  urlLink From Reuters : "Bruce Springsteen, the U.S. rock icon known as The Boss, will join two dozen other stars in nine "battleground" states for a rock 'n' roll tour aimed at ousting President Bush, organizers said on Wednesday. The "Vote for Change" tour -- 34 shows in 28 cities -- is scheduled for the first week of October, one month before the U.S. presidential election.
"The tour is aimed squarely at the radical right wing policies of Republican ideologues throughout the country," said Eli Pariser, executive director of MoveOn PAC, the online liberal political action committee presenting the tour. Six concert lineups will play simultaneous shows in a blitz of so-called swing states -- those that could go either Democrat or Republican in November: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, North Carolina, Florida, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin. "I felt like I couldn't have written the music I've written, and been on stage singing about the things that I've sung about for the last 25 years and not take part in this particular election," said Springsteen, who has avoided direct political work in the past.
Dave Matthews, James Taylor, the Dixie Chicks, James Taylor, Pearl Jam, R.E.M, John Mellencamp, Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt are among the performers donating their talent and time to get Democrat John Kerry into the White House. Proceeds from the tour go to America Coming Together, another liberal political action group. "A vote for change is a vote for a stronger, safer, healthier America," Matthews said. "A vote for Bush is a vote for a divided, unstable, paranoid America. " MoveOn will offer ticket specials to urlLink MoveOn.org members.
Stop Tom DeLay, the man who simply rewrites the rules or redraws the map when he doesn't like what our democracy presents him, is in the sights of Howie D. and the DFA crowd. urlLink Sign The Petition . Kerry is working the red states. Bobbing and weaving into Bush territory while GW tries to solidify his base. The tide is rising. Go tell your neighbors and your friends that, no matter what dirty tricks the BushRove posse throw at them in the next 90 days, John Kerry is America's chance to redeem herself in history.
Eli Pariser, Howard Dean, and the entire Kerry campaign team are working tirelessly to get our lanky, purple-hearted, aristocratic Kerry and his carteresque, aw-shucksin', son-of-a-will-murker sidekick Edwards into the White House else the Bushies take this nation further into disrepute and this world further into chaos. What will you do today to help the not-nearly-as-bad guys win? Call someone? Send emails? Donate to a PAC, a 527, a local election? Volunteer for the democratic party in your town? Write letters to the editor? What? 
