Tag: justice

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."

JAN 5, 2012 - Activist band, "The Employees", have released a song called 'Part of the 99", inspired by the Occupy movement. They say on their YouTube channel, "The Employees are at it again, OCCUPYING your EARDRUMS with this song, Part of the 99, inspired by the Occupy movement. The band has also been hard at work finishing up their new concept album, UNEMPLOYED. While rocking your socks off, this album focuses on serious issues in todays world like government, unemployment, the environment, the economy, corruption, and wanting to escape it all! Who else better to know about these issues than THE EMPLOYEES in it!" Check out their Facebook page here, and watch the video below.

JAN 5, 2012 - George Michael was attacked viciously by a hate filled Christian website of the group "Christians for a Moral America", saying he is going to "pay for his unrepentant lifestyle in hell". George Michael then responded with Tweets calling them "Totally f--ked up c--ksucking bastards. Oh my God that felt good, I must be getting better." You can follow George on his Twitter account here, and JTMP's Twitter account is here. Follow us!

George is recovering from a bad bout of pneumonia in Austria while this was all happening. Check out more on this MSNBC post here, and below is a video of George talking to the press while he is recovering.

In an interview with SuicideGirlsBlog.com, Anti-Flag guitarist Justin Sane says the Occupy movement "gives me a lot of hope."  He adds, "I think in America there’s a sense of fairness – that everybody has an opportunity to get ahead and that’s based on an assumption that there’s a level playing field that we all start out on. Now people are looking around and seeing that there isn’t a level playing field, things are vastly out of balance, and people with a lot of money are actually breaking the law in many cases and doing things that should be illegal to make more money – all this while the rest of us are just trying to scrape by. I think Americans are pretty fair minded – most people are just saying that they want a level playing field and that’s why we see a lot of protests popping up recently."

To read the whole interview check out SuicideGirlsBlog.com.

 Reed Johnson and Deborah Vankin over at LA Times.com posted an article that delved into the question of where are the protest songs, specifically about Occupy, when it comes to the top-grossing acts of the '00s? The article goes, “…much of the music that has topped the Billboard charts in the new millennium — Britney, Lil Wayne, Lady Gaga — might suggest that America has been one big party since 2001, despite the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, two major wars, a wobbly economy and a bitterly divided government. Likewise, the recent popular manifestations of that unrest, the tea party and Occupy Wall Street movements, so far seem to have been largely lost on popular music.”