Occupy Wall Street Movement Spreads Across the World!

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  1. Aerianne

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    "Making up laws as they go along."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCuax-3DeBc"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCuax-3DeBc
     
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    Wow! Pete Seeger still doin' his thing.

    And just what was it about this post that people don't like?

    Go ahead and abuse the like/dislike buttons and see what happens... (hint: I can make anything happen to someone's account who posts excessive "dislikes", automatically)
     
    skip, Oct 22, 2011
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  9. Aerianne

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    It's just asinine to dislike a post about this elderly folk music legend marching, with a cane in each hand, and performing a benefit concert at 92 years old.

    Dislike me all you want, but you gotta love Pete Seeger.
     
    Aerianne, Oct 22, 2011
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    Check this out! A 65 YEAR OLD documentary on Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI3MzLdyOkE"]Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger: Live American Folk Music and Songs Documentary (1946) - YouTube
     
    skip, Oct 22, 2011
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    PETE SEEGER IS AN AMERICAN LEGEND!

    Here's the video of Pete Seeger walking yesterday evening to Columbus Circle.

    Damn, this guy has been to MORE PROTESTS than probably anyone else Alive!

    Go PETE!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI7ZJT7Npck"]Occupy Wall Street: Pete Seeger Marches to Columbus Circle - YouTube

    And here he is leading the protesters in Columbus Circle with "We Shall Overcome!"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IPd_OkeVtI"]Pete Seeger and Occupy Wall Street Sing 'We Shall Overcome' at Columbus Circle (10/21/11) - YouTube
     
    skip, Oct 22, 2011
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    VERY cool links Skip--- thanks!

    Much respect for Pete Seeger!
     
    stinkfoot, Oct 22, 2011
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    Arlo Guthrie was there too. My mom babysat for Arlo... and now he's 65? Wow.

    I'm just loving all the cool ppl coming out to support the Occupy movement.

    Oh, yeah the movement is over and failed.... NOT!

    You are witnessing a new, epic chapter in American history unfolding before your eyes and all these whiners who complain about it can go fuck themselves if they don't get it.

    POWER TO THE PEOPLE, BABY!

    I loved it in the video above when Naomi Wolf said "We don't just have a 'right' to protest, we have an OBLIGATION to protest as Americans."

    So if you're only criticizing the protesters, instead of going out there yourselves, you're being UN-AMERICAN.
     
    skip, Oct 22, 2011
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    I'm listening to the folk music documentary as I type.... digesting it from an historic perspective... two year post war and the country is supposedly experiencing the mother of all economic booms and it's easy to forget that there were large segments of the population excluded from that. I see this as a very intelligent way of raising awareness of the situation- not by whining about how they are entitled to a piece of the pie but by exhibiting their resilience and the richness of their culture in hopes that a few of the "haves" might dig a little deeper into the origins of this rich culture and expose to see for themselves the rampant injustice.

    I know Woody Guthrie was a civil rights pioneer of sorts- not by stumping on behalf or exploiting his celebrity but by example- taking it to the folks who would dare subject anyone accompanying Guthrie to Jim Crow laws and denying them what should have been rightfully theirs.

    Alas- we do not learn the right lessons from history.
     
    stinkfoot, Oct 22, 2011
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    It's surprising that Arlo was there as the historic accounts I've seen of Woody characterize him as quite the philanderer- someone tending to leave & forget a relationship for long periods while he traveled the country. Gotta take that with a grain of salt though... considering what he stood for and who that threatened.
     
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    Pete Seeger was a BIG promoter of unions. Find out why in this video from 1941! (70 years old!)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C13JFv4JfH8"]Talking Union - Pete Seeger - YouTube

    Here's the words to song. Funny how little things have changed in 70 years!

    Talking Union
    by Millard Lampell, Lee Hays and Pete Seeger, 1941
    The Almanac Singers, Woodie Guthrie, Lee Hays, Millard Lampell and Pete Seeger


    Now, if you want higher wages let me tell you what to do
    You got to talk to the workers in the shop with you.
    You got to build you a union, got to make it strong,
    But if you all stick together, boys, it won't be long.
    You get shorter hours, better working conditions,
    Vacations with pay. Take your kids to the seashore.

    It ain't quite this simple, so I better explain
    Just why you got to ride on the union train.
    'Cause if you wait for the boss to raise your pay,
    We'll all be a-waitin' 'til Judgment Day.
    We'll all be buried, gone to heaven,
    St. Peter'll be the straw boss then.

    Now you know you're underpaid but the boss says you ain't;
    He speeds up the work 'til you're 'bout to faint.
    You may be down and out, but you ain't beaten,
    You can pass out a leaflet and call a meetin'.
    Talk it over, speak your mind,
    Decide to do somethin' about it.

    Course, the boss may persuade some poor damn fool
    To go to your meetin' and act like a stool.
    But you can always tell a stool, though, that's a fact,
    He's got a yaller streak a-runnin' down his back.
    He doesn't have to stool, he'll always get along
    On what he takes out of blind men's cups.

    You got a union now, and you're sittin' pretty,
    Put some of the boys on the steering committee.
    The boss won't listen when one guy squawks,
    But he's got to listen when the union talks.
    He'd better, be mighty lonely
    Everybody decide to walk out on him.

    Suppose they're working you so hard it's just outrageous
    And they're paying you all starvation wages.
    You go to the boss and the boss would yell,
    "Before I raise your pay I'd see you all in hell."
    Well, he's puffing a big seegar, feeling mighty slick
    'Cause he thinks he's got your union licked.
    Well, he looks out the window and what does he see
    But a thousand pickets, and they all agree:
    He's a bastard, unfair, slavedriver,
    Bet he beats his wife!

    Now, boys, you've come to the hardest time.
    The boss will try to bust your picket line.
    He'll call out the police, the National Guard,
    They'll tell you it's a crime to have a union card.
    They'll raid your meetin', they'll hit you on the head,
    They'll call every one of you a goddam red,
    Unpatriotic, Japanese spies, sabotaging national defense!

    But out at Ford, here's what they found,
    And out at Vultee, here's what they found,
    And out at Allis-Chalmers, here's what they found,
    And down at Bethlehem, here's what they found:
    That if you don't let red-baiting break you up,
    And if you don't let stoolpigeons break you up,
    And if you don't let vigilantes break you up,
    And if you don't let race hatred break you up,
    You'll win. What I mean, take it easy, but take it!
     
    skip, Oct 22, 2011
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    Priceless!
     
    Aerianne, Oct 22, 2011
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    I love the concept of labor unions but I see them as having become as corrupt as government... they could use reform as much as government.

    Thanks for the link- this shit is fascinating... LOVE the history. People could learn a lot from it... this is the foundation that in part paved the way for the beatniks and hippies. Vintage counterculture- love it!
     
    stinkfoot, Oct 22, 2011
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    Every great change has had its critics, and they've never been anything other than fearful.
    Change is inevitable and constant, so as the Hopis say, those who fear it will die of their own terror.
     
    primalflow, Oct 22, 2011
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    OK, well if this doesn't get to you, nothing will... Arlo and Pete do Woody's song justice here.

    It's everyone's land, not just the 1%...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSIy0wq_-8A"]Arlo Guthrie & Pete Seeger/ This Land Is Your Land - YouTube
     
    skip, Oct 22, 2011
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    Aerianne, Oct 22, 2011
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    Another cool video- thanks Skip! :) :2thumbsup:
     
    stinkfoot, Oct 22, 2011
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    This underscores something that seems to be lost- that being the police themselves are human beings- fellow citizens whose future freedom and happiness may well depend on the success of a movement they are conscripted into trying to stifle.
     
    stinkfoot, Oct 22, 2011
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  39. Aerianne

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    This was sung many times last night as they marched along. To see the people marching and to hear so many voices singing this together was truly awesome.
     
    Aerianne, Oct 22, 2011
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