You want to know where the party is at Saturday night: THE MALL.....

[LynneSin]

Check out some of the speakers for the concert including CIndy Sheehan and Gregory Palast! And they have some great music. This event will be going on all night long and outside of some breaks here and there I hope to be there most of the evening too

http://www.opceasefire.org/

Sept. 24, 2005 - A FREE MUSIC FESTIVAL TO STOP THE WAR IN IRAQ!
WASHINGTON MONUMENT 2PM TO 1AM - RAIN or SHINE

THIEVERY CORPORATION - BOUNCING SOULS - JOAN BAEZ
LE TIGRE - THE COUP - STEVE EARLE - TED LEO + THE PHARMACISTS
WAYNE KRAMER WITH THE BELLRAYS - LIVING THINGS
SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK - THE EVENS - MACHETRES
HEAD-ROC - HOSTED BY JELLO BIAFRA


Join Operation Ceasefire, a new coalition of concerned musicians, for a massive anti-war concert/rally at the Washington Monument on September 24th. This event will be a centerpiece of what is expected to be 4 days of enormous protests in nation's capital in support of a full withdrawal of U.S. forces from the quagmire in Iraq. The concert will bring together musical acts such as: Thievery Corporation, punk rock and independent musicians LeTigre, Bouncing Souls, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists; country music artist Steve Earle, rock and soul band the Bellrays; latin musicians Machetres, socially conscious hip-hop groups The Coup and Head-Roc; The Evens (Ian Mackaye and Amy Farina), Grammy Award-winning African American female a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock and even long time activists Wayne Kramer of the MC5 and hosted by Jello Biafra!

With over 60% of the public currently opposed to the war in Iraq, this concert is a fun way we can all come together and demand that this Congress and this administration bring our troops home and start a well over due Ceasefire!

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Or Send your check to United for Peace and Justice attn:Operation Ceasefire-1858 Mintwood Place, NW #4 Washington, DC 20009

This is a FREE concert, so if you can please send a few bucks our way to help put this show on!


The Operation Ceasefire performer schedule is as follows:

2:05 PM - Machetres

2:30 PM - Living Things

3:18 PM - Joan Baez

3:50 PM - Wayne Kramer and the Bellrays

4:41 PM - Steve Earle

5:31 PM - The Coup

6:23 PM - Sweet Honey in the Rock

7:09 PM - The Evens

7:54 PM - Ted Leo+Pharmacists

8:50 PM - Head Roc

9:37 PM - Thievery Corporation

10:59 PM - Pure Belly Dance

11:27 PM - Bouncing Souls

12:12 AM - Le Tigre

The following speakers will appear between the musical acts: host Jello Biafra, Co-Founder of Gold Star Families for Peace Cindy Sheehan, Representative Lynn Woolsey, Washington Wizard Forward Etan Thomas, Former State Department Officer Ann Wright, national radio commentator Jim Hightower, Fernando Suarez del Solar of Gold Star Families, Reverend Graylan Hagler, Cindy Corrie, Mother of peace activist Rachel Corrie who was killed in the West Bank, Code Pink and Global Exchange Co-Founder Medea Benjamin, the DC Guerilla Poets, Investigative Journalist Greg Palast, Iraq Vets Against the War Co- Founder Michael Hoffman, Anti-Flag drummer Pat Thetic and more.

[demnan]

1. That's great

I'll be there (probably not till 1 am though!) :)

[ET Awful]

2. Damn . . . wish I could be there.

There's some great talent in that line-up.

[LynneSin]

3. Sweetie, if you can get to DC we have room in our hotel for you

and I think the cost of the room is covered!

[ET Awful]

6. Thank you kindly for the offer, but I just don't see it happening

no matter how much I'd like to.

It's the getting there that's the problem, I'm tapped out still from my move into the new apt. :(

[LynneSin]

8. Maybe there are some folks from Boston driving down

the offer is there if you want it!

[ET Awful]

9. Thanks. I'm checking into a bus ride with United for Peace and Justice

They have buses going down, so if they're not too expensive, I might be able to join up with them, I don't know yet.

I'm hoping I can get down there with the camera :).

[seemunkee]

4. May have to leave and come back for Thievery and Le Tigre

We have a surprise birthday party to go to that evening but we really wanted to see those two.

[LynneSin]

5. I know the feeling

There are some DU parties planned, but I think we're just going to go to RFDs for food/beverages around 7-9 and then come back for the rest of the evening.

I think this is going to be incredible to have a massive concert like this going on all night on the mall in DC

[leveymg]

7. Wow! This has the makings of an anti-war Woodstock

If only we could get The Who, CSN&Y, Hendrix, Janis and Wavey Gravy to come back we could pull an all-nighter.

"What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 300,000."

[lonestarnot]

10. Flogging Molly is MIA!