For money and a byline, I will gladly, quickly, and hilariously fashion this idea into full essay. I cannot take 100% percent credit, as a little should go to fellow writer David Dunlap Jr. It was bandied about during a phone conversation before I expanded upon things.

Subject: American Kickbacktivism

Includes: Farm-Aid, standing up to the evil landowner, former President Jimmy Carter, anyone in the Midwest that spoke out (from a couch), and the films Convoy (was Peckinpah asleep for half of the movie?), Tank (with James Garner and C. Thomas Howell), and The Milagro Beanfield War.

Could be made a little more contemporary to with Crusty Punks and Riot Grrls.

(…fingers tapping…)