Hey there Massachusetts,
Music for America is coming to your state this fall, but first we need your help!
What is Music for America?
http://www.musicforamerica.org
We are a nonprofit political organization working to get 1 million people energized to participate in the 2004 elections. Read more, and then tell your friends. And tell them to tell their friends too, dammit.
By connecting music and culture to politics, we are exposing political hypocrisies, activating discouraged voters and igniting a grassroots movement. Our strategy is to hold as many local music, comedy and poetry events as possible - all over the country - between now and the general election. We also plan to hold spring and summer concert tours and weekend festivals, and we run a daily webzine offering news, blogs, educational materials about issues, mp3 downloads, multimedia and a DIY (Do It Yourself) guide to throwing your own concerts/fundraisers.
What help do we need?
In order to throw kick-ass concerts and Get Out the Vote in Massachusetts, we need a group of volunteers, and we need to get in touch with as many student activist groups in the state as possible. That's why we're asking you to help us in two ways:
- Sign up on our website and tell everyone you know about us. If you want to volunteer, you can email our outreach director, Mike Connery, off-list at mike@musicforamerica.com.
- We need volunteers at every college and university across the state to find contact information for all the student activist groups on their campus. Campus Greens; social justice groups; Students for Sensible Drug Policy; you name it. Any group you can think of, we want to get in touch with them. What we need is the name of a person to contact, a phone number, and an email address. If you can only find one of the three, that's cool, but we need some way to reach these people.
Grassroots activism in this country has exploded this election cycle. Music for America is committed to building a progressive organization that can channel the power of this movement and sustain it beyond 2004, but we can't do it without your help! Please take some time to check out our site, and help us with some research.