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If you didn’t hear Green Day and U2 at the Superdome tonight, you need to go out and find a recording of it on-line somewhere. I heard it on the radio tonight. Really stunning stuff. Both the performance and the roar of the grateful crowd surrounding them.
That said, it drove home a point that I’ve tried to make for years. Socially conscious stars should use their cachet to strengthen turnout at political actions and campaigns. That they raise money for them is good. I could care less about their efforts to “raise awareness.”
But what we really need are big, big actions that hold leaders and decisionmakers accountable to the people.
When I heard the crowd roar just to hear Green Day and U2, it drove it home for me again. It was a great pre-game show, but they could use their powers for an even greater good.
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I found this when I was poking around on-line looking for other blogs by Organizers. It’s a PDF document about the electoral approach of an organization in Missouri.
I’ve been in this line long enough to know that rhetoric and reality often don’t mesh, but the rhetoric on this page sounds a little different. I hope it’s real.
Too often – especially in electoral work – people worry about the short-term so
