The Associated Press reports that Rage Against the Machine will perform at an anti-war music festival during the Democratic National Convention, starting today.
"The politically outspoken rock band said it will perform at the Tent State Music Festival to End the War on Aug. 27 at the Denver Coliseum, a venue about three miles from the convention site. Others scheduled to perform include Wayne Kramer, who played with MC5 during the riotous 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago."
"I do this out of a sense of participating in democracy," said Kramer, who said he plans to vote for Democrat Barack Obama in November. "Democracy requires participation. It's not just a theory."
"The Denver festival is hosted by Tent State University and Iraq Veterans Against the War. Organizers say about 8,000 tickets will be given away free by lottery."
Tent State University describes itself as "a college campus-based movement aimed at ending the Iraq war."
"Kramer said he and Tom Morello [pictured above] of Rage Against the Machine have long worked together on music and activism. "When the opportunity came up to take our electric guitars and make some unholy noise to try to stop a war, it sounded familiar to me," Kramer said. "It's something we did 40 years ago, as part of a generation that said the war in Vietnam was wrong and needed to stop. We're part of a generation saying the war in Iraq is wrong and needs to stop."
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"The politically outspoken rock band said it will perform at the Tent State Music Festival to End the War on Aug. 27 at the Denver Coliseum, a venue about three miles from the convention site. Others scheduled to perform include Wayne Kramer, who played with MC5 during the riotous 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago."
"I do this out of a sense of participating in democracy," said Kramer, who said he plans to vote for Democrat Barack Obama in November. "Democracy requires participation. It's not just a theory."
"The Denver festival is hosted by Tent State University and Iraq Veterans Against the War. Organizers say about 8,000 tickets will be given away free by lottery."
Tent State University describes itself as "a college campus-based movement aimed at ending the Iraq war."
"Kramer said he and Tom Morello [pictured above] of Rage Against the Machine have long worked together on music and activism. "When the opportunity came up to take our electric guitars and make some unholy noise to try to stop a war, it sounded familiar to me," Kramer said. "It's something we did 40 years ago, as part of a generation that said the war in Vietnam was wrong and needed to stop. We're part of a generation saying the war in Iraq is wrong and needs to stop."
On the Net:
http://www.ratm.com/
http://www.tentstate.org/
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