Music Politics Activism
MAR 31, 2013 - Occupy This Album, featuring many activist musicians coming together has a mission to "inspire and celebrate through music the Occupy Wall Street movement and the 99%…
MAR 31, 2013 - After 8 years of George W. Bush illegally wiretapping, reading our emails and signing the Patriot Act and shredding the Constitution, Charlie Daniels and other conservative…
MAR 29, 2013 - JTMP is joining and supporting the calls for Reebok to drop rapper Rick Ross as a spokesperson because his new single talks about drugging and raping…
MAR 29, 2013 - I ran across this great quote from Jerry Garcia this morning. The Grateful Dead were big time musical-activists. At Earth Day, Bob Weir told me they…
MAR 28, 2013 - I came across this awesome pic on Facebook of Willie Nelson, after an interview with Texas Monthly, showing his support for marriage equality with a customized…
Today's featured activist-musician is Thollem McDonas. From SouthbendTribune: "Activism and music have been a part of Thollem McDonas’ life for as long as he can remember. He gave his first music lesson at…
MAR 26, 2013 -Today's featured activist musicians that JTMP are spotlighting are Las Cafeteras, who "met in 2005 as students at free Son Jarocho classes at the Eastside Cafe in Los Angeles. The…
MAR 22, 2013 - Yoko Ono, in an effort to get behind sensible gun legislation, has tweeted pictures of John's glasses he was wearing the night he was shot by…
MAR 20, 2013 - Several Michelle Shocked shows have been canceled after the singer, who has been known to "speak her mind" in the past, went on an anti-gay tirade…
MAR 20, 2013 - Pearl Jam and MoveOn.org have launched a campaign on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War, to read and share a letter from an Iraqi vet who…