SHORT TAKES : Tian An Men Video Due June 4

Philip Woo, the Chinese-American keyboard player for the soul band Maze, has assembled Patti LaBelle, Richie Havens and Ashford and Simpson to make a video about the Tian An Men Square massacre. The video will be released June 4--the first anniversary of the brutal crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in China--and proceeds from the video and record will go toward paying for a monument in Washington, a traveling exhibition of photographs and a tour by exiled students.

The “Tiananmen Square” video will feature footage and headlines about the massacre. “I think people should be concerned about what happens in the world,” Woo said.