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...President Bill Clinton in office, just as Clinton’s defenders spoke of a “vast right-wing conspiracy” that was keeping the scandal alive. Without a method to employ, however imperfectly, in pursuit of objectivity, the concept of bias becomes less of a tool for seeking truth than a convenient way to ignore evidence whose implications one resists...
Ensler uses her work as a tool to greater purposes. Since 1998, The Vagina Monologues has been performed as a benefit on Valentine's Day to raise funds for groups all over the world working to end violence against women. This past V-day, as Ensler calls her festival, the play was staged at Madison Square Garden in New York City, in 50 other cities and on 250 college campuses. Her play Necessary Targets was drawn from the accounts of Bosnian rape victims she interviewed in 1994. It was performed, among other places, at the National Theatre in Sarajevo...
...Marley, the great Jamaican Reggae star, once posed the question "Won't you help me sing these songs of freedom?" Music can be a tool: for relaxation, for stimulation, for communication--and for revolution. In fact, it is often a rhythm of resistance: against parents, against police, against power. The U.S., in this one-superpower age, has perhaps never been so dominant--economically, militarily, culturally. That strength attracts immigrants, who bring with them new forms of music. And that strength also inspires competition, as musicians and performers in other countries, mindful of the American hegemony, assert their national identities...
...think music is the main tool for social change. I think it makes you look at a place differently. A lot of times what happens is that you only see one side of the news, you only hear one side of what's going on, and there's a whole other side. What music has been able to do through the years is bring awareness to people. There are problems [Haiti] is going through, but [music] is how we can help...
...more subtle souls often moved past the Laws. But, explains Tommy Oaks, an itinerant evangelist who has observed CCC on dozens of campuses, "Bright's like the guy who invented the crescent wrench. People were probably using something else before that, but he gave 'em a neat and nifty tool...