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RightOutTV Creates Award Show to Honor LGBT Musicians
RightOutTV has created an awards show to further promote and honor the contributions Out artists are making to the LGBTI community and music industry, and song submissions are currently being taken, and the winner will be announced on November 27, 2011. RightOut TV was created to be a vehicle for LGBT musicians and artists to get their words and unify the international LGBT community. On their website they say their mission is to, "support and raise awareness of Out artists who live authentically and openly in their lives and careers and to always have their best interests at heart."
Dionne Warwick to Attend Harlem Town Hall on AIDS
Dionne Warwick will attend a Harlem Town Hall along with doctors, patients, activists, and a few show business friends (Rosie Perez, Michael Kenneth Williams from “The Wire,” Sheryl Lee Ralph from “Dreamgirls”) and join in a discussion of AIDS, its effects on urban communities, and steps being taken to find treatments and an eventual cure. Ms. Warwick has been involved in AIDS awareness and activism since the 1980s, when her valet started being diagnosed with the disease.
Tom Morello “The Nightwatchman” Talks About Censorship on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher
Tom Morello, aka “The Nightwatchman”, was on Real Time with Bill Maher last night, and he talked about censorship, and he let his feelings known on the issue of musicians and bands, and for that matter any worker, speaking out on the issues they care about. They first discussed censorship, where Tom pointed out how after 9/11 there was a list of songs radio stations were asked not to play; like for instance “Imagine” by John Lennon, “Walk Like and Egyptian”, the Gap Band’s “You Dropped a Bomb on Me” and others.
Tom proudly proclaimed, “From that entire list, there was only one band where their entire catalogue was singled out, and that was my band, Rage Against the Machine”. The audience roared with approval and screamed out “Yeah!” He went on to say, “There was a message behind that. No one can say anything. It was a time where there should have been a great deal of debate. Why did this [9/11] really happen? What’s going on? Is there more to it than crazy guys on planes? That was a time when everyone we should have been able to speak their minds fully and completely, and let’s have a better understanding. ”
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Foo Fighters Official Full Length Video of the Westboro Baptist Church Counter-Protest!
We blogged about this the other night, and now a full version of the whole event staged by the Foo Fighters to drown out the Westboro Baptist Church clowns from a flatbed truck is out.
In a statement the Foo Fighters said, "On Aug. 30th, 2011 Westboro Baptist Church called for a picket of the Foo Fighters show in Kansas City. We had a little something up our sleeve. God Bless America."
Justice Through Music Condemns Cancellation Of Gaza Children’s Art Show
Oakland's Museum Of Children's Art's Epic, Shameful Fail
Photo credits: mecaforpeace.org
We here at Justice Through Music Project, a national non-profit that focuses on the impact of art and music on young people around the world, strongly condemn the September 8th decision by the Oakland, California Museum of Children's Art (MOCHA) to cancel a planned exhibit of art created by children of Gaza during the last war in Gaza. More than 250 children were killed and more than 1000 were injured during that three week war.
"In dictatorships, art is censored because authorities do not want the population to see the truth," said JTM Director Brett Kimberlin. "And now, here in the land of the free, thugs masquerading as activists, have forced MOCHA to buckle to keep art, as seen from the eyes of children, from being shared with the public. These children, who have no political or religious agenda, innocently expressed themselves in very poignant ways yet they have been censored by those with an agenda because they don't like what the children portrayed. While it is antithetical to a free society to censor such works, it is shameful that a museum that professes to exhibit children's art would cower under pressure from a handful of belligerents who gleefully cheered when the exhibit was cancelled. We urge MOCHA to fire all those board members who voted to cancel the exhibit and to establish strong written standards prohibiting censorship of and outside influence on future exhibits."
JTM works with artists around the world to express themselves through their art, and to challenge injustice and abuse of power wherever it arises.
Read our press release here, check out the Middle East Childrens Alliance website for more information on this, and watch a video of the art made by the Children of Gaza, Art of War below:
