Pearl Jam Joins Leading Artists By Signing Open Letter To Congress To Stop Gun Violence
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June 23 2016
Pearl Jam and over 100 leading artists and executives in the music industry added their names to Billboard’s open letter to the United States Congress calling on them to do more to prevent gun violence by passing laws that require a background check for every gun sale and block suspected terrorists from buying guns.
To read the full open letter, including the full list of artists and music executive names, go here.
#DisarmHate #NoBillNoBreak
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Sir Paul McCartney, Lady Gaga, Michael Stipe, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and many others also participate
by Michelle Geslani
on June 23, 2016, 11:24am
Following the murder of Voice contestant Christina Grimmie and the worst mass shooting in US history in Orlando, more than 150 musicians have signed an open letter to Congress pleading to end gun violence.
Penned and organized by Billboard magazine, the letter features support from Paul McCartney, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, Lady Gaga, Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready, Stevie Nicks, Beck, Iggy Pop, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor, Michael Stipe, and Joan Jett.
“As leading artists and executives in the music industry, we are adding our voices to the chorus of Americans demanding change,” reads the letter. “Music always has been celebrated communally, on dancefloors and at concert halls. But this life-affirming ritual, like so many other daily experiences — going to school or church or work—now is threatened, because of gun violence in this country.”
Other artists who’ve backed the message include Alanis Morrisette, Common, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy and Glenn Kotche, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, Katy Perry, Ringo Starr, Sia, Courtney Love, Pusha T, Diplo, Elvis Costello, Andrew Bird, Mark Ronson, Vic Mensa, The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne, and Tori Amos.
In order to prevent further gun violence, the letter asks that Congress:
– Require a background check for every gun sale
– Block suspected terrorists from buying guns.
June 23 2016
Pearl Jam and over 100 leading artists and executives in the music industry added their names to Billboard’s open letter to the United States Congress calling on them to do more to prevent gun violence by passing laws that require a background check for every gun sale and block suspected terrorists from buying guns.
To read the full open letter, including the full list of artists and music executive names, go here.
#DisarmHate #NoBillNoBreak
...
http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/06/thom-yorke-trent-reznor-eddie-vedder-sign-open-letter-to-congress-to-stop-gun-violence/
Sir Paul McCartney, Lady Gaga, Michael Stipe, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and many others also participate
by Michelle Geslani
on June 23, 2016, 11:24am
Following the murder of Voice contestant Christina Grimmie and the worst mass shooting in US history in Orlando, more than 150 musicians have signed an open letter to Congress pleading to end gun violence.
Penned and organized by Billboard magazine, the letter features support from Paul McCartney, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, Lady Gaga, Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready, Stevie Nicks, Beck, Iggy Pop, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor, Michael Stipe, and Joan Jett.
“As leading artists and executives in the music industry, we are adding our voices to the chorus of Americans demanding change,” reads the letter. “Music always has been celebrated communally, on dancefloors and at concert halls. But this life-affirming ritual, like so many other daily experiences — going to school or church or work—now is threatened, because of gun violence in this country.”
Other artists who’ve backed the message include Alanis Morrisette, Common, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy and Glenn Kotche, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, Katy Perry, Ringo Starr, Sia, Courtney Love, Pusha T, Diplo, Elvis Costello, Andrew Bird, Mark Ronson, Vic Mensa, The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne, and Tori Amos.
In order to prevent further gun violence, the letter asks that Congress:
– Require a background check for every gun sale
– Block suspected terrorists from buying guns.
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