Hey Everyone… looking for laughs today? here is a site full of funny
stuff our friend Barry makes… ENJOY!!!

http://www.barryholiday.com

We’re about to leave the hotel for the show in Belo Horizonte in
Brazil… Another big city… the people here that we’ve met have been
so nice, and the people coming to the shows have amazing energy…
Thanks very much everyone… MUITO OBRIGADO!!!

Hope everyone is feeling great today…
LOVE,
jrc

We’re in Rio right now… show tomorrow night… such a beautiful place… amazing mountains… the ocean… trees… birds… people smiling… a lot of poverty… traffic… a lot of traffic all over the world… I wonder if we’ll ever find another planet we can get to safely and live on… wouldn’t that be great… we’d know how to do a lot of things differently… we’d be able to figure out how many people the environment could comfortably and sustainably support… we’d use renewable energy sources like Wind and Solar from the beginning so we wouldn’t have such a pollution problem… and then we’d have more time to figure out why it is that humans have such a hard time getting along…

FOR EXAMPLE>>>

I was just thinking about what a good opportunity we have now for opening up the minds of people who don’t realize that their learned opinions of intolerance are not necessary… that they are just hurting innocent people, and adding negativity into the world.  Tonight as I was reading all of the e mails I got about not letting the discriminatory law of Proposition 8 pass without a fight, I thought this is such a good way to start a positive dialogue with people who have different opinions… (especially when those opinions blatantly oppress and deny equal rights to a portion of the population)

Just in case you don’t know what this is all about… Proposition 8 takes away from homosexual people the equal rights to marriage and all of the legal and financial benefits that come along with it… What makes it even worse is that those rights were recently granted to them by the California Supreme Court by a ruling that was made on May of 2008…

And YAY… wasn’t that a great victory… yes… because… DUH… it’s not right to discriminate against people… right? but NO… because people who want to deny equal rights to homosexuals spent the second most amount of money on any election category other than the presidency and it looks like they may have won (although as I write this… all of the absentee ballots have not been counted yet...)

ANYWAY… there are many constructive ways to voice your opposition to this mean spirited and unnecessary proposition… so keep a look out for the ways that you can try and talk to people who have these types of prejudices… because there have always been humans who tried to oppress things they didn’t understand, or didn’t like… but there is also a great precedent of people coming together to fight for equality and justice and freedom and all those good words…

Here’s one petition you should sign ASAP…

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/seg5130/petition.html

Thanks for your time…
love,
jrc

Happy Wednesday everyone!!! Happy day after the election!!!

truly momentous and exciting… I heard that John McCain gave a very gracious concession speech asking for the people who voted for him to turn their attention towards the work that needs to be done, supporting Barack Obama and continuing to try to get past partisan ideology and just focus on the problems at hand…

I hope it’s the start of some beautiful changes and progress in the United States, and all around the World. 

We’re in Panama City right now… at a layover before boarding a flight to RIO… very interesting to have been in Mexico City last night on stage when the election results were announced… we were playing The Sun at the time… appropriate lyrics…

ANYWAY… I wanted to post here something I just read about… a Protest Rally for the passing of Proposition 8 in Los Angeles… TONIGHT… WED. NOV. 5th…

here’s the info:

PROP 8 PROTEST RALLY TONIGHT From 7pm TO 9pm at West Hollywood Park 647 N San Vicente Blvd. Contact Info (323)848-6460.

If you’re in LA and you are hopefully as outraged by the passing of this discriminatory proposition as you should be then check it out… I mean… it was only about 50 years ago that people were struggling to defeat racist laws during the Civil Rights movement… and here we are today with another type of prejudiced bigotry being passed into Law… CRAZY… this is just one of the many good fights of our times… and we’re all involved… I love you all… hope everyone is having a good day…
we’ll see ya soon.
jrc