Beastie Boys and Rage Against the Machine Plan Donations to Non-Profit Groups From Rhyme & Reason 2000 Tour.Entertainment Editors NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--July 11, 2000 Beastie Boys Beastie Boys is a hip hop musical group from New York City consisting of Michael "Mike D" Diamond, Adam "MCA" Yauch, Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz and the official DJ for the group Michael "Mix Master Mike" Schwartz. and Rage Against The Machine, whose RHYME rhyme or rime, the most prominent of the literary artifices used in versification. Although it was used in ancient East Asian poetry, rhyme was practically unknown to the ancient Greeks and Romans. & REASON 2000 tour begins August 2 in Toronto Toronto (tərŏn`tō), city (1998 est pop. 2,400,000), provincial capital, S Ont., Canada, on Lake Ontario. Toronto is the largest city in Canada and since the 1970s has been one of the fastest-changing cities in North America, experiencing , have announced plans for donations from tour proceeds to a variety of non-profit charitable and social action organizations. Rage and Beastie Boys will each donate one dollar per ticket sold to a broad array of local charities and activist groups. Rage's total donations will be distributed at the conclusion of the tour through the Rage Against The Machine Foundation. Beastie Boys will donate their contributions to The Milarepa Milarepa (mĭlär`əpə), 1040–1143, saint and poet of Tibetan Buddhism. He was the second patriarch of the Kargyupa sect, the first being Milarepa's guru Marpa (1012–97), who studied under Naropa, the Bengali master of Fund, a non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. dedicated to the promotion of universal compassion compassion, n a profound awareness of another's suffering coupled with a desire to alleviate that suffering. and non-violent social change. Earlier this year, the RATM RATM Rage Against The Machine (band) Foundation distributed more than $350,000 from the proceeds of the band's 1999 "Battle of Los Angeles For other uses, see Battle of Los Angeles (disambiguation). The Battle of Los Angeles was the name given by contemporary news agencies to a sighting of one or more unidentified flying objects which took place from late February 24 to early February 25 1942 in which " tour. The following non-profit organizations received donations from this tour:
Alameda County Community Food Bank Supplemental Food Providers
Senior Gleaners Connecticut Food Bank
California Emergency Foodlink Great Philadelphia Food Bank
JEDI For Women Food Bank Of Nashville
Food Bank of the Rockies Atlanta Community Food Bank
Greater Chicago Food Depository Second Harvesters Food Bank
Share Our Strength Food Bank Fuerza Unida
Daily Bread Food Bank The Bridge
Greater Boston Food Bank The Storefront
New England Shelter for Homeless Vets Los Angeles Regional Food Bank
Maryland Food Bank
Tickets are now on sale for all of the following RHYME & REASON
2000 shows:
Date City/State Venue
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August 2 Toronto, ONT Molson Park Amphitheater
August 4 Buffalo, NY Darien Lakes Amphitheater
August 5 Washington, DC Robert F. Kennedy Stadium
August 7 Pittsburgh, PA Starlake Amphitheater
August 9 East Rutherford, NJ Giants Stadium
August 11 Hartford, CT Meadows Amphitheater
August 12 Boston, MA Foxboro Stadium
August 16 Chicago, IL New World Music Theater
August 18 Columbus, OH Polaris Amphitheater
August 19 Detroit, MI Silverdome
August 21 Indianapolis, IN Deer Creek Amphitheater
To purchase tickets for the above dates on the World Wide Web, go to any of these sites: www.beastieboys.com o www.RATM.com o www.mtv.com. Tickets are also available from Ticketmaster (www.ticketmaster.com). RHYME & REASON 2000 is currently scheduled to continue through mid-September. |
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