Revolution

not until i came back to edit the size down after i saw my mistake - only to find that you had posted here first !!!!!!



no, not angry - sober

PEACE ON EARTH
U2


Heaven on Earth
We need it now
I'm sick of all of this
Hanging around

Sick of sorrow
I'm sick of the pain
I'm sick of hearing
Again and again
That there's gonna be
Peace on Earth

Where I grew up
There weren't many trees
Where there was we'd tear them down
And use them on our enemies

They say that what you mock
Will surely overtake you
And you become a monster
So the monster will not break you

And it's already gone too far
You said that if you go in hard
You won't get hurt

Jesus can you take the time
To throw a drowning man a line
Peace on Earth

Tell the ones who hear no sound
Whose sons are living in the ground
Peace on Earth

No who's or why's
No one cries like a mother cries
For peace on Earth

She never got to say goodbye
To see the color in his eyes
Now he's in the dirt
Peace on Earth

They're reading names out
Over the radio
All the folks the rest of us
Won't get to know

Sean and Julia
Gareth, Anne, and Breeda
Their lives are bigger than
Any big idea

Jesus can you take the time
To throw a drowning man a line
Peace on Earth

To tell the ones who hear no sound
Whose sons are living in the ground
Peace on Earth

Jesus in the song you wrote
The words are sticking in my throat
Peace on Earth

Hear it every Christmas time
But hope and history won't rhyme
So what's it worth

This peace on Earth
Peace on Earth
Peace on Earth
Peace on Earth




Adam Clayton U2

WAKE THE WORLD
Levellers



Been sitting in silence safe inside four walls
Trying to remember the moment when we changed the rules
Do you take to your bed or do you take the cure
Been getting out of my head lately that's for sure

So tell me when are we gonna wake the world

Take a look around to see who's still listening
Found them swaddled in lies they find so comforting
The electric eye will always tell you so
Don't want the truth around me
No I don't want to know

You were right when you were young
Could you ever see it all come undone
You were brave when you were young
Would you ever believe it could all come undone

Don't want to get to a place I don't recognise
Where we've all bought the world
But left with second prize
Dragged down by the words of a hollow song
Left in a state of selfish babylon



The Levellers are strong supporters of many causes. Among these is a movement to repeal the Criminal Justice Act which revokes the rights of citizens of the United Kingdom to protest, strike or to live the lifestyle of a New Age Traveler.


Wychwood Music Festival
Fun Lovin' Criminals, Levellers, Afro Celts & much more. 1-3 June 07
http://www.wychwoodfestival.com/?gclid=CMHpjO2WlowCFQXolAod6XbZeA

Don't know why I missed this - cheers, edgar.

MONEY CAN'T BUY IT
Annie Lennox



Money can't buy it... baby
Sex can't buy it... baby
Drugs can't buy it... baby
You can't buy it... baby

I believe that love alone might do these things for you
I believe in love alone yeah yeah

Take the power to set you free
Kick down the door and throw away the key
Give up your needs...
Your poisoned seeds
Find yourself elected to a different kind of creed

I believe that love alone might do these things for you
I believe that love alone might do these things for you
I believe in the power of creation
I believe in the good vibration
I believe in love alone yeah yeah

Won't somebody tell me what we're coming to
It might take forever till we watch those dreams come true
All the money in the world won't buy you peace of minde
You can have it all but you still won't be satisfied

Money can't buy it... baby
Sex can't buy it... baby
Drugs can't buy it... baby
You can't buy it... baby

Now...
Hear this
Pay attention to me
'cause I'm a rich white girl and it's plain to see
i got every kind of thing that the money can buy
Let me tell you all about it
Let me amplify
I got DIAMONDS...
You heard about those
I got so many that I can't close my safe at night in the dark
Lying awake in a sick dream

I believe that love alone might do these things for you
I believe that love alone might do these things for you
I believe in the power of creation
I believe in the good vibration
I believe in love alone yeah yeah

Thursday, May 17th, 2007
"Sicko" Is Completed and We're Off to Cannes!

Friends,

It's a wrap! My new film, "Sicko," is all done and will have its world premiere this Saturday night at the Cannes Film Festival. As with "Bowling for Columbine" and "Fahrenheit 9/11," we are honored to have been chosen by this prestigious festival to screen our work there.

My intention was to keep "Sicko" under wraps and show it to virtually no one before its premiere in Cannes. That is what I have done and, as you may have noticed if you are a recipient of my infrequent Internet letters, I have been very silent about what I've been up to. In part, that's because I was working very hard to complete the film. But my silence was also because I knew that the health care industry -- an industry which makes up more than 15 percent of our GDP -- was not going to like much of what they were going to see in this movie and I thought it best not to upset them any sooner than need be.

Well, going quietly to Cannes, I guess, was not to be. For some strange reason, on May 2nd the Bush administration initiated an action against me over how I obtained some of the content they believe is in my film. As none of them have actually seen the film (or so I hope!), they decided, unlike with "Fahrenheit 9/11," not to wait until the film was out of the gate and too far down the road to begin their attack.

Bush's Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson, launched an investigation of a trip I took to Cuba to film scenes for the movie. These scenes involve a group of 9/11 rescue workers who are suffering from illnesses obtained from working down at Ground Zero. They have received little or no help with their health care from the government. I do not want to give away what actually happens in the movie because I don't want to spoil it for you (although I'm sure you'll hear much about it after it unspools Saturday). Plus, our lawyers have advised me to say little at this point, as the film goes somewhere far scarier than "Cuba." Rest assured of one thing: no laws were broken. All I've done is violate the modern-day rule of journalism that says, "ask no questions of those in power or your luncheon privileges will be revoked."

This preemptive action taken by the Bush administration on the eve of the "Sicko" premiere in Cannes led our attorneys to fear for the safety of our film, noting that Secretary Paulson may try to claim that the content of the movie was obtained through a violation of the trade embargo that our country has against Cuba and the travel laws that prohibit average citizens of our free country from traveling to Cuba. (The law does not prohibit anyone from exercising their first amendment right of a free press and documentaries are protected works of journalism.)

I was floored when our lawyers told me this. "Are you saying they might actually confiscate our movie?" "Yes," was the answer. "These days, anything is possible. Even if there is just a 20 percent chance the government would seize our movie before Cannes, does anyone want to take that risk?"

Certainly not. So there we were last week, spiriting a duplicate master negative out of the country just so no one from the government would take it from us. (Seriously, I can't believe I just typed those words! Did I mention that I'm an American, and this is America and NO ONE should ever have to say they had to do such a thing?)

I mean, folks, I have just about had it. Investigating ME because I'm trying to help some 9/11 rescue workers our government has abandoned? Once again, up is down and black is white. There are only two people in need of an investigation and a trial, and the desire for this across America is so widespread you don't even need to see the one's smirk or hear the other's sneer to know who I am talking about.

But no, I'm the one who now has to hire lawyers and sneak my documentary out of the country just so people can see a friggin' movie. I mean, it's just a movie! What on earth could I have placed on celluloid that would require such a nonsensical action against me?

Ok. Scratch that.

Well, I'm on my way to Cannes right now, a copy of the movie in my bag. Don't feel too bad for me, I'll be in the south of France for a week! But then it's back to the U.S. for a number of premieres and benefits and then, finally, a chance for all of you to see this film that I have made. Circle June 29th on your calendar because that's when it opens in theaters everywhere across the country and Canada (for the rest of the world, it opens in the fall).

I can't wait for you to see it.

Yours,

Michael Moore

P.S. I will write more about what happens from Cannes.

Stay tuned here:
http://www.michaelmoore.com

Spread of privatisation questioned

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/3828F863-5538-4279-92FE-45BCCF489096.htm

Hello Endy,

okay so i haven't been reading here for the past few days, will catch up later...

here's just a few stuff i thought belonged here, more then anywhere else(revo.. needed :wink: )

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Must Money and Power Become so Dear

Must money and power become so dear
Evolve humans into inhumans
And turn love to fear
Despair come wrapped in virtues of true men
Must deadly fantasies replace the loner's tear
All that sentiments me condemn
Turns out to be in the potions of a seer
"To kill" a child must hear
And those dreary misty fogs of hate
Might never seem to clear

Must money and power become so dear
Oppress those who ever dared to cheer

Must money and power become so dear
That values and lives seem unreal

Must money and power become so dear
Be it a man, what a man may fear

Must money and power become so dear……

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As We Wait and Watch

Should I just wait and watch…
As lusty forces invade the world
Power-thirsty beasts enslave us under freedom
And swim in piles of our stolen cash
They just bomb away our beloved home
Terrorize our faiths and dreams

Should I just wait and watch…
As children loose their childhood
Mothers loose their love
As innocent souls are tortured and agonized
As women are raped everyday
Young hands are clasped in prayers

Should I just wait and watch…
While God listens to suits and ties
A beautiful girl dies
As the soldiers bleed
A mother pleads
What the hell is this fight/

Should I just wait and watch…
As they strip our hopes
And the world depletes
We must bow to their mystic feet
Men in suites are unaware
For day, that child has had nothing to eat

Should I just wait and watch…
We have all become ignorants
As the ?'Big Guys' fulfill their mission
We all kneel in a silent submission
...As we wait and watch

(should I just wait and watch...
hell has arrived before judgement
and innocent lives burn to ashes
as sinners chant in paradise...
...as we wait and watch)

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Good Day to you, Endy

ROCK ON!!!
Naima

Thanks for these, Naima - it's appreciated

Hope you enjoy the lyrics

Peace
Endy

The Imposition Of Great Power On Powerless People

Internationally-renowned investigative reporter and filmmaker John Pilger talks about the limitless occupation in Palestine, the war in Iraq, the current pathetic state of mainstream journalism.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17733.htm

SONNY'S LETTAH (ANTI-SUS POEM)
Linton Kwesi Johnson





From Brixton Prison, Jebb Avenue London S.W. 2 Inglan

Dear mama
good day
I hope that when these few lines reach you they may
find you in the best of health
I doun know how to tell ya dis
for I did mek a solemn promise
to tek care a lickle Jim
an try mi bes fi look out fi him

mama, I really did try mi bes
but none a di less
sorry fi tell ya seh, poor lickle Jim get arres
it was de miggle a di rush hour
hevrybody jus a hustle and a bustle
to go home fi dem evenin shower
mi an Jim stan up waitin pon a bus
not causin no fuss

when all of a sudden a police van pull up
out jump tree policemen
de whole a dem carryin baton
dem walk straight up to me and Jim
one a dem hold on to Jim
seh dem tekin him in
Jim tell him fi leggo a him
for him nah do nutt'n
and 'im nah t'ief, not even a but'n
Jim start to wriggle
de police start to giggle

mama, mek I tell you wa dem do to Jim?
mek I tell you wa dem do to 'im?

Dem thump him him in him belly and it turn to jelly
Dem lick 'im pon 'im back and 'im rib get pop
Dem thump him pon him head but it tough like lead
Dem kick 'im in 'im seed and it started to bleed

Mama, I jus couldn't stan up deh, nah do nuttin'

So mi jook one in him eye and him started fi cry
me thump him pon him mout and him started fi shout
me kick him pon him shin so him started fi spin
me hit him pon him chin an him drop pon a bin
- an crash, an dead

More policman come dung
dem beat me to the grung
dem charge Jim fi sus
dem charge mi fi murdah

mama, doan fret
doan get depress an downhearted
be of good courage-acap






Linton Kwesi Johnson was born on 24 August 1952 in Chapelton, a small town in the rural parish of Clarendon, Jamaica. He came to London in 1963, went to Tulse Hill secondary school and later studied Sociology at Goldsmiths' College, University of London. Whilst still at school he joined the Black Panthers, helped to organise a poetry workshop within the movement and developed his work with Rasta Love, a group of poets and drummers. In 1977 he was awarded a C Day Lewis Fellowship, becoming the writer-in-residence for the London Borough of Lambeth for that year. He went on to work as the Library Resources and Education Officer at the Keskidee Centre, the first home of Black theatre and art.

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Not long ago, I went to hear him read his latest book of poetry and when he walked into the hall, someone stood up and before you knew it, he had a standing ovation without even opening his mouth.
And that was in a white, country setting.
I'm glad I was there to see that.

This is for you



A Message - The way



Love each other
Because that's the only way
Protect the weaker, poorer, meeker
That could be you one day
Confront the world's abusers
Make it so there's no more losers
If your Government refuses
Cut their pay

Love each other
Because life is far too short
See each other as sister and brother
Forget what you've been taught
Challenge racial genocide
B'fore it kills you deep inside
Don't let the dream of peace just die
Unsought

Love each other
Because that's the only way
Understand in every land
The sentiment's the same
Why destroy mankind?
Why leave tragedy behind?
Seek and you shall find
The way




Endymion 2007

Bad News Indeed

UK Politics
MPs vote themselves exemption from Freedom of Information law

Published: 19 May 2007

Britain's fledgling open government laws were delivered a serious blow yesterday when MPs, backed by government ministers, voted to grant themselves a blanket exemption from the legislation. The move was roundly condemned by freedom of information campaigners and MPs opposed to the measure, who said it represented an attack on democracy.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2560000.ece

Israel continues Gaza air strikes
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A85B2D8C-33F1-4C34-9F74-16F88CF86543.htm

US plans Israel missile shield
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/304E2DC4-86D2-46ED-8F44-A21BD26F3AE9.htm

US Iraq Veterans Take Antiwar Call on Road

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/17/1260/

No, Blair! America's parting gift to Britain's PM

NO to CO2 emissions targets. NO to a successor to Kyoto. NO to a carbon trading market. As Blair leaves Washington, US hardens stance on climate change
By Daniel Howden
Published: 19 May 2007

As Tony Blair left Washington yesterday for his last visit as Prime Minister, the Bush administration was acting to scupper international efforts to combat climate change.

Less than 24 hours earlier, Mr Blair had basked in the apparent support of President George Bush for his stated aim of avoiding catastrophic global warming. But it seems his appeals have fallen on deaf ears. While Mr Bush was eulogising his friend in the White House rose garden, the President's delegation at a United Nations meeting in Bonn was working to stop any progress on setting up a carbon trading scheme and emissions caps.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2559994.ece



Abominable. Blind. Subservient. Ex-President Carter lambasts Blair for support

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2560259.ece

JUNE 24:Demonstrate in Manchester
Change the policy - not just the leader:
Troops out of Iraq now

http://www.stopwar.org.uk/index.htm

Iraq war is lost say...

»Private Paul Barton: British soldier serving in Iraq

»Corporal Richard Bradley: British soldier serving in Iraq

»Leo Docherty: Ex-British army officer who served in Iraq

»General Sir Michael Rose: Chief of UK army in Bosnia

»Senator Harry Reid: Democratic leader of US Senate

Meanwhile...

»Bush defines "success"


http://www.stopwar.org.uk/index.htm

This extraordinary photograph I saw today, of a woman being rescued from a building after at least 32 people were injured, including a number of children, when an (Israeli) F-16 fighter jet "decimated" the Executive Force building in central Gaza City.

It really made me think again of Naima's poem, spoken from the heart



As We Wait and Watch

Should I just wait and watch…
As lusty forces invade the world
Power-thirsty beasts enslave us under freedom
And swim in piles of our stolen cash
They just bomb away our beloved home
Terrorize our faiths and dreams

Should I just wait and watch…
As children loose their childhood
Mothers loose their love
As innocent souls are tortured and agonized
As women are raped everyday
Young hands are clasped in prayers

Should I just wait and watch…
While God listens to suits and ties
A beautiful girl dies
As the soldiers bleed
A mother pleads
What the hell is this fight/

Should I just wait and watch…
As they strip our hopes
And the world depletes
We must bow to their mystic feet
Men in suites are unaware
For day, that child has had nothing to eat

Should I just wait and watch…
We have all become ignorants
As the ?'Big Guys' fulfill their mission
We all kneel in a silent submission
...As we wait and watch

(should I just wait and watch...
hell has arrived before judgement
and innocent lives burn to ashes
as sinners chant in paradise...
...as we wait and watch)

I say 'extraordinary' photograph, because as looked at it I saw jesus being brought down off the cross - it's appropriate for it's biblical setting.