The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable, because Earth has already reached the tipping point. The General Strike attempts to personalize these issues and encourage listeners to look for a new model.

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.

We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.