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Tour Support Was Always One of My Favorite Things
Touring personnel are as vulnerable as the rest of us (perhaps more so) and because their work takes them away from home for long periods of time and to a different city every day, it’s not as if they can keep a regular schedule of therapist appointments. Today it was announced that there is a whole new kind of Tour Support -- the type that is so desperately needed -- mental health services and support for touring bands and crew.
The Campus Health Crisis for Students of Color
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among young adults. This time of transition, when people may leave home and face unprecedented stress, change, and pressure is the time when mental health issues may first emerge.
1619 Project
The 1619 Project reminds us why American still needs the Southern Poverty Law Center. Since 1971, the SPLC has been fighting hate, teaching tolerance, seeking justice and exposing extremists across the United States.
Farm Aid: America's Farm Crisis 2019
For anyone previously unfamiliar with Farm Aid, the nonprofit’s hands-on board of directors includes some high profile folks, founders Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young, as well as Dave Matthews. Nice!
Milagro Foundation: Carlos Santana Shares the Love
Carlos Santana is not just one of Woodstock’s most legendary performers; he is also one of America’s most generous philanthropists.
Guns. What Are You Going To Do?
We are at war against ourselves in America.
We will kill twice as many Americans here at home this year as the Vietnam War took at its tragic peak. Hundreds of times more than were killed in Iraq or Afghanistan will die in America, shot by Americans.
We are doing the killing using guns we don’t need and never should have in our homes.
Teenage Wasteland: The Who Fight Cancer
Teens get rare and difficult to treat cancers that are made more complex by the physical changes that their bodies are going through at that time in life. Emotionally they need special help at a time in life when they are old enough to understand what is happening to them but hardly mature enough to cope with the impact for them, their family and friends.
Blindness: 80% Can Be Easily Cured
Helping out is not some special skill. It is not the domain of rare individuals. It is not confined to a single part of our lives. We simply heed the call of the natural impulse within and follow it where it heeds us.
Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace in a Violent World
Woodstock was sold as “Three Days of Peace and Music.” Plenty gets written about the music, can we talk about the Three Days of Peace?
Equal Pay: How Women's Soccer Can Do What Congress Can't
The US Women’s Soccer Team may be the most talented, hard-working, in-synch group ever assembled. We are lucky to have them representing our nation and the sport is lucky to have them as ambassadors. Now they are about to have a huge influence on social issues. Especially pay equality for women.
Gay at Woodstock: What Happened 50 Years Ago
With the 50th anniversary of Woodstock approaching, now is a good opportunity to remind ourselves that sharing and celebrating the brave and criminal stories of the Stonewall Riots is a whole lot more important than playing another Jerry Garcia tune.
Why Community Organizing is Still Cool!
Today we know Wade Rathke as an author, activist and a godfather of modern community organizing. His career began shortly after he attended the Woodstock festival when, in response, he founded the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).
This Is Why Woodstock Still Matters
I get grief for saying this, but the best thing emerging from the Woodstock festival wasn't the music. It wasn’t the drugs and it wasn't free love. The breakthrough at Bethel, NY that weekend was humanitarian. A new vision of community cooperation activated on a mass scale.
Greenpeace and 150,000 Other Good Ideas that Came Out of Woodstock
During the ten years after Woodstock, the federal government certified the launch of more than 150,000 new nonprofit organizations.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans were being employed by charities and philanthropy burst with activity. This was the start-up growth spurt in contemporary social activism.
Watkins Glen is Lucky
It happened again. One of the smallest and poorest counties in New York was counting on an economic shot in the arm from a huge summer concert -- and it disappears.
This time it was Woodstock 50.