Category: Freedom of Speech

420 Event Brings Music, Education, Advocacy and Entrepreneurs Together APR 24, 2016 – JTMP attended the first annual National Cannabis Festival here in DC that brought cannabis activists and entrepreneurs together…

Reggae Artist will be in DC’s upcoming Natl Cannabis Festival on April 23, 2016 APR 4, 2016 – Lifting cannabis prohibition has always been a big issue we push here…

500,000 Cubans Turn Out to See British Rock Band MAR 28, 2016 – The Rolling Stones played a historic concert in Cuba last Saturday, and around 500,000 Cubans who used…

Feb 15, 2016 – Three writers and music critics for the NY Times, Jon Caramanica Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham, have a good piece up about the current dust up and controversy of…

Musician-Activist Writes About the Current State of Politics FEB 12, 2016 – David Byrne, musician frontman for the Talking Heads, posted an essay on his website about the current state…

Nick Lehr With Post up About Guthrie and Trump Connection “In December 1950, Woody Guthrie signed his name to the lease of a new apartment in Brooklyn. Even now, over…

Activist-Musician Calls GOP Frontrunner “Pig-ignorant” JAN 20, 2016 – One of JTMP’s favorite musical-activist Roger Waters ripped into the current GOP primary frontrunner Donald Trump in a Rolling Stone interview…

Director Colin Tilley Makes Epic-like Video Worthy of Award DEC 28, 2015 – Rapper Kendrick Lamar has teamed up with director Colin Tilley for a music video of his song,…

Case Centers Around Teen Punished for Exercising His Free Speech Right Through a Rap Song DEC 24, 2015 – In an outrageous move to stifle free speech, a school board…

Patti Smith, Flea, and More Fight Climate Change With Music DEC 22. 2015 – JTMP has been covering the UN Climate Change Conference and hopes the deal reached will help stop…