The call for Occupy Wall Street was originally put out by Adbusters, which, like Cohen, is Canadian. Because maybe democracy comes from somewhere near, that the US couldn't be a total island power and was eventually compelled to listen to a neighbor who could "speak its language",
For several months I was using Pandora as my main source of music, and it was good in some ways. But -- with some exceptions -- it seemed to me the way it categorizes music is purely stylistic, ignoring the actual meaning of the words.
Meanwhile, a major thought of mine has been how serious the "Occupy" -- I've voiced my concerns about the term on my twitter feed -- movement is froming. Most brazenly, is it just a masquerade? "Is this a movement or a photo-op -- do you want to change the world or party till you drop?"
And so, two songs entitled and about masquerade that, as a bonus, actually sound good to me when played at the same time, atop each other in spite -- or perhaps because -- they represent different genres.
A lovely adventure I might find time to write about. Similar to my
July 4 outings.
Danny Thomas at "MLK rally" "March for Jobs and Justice" organized by Sharpton. Talked about how much he regretted going into the military.
The Martin Luther King Memorial is dedicated this weekend.
Here's a PDF of some of Martin Luther King's often overlooked statements such as "When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, militarism and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered." People can pass this out at the occupy protests and other events in DC and elsewhere:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sFCg3RkPJMUXSmSRl7ayiAUI9gcbAQrTogL8qgdr6po/edit?hl=en_US
(Feel free to add info on local group distributing fliers at the bottom.)
Further information:
Martin Luther King Jr. from his “Beyond Vietnam — A Time to Break Silence” address, delivered at Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967, a year to the day before his assassination — full audio and text.
His sermon later that month, in which he responded to the mainstream attack: "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam" -- excerpts on youtube. (Note that audio can be streamed through many phones and amplified through a bullhorn.)
King's 1963 "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" was addressed to clergy who stated they were pro-reform, but were advocating a slower approach than King, calling his actions "unwise and untimely".
See from FAIR: "The Martin Luther King You Still Don't See on TV".
Several press releases from the Institute for Public Accuracy (where I work).
At Union Station: "Let all the ends thou aimst at be thy country's *
thy God's * and Truth's be Noble and the Nobleness that lies in other
men * sleeping but never dead * will rise in majesty to meet thine
own"
