Green Day Asks Fans to Register to Vote at Concerts

Billie Joe Armstrong, the unabashedly political lead singer for the band Green Day, spoke to a crowd of friends, fans and supporters in San Francisco recently, noting that in the world of politics, "the word liberal has been looked on as sort of weak."

But, Armstrong defiantly told his young audience, not any more. "To me,'' he said, "it's more of a sense of empowerment.''

With that in mind, the Berkeley-based Grammy Award-winning trio -- Armstrong, drummer Tre Cool and bass player Mike Dirnt -- are asking hundreds of thousands of fans and potential young voters to take out their cell phones at Green Day concerts and register to vote via text messaging.

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