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"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall through anything" - Eddie Vedder
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Check out the video "No More" which was written for Iraq War veteran Tomas Young's documentary "Body of War"

 

 

Eddie Vedder is an active surfer and lover of the oceans and outdoors, and thus involved in many environmental conservation related organizations. He shows his support for environmental activism by sporting an Earth First! tattoo on his right calf. The logo is of a monkey wrench crossed with a stone hammer. Vedder is also a vegetarion and animal rights activist.

 

Eddie Vedder is also a longtime and outspoken supporter for the Free the West Memphis 3 movement, a cause that advocates the release of three teenagers (now in their 30's) who were convicted in 1994 of the gruesome murders of three little boys in West Memphis, Arkansas.

 

Vedder commonly uses his musical skills to help advance the awareness around issues he cares about.  This includes writing music for the 2008 documentary Body of War which tells the story of Tomas Young, a war veteran who was shot and paralyzed from the chest down after serving in Iraq for less than a week.

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Body of War Trailer
Check out the trailer of the new documentary Body of War which follows Iraq War veteran Tomas Young and is the story that inspired the song "No More"
Tags: politics  war  documentary  Iraq  body of war  eddie vedder  tomas young... 
Views 1558
by  eddievedder on march 14, 2008
 
   
 
Eddie Vedder and Tomas Young talk about how No More came to be.
Eddie Vedder and Tomas Young discuss what inspired the creation of the song "No More"
Tags: politics  war  Iraq  body of war  eddie vedder  tomas young  no more 
Views 1713
by  eddievedder on march 14, 2008
 
   
 
Eddie Vedder and Tomas Young
Tomas is an Iraq War veteran who is profiled in the documentary Body of War.
Tags: body of war  eddie vedder  tomas young 
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by  eddievedder on march 10, 2008
 
 
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