Lady GaGa on SB1070 | The Monster Ball Tour in Phoenix

[kpete]

Run time: 06:17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzEGqbcScxg   Posted on YouTube: August 01, 2010 By YouTube Member: braziliandude86 Views on YouTube: 20489   Posted on DU: August 02, 2010 By DU Member: kpete Views on DU: 1621

 
LADY GAGA: I want you to let go of all of your insecurities. I want you to reject any person, or any thing, or any law that has ever made you feel like you don’t belong. I got a phone call from a couple of really big rock and rollers, big pop stars, big rappers, and they said, “we’d like you to boycott Arizona…because of SB-1070.” And I said, “you really think that us dumb f*cking pop stars are going to collapse the economy of Arizona?”

I’ll tell you what we have to do about SB-1070. We have to be active. We have to actively protest. The nature of the Monster Ball is to actively protest prejudice, and injustice, and that bullsh*t that is put on our society…because you’re a superstar, no matter who you are, no matter where you come from and you were born that way! I will not cancel my show. I will yell and I will scream louder. And I will hold you, and we will hold each other, and we will peaceably protest this state. Because if it wasn’t for all of you immigrants, this country wouldn’t have sh*t. And I mean it. I mean it so deeply in my soul.

more:

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/08/02/gaga-arizona/

[Schema Thing]

1. So "no"?

[AspenRose]

2. Hmm.

[rocktivity]

3. Elton John did this SO much better

but he had something Gaga doesn't--music WORTH listening to.

And it isn't as though the most unconstitutional parts of SB-1070 are actually in effect. So like when Madonna did a video to protest the Afghanistan invasion, then pulled it to show support the troops, she gets to look brave and get paid...BFD...

:boring:
rocktivity

[gagaisgreat]

12. Can't stand him. . .

ddded

[DeSwiss]

14. I stopped listening to his music after he sang for Racist Rush. n/t

[borelord]

4. Don't dig the music she does but..

That was \M/

[Balderdash]

5. Love me some Lady Gaga!!

[thereismore]

6. Pft.

[CLANG]

7. Not a fan, but I'll give her props for speaking out!

I hope her fans tear Arizona a new asshole when she "performs" there.

[pinboy3niner]

8. For more info on the boycott of Arizona:

http://www.thesoundstrike.net/

[snot]

9. She could boycott AZ AND speak out against SB-1070 . . . .

[SILVER__FOX52]

10. I'm 59 years old and I just fell in love with the spirit of

Lady GaGa !!!!!!!!!! Thankyou, young lady.

[gagaisgreat]

11. I'm 64 and I love her too! Seeing her at Staples Center in LA

Wednesday, August 11. Really looking forward to it. Lady Gaga has real talent, and she is smart as a whip.

[rocktivity]

13. Fiftysomethings still hitting the concerts?

As someone who saw Bon Jovi three weeks ago, I sure can't complain about that!

:headbang:
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[alp227]

15. "if it wasn't for immigrants" is right on.

Lady Gaga (real name Joanne Germanotta) is Italian. Her ancestors must've been immigrants.

Barack Obama's father immigrated to America from Kenya until his divorce and earning of master's degree.

And so on.

SB1070 may be revived or buried anytime in the future, so we should never back down from protesting that law that permits veiled racism.