Lots of 9/ll Commemorative events going on this weekend, but if you’re looking to combine some challenging music and left wing politics in your observation, check out this concert at George Mason University: “The Cost of War”

From the organizer, Thomas Stanley: “The Cost of War…is enormous in every possible way. As an investment, its returns are gruesomely consistent: death and disfigurement, environmental degradation, and economic ruin. With the events on that September morning, ten years ago, this society entered a period of seemingly interminable war. There is apparently no off-switch for this state of affairs, no condition of victory or compromise that would allow us to pause and step back from this dismal project. So the creeping web of war metastasizes according to its own logic – secret war, proxy war, war declared and undeclared, war whose nefarious targets shift and morph as if on cue. We who work are the financiers of all of this. It is we who must carry its heavy cost.

“Please join Mason students, alumnae, and members of our creative community for our 9/11 remembrance – a chance to steel ourselves through music, and prepare for a day when this costly cycle of organized violence has been finally interrupted. When the wars have ceased, the healing can begin. “

Performances by:
Borborgymus (Andrew McCarry)
Erdén Zikibay
Jelly Gums & the Comfy Guts (Rachel Foley and Ben Cassidy)
Erica Fallin, Mark Cooley, and Thomas Stanley
Brian Wentz

September 11, 2011
5:00 pm/Admission is free
George Mason University
School of Art | Art & Design Bldg | 1007