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Music For Truth was started in early 2007 for the purpose of organizing a massive concert that will take place sometime in the summer of 2008. Still in the early days of organization and planning, Music For Truth hopes to bring together millions of people on not a single issue- but rather the issue of the state of our society as a whole. Issues such as global warming, education, racism, sexism, large corporations, poverty and hunger are just some of the dozens of issues that are not only affecting our own country, but our world as a whole, have been ignored for far too long. This event is entirely about raising public awareness about issues that Music For Truth and all organizations that will be associated with it believe are important.The following paragraphs below are issues that were taken directly, word for word, from Wikipedia under the 21st century article. Although anyone can freely edit any information on the free website, it is under increasing servaillance for it's authenticty and recently was declared to be as accurate as the most accurate encyclopedia.
One of the primary reasons Music For Truth was started was to be the medium where all people can come together and discuss the FACTS about important ISSUES of today:"Note* Some of the following details are debatable, and must be considered accordingly.
Some of the things that have dominated discussion and debate so far in this century include:
Globalization: Advances in telecommunications and transportation, the expansion of capitalism and democracy, and free trade agreements have resulted in unprecedented global economic and cultural integration. This has caused (and is continuing to cause) huge economic and cultural shifts which have been the subject of considerable controversy. It is surmised that gradual ethical steps in three main areas (animals and the environment, employees, and consumers), are what will turn the tide in a favourable direction. The three stakeholders responsible for these changes are: governance, industry, and consumers.Overpopulation: The United Nations estimates that world population will reach 9.1 billion by mid-century. Such growth raises questions of ecological sustainability and creates many economic and political disruptions. In response, many countries have adopted policies which either force or encourage their citizens to have fewer children, and others have limited immigration. Considerable debate exists over what the ultimate carrying capacity of the planet may be; whether or not population growth containment policies are necessary; to what degree growth can safely occur thanks to increased economic and ecological efficiency; and how markets should accommodate demographic shifts. Evidence suggests that developed countries (such as Japan) suffer population implosion, and the population debate is strongly tied with poverty.Poverty: Poverty remains the root cause of many of the world's other ills, including famine, disease, and insufficient education. Poverty contains many self-reinforcing elements (for instance, poverty can make education an unaffordable luxury, which tends to result in continuing poverty) that various aid groups hope to rectify in this century. Microcredit lending has also started to gain a profile as a useful anti-poverty tool.
Moral issues, such as media content, gay rights, and abortion continue from 1990s and late 20th century.Disease: AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria each kill over a million people annually. HIV remains without a cure or vaccine, and is growing rapidly in India and much of the African continent. Antibiotic resistance is a growing concern for organisms such as tuberculosis. Other diseases, such as SARS, ebola, and flu variations, are also causes for concern. The World Health Organization has warned of a possible coming flu pandemic resulting from bird flu mutations.War and terrorism: Active conflicts continue around the world, including civil wars in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (the largest war since World War II), Chechnya, Côte d'Ivoire, Somalia, Senegal, Colombia, and Sudan (mainly in Darfur). The 9/11 terrorist attacks triggered invasions of Afghanistan and partially and controversially Iraq. The War on Terrorism has seen controversies over civil liberties, accusations of torture, continued terrorist attacks and ongoing instability, violence, and military occupation. Violence continues in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Considerable concern remains about nuclear proliferation, especially in Iran and North Korea, and the availability of weapons of mass destruction to rogue groups.Global warming: The majority of climate scientists think that the earth is currently undergoing significant anthropogenic (human-induced) global warming. The resulting economic and ecological costs are hard to predict, and by the end of the 21st century could be quite severe.Other environmental changes: Trends such as increased pollution, deforestation and biodiversity loss occurring in the 20th century are likely to continue into the 21st century.
Resource depletion may be a significant issue, with economic and environmental implications. Resources that could be depleted soon include oil and natural gas.Global power: Issues surrounding the cultural, economic, and military dominance of the United States and its role in the world community have become even more pointed given its recent military activities, problematic relations with the United Nations, disagreement over several international treaties, and its economic policies with regard to globalization. Integration of the European Union and the African Union have proceeded.Intellectual property: The increasing popularity of digital formats for entertainment media such as movies and music, and the ease of copying and distributing it via the Internet and peer-to-peer networks, has raised concerns in the media industry about copyright infringement. Much debate is proceeding about the proper bounds between protection of copyright, trademark and patent rights versus fair use and the public domain, where some argue that such laws have shifted greatly towards intellectual property owners and away from the interests of the general public in recent years, while others say that such legal change is needed to deal with the threat of new technologies against the rights of authors and artists (or, as others put it, against the outmoded business models of the current entertainment industry). Domain name "cybersquatting" and access to patented drugs to combat epidemics in third-world countries are other IP concerns.Technology: Technology developments show no sign of ending. Communications and control technology continues to augment the intelligence of individual humans, collections of humans, and machines. Cultures are forced into the position of sharply defining humanity and determining boundaries on desire, thought, communication, behavior, and manufacturing. Some predict that by the middle of this century there will be a Technological Singularity if artificial intelligences are created that are smarter than humans. If these then create even smarter AI's technological change will accelerate in ways that are impossible for us to foresee.Energy: Energy is becoming scarce and more expensive, due to the escalating demand for petroleum ("oil") and oil-based products such as gasoline and kerosene, unmatched by production. Discovery of new oil fields has not been sufficient to sustain current levels of production, and some fear that the earth may be running out of economically viable oil. While complete depletion will not happen in the near future, some fear that a peak in production will cause an end to the trend of economic expansion in modern society, perhaps resulting in a collapse of modern civilization itself. Economists argue that alternative sources of energy will prevent this disaster."
-Original site Wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_century
Additional sources available thereThe mission of Music For Truth is to organize enough bands, songwriters, artists, poets, actors, actresses, comedians, filmmakers, environmentalists, scientists, politicians, religious leaders, and anyone else who wants to volunteer or contribute to The Music For Truth cause. Our goal is to reach enough people where together we can make this event not just one city, but have several major cities across The United States that will host a Music For Truth concert. This concert is to be 100 percent free, and will also broadcast live on the Internet. Ideally musicians and all other performers will perform for free and will receive no payment at all from the organizers of the event. However performers are free to sell their merchandise at the concert and either donate their profit or keep it.The organizers of this festival would like to reiterate that the purpose of this festival is not to raise money for a specific cause, but raise public awareness that these issues are affecting all of us and it is time for all of us to make a change.This site will continue to be updated as we meet more people, have any modifications, updates, or alterations to make on this site.If you are interested in helping Music For Truth on either a small scale or large scale, please place us in your top 8 and tell as much people you can about this cause. If you have any advice, input, recommendations, or comments, please feel free to leave a message or post a comment.Thanks for visiting this site and I hope together we both can make a difference in making this world a better place for all of us.Music For Truth
