From: LC (radkid2@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Oct 25 2002 - 14:53:10 EDT
this happened a week or so ago, but still pretty rad..............
http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2002/10/1112.cfm?CFID=3163564&CFTOKEN=167094
>
> Student Activists Barge In On TRL
> Friday October 11, 2002 @ 04:00 PM
> By: ChartAttack.com Staff
>
> With George Bush's "with us or against us" attitude,
> there aren't a whole
> lot of anti-war sentiments leaking through into the
> mainstream media. That's
> why eight NYU students felt it necessary to crash
> MTV's New York studios
> yesterday to make their voices heard.
>
> The eight students all secured tickets to a taping
> of MTV's Total Request
> Live yesterday (October 10). Masquerading as regular
> pop-loving youngsters,
> the students arrived in two separate groups, with
> sweaters covering up their
> "No War On Iraq" T-shirts. They sat through a
> portion of the show, then one
> group of students tore off their sweaters and
> stormed the stage.
>
> "Can we have your attention, we have an urgent
> announcement," protest
> organizer Jason Rowe called out as the MTV VJ was
> announcing an Eminem
> video.
>
> "We have to tell Congress to stop the war," followed
> fellow protester Corey
> Eastwood.
>
> "We're standing with people around the world against
> the war," said student
> Luis Manriquez.
>
> The group were quickly whisked away by MTV security.
> Once they were gone,
> the second group of students attempted to make their
> move. NYU student
> Agatha Koprowski jumped up and yelled "Not in our
> name will you kill more
> people in an unjust war!"
>
> As the students were scuttled out, Fred Durst, the
> show's guest, reportedly
> shot them dirty looks and scoffed at them.
> Apparently El Dursto can dish out
> faux youthful rebellion but he can't take the real
> thing.
>
> The students were kicked out of the MTV building,
> but they weren't arrested.
> Before launching their attack, the activists
> contacted a lawyer who told
> them that if they obtained proper tickets to the
> show and didn't break
> anything they could not be charged for their
> outburst. MTV obviously were
> aware of this fact and did not call the police.
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