Erupt & Matter

 

I don't know how I missed this one at the time, but it's one of the best protest songs I've heard this millennium.

Music to start a revolution by.

Snowed Under by Ruling-Class Images

 

Excerpted from Abbie Hoffman's autobiography Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture, ©1980:

Lenin once wrote that art was counter-revolutionary because it showed beauty in the present, while revolution promised beauty in the future. It's true that art-for-art's sake leads to performing modern dance for Shahs and Sheiks or discussing sculpture at afternoon tea with the Rockerfellers. Yet creativity is needed to reach people snowed under by ruling-class images, and only artists can manage the breakthrough. Artists are the collective eyes of the future. One of the worst mistakes any revolution can make is to become boring. It leads to rituals as opposed to games, cults as opposed to community and denial of human rights as opposed to freedom.

In organizing a movement around art we not only allowed people to participate without a sense of guilt but also with a sense of enjoyment. The use of fun in struggle was a new notion. Even in Mississippi where we were truly frightened most of the time with people shooting at us, living with the constant thought that we might lose our lives, it seemed like people enjoyed their "work." All I did was admit it felt good. There's no incongruity in conducting serious business and having fun. This pissed off the straight left to no end.

Always

"Always be aware of the fact that the only thing hindering an all-out revolution is your fear of losing the scraps they throw at you."  ~Gore Vidal

Completely Denying

 

(Clicking Imbiggens)

Never knuckle under to petty authority.  It sets a bad precedent.

Oh My God do I pray

And I pray, oh my God do I pray
I pray every single day
For a revolution…

Full lyrics HERE.

I used to pray for a revolution, but not the one we're about to have.

I thought, since we have enough for everybody, there would be a revolution to make sure everybody has enough.  I thought it would be based on love and justice and freedom.

Instead, we're on the cusp of a fascist revolution that wants to violently deprive other human beings of what were once considered unalienable rights. 

I don't hold a lot of hope for tomorrow.