AllRespect.com // Rise Against, Billy Bragg, Trent Reznor, R.E.M. join Campaign to Close Guantanamo

Posted on 2009-10-24 03:00:14
Artist/band(s): Billy Bragg [FB], Nine Inch Nails [FB], Pearl Jam [FB], Rage Against The Machine [FB], Rise Against [FB]

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Source: http://www.punknews.org/article/35706

Billy Bragg,
Billy Bragg,
Pearl Jam,
Rise Against,
REM, Nine Inch Nails and Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine are among the musicians who have today announced their participation in the National Campaign to Close Guantanamo-a campaign led by retired Generals Robert Gard, John Johns, former member of Congress, Tom Andrews, and Vote Vets Chairman and Iraq War veteran, Jon Soltz. The musicians also launched a formal protest of the use of music used in conjunction with torture that took place at the prison and other facilities and announced they were supporting an effort seeking the declassification of all secret government records pertaining to how music was utilized as an interrogation device.

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