[2207] in peace2
Fwd: [David Rovics] Tons of Anti-War Songs, FREE Download, Limited Time!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tree Monkey)
Fri Feb 7 09:40:32 2003
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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 06:34:55 -0800 (PST)
From: Tree Monkey <bangarangatan@yahoo.com>
To: rovics@educate.agitate.org
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PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY! Help get the message out all
over the country. David Rovics' music is a very
accessible, very fun, very entertaining way to educate
and agitate.
www.davidrovics.com
--- DRovics@aol.com wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> As the evil empire is preparing to further destroy
> another already-destroyed
> country and kill untold numbers of additional women,
> children, and men, while
> Depleted Uranium fallout spreads across Iraq and a
> radioactive "dirty bomb"
> in the form of another NASA accident distributes
> more cancerous waste from
> California to Louisiana, I send out another email to
> my list about -- yes --
> MUSIC! I keep trying to figure out how to make my
> guitar stop Bush in his
> tracks and otherwise radically transform the world
> as we know it, but all it
> seems to do is produce various melodic notes of one
> sort or another.
>
> Oh well. So I'm trying a little gimmick here. The
> operative phrase is at
> the beginning. I stole it from some TV commercial.
> FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY,
> like, say, til the end of March, I have EVERY song
> from my FIVE most recent
> CDs available for free download on <A
>
HREF="www.mp3.com/davidrovics">www.mp3.com/davidrovics</A>.
> The idea is to
> instigate a flurry of emails that people will send
> to everyone they know,
> turning new people on to these songs with the
> exciting prospect of being able
> to download EVERYTHING for free, rather than just
> the usual selection of a
> few songs from each CD.
>
> So feel free to spread the word far and wide. If it
> works, we'll all know
> because the aforementioned website keeps track of
> how many people have
> downloaded songs. And then we'll have the warm,
> fuzzy feeling of defeating
> the big, evil MUSIC INDUSTRY through the
> democratizing influence of word of
> mouth (and email)...
>
> Also, I went into the studio in Boston and made
> quickie recordings and rough
> mixes of 10 NEW SONGS. You can download them at <A
> HREF="www.davidrovics.com">www.davidrovics.com</A>.
> Go
> there and click on "listen to songs," then click on
> the link for "10 new
> songs." The lyrics to these and all my other songs
> can be found in the
> appropriate section under "song lyrics." (You'll
> also find that my website
> is a bit more user-friendly now, since my friend
> Rich helped me out with
> setting up frames on my website...)
>
> So I've begun my latest tour, sometime in the past
> couple weeks, depending on
> how you measure these things. It goes on with a gig
> every day or two until
> the end of May. From here in New England it takes
> me south down to Florida,
> then west through Texas and all over the southwest,
> into California, up to
> Washington, then east through Montana, Minnesota,
> and points east, ending up
> on the east coast for the last half of April, then
> May in Europe. Details
> can be found on my website under "gigs."
>
> One of these gigs coming right up that I'm
> particularly happy to mention is
> the February 15th protest in New York City, which
> look like it's going to be
> massive. There will be huge anti-war protests all
> over North America, Europe
> and elsewhere that day. Please visit <A
>
HREF="www.unitedforpeace.org">www.unitedforpeace.org</A>
> for more on
> that, and other things you can do to stop the Axis
> of Evil (that is, the US,
> Britain and Israel).
>
> If information is power, then Robbie Leppzer is at
> the forefront of the
> struggle. If you haven't discovered the great
> documentaries and videos of
> speeches by Chomsky, Zinn and other luminaries
> available through <A HREF="www.turningtide.com">
> www.turningtide.com</A>, you should. And while
> you're at it, go to the "links"
> page on my website and check out other similar
> resources like Free Speech TV
> and tell everybody you know about it.
>
> Did you know that of the paltry three NPR affiliates
> who have been good
> enough to add Democracy Now to their programming,
> 100% of them do their best
> fund-raising during that program (not Few Things
> Considered)? There's hope.
> The country really is full of progressives, they
> just haven't all discovered
> each other yet.
>
> If you're interested in the real deal on the space
> shuttle crash and the
> NASA's plans to further endanger life on earth by
> giving us all lung cancer,
> check out <A
> HREF="www.space4peace.org">www.space4peace.org</A>.
>
> The Piquetero Tour (coming up in April) and the
> Argentina Autonomist Project
> now have their own domain name -- <A
> HREF="www.autonomista.org">www.autonomista.org</A>.
> (The link will stay
> up on my site, too.) There's a couple new pieces
> about the piqueteros now up
> in the "Piquetero Tour" section of the AAP's
> aforementioned website.
>
> That's all for now. Hope to see you on the road and
> in the streets!
>
> Yours,
> David
>
>
> David Rovics
> www.davidrovics.com
> DRovics@aol.com
> (617) 747-4460 (voicemail)
> (617) 872-5124 (cell phone)
> PO Box 995
> Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 (USA)
>
> "The people can always be brought to the bidding of
> the leaders. That is
> easy. All you have to do is tell them they are
> being attacked, and denounce
> the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing
> the country to danger.
> It works the same in any country."
> Hermann Goering
>
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