In addition to his career with the Beastie Boys, Yauch was heavily
involved in the movement to free Tibet. A founder of the Milarepa Fund,
Yauch was instrumental in the first Tibetan Freedom Concert in San
Francisco's Golden Gate Park 1996, which drew 100,000 people – the
largest U.S. benefit concert since 1985's Live Aid. After 9/11, Yauch
and the Beastie Boys organized New Yorkers Against Violence, a concert
benefit for some of the victims least likely to receive help from
elsewhere.
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