July 4, 2007
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Wargasm Addict
Bring the Truth Home
Wed., July 4, 6pm. Free. With Joie Venus, Son of Nun + Head Roc. Millcreek Tavern, 4200 Chester Ave. 215.222.1255. www.ivaw.org
It’s increasingly difficult to find anyone who supports Bush’s stance on Iraq. There was a time you could count on diehard Republicans in the Midwest, but even they’ve finally seen the light shining straight through Dubya’s ears.
Well, there’s always the military, right? Especially veterans.
Seriously, they’re like domestic abuse victims who keep moving back in with their abusive spouse—all the time defending the bastard, even to the point of losing friends and abandoning family members. Just so they can stay with someone who treats them like a punching bag.
Well, finally some of these guys have gone all Farrah Fawcett in The Burning Bed and are taking their anger to the streets through—what else—a bus tour.
Iraq Veterans Against the War top off their holiday stint in the cradle of liberty with a free hip-hop gig that jumps off early enough to allow folks time to hightail it to the Parkway for Hall & Oates and fireworks.
Our forefathers would be proud to know we’ve clung to the right to listen to blue-eyed soul guilt-free. I doubt, however, they’d reserve the same sense of pride for our struggle to control the world’s oil market. (Joshua Valocchi)
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