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Mike Stout
Mike Stout is an American labor supporter, social activist and rock guitar player and protest singer, who lives in Pittsburgh, United States. He is also known as the "World's Grievance Man."
==Music and activism==
Stout was born in Kentucky, and began his musical career in New York City in 1968 playing his protest songs at Cafe Wha?, The Bitter End, and The Gaslight Cafe coffee house where Bob Dylan also played.〔
In 1977 Stout became a steelworker at Homestead Works, where he was elected the union's head grievance man. He used his music to rally his co-workers at union meetings, where "they fought to win more than $10 million in lost wages, severance pay, pensions, and unemployment benefits for 3,000 displaced works... with thousands of families losing unemployment benefits and facing foreclosure." Stout organized a benefit concert that drew attention from CBS, NBC, the AP, UPI and the international press to raise funds, which later led to the formation of the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food bank.〔
After the mill closings, Stout started writing songs again. He has recorded nine CDs in the last ten years and performed across the United States and Europe with "the message of human solidarity and peace." A Duquesne University professor took one of his CDs to the People to People book store in Germany and his songs. People to People, impressed with his message, began stocking his CDs and sponsored his four concert tours in Germany and Poland. Stout claims to have sold "thousands of CDs" in Europe.〔http://www.myspace.com/mikestoutmusic〕
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