Music

Each year NTEN raises money to provide scholarships to staff from nonprofit organization that would otherwise not be able to afford to attend the conference.  Usually the money is raised by people and companies sponsoring or donating money with the reward of seeing Holly Ross, and other N-NTEN staff do something funny, like singing and dancing to All The Single Ladies.

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CivicActions' own Ian Rhett will be performing this Thursday night in San Francisco at the talent-filled Bank on Barack event! Ian recently released his latest video, What Kind of Amazing Grace which is remarkably beautiful and powerful. Bank on Barack is a fundraiser and 100% of the proceeds go directly to the Barack Obama campaign! The show will be filled with singer/songwriters, comedy, performing arts and great DJs to shake you all night. If you are in San Francisco this week, grab your friends, open your wallet to give it up for change! Tickets are $20 presale, $25 at the door.

Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am and director Jesse Dylan, Bob Dylan's son created this "song" - essentially written by Barack Obama. The lyrics are adapted from his "Yes We Can" speech after the New Hampshire primary. "Yes We Can" was inspired by Cesar Chavez's motto for a United Farm Workers hunger strike in 1972. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjXyqcx-mYY (sorry, no embed link on the video)

Don McLean's American Pie is a classic tune filled with poetic symbolism about turbulent times...

But I bet you never just how much poetry it contains...

(Starts slow... gets better. Hang on for it.)

CivicActions has been working with the Free Software Foundation on the DefectiveByDesign campaign since last May. In that time we have seen a significant shift in the way DRM is talked about in the news media and an increasing awareness of DRM among music fans and the general public.

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A ZUNE/DRM review.