[thechat] What can WE do?

[spinhead]

Music has been used as a tool by any number of groups to whip up
religious/patriotic fervor to gain support for their ideals/goals. The
Marseillais is given a certain amount of credit for the French Revolution's
'success.' [Great cautionary tale: there were these disgruntled citizens,
and they rose up in a group and threw off the shackles of their oppressors.
And became oppressors.]

Apologies for the lack of documentation and historical exactness. Later,
when I've got more time.

I've also read [insert more apologies] more than one commentary re: Woody
Guthrie's affect on US history - not as a politician, but as a writer of
acerbic protest songs. (If you ever get a chance to hear Arlo cover 'This
Land Is Your Land,' where he sings the verses you don't learn in school,
you'll hear a very different perspective on who owns what, and whose 'land'
is whose.)

spinhead


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From: <martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com>
To: <thechat at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 7:59 AM
Subject: RE: [thechat] What can WE do?


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> Protests communicated ideas
> People acted on ideas
> Problems were solved by action
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> All of those who achieved the changes below acknowledge
> the role that protest played.
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> Martin
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> Subject:  RE: [thechat] What can WE do?
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> Martin, love ya to death, but you're seriously warped if you think
> that protest movements SOLVED anything.  Did they contribute to a
> change in the thinking of the local/country/world populace?  Yep.
> And not always to the positive.
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> It's clearly "been used effectively as a method of communicating
> ideas", but that by itself does not SOLVE anything.  As the title
> of this thread says, I'm looking for what I/We can do about what
> happened last week.
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> RE: your points listed below...
> Protests didn't SOLVE any of those issues.
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> -Hugh
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> > Hugh
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> > You're probably not aware of the change in society made by protest
> > movements using
> > traditional-based music. It's been used effectively as a method of
> > communicating ideas
> > of social change for the last 400 years (that I'm aware of), not least
> > contributing to:
> > *) Ending the Vietnam war
> > *) The civil rights movement
> > *) Highlighting the effective indentured slavery of farm workers
> following
> > the Oklahoma dust bowl
> > *) Womens' sufferage
> > *) Ending apartheid
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