Video For Change

Well, last night’s Kanye West performance turned into an early morning set. After a long delay, the sun started coming up and by the time we walked back to camp it was full daylight. Still it was worth it to have seen both a Tennessee sunrise and sunset.

The tent has been busy as festival goers try to get to all the activities they’ve missed in the last few days. Our box of signed postcards is almost full and we have lots of sheets full of names of people who want to be updated about WITNESS. Even the some of the Bonnaroo media staff was really into our mission and stopped by the tent.

3 hours left before we pack up and I’m exhausted but inspired and totally excited about the work we’ve done here at Bonnaroo and across the organization. I’m a bit sad that [...]

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This has been a great day. It’s exciting for WITNESS staff to see first hand how people react to hearing about the work WITNESS and WITNESS partners are doing. There is a real sense of gratitude from the people passing by, and a real interest in getting involved.

I spoke on a panel about Arts and Activism yesterday with Marc Ross of Rock the Earth, Marc Brownstein of the band Disco Biscuits (and co-chair of Headcount), Tania Elizabeth of the Grammy nominated band The Duhks, Jennifer Fahy of Farm Aid and a few others. There were some interesting questions being raised, in particular – do artists have an obligation to use their platform for change? I don’t know about you, but I don’t think artists have more of an obligation then any one of us. We all live together on this planet, so it’s up to each [...]

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Hi Folks,

Thursday night. Hot. Bonnaroo. If you build it, they will come. We build the WITNESS tent. And concertgoers are visiting us in droves. YAY. We’re projecting our short WITNESS promotional videos (which talk about the work we’re doing) on the top of our tent. Many people have also been signing our postcard to President Calderon of Mexico. It’s part of our Dual Injustice campaign to pressure the government of Mexico to do more to address the murders of young women in Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua Mexico. You can sign the postcard too. Just click here.

In 15 minutes we’re headed to see Vampire Weekend perform. They give a shout out to Peter Gabriel (WITNESS founder) in their song Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa. Apprently, they are fans of his. We’re fans of theirs. How fitting.

We’re gonna check them out and see if there are ways in which [...]

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