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Everybody’s watching you now
Everybody waits for you now
What happens next
What happens next

– Switchfoot, “Dare You To Move”

Switchfoot lead singer Jon Foreman had a bit of run-in with Tampa police this past Sunday night. After playing their regular show, Foreman performed a couple of songs on his acoustic guitar in the parking lot for anyone who wanted to drop by, a regular occurrence he refers to as “after-shows”. But one Tampa cop wasn’t having any of it and ordered Foreman to shut it down. Encouraged by fans, though, he kept playing until finally being escorted away. The event, naturally, was caught on video by several fans and even made it to CNN.

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Let it rise above, rise above
There is no song louder than love

– Switchfoot, “The Sound (John Perkins’ Blues)”

About civil rights activist John M. Perkins, Switchfoot lead singer Jon Foreman writes:

Over the next few decades Dr. Perkins’ outspoken nature and leadership in civil rights demonstrations resulted in repeated harassment, brutal beatings and imprisonment. Yet even in the hands of his oppressors he chose the path of love over violence, of compassion over hatred. His story is the story of the struggle for true freedom, freedom from even the knee-jerk reaction of retaliatory violence. His song is the song of the blessed community. His dream is the dream which Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King and so many others died for. His story is living proof that love is louder than violence, louder than hatred, and louder than racism.

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