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SeveneightyWhoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-01-06 10:39 AM
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Still Rockin' Free in Bush's Fascist America
Still Rockin' Free in Bush's Fascist America

September 1 2006
Counterbias.com
by Joseph Taylor


The Dixie Chicks are among the music industry's handful of headliners with the brass kahunas to speak truth to America's post-9/11 fascist leadership in Washington.

In 2003 The Chicks fell afoul of America's Thought Police when singer Natalie Maines, on the eve of the US-led invasion of Iraq, told a London audience the band was "ashamed" of sharing Texas as a home state with George W. Bush.

The well-publicized comment garnered death threats from the ranks of the mentally challenged. But the remark also prompted Academy-Award winning director Barbara Kopple (Harlan County USA and American Dream) to chronicle the aftermath of the "episode" in Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing, a documentary premiering in July at the Toronto Film Festival.

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JPZenger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-01-06 11:09 AM
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1. CSNY Tour Features Neil's Anti-Bush Songs
I read that this Summer's CSNY Tour is featuring Neil's new album of anti-Bush and anti-War songs.
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