With Karen Scott of FitzGibbon Media, Mike Mills or R.E.M. Hillary Zuckerberg of Why Hunger, Mikel Jollet of Airborne Toxic Event and Brandon Deroche of Urgency Network
Storified by Brian Fitzgerald · Fri, Mar 15 2013 14:04:20
Panel at #MusicActivism @karen2scott @FitzgibbonMedia @remhq @whyhunger @Mikel_Jollet @airborne_toxic @BrandonDeroche @UrgencyNetwork #SXSW
At a panel called Raise Your Fists and getting ready to start a movement #sxsw #MusicActivism
Local activism can be the most effective...money goes directly to the need @remhq #musicactivism #sxsw
Shout out to Mike Mills of R.E.M. THANKS! for donating track to "Breakthrough," launched Greenpeace in the USSR. #MusicActivism @remhq
Every other concert, Harry Chapin gave proceeds to build Why Hunger? #MusicActivism #SXSW When he died, Artists vs Hunger was born.
@Mike_Jollet: Rule #1 of Activism: answer people's mail. I wrote to groups with ideas got no answer. #MusicActivism
Mike Jollet wrote to a dozen groups about death of Neda, only Amnesty International answered. They reached millions. #MusicActivism
You don't get up and sing songs you don't believe in: find a charity you believe in. Has to be genuine.-Zuckerberg #MusicActivism
Mike Mills: Look for moments to turn to activism. When R.E.M published Green, included post card to Clinton, 300K signatures. #Musicactivism
Michael Stipe peeled message t-shirt after t-shirt off during music ceremony on TV, angered some, but all remembered. #MusicActivism
Educate and engage your audience, don't just ask them to give 10 bucks and call it a day. That's how we start a movement. #MusicActivism
