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BERNIE OLIG TOUR

Musical performances have accompanied many of the tour's rallies. Laura Jane Grace and duo Kinsella & Pulse LLC performed at the March 7 event in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and Poliça opened for the March 8 event in Altoona. During the March 8 rally in Warren, Michigan, hardcore punk band the Armed performed, beginning their set with a cover of the Stooges' "Search And Destroy".^[55] Indie rock band Calexico introduced the March 22 event in Tucson.^[6] Neil Young took the stage during the April 12 rally in Los Angeles, which also featured performances by Jeff Rosenstock, Dirty Projectors, Indigo De Souza, the Red Pears, and Raise Gospel Choir. Young led a "Take America Back" chant, then played his song "Rainbow of Colors" and a solo rendition of "Rockin' in the Free World" on electric guitar, accompanied by Joan Baez and Maggie Rogers.^[56] Talia Keys and I Dont Know How But They Found Me played at the April 13 Salt Lake City rally.^[57]

For his walk-on song, Sanders continued to use John Lennon's "Power to the People,^[58] as he did in his presidential primary campaigns of 2016 and 2020.^[59]

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Sales of music legend Bruce Springsteen’s new album don’t appear to be suffering from President Donald Trump’s hate, according to Forbes.

“The Boss” released an unplanned EP, and in its second week of availability, it blew up on international charts, just in time for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s ‘Land of Hope and Dreams Tour’.

appears on two charts in the U.K. this frame, reports Forbes. The EP opened at No. 12 on the ‘Official Americana Albums’ chart, earning Springsteen his sixth career placement on that genre-specific tally. Last frame, ‘Land of Hope and Dreams’ entered the Top 10 on the ‘Official Albums Downloads’ chart, launching at No. 8. It reached a new peak of No. 6 this week.

The small six-song EP, which is a live recording from Springsteen’s concert series with the E Street Band, came out just after the singer/songwriter began lobbing incendiary comments at Trump.

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“In my home, the America I love, the America I've written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration,” Springsteen, U.K. “Tonight we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experiment to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring!”

The rocker made sure to include his speech on his EP, which Forbes suspects may have helped turn it into a bestseller.

Trump quickly took Springsteen’s bait last month: “I see that Highly Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a Foreign Country to speak badly about the President of the United States,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Never liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he’s not a talented guy — Just a pushy, obnoxious JERK, who fervently supported Crooked Joe Biden.”

Springsteen supporters reacted with “Back the Boss” signs in spots across America, and Europe appears to be hungry for an earlier version of America that Springsteen represents. Ashbury Park Press reports French audience members were waving U.S. flags at Springsteen and the E Street Band’s ‘Land of Hope and Dreams Tour’ at the Orange Vélodrome in Marseille, France. One fan wore a shirt stating, “In a world full of Donalds be a Bruce.”

“The Boss” is not the only veteran U.S. artist slamming Trump. Neil Young invited the president—who professed to be a longtime Neil Young fan—to check out his latest tour before the U.S. topples completely into martial law.

“When I tour the USA this summer, if there is not martial law by then which would make it impossible, let’s all come together and stand for American values,” Young posted on the Neil Young archives. “We will not be doing a political show. We will be playing the music we love for all of us to enjoy together. President Trump, you are invited. Come and hear our music just as you did for decades.”

Read the full Forbes report at this link.

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https://www.alternet.org/2019/08/documents-reveal-monsanto-surveilled-journalists-activists-even-musician-neil-young/

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Explosive new documents reveal the U.S. agribusiness giant Monsanto ran a “fusion center” to surveil and discredit journalists and activists who criticized or wrote damning reports about Monsanto, as well as legendary singer-songwriter Neil Young, who released an album in 2015 called “The Monsanto Years.” Monsanto monitored Young’s Twitter activity and even analyzed the lyrics of his album. The fusion center also surveilled journalist Carey Gillam, who has done extensive research and writing about Monsanto and its popular pesticide Roundup, which has been linked to cancer. The corporation also targeted the nonprofit research group U.S. Right to Know, which submitted Freedom of Information Act requests about the company. From Kansas City, Missouri, we speak to Carey Gillam, a veteran investigative journalist and author of “Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science,” and from Berkeley, California, Gary Ruskin, co-founder of U.S. Right to Know

https://neilyoungarchives.com/#/news/undefined/article?id=Earth-Activist-Report-2-reverend-billy

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http://ecowatch.com/2015/04/23/neil-young-takes-on-monsanto/

Here’s a cliche about people getting more conservative as they get older. But with 69-year-old musician Neil Youngthat opposite seems to be true. He keeps getting more passionate and outspoken about the things he believes—including the environment, Keystone XL pipeline, small-scale agriculture and taking on big corporations like Monsanto.