Using Social Media to Stage a Movement
I wanted to organize a lil protest against BP and offshore drilling. It had been exactly one month since the oil spill began. One month of non-stop poison continuously flowing into the Gulf, making its way toward the Loop Current and Florida’s Keys and beaches. In the history of history, this is undoubtedly the single…
The Battle of Arizona
Rage Against the Machine front man Zach De La Rocha has organized a protest called Sound Strike that calls for artists to boycott playing in the state of Arizona. This of course is in retaliation to the recent immigration bill in Arizona that makes it a misdemeanor crime for an alien to be in Arizona…
Florida Governor on a Road to Nowhere
Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida is being sued by Talking Heads front man David Byrne for using his 1985 song “Road to Nowhere” in his campaign earlier this year. Byrne is filing suit for the amount of $1 million because that’s the amount he has been offered for his songs in the past. The Crist…
Motivational Ads for Killing Stuff?
Not feeling up for shooting anything lately? Try some motivational posters for your 2nd Amendment blues! This one is quite relevant because not only did a hiker recently kill a grizzly bear with a handgun after it practically ripped his face off, but the incident promoted a new federal law allowing firearms to be brought…
Police Chief to Marijuana Law Reformers: “I’m with you” (Columbia, MO)
Earlier this month on the HeadCount blog, we posted a disturbing video of a SWAT Team raid on a family’s home in Colombia, MO that left the family dog dead and only turned up a small amount of marijuana. At a press conference last week, the city’s police chief made it clear that he wishes…
I need a freakin job.
President Obama took the stage on his Main Street Economic Tour in Buffalo, New York and noticed that all eyes weren’t affixed on him. A sign reading “Dear Mr. President, I need a freakin job. Period.” was displayed in front of him, slightly upstaging the leader of the free world. The sign – and similar…
Personal Liberty Issue Update: What Do Laura Bush, Howard Dean & Orrin Hatch Have In Common?
They’re all in this HeadCount Issue Update! Hello liberty lovers, we’ve got a lot of ground to cover: President Obama’s Drug Czar, Gil Kerlikowske says he wants to end the war on drugs; but does the new drug control strategy released this month match up with the rhetoric? You might be surprised to learn that Laura…
Yim Yames and Friends Raise Awareness for Mountaintop Removal on New Tour
Of all the ways to harvest energy from the earth, mountaintop removal coal mining might be the most universally distasteful (well, at least until the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster made offshort drilling the temporary dunce of dirty energy). Earlier this week Dave Matthews, Emmylou Harris and Alison Krauss played a “Music Saves Mountains” benefit show…
Hangout Festival Review
“Excuse our appearance while we throw the biggest beach party ever!” This was the text from a lone sign that hung on one of the fences at the Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores, AL this past weekend. They weren’t kidding. Hangout pulled off a festival on the beach just about as well as anybody…
BP Says Oil Spill is “Modest” but Won’t Let Journalists Film
The disaster wreaking havoc on the Gulf seems to get worse and more bizarre each day. Despite being able to see the oil spill from space, BP chief executive Tony Hayward has these reassuring words: “It is impossible to say and we will mount, as part of the aftermath, a very detailed environmental assessment. But…