March 22, 2008: Vol. 31, No. 12
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del.icio.usAs the war in Iraq reaches the five-year mark, journalists and presidential candidates have been talking about it endlessly, but according to a faction of famous artists, not nearly enough is being said.
“Iraq is the foreign policy equivalent of a Venus flytrap,” Moby, the hairless techo guru, said before taking the stage at “Speak Up!” a benefit concert that raised $15,000 for Iraq Veterans Against the War and United for Peace on Tuesday night at St. Ann’s Warehouse in DUMBO.
“It’s fantastic that we’re having lively elections,” added performance artist Laurie Anderson, “but none of [the candidates] are talking about this [war].”
Her beau, Lou Reed, added, “It’s still going on. It isn’t getting smaller, it’s getting bigger. It’s not getting better, it’s getting worse.”
Sitting next to Reed, Antony Hegarty, frontman for Antony and the Johnsons, was even more passionate about the state of the world today. Hegarty claimed that when he went to vote on Super Tuesday, he broke down into tears, adding, “We’re in a profound crisis as people on this earth.”
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