Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, Keb' Mo' and Ben Harper joined in this adaptation of the classic Buffalo Springfield song, "For What It's Worth," to help stop a $50 billion loan guarantee package for building new nuclear power plants. The campaign mounted by NukeFree.org and allied environmental non-profit organizations gathered over 120,000 signatures, including those of the activists and artists listed on the scroll above. Congress defeated the loan guarantees proposed in 2007, and declined to pass an even larger package proposed in 2008.
NEW! Stop the Bailout! YouTube. (click to view).
Directed by Robert Greenwald, Leda Maglia, and Jackson Browne
Production Co-ordinator - Paris Marron
Bonnie Raitt - vocal and acoustic guitar
Graham Nash -vocal
Keb' Mo'- vocal and electric guitar
Ben Harper - vocal and lap steel guitar
Jackson Browne - vocal and electric guitar
Hutch Hutchinson - bass
Ricky Fatar - drums
Scott Thurston - Wurlitzer electric piano
Stephen Bruton - electric guitar
Recorded and mixed by Paul Dieter
Assisted by Rich Tosi
Guitar technician - Manny Alvarez
Recorded at Groove Masters, Santa Monica
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Over the past year, grassroots movements of people like yourself have twice mobilized to stop huge taxpayer subsidies and loan guarantees from going to build new atomic reactors. The nuclear industry can't get private financing. It demands these handouts from the Federal government, and huge rate hikes at the state level. But an efficient, renewable energy-based economy can solve global warming and bring us a whole new level of prosperity. Let's be NukeFree!