Gore's Live Earth Concert May Be Staged at Capitol (Bipartisan Senate resolution to do so)

[AlGore-08.com]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/12/AR2007031201620.html

Rock on, Al Gore.

That's the message coming from Capitol Hill, where Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) introduced a resolution yesterday to allow Gore to stage a global-warming concert on the Capitol grounds.

If the bipartisan resolution is approved by the Senate and the House, it will clear the way for the former vice president to produce his free "Live Earth" concert on July 7 on the Capitol's west side.

Gore and other promoters had hoped to stage the nighttime event on the Mall but have been unable to secure a permit from the National Park Service. Gore called Reid to request his help, according to the senator's spokesman, Jim Manley.

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Crowds at 2004's "Capitol Fourth" event - - this is where "Live Earth" may be held in D.C.

[demnan]

1. WooHoo! I'll be there

n/t

[JNelson6563]

2. Very cool! Recommended!

That would be splendid. :toast:

[InternalDialogue]

3. Prediction:

Faux News will report "hundreds" in attendance.

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4. I would love to see this happen.

If it indeed is held on the mall, I will find a way to get out there.

[Cha]

5. President Gore at

The Mall with his Live EArth Concert! How Sweet is that?

[w4rma]

6. I'm going, assuming GOP obstructionists don't stop me. (nt)

[Dissenting_Prole]

7. How about a film festival organized around this event?

An Incovenient Truth
The Future of Food
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Heavy Metal
Boiling Point! The Global Climate Crisis
The End of Suburbia
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil 
Blue Vinyl
Fed Up! 
Kilowatt Ours

and more...
http://greenplanetfilms.org/

[acmavm]

8. If you were the other candidates wouldn't you just drop out if you heard

Al Gore was gonna run???? I mean, how could his public personna, with both old and young, be any better? Who else in this country today has the attention of the whole world on him (and in a GOOD way), what with his "anti-warming" movement/campaign/movie? He is doing everything perfectly, he is making himself into the one-size-fits-all candidate.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

9. so would this mean it's free admission?

i originally heard tickets would be sold

and will The Police be at the one in DC? (please!)

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

10. free republic will stage a pro-pollution counter rally

of 3-5 people

[garybeck]

11. see you there n/t/k

[sarcasmo]

12. If Rage Against the Machine plays I am their. Kick before it falls off the main page.