Pro-Indian Point Songwriting Contest -$150,000 prize offered.
Backers of the renowned International Songwriter's Contest have opened up a special division for residents of the Hudson Valley, with the prize to be the difference between your tax bills with Indian Point in operation, and the same bills, once Indian Point is shut down. Since Mirant's closing of its Lovett plant has added $7500 per year to a typical Rockland tax bill, we may assume a similar value will be added to the bill by closing Indian Point. Since that $7500 will repeat year after year for perpetuity, contest organizers are "capping the damage" at twenty years, and offering the saving of $150,000 as first prize.
Some suggested themes are:
"Blackout Fever", "Living in Darkness", "Frozen in Winter", "The Day that Peekskill Burned", "Living in Shanties", "Unemployment Blues", "Peekskill Riots Redux", "Diesel Generator Howlin Blacklung Ramble", "Soot, Carbon, Black Moonlight, Emphysema, and You", "Poverty For All, All for Poverty", "Living Like Illegals", "The Day They Tore Old Spano Down", and "Bobby Kennedy, Wherefore Art Thou Now", "Homeless on the Hudson", "Where is Woodstock when you really Need One?", "Coalsoot, Shantytown, Carbon-Credit Highway Hootnanny"
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Link to http://www.songwritingcompetition.com/pvwelcome2006.htm
Sponsoring Organizations:
ASCAP, Epiphone, Berklee College Of Music, Fishman, Sam Ash, Cakewalk, Shure, D'Addario, Hear Technologies, Disc Makers, Sonicbids, Musician's Atlas, Sibelius, Karian Studios, Planetary Group, OnlineGigs, The Music Business Registry, Mediaguide, ArtistMonitor, Platinum Blue Music Intelligence, Alphabet Arm Design, George Stein, Esq., SongU, Sleepless Media, and Taxi
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