for immediate release

[Christian Bartolf <mkgandhi at snafu.de>]

PRESS RELEASE: 22 April 2006 (Tom Paxton)

Tom Paxton signed the international "Manifesto against conscription and 
the military system"

Tom Paxton from Alexandria (Virginia, USA) signed the international 
"Manifesto against conscription and the military system" on 12 April 
2006. As a famous performing artist he has been a great advocate for 
Civil Liberties, Social and Economic Justice and Peace since the days of 
the New York Greenwich Village folk music scene and the world famous 
music festivals in Newport during the beginning of the sixties when his 
song lyrics and tunes against war, nationalism, racism and social 
prejudices became popular ("The Willing Conscript", "Jimmy Newman", 
"Lyndon Johnson told the Nation", "Born on the Fourth of July"). Since 
the days of the Civil Rights' movement, Tom Paxton has composed song 
lyrics of social commitment and compassion for the victims of 
antisemitism, ethnocentrism and racism ("Train for Auschwitz", "Goodman, 
Schwerner and Chaney", "The Death of Stephen Biko", "On the Road from 
Srebrenica"), for the preservation of our ecology ("Whose Garden was 
This?"), for a future in peace for all children, without jingoism and 
militarism ("What Did you Learn in School Today?"): towards a society of 
active solidarity and nonviolence, in private and in public life.
In the tradition line of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and The Weavers, Tom 
Paxton has been the gentle voice of compassion and dissent, the 
committed song poet whose thoughtful lyrics and whose wit and irony 
against political corruption and crime will always contribute to the 
emancipation of the poor and the weak, the depressed and deprivileged, 
the forgotten and ignored, the invisible and marginalized citizens of 
our world - you find his website under: http://www.tompaxton.com
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Please have a look at the "Manifesto against conscription and the 
military system"
(with the updated complete list of signatories):
http://home.snafu.de/mkgandhi/manifest.htm
Please have a look at the Gandhi Information Center's websites:
http://home.snafu.de/mkgandhi
email: mkgandhi at snafu.de
http://www.themanifesto.info
email: sign at themanifesto.info

sgd. Christian Bartolf (Chair)
Gandhi Information Center
Postfach (P.O. Box) 210109
10501 Berlin (Germany)

Internet Sources:
http://home.snafu.de/mkgandhi/press1.htm
http://www.themanifesto.info/press.htm