and mentors doing what they do best!

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Selma 2015

Joe & Lynn on the Bridge - Selma 2015

SOA Watch 2007

Remembering the scores of murdered clergey in Central America

Faith in action. Solemnity, celebration, protest and prayer all mixed up.

Ireland

Joe Jencks will be on Tour in Ireland from October 1st - October 14th, 2015. If you would like to go on a tour with us next October (3-12, 2016) - please contact us and we'll give you more information. joe@joejencks.com.

Selma 2015

A Mural in Selma

SOA Watch 2007

The Puppetistas Reinact the El Mazote Massacre

The Puppetistas are one of the AMAZING performance arts of this protest. They build these huge puppets and reinact various events from the recent past in Central America. Surreal, larger than life, as if Maurice Sendak had taken to radical leftist protest. I think he did... but that is another story.

Selma 2015

Re Gordon Gibson leads a service at St. Jude's in Montgomery, AL

SOA Watch 2007

Elise Whitt Singing Love

Elise is one of the great spirit mothers of the world. Singing so much healing into existence! She is also intrumental in organizing the musicians collective for the event. Thanks Elise. Amy Dixon-Koehler one of our sign interpreters is in the back ground. Thanks Amy for the great work.

Selma 2015

Brother Sun, Kim & Reggie Harris, Debra Cowan, and Gordon Gibson singing at St. Jude's in Montgomery

SOA Watch 2007

Joe & Helena sing for 25,000 at the SOA

Joe Jencks and guest Helena Nash sing for about 27,000 people at the SOA Watch protest on Saturday afternoon. Adonde Pertenezco (from The Candle & The Flame). Witnessing the continued destruction of Central American families as they come El Norte to seek peace and prosperity.

Selma 2015

Assembly at St. Jude's

SOA Watch 2007

Our Fearless Leader Chris Inserra

Chris does such an amazing job wrangling this herd of cats we call the musicians collective. She has been part of the movement for a long time and we are all greatful for her leadership. This is a very singing movement. That is part of its power.

Selma 2015

Joe on the Edmund Pettus Bridge

SOA Watch 2007

Our Sign Interpreter Amy Dixon-Kohler

Amy is a very calm presence in the midst of a lot of chaos. Interpreting our music so sincerely for the hearing impaired. THANKS Amy! We will miss you this year. Hope you can come back next year.

Selma 2015

Pat Wictor in the crowd

SOA Watch 2007

Ted Warmbrandt, John Fromer & Anne Feeney sing at the SOA

I think they just finished singing Ted's song "Who's the Criminal Here?" Great song. Anne recorded it on one of her more recent recordings. Look up the lyrics. they are great.

Selma 2015

Rev. Amy Carol Webb, Rev. Jan Taddeo, and Russ Taddeo at the pre-march rally in Selma

SOA Watch 2007

27,000 Gather in Memorium

So the police and military always say it's about 10,000 that gather every year... but I heard from reliable sources that it is frequently in the neighborhood of 25-30,000. Last year's estimate was around 27K. It is a singing and loving movement the likes of which I have never seen before. The space we are in here is the access road/ main road into Ft. Benning. This sea of humanity stretches more than 1/2 mile back, and there are big speaker towers every so often so that people can hear what is happening.

Selma 2015

Debra Cowan - Local 1000 AFM represents!

SOA Watch 2007

The Musicians Collective for the SOA Watch Event

Selma 2015

On the bridge - looking back at Selma

SOA Watch 2007

No Mas

Long pine needles woven through the fence in front of the gates. Three hours later, this is covered with white crosses and flowers  in remembrance of the tens of thousands of dead and disappeared in Central America.

Selma 2015

Outside of Brown St. Chapel in Selma

SOA Watch 2007

Representative Dennis Kucinich at the SOA Protest

Dennis is a decent fellow. I used to live in Cleveland, and played numerous rallies and events where he and (now Senator) Sherrod Brown were speaking. They are both committed men of tremendous integrity. And it was a pleasure to see Rep. Kucinich again in Georgia. The military helicopters seemed to hover overhead menacingly as Kucinich spoke about his long time passion, the creation of a Department of Peace. Amen. Let it be so in an Obama administration.

Selma 2015

Joe & Lynn with Dr. C.T. Vivian in Birmingham

Selma 2015

A concert in Selma - on the other side of the bridge

SOA Watch 2007

Fr. Roy w/ One of the Leaders of Veterans For Peace

Selma 2015

Brother Sun (Pat, Joe, & Greg) in Selma

SOA Watch 2007

The Indigo Girls Sing at the SOA Event

How cool is it that two performers of such stature still try to make it to this event every year? Kudos to two of my favorite writers and performers!

Selma 2015

A Serene Moment - Looking off the bridge to the West in Selma

SOA Watch 2007

Amy Ray says, "Close The SOA!"

Selma 2015

Lynn on the Edmund Pettus Bridge - Selma 2015

SOA Watch 2007

Amy Ray Sings Her Conviction

Selma 2015

Concert Poster - Kim & Reggie Harris and Brother Sun in Tupelo, MS

SOA Watch 2007

In Memorium...

Remembering the Nuns that were raped an murdered in Central America by soldiers trained in the US at Ft. Benning, and funded by our tax dollars.

SOA Watch 2007

The Stage Banner...

SOA Watch 2007

Che' LIVES at the SOA

I loved this shot into the crowd. This person was waiving a Che' flag all afternoon. It was just another thread in the rich tapestry of humanity. But it made me smile.

SOA Watch 2007

Colleen Kettau Sings The Names of The Dead and Disappeared at the SOA

Colleen was one of the first people that taught me about the SOA, along with Francisco Herrera, John Fromer and Pat Humphries. We were at an event called the Great Labor Arts Exchange in D.C. Thanks to all of them for their passion, comitment to justice, and their mentoring over the years.

SOA Watch 2007

Sunday Morning at The SOA

SOA Watch 2007

Crosses on the Gates

Each cross represents one dead or disappeared individual. After three hours of processing, the gates become covered with thousands and thousands of crosses. Some represent entire families. It is a sobering thing to witness.

SOA Watch 2007

The Puppetistas "Bird of Death"

The Puppetistas are an amazing performance troupe that come to the SOA event every year. Stilt walkers in costume, puppets that require 3 and 4 people to operate, and larger than life archetypal images. Solemnly Beautiful.

SOA Watch 2007

Joe with Friends at the SOA

Tony, Gayle and Grace. Dear friends from my old neighborhood in Cleveland. Good folks who keep the fire burning. Conscience and faith in action.

SOA Watch 2007

The Peace Mime at the End of The Day

This solemn and solitary physical performer was in the crowd all day. I got glimpses of him, and a few good shots hours before and then lost sight of him. As I went to pay my respects at the fence, I saw him one last time as he held up his banner, and then folded it up and walked away, never saying a word to anyone the whole day. For some reason he embodies for me both the party and the funeral aspects of this gathering. The "Wall of Crosses" is about 40-50 yards wide.