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On July 30, 1986, John Denver was dumped by RCA records, which was owned by GE, for being critical of Reagan and the GOP. GE was the largest defense contractor in the USA.
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Denver became outspoken in politics in the mid-1970s. He expressed his ecologic interests in the epic 1975 song Calypso, which is an ode to the exploration ship and team of environmental activist Jacques Cousteau. In 1976, he campaigned for Jimmy Carter, who became a close friend and ally. Denver was a supporter of the Democratic Party and of a number of charitable causes for the environmental movement, the homeless, the poor, the hungry, and the African AIDS crisis. He founded the charitable Windstar Foundation in 1976, to promote sustainable living. His dismay at the Chernobyl disaster led to precedent-setting concerts in parts of communist Asia and Europe.[8]
During the 1980s, Denver was critical of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Administration, but he remained active in his campaign against hunger, for which Reagan awarded Denver the Presidential World Without Hunger Award in 1985.[8] Denver's criticism of the conservative politics of the 1980s was expressed in his autobiographical folk-rock ballad "Let Us Begin (What Are We Making Weapons For)". Denver was also critical of the Republican-dominated Congress and American Conservatism of the 1990s. He denounced the National Rifle Association (NRA) as a corrupt political machine that could buy off politicians, and in an open letter to the media, he wrote that he opposed oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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On July 30, 1986, John Denver was dumped by RCA records, which was owned by GE, for being critical of Reagan and the GOP. GE was the largest defense contractor in the USA.
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Does this mean that employers should not be able to fire people who due to moral reasons oppose homosexual marriage?
We are not the Holy Christian Republic of America. We are the United States of America, you can oppose anything you want on a personal level, but equality is one of our founding principles.
We are not the Holy Christian Republic of America. We are the United States of America, you can oppose anything you want on a personal level, but equality is one of our founding principles.
On July 30, 1986, John Denver was dumped by RCA records, which was owned by GE, for being critical of Reagan and the GOP. GE was the largest defense contractor in the USA.
Yep, look at what happened to Paula Deen for something she said decades ago.
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