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Article: Sing a Song of Protest; Danny Goldberg & the Concerts Against Contra Aid
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- The Washington Post
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- August 26, 1987
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Peter, Paul and Mary, Judy Collins, Bruce Cockburn and the
Washington Squares will perform at Constitution Hall on Sept. 22 in a
fundraiser for Countdown '87, an ad hoc, Washington-based
organization that, according to Danny Goldberg, is "aimed at
influencing adversely any Reagan attempt to get new funding for the
contras." Goldberg is head of the Gold Castle label, for which all
of those performers record.
Goldberg insists that Countdown '87 will dissolve at the end of
October after the congressional vote on contra aid. "We're not trying
to create a new organization, but to influence that one vote," he
explains. "I've been to Central America, as have many of these
artists, and there's a ...