"Bands Gather to Stump Against Bush"

[GreenPartyVoter]

NEW YORK (AP) - In an unprecedented series of concerts in nine swing states, more than 20 musical acts - including Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam and the Dixie Chicks - will perform fund-raising concerts one month before the Nov. 2 election in an effort to unseat President Bush.

The shows, which will begin Oct. 1 in Pennsylvania, will take an unusual approach: as many as six concerts on a single day in cities across the states expected to decide the November presidential race. Other stops on the tour are North Carolina, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin and the key state in 2000, Florida.

"We're trying to put forward a group of progressive ideals and change the administration in the White House," Springsteen told The Associated Press in the most overtly political statements of his 30-year career. "That's the success or failure, very clear cut and very simple."

The artists of different generations and genres will tour under the name "Vote For Change," with shows Oct. 1-8. But the money generated will go to America Coming Together, which promises on its Web site to "derail the right-wing Republican agenda by defeating George W. Bush."

http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/20040804/D848FC200.html?PG=home&SEC=news

[flpoljunkie]

1. Link to ACT and Tour Dates, Places...

http://actforvictory.org/vote_for_change/index.php

[SangamonTaylor]

2. I'm a huge Pearl Jam fan, and I know that they feel bad about pimping for

Nader in '00.

Ed Vedder played an accoustic set at several Nader rallies, and before their show in Houston (Cynthia Woods) they played the Rage Against the Machine video depicting Bush and Gore as the same type of corporate politician. They've made some comments recently about learning a lot after the 2000 election. Good to see that they now realize the stark differences between the Republican and Democratic parties.

Last time I saw them, Houston '02, they had caused a bit of a controversy when Ed "impaled" a rubber mask of * (using a mic stand) and did a "tribal dance" around it while they played along to Bushleaguer. The media made a huge issue out of it, while it was nothing really that bad. Because of the uproar, many right-wingers tried to boycott them and pull a Dixie Chicks reaction....