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Fri Dec-10-10 09:26 AM
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I think this is the best picture from the student protests in London.. |
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Fri Dec-10-10 09:29 AM
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1. Wow! It sure looks like they are very serious about their anger.... |
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Edited on Fri Dec-10-10 09:33 AM by BrklynLiberal
I would not mind if some of that righteous anger made its way across the pond...I AM NOT encouraging the destruction of property or injuring people..but some real outrage would be very welcome. The apathy and deadening complacency play right into the hands of the corporatists. So far, the only "outrage" we have seen lately is from the tbaggers as they did their lemming imitation under the command of the RWingnuts. I would like to see some intelligent, fact-based outrage by those to the left of center.
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Fri Dec-10-10 09:36 AM
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2. Could we have some righteous anger without having to |
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capture it on cell phone cameras? (I'm kidding of course, but to an old-school demonstrator, the cell phones in the photo look out of place...but ah, I am quickly descending into the old-fogey-dom I'd assumed I would NEVER reach).
But the substance of what you and the OP say are right on, we need to take to the streets folks. We need to rattle the cages of the corporate overlords.
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Fri Dec-10-10 09:42 AM
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3. There's hardly anything sadder to see |
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than one of us old, curmudgeonly hippies. Unless it's maybe a bunch of us.
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Fri Dec-10-10 09:50 AM
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7. Hope that means I'm not alone, Jackpine!! |
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Fri Dec-10-10 10:01 AM
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13. Well, I qualify to join your club...I'm old and disagreeable on some issues but |
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I don't give a damn any more what anyone thinks. I get real cranky...
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Fri Dec-10-10 10:04 AM
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15. I think there are quite a few of us left. |
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The Bellamy Brothers gave us our anthem.
He turned thirty-five last Sunday In his hair he found some gray But he still ain't changed his lifestyle He likes it better the old way So he grows a little garden in the back yard by the fence He's consuming what he's growing nowadays in self defense He get's out there in the twilight zone Sometimes when it just don't make no sense
He gets off on country music Cause disco left him cold He's got young friends into new wave But he's just too friggin' old And he dreams at night of Woodstock and the day John Lennon died How the music made him happy and the silence made him cry Yeah he thinks of John sometimes And he has to wonder why
Chorus: He's an old hippie and he don't know what to do Should he hang on to the old Should he grab on to the new He's an old hippie...his new life is just a bust He ain't trying to change nobody
He's just trying real hard to adjust
He was sure back in the sixties that everyone was hip Then they sent him off to Vietnam on his senior trip And they forced him to become a man while he was still a boy And in each wave of tragedy he waited for the joy Now this world may change around him But he just can't change no more
Chorus
Well, he stays away a lot now from the parties and the clubs And he's thinking while he's joggin' 'round Sure is glad he quit the hard drugs Cause him and his kind get more endangered everyday And pretty soon the species will just up and fade away Like the smoke from that torpedo...just up and fade away
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Fri Dec-10-10 04:31 PM
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20. Thanks for the lyrics. They surely resonate! n/t |
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Fri Dec-10-10 04:32 PM
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21. I'm not Old, but I stand right beside you |
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hell, I'd tip my hat to you before doing so.
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Fri Dec-10-10 09:50 AM
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6. When I could tear my eyes away from the conflagration... |
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the camera phones jumped out at me as well. Times they have changed.
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Fri Dec-10-10 09:59 AM
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12. Well since media will not cover it cell phones cams look to be the new |
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reporting medium. My phone is so damn complicated that if i try to take a pick whatever is happening has happened by the time i get the camera going.
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Fri Dec-10-10 04:30 PM
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19. That would be me... if my phone wasn't a REAL antique!! |
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Mine does nothing but (gasp!) act as a phone!
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Fri Dec-10-10 11:03 AM
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17. Like an iconic raised fist, but with that dissonance. |
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Oh Tommie, forgive the young’uns, they have a good heart.
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Fri Dec-10-10 10:04 AM
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14. To make an omelet, ... we have been hurt, destroyed, killed for a long time now. |
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What is wrong with making the enemy pay?
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Fri Dec-10-10 09:42 AM
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4. kinda reminds me of the movie |
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Fri Dec-10-10 09:48 AM
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Fri Dec-10-10 09:52 AM
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8. The Revolution is complete, we have burned this capitalist system to the ground! |
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Fri Dec-10-10 04:32 PM
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22. Ah, the old Sex Pistols tune.... Anarchy for the UK, eh? |
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Fri Dec-10-10 09:52 AM
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9. Reminds me of "V for Vendetta"! |
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The super wealthy have apparently pushed too far. Don't forget the riots in France over the raising of the retirement age. I think the tipping point is near.
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Fri Dec-10-10 09:58 AM
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11. I thought the same thing. |
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Fri Dec-10-10 09:53 AM
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10. holy damn -- what's burning? |
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Fri Dec-10-10 10:37 AM
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16. I think they set fire to a park bench... |
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Fri Dec-10-10 11:21 AM
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18. Can't help but notice that in the U.S. whenever an anarchist breaks a window |
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or commits an act of vandalism, DU is very quick to jump on them. But now it suddenly seems that vandalism and rioting are okay. Does this mean you all have finally figured out what the anarchists have known for more than a decade? That we're in a war for our survival with the world's elite, and it's been long time that we took the gloves off?
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