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Article: Jello Biafra speaks his mind: Former punk-rock frontman holds court at Spokane Falls Community College.
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- The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)
- Article date:
- April 7, 2006
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Byline: Tom Bowers
Apr. 7--A middle-aged punk-rocker rallied on Thursday to ignite a progressive revolution in a room packed with community college students from conservative-minded Spokane.
"What can we do," Jello Biafra asked the estimated 300-plus crowd at Spokane Falls Community College, "to keep ourselves (from) being dragged any further down the road to ruin and off a cliff and down the toilet by a Bush, a Dick and, until recently, a Colin?"
As the founding frontman of seminal punk-rock band Dead Kennedys, Biafra (real name Eric Boucher) is no stranger to political activism. He incited social angst in the band's first single, 1979's ...