We are all, of course, sad to see MFA go. But we are NOT despairing. Why?

When MFA first started up in 2003, “politicking” inside concert walls was about as popular as panhandling. Mainstream musicians would take a bullet to the gut before taking a political stance. And the “youth vote” was mythically non-existant, like Bigfoot, the yeti or Canada’s beloved mountain sasquatch.

MFA changed all that, through 4 years of voter outreach and issue education at concerts across the country, every night, in all 50 states. We were a group of kids who wanted to make politics and civic engagement relevant to people’s lives the same way that Thom Yorke and Billie Joe Armstrong are relevant, and we were determined to have a blast while doing it. It didn’t hurt that Billie Joe and an army of musicians were down with the cause.