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Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience.

~Michael Franti

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The world can't have a global solution to climate change with U.S. action alone; and the world can't have a global solution without U.S. action.

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Bonnaroo has kind of become the granddaddy of all American festivals. The thing I love about it most is that it wasn't born out of picking the top ten bands off the Billboard chart and creating a festival around it.

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Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art. They have to find some truth and put that in their music.

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In the '80s, Ronald Reagan inspired me to become politicized, because I grew up in that era when everything I cared about was under attack.

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The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.

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After a show, I'll get the 16-year-old white kid whose lip is pierced, his head is shaved and his parents hate him, and the young gangster from the screwed-up 'hood, and they say that now they realize there's someone out there who thinks like they do.

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The corporate media is there to push the agenda of the sponsors, and many of those sponsors are weapons manufacturers. So it stands to reason that you won't get a diversity of opinions on television.

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It really is a strange time we're living in, when saying 'Don't kill people' is considered a radical point of view.

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I'm always trying to find optimistic ways to express myself.

~Michael Franti

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: April 21st, 1967

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