EXTRA! EXTRA! Female journalist, girlfriend to a hip-hop performer, bashes the entire Warped Tour, except for the hip-hop performers [“Punk Is Dead! Long Live Punk!” August 20]! Dedicating only one sentence to great causes like PunkVoter.com, PETA, and the Syrentha Savio Endowment (breast cancer awareness), and not even mentioning the female-empowering Girlz Garage; the fact that due to punk bands protesting their presence, the armed forces recruiters pulled out of the tour; the consistent politics being discussed in front of tens of thousands of people by bands like Anti-Flag, Bad Religion, NOFX, Rise Against, (International) Noise Conspiracy. These same bands spent their days out at tents meeting their die-hard fans. But our hero Jessica, girlfriend to a hip-hop performer, claims the hip-hop tent “offered the only respite from the ever-present feeling of being marketed to.”
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Tim Baxter
