July 18, 2017 – “Edge”, the guitarist from U2, talks in the Chicago Tribune about going through childhood cancer with his daughter Sian, and he says how a big part of her recovery is using real food as medicine to fight disease. The body can detox and heal itself, given the right tools to do…
Musician Battled Disease for Years July 7, 2016 – Dana Parish has a good piece up on HuffPo about Kris Kristofferson’s battle with his undiagnosed lyme disease. He like many people suffering from chronic pain and fatigue put his illness down as “fibromyalgia”. It wasn’t until years into treatment where he discovered “integrative medicine” and…
Activist-Musician Talks Monsanto and Feeling the Bern With Rolling Stone OCT 15, 2015 – Dave Matthews has been not activist music for years, lending his time and music to Farm Aid along with Willie and the Gang. Matthews recently gave an interview to Dan Hyman of Rolling Stone, and in it Matthews talks about food…
Fresh, Natural Vegetables and Fruit Offered at “Healthy Corners” July 27, 2015 – One of the biggest issues JTMP supports is overhauling our food system, from ending corporate welfare subsidies to large corporation “farms”, to expanding access to fresh and nutritious foods to the inner city “food deserts”, where there is often only small stores…
Musical-Activist Supports Bernie Sanders and his Socialist Platform June 17, 2015 – Donald Trump the clown who is making a mockery of our Presidential elections, used Neil Young’s song “Rockin’ in the Free World” to launch his 2016 publicity blitz, I mean “Presidential campaign”. Neil Young, always known for his activism, got angry when he found out…
Farm Aid Founder Ratchets Up His Activism Against Monsanto MAY 28, 2015 – Neil Young, founder of Farm Aid that helps family farms, is ratcheting up his activism against Monsanto, the Agricorp that makes genetically modified organism seeds better known as “Frankenfood”. Neil has been speaking out against Monsanto, but this time around he attacks…
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…
“Nuts & Berries – The Monsanto Blues” JAN 14, 2015 – We at JTMP are also all activist-musicians, and we cover activist musicians all over the world as well as occasionally putting out an activist music video by the staff. To kick off 2015 we are releasing my anti-Monsanto song, “Nuts & Berries – The Monsanto Blues”….
Musician-activist says, “Ill probably take a couple of hits before or after the show tonight.” DEC 11, 2-14 – One of JTMP’s favorite activist-musicians, Willie Nelson, gave an interview to AARP.org recently, and he spoke out on genetically modified Frankenfood, positive thinking, and medical cannabis. On the GMO food-like products that the chemical-food factories are…
Activist-Singer Attacked for Association with Monsanto at G7 Summit DEC 4, 2014 – Bono, the lead singer and activist-musician from U2, came under fire from his fans and others for being associated with Monsanto and private companies “partnering” with the private sector to solve Africa’s hunger crisis at the last G8 Summit meeting back in 2013…