Parley Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 GREEN DAY'S GETTING THE PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY SPIRIT OF LIBERTY AWARD More often than not, the big Inside the Beltway civil liberties and progressive advocacy organizations might be hard for regular Americans to relate to, especially Americans under 40. Hard as they try-- and the ones I'm in touch with do try hard-- there's often a social disconnect somewhere along the line. People For the American Way, the granddaddy of 'em all, just announced something that is very easily relatable for the vast majority of young Americans. On October 10, they'll be presenting their Spirit of Liberty Award to Billie Joe Armstrong, Tre Cool and Mike Dirnt-- GREEN DAY-- the 2006 Spirit of Liberty Award. PFAW has all the info about the ceremony, as well as the other nominees, here and I'm sure they add the Green Day information in a day or two. (It just happened.)The rest of the article is here:http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2006/0...r-american.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hybrid Meteora Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Ha. It's 5 days after my birthday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura. Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clusterbomb Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 ta green day are the best.fuckin emo music pisses me off lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziplin Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 "I want you to scream so loud, that every fucking redneck in America hears your tonight"Yeah give em the award. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spark in the night Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 aw thats nicecongrats for yet again, another award Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalkingContradiction118 Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Woohoo, congrats to Green Day for another award! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amanda Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Great news, great award title too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 16PaperLanterns Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 hooray!! .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lotus Eater Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 It makes me so happy when adults recognize Green Day for their music and their lyrics. So much that I have to speak in italics.Hey, former honorees include the South Park guys. Awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sara Armstrong Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 yayyy. that's awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stjimmysgirl221 Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 its cool that older people in power realize that GD does have a point to their music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnine13 Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 I'm buying tickets to the awards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*withoutadoubt* Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Wow!! Congratulations to the boys on another award! And thanks Parley for posting that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yussef Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 ooh im soo happy that green day get to win another award at leas now adults realise that the lyrics have important meaning too:P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzz Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 I'm just waiting to find a different site to post a link to. Not a big fan of that site that mentioned it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodday Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Awww, nice! Congrats!!...and thanks for the news:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveTableArt Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Groovy for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parley Posted September 7, 2006 Author Share Posted September 7, 2006 Andres--here's another site (for People for the American Way--the group giving the award):http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=22226 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VictimOfAuthority Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 thats awsesome! ya haha . . . congrats to the guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angie Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Awsome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnine13 Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 I bought tickets to this today, outrageously expensive although it's for charity. The People for the American Way are apparently really rich to think people could afford tickets to the upfront tables, well over $1000 per ticket, although the more you spend, the more amenities you get like smaller get togethers with the awards recepients, needless to say I will be meeting no one and will be lucky to see them onstage, maybe they'll stand on a box of something so I can see them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustralianFan Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Another award, god they're raking them in aren't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
14razorbacks Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 "I want you to scream so loud, that every fucking redneck in America hears your tonight"Yeah give em the award.hahathats the wittiest thing ive seen here all day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lotus Eater Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 "I want you to scream so loud, that every fucking redneck in America hears your tonight"Yeah give em the award.I hope I'm wrong, but I fear I detect a hint of sarcasm in your post. I'm concerned that many people appear to mistake all that stage bombast--and even the words of American Idiot themselves--for ignorance when it only, in fact, condemns true ignorance. And I'm not trying to attack you specifically when I say this, but I've seen too many people criticize Green Day for talking about "things they don't know about"--but do these people ever consider the possibility that they themselves are the ones who don't understand? And before they condemn someone for being one-sided, shouldn't they reflect that when one side is so blatantly wrong, can't there sometimes be a "right" side?So forgive me if the cause for my rant was erroneous, but I feel strong in saying: Yes. Give them the award.By the way, I hope people are actually checking out the blog that was linked in the original post, as well as the website for the organization that's giving the award. They're pretty cool, and worth your time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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