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Obama Vetoes Keystone Pipeline Construction, JTMP’s Activist Music Videos Play a Part
"Paradise - Keystone Pipeline" and "Now is the Time" Help Stop XL Extension FEB 25, 2015 - President Obama vetoed…
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Chicago Musician Helps Blues Musicians Navigate Obamacare
Musician, Activist and Spinal Doctor "Dr. Dan" Wants to Save Blues Musicians FEB 15, 2015 - With the deadline to…
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Katy Perry and Brooke Axtell Sing Message About Overcoming Domestic Violence
Activist-Singer Says It's On Us to Stop It FEB 10, 2015 - If you watched the Grammys the other night…
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MusiCares Honors Bob Dylan with 2015 Person of the Year Award
Songwriter Praised For His Songs of Peace and Justice [caption id="attachment_3579" align="alignright" width="101"] Bob Dylan - Azkena Rock Festival 2010…
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Pussy Riot Releases “I Can’t Breathe” Inspired by Eric Garner
- #StandWithUkraine, Activism, Art, Free Speech, Jtmp, Justice, Music, Opinion, Peace, Politics, protest, racism, Ukraine, video, war, Women's Rights
Art-Activist-Rock Band Releases First English Speaking Song With Dramatic Video FEB 19, 2015 – Pussy Riot, the art-activist-rock collective or “band” from Russia that is constantly protesting Putin and his regime, and constantly getting hassled, beaten, arrested and even jailed for it, have released their first English speaking song called “I Can’t Breathe” inspired by…
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Junkee: “Sleater-Kinney on Politics, Music and Their Comeback”
FEB 18, 2015 – Sleater-Kinney, one of the very first bands that JTMP interviewed and was in our early PSAs and “Rock Your Rights” DVDs (see video below), is making a comeback and has a cool write-up on the Junkee website. Estelle Tang writes about their early career and the mix of politics, activism and “no…
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Chicago Musician Helps Blues Musicians Navigate Obamacare
Musician, Activist and Spinal Doctor “Dr. Dan” Wants to Save Blues Musicians FEB 15, 2015 – With the deadline to enroll in Obamacare here, there are hundreds of events all over the country this weekend to get people who haven’t enrolled in Obamacare signed up for some kind of health insurance at the last minute. You know…
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Katy Perry and Brooke Axtell Sing Message About Overcoming Domestic Violence
Activist-Singer Says It’s On Us to Stop It FEB 10, 2015 – If you watched the Grammys the other night you saw a courageous woman, Brooke Axtell, come out and tell her story of overcoming and leaving domestic abuse, and together with Katy Perry shined a light on domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking hoping…
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MusiCares Honors Bob Dylan with 2015 Person of the Year Award
Songwriter Praised For His Songs of Peace and Justice FEB 9, 2015 – While most of the world was caught up in the actual Grammy awards show, JTMP was keeping an eye on the part of Grammys most dear to us, MusiCares, the “charitable wing” of the Foundation and their “MusiCares Person of the Year Award”….
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One Republic Puts Cystic Fibrosis at Center of “I Lived” Music Video
Band Calls For Donations and Research Into Cure FEB 8, 2015 – I was watching One Republic music videos on YouTube yesterday, and I was surprised and moved to see they have made cystic fibrosis the theme of the music video “I Lived”, trying to bring attention to this disease and calling for donations and…
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Future of Music Coalition Supports Net Neutrality
Rock The Net Campaign Launched FEB 6, 2015 – The Future of Music Coalition is an organization that works with musicians, artists, experts, advocates and more to help artists flourish and assure they are compensated fairly, and they use forums, events, education, advocacy and research to assure musicians have a say in their future. Currently…
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“Artists For Warren” Plans to Draft Elizabeth Warren for President in 2016
MoveOn.org Partners with Art Not War for “Run Warren Run” Campaign FEB 2, 2015 – ART NOT WAR, the progressive media agency that handles all of MoveOn.org’s media from TV ads to viral Internet videos, has formed “ARTISTS FOR WARREN” and plans to “draft” Elizabeth Warren to run for President in 2016. They say on…
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Indian Musician Writes Song Apologizing to Daughter for Crimes Against Women in India
Activist-Musician Sings “Sorry” at No Justice for Horrific Crimes FEB 2, 2015 – Mihir Joshi, an Indian musician, was so horrified by the rampant crimes against women in his country of India that go unreported with no justice served, that he felt moved to write a song to his daughter titled, “Sorry”. The song basically…
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Ukrainian-Americans to Protest Vladimir Putin-Supporting Russian Conductor
- #StandWithUkraine, Activism, Art, Free Speech, Jtmp, LGBT, Music, Opinion, Peace, Politics, protest, right wing extremism, Ukraine, war
Valery Gergiev Supports the Warmongering Regime of Putin, Annexation of Crimea and Attacks Gays JAN 30, 2015 – Ukrainian-Americans in the New Jersey area are assembling a protest tonight at the newly-renovated Mayo Performing Arts Center, to protest and call attention to the conductor of the Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev, who has been a very vocal…