I’ve spent most of my creative life measuring the distance between that American promise and American reality. For many Americans, who are today losing their jobs, their homes, seeing their retirement funds disappear, who have no healthcare, or who have been abandoned in our inner cities, the distance between that promise, and that reality, has never been greater or more painful.

The whole set in Philidelphia can be seen here

And now testing an edit.

In discussions with RAW STORY, the whistleblower — who wishes to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation — said that he became suspicious of Diebold’s actions in Georgia for two reasons. The first red flag went up when the computer patch was installed in person by Diebold CEO Bob Urosevich, who flew in from Texas and applied it in just two counties, DeKalb and Fulton, both Democratic strongholds.

(Raw Story via SpyTalk)

To make things a bit easier, below are groups near where some of you live and you can find more at either the National Hunger Clearinghouse, Charity Navigator (which includes ratings based on a group’s financial reports), or the set list page of Bruce Springsteen’s site (just scroll down that page a bit and off to the right side are the groups he’s had at his concerts).

The Greater Boston Food Bank
http://www.gbfb.org
99 Atkinson Street
Boston, MA 02118
(617) 427-5200

Santa Barbara FoodBank
http://www.foodbanksbc.org
4554 Hollister Avenue
Santa Barbara, CA 93110
(805) 967-5741

Northeast Iowa Food Bank
http://www.northeastiowafoodbank.org
106 East 11th Street
Waterloo, IA 50703
(319) 235-0507

Community Food Bank of New Jersey
http://www.njfoodbank.org
31 Evans Terminal Road
Hillside, NJ 07205
(908) 355-3663

Greater Chicago Food Depository
http://www.chicagosfoodbank.org
4100 West Ann Lurie Place
Chicago, IL 60632
(773) 843-5424