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Now here's something I wrote in issue 200 of Organ back in March 2007... Thankfully George is still with us right now mid summer 2008 but I hear things aren't that good...

Now George Tabb is important (and time is running out), George is important history. George is an old school zine guy, a punk rock do'er, one of the zine family from the scuzzy New York City undergrowth. George was/is a long time contributor to the ever-evolving world-wide zine network and in particular to Maximum Rock and Roll zine. George is a NY punk scene music maker, a rather good author. George is one the originals who stuck to his guns and walked it rather than just talked it. Thing is you see, this isn't about the latest hairstyle or a generic musical pigeonhole or a load of old history. Zine making is a state of mind, an attitude, a way of life – a way of thinking, of doing things the right way, for the right reasons, about community and creativity and doing and being and involving rather than just consuming.

George just happened to be living near those Twin Towers and made the all too human mistake of going to help a few people rather than getting the hell out of the citythat day. He stayed and helped when those towers came crashing down with all their poison dust – he believed them when they said the air was alright and now the City and the US government are f**king George over. There's no other way to describe it, they're f**king George over. I try not to swear, it devalues our beautiful language – they're f**king George over.

Now let me just say right here that today we're just concerened about George, we're not concerned with the why and the where and the politics of those crashing towers and American foreign policy and bombs and fear, right now we're concerned about one of our own underground zine family who just happened to live in the wrong place at the wrong time. Thing is you see, if you choose to devote your life to zines and underground music and just trying to do things a different way and take a little bit of it back – the punk rock way if you will - if you chose to really walk it rather than just talk it, then you're never going to get rich – well not in financial terms anyway – and when the going gets tough you look to your family to help you out a little. George needs a little help from the zine family right now - and from the underground networks, from the D.I.Y music making community, from the so-called punk bands and the labels who've benefited so much from the zine networks that George helped shape. George needs everyone shouting about his situation before there ain't no George to shout about anymore. Time to shame the US authorities in to helping people like George, I mean, if that's how they treat their own, how the hell do the expect they're gonna treat the rest of the world? How can anyone trust them? Time to help one of our own out please - or 200 Organs stands for nothing and it was all a waste of time. Go find out more, go network, go blog, go fundraise, go get involved –

Below is a link to George Tabb on Youtube, before he himself got sick when he was running around everywhere and anywhere he could and then after he got sick with with the same kind of stuff a heck of a lot of others who were in lower Manhattan at the time got sick with.

One of his big concerns is that people know what's going on and if they were in Lower Manhattan in the weeks and the months after 9/11 that they keep an eye on their health and if they have indeed become sick with the same stuff that he and too many others are sick with that they KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON.

The more this all gets shoved under the rug the more people who were exposed to that toxicity are further harmed healthwise and yea sometimes even punkrock activist George can't make it out the door

That's why Sean O, myself and others are yelling at the top of our lungs here and aboveground on George's behalf like a continual day and night shift

because we don't want to forget one of our own someone who was so instrumental in helping to create and foster the scene for the rest of us literary and musicwise who for the past several years has been making a big difference awareness wise for others in the same boat that has grown around him.

It has been said by several that George Tabb has the biggest heart in the punk rock world and that IS true......


-Monica

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http://youtube.com/results?search_query ... type=&aq=f

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George Tabb is, and I really do not say this often (except about myself -and only in front of the mirror) one of the sweetest and funniest people I've ever met .
A couple months ago I was waiting with him for a hospital appointment and he had me cracking up in fits of laughter the entire time with one of the true life things that had happened to him.

I wish he could get out more and be amongst his friends and the general population again right now because laughter is THE best medicine for stressed out souls and I as a fan miss all these stories and points of views from him, as even before I actually met him I was laughing at the stuff he wrote. When I wasn't shaking my head relating to that feeling of being an outsider.

-MN


G.T.'s latest posted blog entry:

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... =407716218

How is George doing now?

THIS is the best interview I have ever heard from George it was probably the hardest but it's also full of hope and love.

He's a nice guy who wants to keep living.


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Show 55 - Nov. 7th 2009 A conversation with George Tabb

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George and I ask, no beg, everyone we know everyone to sign the petition in the link below.

that people are hoping will be voted on in a favorable way around Thanksgiving.

The people who began this are hoping for 10,000 signatures and that it will be voted on favorably by Thanksgiving. If there were even more signatures that sure would send a message to congress wouldn't it. This bill enacted would seriously help George and everyone else affected by the same things as him, former nearby residents, volunteers in the aftermath and the brave First Responders. we're talking tens of thousands of people, maybe up to 70,000 who are being affected right now, who are going through the same exact things as George. If this bill had been enacted a long time ago there are a lot of people who would still be alive because they would've been properly helped liked they were supposed to be.

-Monica Nelson at Whirlwind Coalition re: www.myspace.com/helpgeorgetabb




Bring Bill HR 847: the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act to the Floor for a Vote by Thanksgiving 2009



"On behalf of my friend George Tabb and some other people I know who have been struggling, trying to stay alive, trying to stay positive while waiting for help, we as fellow Americans need to do the right thing by not shoving them under the rug, not leaving them to get sicker without help until they die. By not forgetting them is how I chose to wave my American flag.
-Petition signer Monica Nelson


http://www.petitiononline.com/HR847NOW/petition.html

or search JAMES ZADROGA HEALTH BILL PETITION at petitiononline.com


Thank you!

-MN


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