Public Readings of Lysistrata World-wide Condemn War (tags)
- On March 3, 2003, the Lysistrata Project will present worldwide readings of Aristophanes’ bawdy ancient Greek antiwar comedy Lysistrata. To date, 817 play readings are scheduled in 49 countries and in all 50 U.S. states to voice opposition to the war on Iraq
John Densmore In The Nation (tags)
John Densmore on selling out to the mass media advertisement machine... Ever wonder why you're not hearing songs by The Doors hawking consumer goods?
Environmentalists and Rock Stars Arrested To Protect Old Growth Forests (tags)
Chicago -More than 20 national environmental and social justice leaders joined with music legends Bonnie Raitt and John Densmore and environmental hero Julia Butterfly Hill to protest Boise Cascade's crusade to silence critics of its old growth logging practices
Loggers Try to Demonize Environmental Groups as 'Terrorists' (tags)
Last month, industry lobbyists, led by Boise Cascade, wrote to the Internal Revenue Service arguing that groups such as RAN had violated the terms of their tax-exempt status because they engaged in civil disobedience.
Bonnie Raitt, John Densmore, John Trudell rally for Protection of Ancient Forest (tags)
Celebrities and environmentalists meet at Pershing Square to bring attention to the threats to world's remaining oldgrowth forests. Music event is joined by 2000 demonstrators marching for the U'wa tribe of Columbia, a tribe of 5000 who have threated mass suicide (by jumping from a cliff) if U.S.-based Occidental Petroleum starts drilling for oil on their ancestral lands.