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"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
--Theodore Roosevelt, 1918
REGISTER TO VOTE
"The time is always right to do what is right"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The "seven social sins": Knowledge without character,
Science without humanity,
Wealth without work,
Commerce without morality,
Politics without principles,
Pleasure without conscience,
Worship without self-sacrifice."
--Gandhi
"We have not inherited the world from our forfathers -
We have borrowed it from our children."
--Kashmiri, proverb
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE E STREET BAND TO TOUR IN SUPPORT OF VOTE FOR CHANGE
Bruce Springsteen is excited to announce his participation in the Vote for Change concert tour. Between October 1 and October 8, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will perform at five Vote for Change concerts, sharing the bill with R.E.M., and Bright Eyes with a special appearance by John Fogerty (see dates below).
Vote for Change is a loose coalition of musicians brought together by a single idea�the need to make a change in the direction of our country. We share a belief that this is the most important election of our lifetime. We are fighting for a government that is open, rational, just and progressive.
"I felt like I couldn't have written the music I've written, and been on stage singing about the things that I've sung about for the last twenty five years and not take part in this particular election," said Bruce Springsteen.
Artists participating in Vote for Change have merged their energies and talents to focus on states that are expected to have the closest race in the presidential election this fall. This unprecedented effort will include approximately 34 shows in 28 cities in 9 battleground states over the course of a week.
These concerts will feature Babyface, Jackson Browne, Bright Eyes, Dave Matthews Band, Death Cab for Cutie, the Dixie Chicks, John Fogerty, Ben Harper, Jurassic 5, Keb' Mo', John Mellencamp, My Morning Jacket, Pearl Jam, Bonnie Raitt, R.E.M., James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band and more. These and other artists will appear on separate bills on the same night in selected cities around several battleground states.
Vote for Change artists hope to accomplish a single goal through the tour: to get people to the polls on November 2nd to vote for a change.
The Vote for Change tour will be presented by MoveOn PAC, with all concert proceeds benefiting the work of America Coming Together (ACT).
Be sure to register to vote early and make your Vote for Change!
BACKGROUND:
Unprecedented in scale and strategy, ACT is building the largest voter mobilization effort in history to elect progressive candidates to federal, state and local offices in November. For more information on ACT visit www.act04.com.
MoveOn PAC is a 2.5 million-member online grassroots political action committee working to take back our government. By gathering small contributions from ordinary citizens, it is using the Internet to level the playing field against the interest of big corporate money in politics. It's sister organization, MoveOn.org, raises issues of war and peace, social justice, media integrity and honesty in government. For more information, and to sign up for pre-sale tickets, go to MoveOn.org.
TICKETS:
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will be performing at the following Vote for Change shows:
Fri, October 1 Philadelphia
Sat, October 2 Cleveland
Sun, October 3 Ann Arbor
Tues, October 5 St. Paul
Fri, October 8 Orlando
Click here for more information on how to get tickets to Bruce Springsteen's performances.
For more information about Vote for Change, including ticket information and updates, go to www.moveonpac.org.
For more thoughts and information about the upcoming election please go to:
www.moveonpac.org
www.act04.org
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So Bruce was on Nightline last night, to discuss these concerts. I stayed up late to watch. Here is my summation of that interview:
Ted Koppel = Idiot Asswipe with Bad Hair
Bruce = As Well-Spoken as Possible, Given the Circumstances
When posed with the impossibly irritating, yet often repeated question about why Musicians felt they had the right to involve themselves in politics to such an extent, Bruce talked about how Lobbyists and Corporations have their way of influencing things and artists have their art. You use what you can to be heard (oh and there's that little thing about being an American Citizen, which entitles you and even asks you to become involved, Asshat!). Therefore, asking that stupid question, "Who are you to take a political stance?" is hypocritical (not that that kept Koppel from asking the same question again, a few minutes later).
I was a bit disappointed in the interview, but again - I don't blame Bruce for that. I mean, Bruce didn't say anything new, he just said the same things that all of us who want a regime change have been saying; but I thought he said them well. He talked about the America he wants his kids to inherit and how scary the current administration is.
In short: If it was a semi-lame interview, it was Ted Koppel's fault.
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REPORT PROVES BUSH KNEW HE WAS LYING ABOUT IRAQ
Earlier this week, President Bush claimed "we all thought we would find stockpiles of weapons"[1] in Iraq, and claimed that he had no inkling that his pre-war claims about the Iraqi threat were Weak. But as a major news story released today shows, the President and other top administration officials were repeatedly warned before the invasion that its case for war was weak.
The cover story for this month's In These Times analyzes declassified government documents and intelligence reports given to the White House before the war. These documents either warned the administration about its WMD and Iraq-al Qaeda claims, or totally debunked them. In some cases, intelligence experts explicitly warned top officials not to make the claims they were making, and yet they were ignored. The story wholly refutes assertions by the White House and Republicans that it was the intelligence community to blame. In fact, as the data shows, the White House deliberately ignored intelligence to mislead America.
Read the full article, with direct links to all source material
Sources:
1. Presidential Remarks, Whitehouse.gov, 8/02/2004
Visit www.misleader.org for more about Bush Administration distortion.
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Word of the Day for Thursday August 5, 2004
bloviate BLOH-vee-ayt, intransitive verb:
To speak or write at length in a pompous or boastful manner.
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