Reply #42: Way to dilute the message, geniuses [View All]

[CivilRightsNow]

Arlo Guthrie
Beastie Boys - In a World Gone Mad
Ani Di Franco
Pearl Jam - Bushleaguer
Country Joe Mc Donald
Chumbawamba - Jacob's Ladder
Micheal Franti
Rage Against the Machine
John Cougar Mellencamp
Paula Cole - My Hero, Mr. President
Johnatha Brooke - War
The Compassionate Conservatives
Green Day - Life During War Time
Lenny Kravitz - We want peace
Live - What are we fighting for
Little Big Men
John Kasper - We're the Enemy
Maeran
REM - The final straw
Black Eyed Peas - Where is the Love
Cat Stevens
Saul Williams
Bruce Springsteen
Steven Taylor
Sonic Youth - Youth Against Facism
Mudhoney - hard on for war
Ben Harper - remake of redemption song
Sheryl Crow
Dave Matthews
Bono
Jello Biafra
(Many many more small artists that would love to get some play time at the sites below)

http://www.protest-records.com/mp3/index.html
http://polsong.gcal.ac.uk/songs.html

Poets
Amari Baraka
Georgia Mae
Saul Williams
Smokey Robinson - http://www.poetology.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=63
Ras Baraka
Suheir Hammad (AMAZING Lady) http://www.flashpoints.net/first.html
Jessica Care Moore
Beau Sia
Julia Butterfly
(There are many more.. Ill have to get the names)

Actors and Actresses
Susan Sarandon
Tim Robbins
Martin Sheen
Robert Redford
Woody Harrelson
Jennifer Anniston
Brad Pitt
George Clooney
Ben Affleck
Sean Penn
Jessica Lange
Janeane Garofalo
Danny Glover
Alec Baldwin
Kate Hudson
Julia Roberts
Richard Gere
George Carlin
Robin Williams
Garrison Keiler
John Stewart

Democracy Now's Amy Goodman -- FSTV (If anyone could get the money together for some ads on FSTV it may be helpful)

Writers: Al Franken, Micheal Moore, Molly Ivins, Kalle Lassen, Jim Hightower, William R. Pitt, Noam Chomsky, Ariana Huffington, Paul Krugman,David Corn, Sheldon Rampton, Joe Conason, Paul Begala, Gore Vidal, Howard Zinn, Hunter S. Thompson (Many more)

Next step is to find the causes that are aligning with the integral message that we want to convey. Ill save Mumia when I get my fucking country back. We also MUST include antiwar religious entities from Christianity as well as from Islam.

Okay folks,
I'm pissed off. I'm pissed that nobody in my generation even cared to do any research into the movements that came before us. Im pissed that they are wasting publicity. I'm 25, one of the youth that wants to do something but is so confused as to what to even put their energy into.

I'm sitting here in disbelief about the two threads regarding the protests and the responses that seem to indicate that they enjoy wasting their time by diluting the message. The elitist attitude that says, well screw them if they dont want to hear about the evils of america. Screw them if they dont want to listen to us bash everything about the country that they live in. Start your own demonstration. Great. So you guys keep it up and you can effect the whopping changes that you have in the last 9 months. Nada zip, zero.


We MUST appeal to the common denominator. We must FOCUS. Do you people not realize that if you dilute the message nobody wins? Do you realize that if everyone gets up on the stage and screams.. if they bitch about palestine and the phillipines you are going to lose your core audience. People want to fix THIS country. How are you doing any better then the right? Sticking your nose in all over the fucking world. How can you bitch and stand in judgement and then do the same thing yourself?

FREE PALESTINE? FREE MUMIA???? How bout FREE AMERICA? How bout freeing NONVIOLENT DRUG OFFENDERS locked up in our prisons, costing us BILLIONS a year? How bout keeping it in the country?

I'm too upset to write about this right now. Ill be back with something alot more cohesive later.