Pablo & The Hemphill 7, Love Cuts, Ox Combine, STC, and many more will rock The Cicada (1002 S Main St, Fort Worth) 2-10pm today/Sunday as part of Resistance Rock. No cover.
“We are doing this now because it is clear that the task for those who want a sane and just government is voter education, all year round, whether or not there is an election,” says Ken Shimamoto, noted rabblerouser and member of STC. “To make the changes we want to see, we need elected officials who are responsive to the needs of people, not the whims of wealthy donors. To folks who say we’re not going to vote our way out of this ditch, I say if you can’t get folks up to Google where to vote, you’re not going to get them to bleed.”
Voter apathy, he goes on, is “so normalized in this state that some people seem to consider it a flex to be politically ignorant. I want to make political ignorance and disengagement the social equivalent of having a bad haircut. Art and music speak to people’s concerns and bring them together, so a voter education event disguised as a rock show just makes sense.”
