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JAN 12, 2012 - Eddie Van Halen, through the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation, has donated 75 of his own guitars to LA area schools, to help them with their mission of inspiring creativity and expression through playing music. Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation was founded in 1996, inspired the great movie, "Mr. Holland's Opus" starring Richard Dreyfuss. The film's composer, Michael Kamen, is the founder and they donate instruments to schools to help with their music programs. 

Read more here, and check out the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation here.

                                                             Photo credit Carl Lender/Wiki

JAN 12, 2012 - (Sort of...)

Jan 12, 2012 - Libyan activist musicians, who go by the name GAB Crew, have been putting out activist music supporting the youth uprising and the Arab Spring in Libya from the start. They wrote a song called "Libya Bleeds Just Like Us" while Qaddfi was still in power, and months before Tripoli fell. The song was leaked, and when asked by a Qaddai loyalist to write a pro-Qaddafi song, they were horrified and went underground. When the rebel force took the capital, they returned home, and are happy now that they can be more free to be creative and express themselves with protest songs under the new transitional government.

Read more in a NY Times article here, and check out GAB Crew's "Libyan Bleeds Just Like Us" music video below.

JAN 11, 2012 - Ran across this pro-Occupy activist song from a band called "New Party Systems", and it is called "We Are". Check it out below, and read more here.

The activist music group, Anonymous Expression sent us their new song in support of the Occupy movement and say on their YouTube Channel, "Jesus was an Occupier of his time (Share this Video!) He stood up against oppression and taught us how to have compassion and how to love those that persecute us. Jesus is us, we are him, after all, he is you and me. Watch the video and share with everyone! Rap Lyrics inspired by JJ3 on YouTube."