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M.I.A to give song away for European Parliament Election

Musician plans to give a free track to people who vote for her favourite candidate

MIA has announced that she will be giving away a song to people who vote for independent candidate Jan Jananayagam in the forthcoming European Parliament Elections.

Like MIA, Jananayagam is opposed to war in Sri Lanka and has been lobbying the British government to intervene. The election takes place tomorrow (June 4).

The rapper explained her intention to give the gift to those who vote for the London candidate through her MySpace blog at Myspace.com/mia, although she did not reveal its title or how it would be distributed to voters.

"VOTE FOR JAN JANA !!! AND ILL GIVE YOU A FREE SONG!" wrote the star.

The Brooklyn-based musician posted another message to the 'People of London' which read: "If u r in London in the next 3 days 1 hour out of ur day could save 300,000 of people."

Jananayagam is the first female Asian independent candidate to stand for the European Elections.
 

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hitchy249 

Jun 3, 2009

What a scadalously stupid person she really is. She really does put the "bribe" into "fair elections? no! i'll just BRIBE you with some mediocrity"

redline9000 

Jun 4, 2009

"Opposed to the war in Sri Lanka"? That's a dangerously ignorant statement. I'd venture that most reasonable people oppose war just about anywhere. There's opposing war and there's sympathising with terrorists. Check out Miss Arulpragasam's website, and you will see her in amongst celebrations decorated with the flag of the Tamil tigers, a terrorist organisation banned in 32 countries including the UK, countries in the EU and the USA (its a red and yellow flag with a roaring tiger frame by 2 crossed guns). An organisation which forcibly recruited child soldiers and regularly used suicide bombers to ruthlessly blow up soft civilian targets (which kind of explains the label). I wonder if the writer would take such a callously charitable view if she was seen to support Al Qaeda, another well known terrorist organisation.

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