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“Green Day will contribute a cover of John Lennon’s “Working Class Hero” to the forthcoming CD Instant Karma: The Campaign To Save Darfur, proceeds from which help support Amnesty International’s campaign to focus attention on the urgent catastrophe in Darfur, Sudan.
“Working Class Hero,” which appears on Lennon’s 1970 album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, is considered one of the former Beatle’s most overtly political songs, with its themes of class and social alienation.”
We’ll let you know more about the upcoming compilation shortly and how you contribute to the cause.
If you are in a band and want to get some big names to hear your stuff check Download for the Cure.
Lead singer of the band Thrice’s solo “country” band
Dustin’s Virb.com page for music [4 songs up for download]
Dustin’s Interview: None yet [key word "yet"]
Charity of choice: To write love on her arms [5% of the album profits will be donated to TWLOHA]
Please check out this group who is fighting hard against suicide and depression. With so many key bands behind them helping spread the message that needs to be heard you can bet that a difference will be made in people’s life’s.
All the posts (from the main page) will now be available the same time they are on here, on our Virb.com page as well.
What are some of the bands helping other through donations or giving of there time? We know there are bands and artists out there helping people, and we want to know. Leave your comments below
“shelling and machine-gun fire shook the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday for an eighth day as residents continued to flee a government offensive to crush Islamist insurgents and clan militia.”
A lot of times we hear about these wars and these far off places that don’t we don’t know anything about, and then have a hard time getting involved, or even caring.
Mogadishu, is the largest city in Somalia, and its capital. Mogadishu lies on the historically important Indian Ocean Benadir coast, and the city has served as an important regional port for centuries. Find out more about Mogadishu Here
Read about the Mogadishu war here
Liban Ibrahim, a 30-year-old bus driver in the Somali capital, said: “The world does not care about our plight. The United Nations is busy issuing statements when innocent civilians are dying every day.”
Issuing statements about whats going on but never really doing will be noticed soon enough. Apparently the situation is just so bad that it’s kept western journalist out and Arab broadcaster Al Jazeera has been shut down. So the news comes mostly from a small group of brave locals filing to international news agencies.
It’s hard to care when no one knows whats going on. It’s hard to do anything when you didn’t know something needed to be done. We know now though right? So I guess the real question is if we’re still not going to do anything then why doesn’t anyone seem to care?
Article can be found here
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Have you check out our ‘Make A Difference’ page lately? We’ve added some orginizations that need your help to help others.
Is there ones we’ve missed that should be there? Let us know
“President George W. Bush gave Sudan Wednesday one “last chance” to let UN peacekeepers into strife-torn Darfur, as Washington and London threatened new UN sanctions to force Khartoum’s hand.”
“”The time for promises is over, president Beshir must act,” Bush said. “If president Beshir does not meet his obligations, the United States will act.”"
What does this exactly mean? Does it mean we will be seeing some action from outside nations sometime soon, or will the threats of stepping up only continue?
Here’s the article
With all news about the shooting and killing that happened yesterday at Virginia Tech, issues of gun control and video game violence begin to be discussed and frankly the media will beat those to death without solving anything. Instead here’s an article that tells a little bit about the known victims. Article
“Ryan Clark
Clark was called “Stack” by his friends, many of whom he met as a resident assistant at Ambler Johnson Hall, where the first shootings took place.
Clark, 22, was from Martinez, Ga., just outside Augusta. He was a fifth-year student working toward degrees in biology and English, and a member of the Marching Virginians band.”
Read the rest here
“A gunman opened fire in a Virginia Tech dorm and then, two hours later, shot up a classroom building across campus Monday, killing 32 people in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history. The gunman committed suicide, bringing the death toll to 33.”
Article can be found here
“As of Sunday, April 15, 2007, at least 3,300 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the
Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,674 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military’s numbers.”
No matter what your thoughts on the war in Iraq are our soldiers and and loved ones are still over there and above all hope they come home safe. Keep them in your prayers
Article can be found here
Check out our interview with Dan here
Check out the bands myspace page here
Charity they support: Currently raising money for Blood:Water Mission to dig wells in Africa
“Celebrities from the music, film, art and sports worlds will use their creative talents to design and personalize “Guitar Hero II” video game controllers for Rock, Paint, Bid, an online auction by Activision Inc. and Red Bull Energy Drink that will be held April 13 to benefit MusiCares.”
The list of participating artists includes: Armor For Sleep, My Chemical Romance, Dashboard Confessional, Nickelback, Hot Hot Heat, the Rocket Summer, Jack’s Mannequin, the Spill Canva along with many more.
Click here to check out the ebay auction for “Guitar Hero” guitar controllers
This is a reminder that everyone heading out to see Relient K, Mae and Sherwood should bring a few extra bucks to the show. Sherwood is collecting money for Blood:Water Mission to dig wells in Africa.
The tour is about 40% complete and they are off to a good start collecting enough money but still need your help. Thanks to everyone participating in this effort.
Click here for tour dates
“Search engine Google and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum launched an online mapping project on Tuesday to provide what the museum said was evidence of atrocities committed in Sudan’s western Darfur region. More than 200,000 people have been killed in Darfur since 2003 and some of this carnage — which the United States calls the first genocide of this century — has been detailed by Google Earth, the search engine’s mapping service (http://earth.google.com).”
With this kind of technology being able to see what’s actually going on anywhere in the world, will genocide continue to come up in the future as it has several times in the past?
Great article can be read here.
Our interview with Matthew from Moses Mayfield: Here
The band’s Myspace page: Here
Charity they support: International Justice Mission
“A total of 139,000 Mozambican babies have been born with the AIDS virus in the last six months, according to a report released on Monday by the United Nations Children’s Fund.”
How do you stop something that spreads so fast and infects so much of the continent? Will we see a solution in our lifetime?
read the short article here
We’re up to 95 friends on the new social networking site www.virb.com, sign up and be our friend over at Virb.com/mitm and put us over 100.
Tickets go on sale Friday for The Format’s Darfur benefit concert (May 8th at the Beaumont Club in Kansas City, Missouri)
Via: absolutepunk.net
“Aid has moved away from patronising charity towards thinking about people’s rights, according to co-author Tony Vaux - who worked for international aid agency Oxfam for years - but if you look closely, people in the system don’t really know what humanitarian action is or should be about.
“We say it’s about ‘addressing needs’ but none of us can agree what needs are. What I think someone needs isn’t the same as what you think,” he explains.”
Here is a great article talking about, to me, the seemingly obvious questions and conflicts with aiding other countries. These things are hardly ever brought up, if ever, when you’re being asked to donate to causes. Take a couple of minutes and read something that will give you a different perspective.
The cursors blinks at you telling you write something, anything really, but gravity works in reverse not pulling your fingers towards the keyboard. I encounter this all the time in life, and not just when trying to write. For example I cannot for the life of me seem to get motivate to take out the trash, I would say I don’t know what it is, but I know it’s because I dread picking my lazy self up and dragging the bulging bag outside.
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International Justice Mission’s Four-Fold Purpose
* Victim Relief - Relieve the victim of the abuse currently being committed.
* Perpetrator Accountability - Bring accountability and just consequences under the law to the specific perpetrator(s) of abuse.
* Structural Prevention - Prevent the abuse from being committed against others who are also at risk by strengthening community factors that are likely to deter potential oppressors, reduce the vulnerability of at-risk populations and empower local authorities to stop such abuses.
* Victim Aftercare - Provide access to services to help victims transition to their new lives and to encourage long-term success.
We want to know what questions and things you would like to ask bands. What questions are important enough to ask?
This would be really helpful, so if you have questions that you would want to ask band members about things that are more important to them than music please leave the questions in the comments. Thanks for everyone support.
“The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said it issued a tsunami warning for the region after a powerful 8.1 magnitude earthquake hit in the Pacific Ocean on Monday.” (Sunday U.S. time)
