Giving a Damn Like There's a New Tomorrow
Please divert your attention from Page Six or Facebook for just a minute. You're mere clicks away from helping the Youth of America.
Dear Andrew,
Last week, we made the Top 50 of the American Express Members Project. Now we're in the Top 25, and it's time to vote once more.
You are critical to winning up to $5 million for public school classrooms, so please vote now for our submission:
"Teachers Ask. You Choose. Students Learn."
If you voted last week, your vote this round will take about 30 seconds. If you're voting for the first time, registration will take a couple minutes and you can refer to these simple instructions.
This round of voting ends in just two days. On behalf of the thousands of schoolchildren whom you could impact, thank you for voting now.
Sincerely,
Charles Best and the DonorsChoose Team
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Screeching Weasel - "A New Tomorrow"
Backing vocals: Blake Schwarzenbach, Cassandra Millspaugh and Joey Vindictive.
From the Chest of Ben Weasel...
A new cause for cancer is found everyday, along with a new tip for prevention. Cellular phones, an apple a day, oat bran cereal - how safe is your microwave...
IT'S A LITTLE TOO MUCH TO HANDLE.
The road to self-reliance is paved with paranoia; the sensory overload takes its toll and reduces us to flopping dying fish until someone takes us by the hand and leads us off to a safe place: school, church, the good job, the new car - places in which we can comfortably exist while our identities wither and die.
The images still flash and pound but we've grown accustomed to them and they don't bother us as much anymore. We make selective purchases and increase our comfortability in tentative increments, blissfully unaware that we're spending more and more time at the office and less and less time at home in front of the big screen TV.
The lies we've told ourselves are now reality: consumerism, politics, religion. These are the symptoms, not the problem.
The Anthem For A New Tomorrow is empty sloganeering, another headline no-brainer. Hollow like almost everything else.
When we learn to figure out what's real and honest, when we can act ethically not in order to gain a potential ticket to heaven but to free our minds from the score keeping, paranoid, isolationist theories of life we've been taught, when we learn to do instead of killing time with drugs, god, television, empty relationships and clawing our way to the top of the shit heap, that's when we'll wake up from the American Dream, and maybe then we'll see a "NEW TOMORROW."
~Chicago, 1993
Dear Andrew,
Last week, we made the Top 50 of the American Express Members Project. Now we're in the Top 25, and it's time to vote once more.
You are critical to winning up to $5 million for public school classrooms, so please vote now for our submission:
"Teachers Ask. You Choose. Students Learn."
If you voted last week, your vote this round will take about 30 seconds. If you're voting for the first time, registration will take a couple minutes and you can refer to these simple instructions.
This round of voting ends in just two days. On behalf of the thousands of schoolchildren whom you could impact, thank you for voting now.
Sincerely,
Charles Best and the DonorsChoose Team
# # #
Screeching Weasel - "A New Tomorrow"
Backing vocals: Blake Schwarzenbach, Cassandra Millspaugh and Joey Vindictive.
From the Chest of Ben Weasel...
A new cause for cancer is found everyday, along with a new tip for prevention. Cellular phones, an apple a day, oat bran cereal - how safe is your microwave...
IT'S A LITTLE TOO MUCH TO HANDLE.
The road to self-reliance is paved with paranoia; the sensory overload takes its toll and reduces us to flopping dying fish until someone takes us by the hand and leads us off to a safe place: school, church, the good job, the new car - places in which we can comfortably exist while our identities wither and die.
The images still flash and pound but we've grown accustomed to them and they don't bother us as much anymore. We make selective purchases and increase our comfortability in tentative increments, blissfully unaware that we're spending more and more time at the office and less and less time at home in front of the big screen TV.
The lies we've told ourselves are now reality: consumerism, politics, religion. These are the symptoms, not the problem.
The Anthem For A New Tomorrow is empty sloganeering, another headline no-brainer. Hollow like almost everything else.
When we learn to figure out what's real and honest, when we can act ethically not in order to gain a potential ticket to heaven but to free our minds from the score keeping, paranoid, isolationist theories of life we've been taught, when we learn to do instead of killing time with drugs, god, television, empty relationships and clawing our way to the top of the shit heap, that's when we'll wake up from the American Dream, and maybe then we'll see a "NEW TOMORROW."
~Chicago, 1993
