March 28, 2003

Big Brother is Watching Your Mother

Our friend Amy Goodman talked to Michael Franti yesterday about the current climate of censorship and intimidation, as the government and media seek to suppress anti-war voices. He told a bizarre story of government agents visiting his bandmate's mother:

Well, what�s happened most recently is that we performed at a rally on March 15th in San Francisco and the next day on the 16th�that, that rally was out here�and on the 16th on the East Coast, a band member of mine who prefers to go unnamed, his mother received a visit from two plain clothes men from the military and this band member of mine has a sibling who is in the Gulf. And they came in and talked to her and said you have a child who�s in the gulf and you have a child who�s in this band Spearhead who�s part of the �resistance� in their words, and they had pictures of us performing the day before at the rally, they had pictures of us performing at some of our annual concerts that we put on that are in support of peace and human rights. They had his flight records for the past several months, they had the names of everybody who works in my office, our management office �Guerilla Management�. They had his checking account records. They asked his mother a lot of questions about where he was, what he was doing in this place, why he was going here. They confiscated his sibling�s CD collection that they had brought over to listen to while they were in the Gulf, and basically were intimidating�told her which members of the press she could talk to and which members of the press she should not speak to.

You can hear the interview in its entirety here

Posted by jsmooth995 at March 28, 2003 3:10 PM

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