The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #54568   Message #845513
Posted By: GUEST
11-Dec-02 - 05:26 PM
Thread Name: Any Mudcat Artists Against the War?
Subject: Any Mudcat Artists Against the War?
I'm wondering if any Mudcat artists are currently working with other anti-war artist coalitions? And wouldn't it be great if we started to compile information on organizations/actions people are involved with?

Here is a link to the UK Stop the War Coalition:

http://www.stopwar.org.uk/

and the release of their CD compilation "Peace Not War" was scheduled for release December 9th:

http://www.peace-not-war.org/

Yesterday, a new group of American artists called Artists United to Win Without War announced their letter to Bush (for Human Rights Day), but I haven't come across a website.

Not in Our Name has had a number of musicians involved with it's events and organizing.

www.notinourname.org

And there is the Artists Network of Refuse and Resist! to create a culture of resistance:

http://www.artistsnetwork.org/index.html

But no matter where I go, I'm not seeing any folk musicians names, except at the UK "Peace not War" website, and even that isn't many.

What's up? What is the folk music community doing? It seems there are a whole lot of folk musicians disengaged from this anti-war effort.