Just in case you haven't heard of this and would enjoy a MEET UP when they get to your City.
For the details go to the OCCUPY CARAVAN website:
Listen to this song. If this doesn't move your body, mind, and spirit to want to join in, nothing will.
The Bidding of the Many, Not the Few
Lyrics , We Are the Many by Makana
We Are the Many by Makana
Key: E capo: 9 chording: G Intro: G, Gsus4, G, Em7 x 2
We come here, gather ‘round the stage
The time has come for us to voice our rage
Against the ones who trapped us in a cage
To steal from us the value of our wage
From underneath the vestiture of law
The lobbyists at Washington do gnaw
At liberty; the bureaucrats guffaw
And until they are purged we won’t withdraw
CHORUS:
We’ll occupy the streets, we’ll occupy the courts
We’ll occupy the offices of you
‘Til you do The bidding of the many,
not the few
Our nation was built upon the right
Of every person to improve their plight
The laws of this republic they rewrite
And now the few own everything in sight
They own it free of liability
They own, but they are not like you and me
Their influence dictates legality
And until they are stopped we are not free
CHORUS:
We’ll occupy the streets, we’ll occupy the courts
We’ll occupy the offices of you
‘Til you do The bidding of the many,
not the few
You enforce your monopolies with guns
While sacrificing our daughters and sons
Well, certain things belong to everyone
You’re thievery has left the people none
So take heed of our notice to redress
We have little to lose we must confess
Your empty words leave us unimpressed
A growing number join us in protest
CHORUS:
We’ll occupy the streets, we’ll occupy the courts
We’ll occupy the offices of you
‘Til you do The bidding of the many,
not the few
You can’t divide us into sides
And, from our gaze you cannot hide
Denial serves to amplify
And our allegiance you can’t buy
Our government is not for sale
The banks do not deserve a bail
We won’t reward those who fail
we’ll not move ‘til we prevail!
CHORUS:
We’ll occupy the streets, we’ll occupy the courts
We’ll occupy the offices of you
‘Til you do The bidding of the many,
not the few
CHORUS:
We’ll occupy the streets, we’ll occupy the courts
We’ll occupy the offices of you
‘Til you do The bidding of the many,
not the few
There are actually 2 caravans covering North, Mid, and Southern states.
SCHEDULED CITIES:
The Occupy Caravan will follow TWO principal routes across the country -- Central and Southern -- with feed-in caravans along the way connecting to make the journey en masse to Philadelphia!
THE ITINERARY:
Day 6 – June 16
Central: DAY IN WICHITA
South: Amarillo to Oklahoma City
Day 7 – June 17
Central: Wichita through Okemah (Woody Guthrie's hometown, where Caravans converge) to Little Rock
South: Oklahoma City through Okemah to Dallas
Day 8 – June 18
Central/South: Dallas to Shreveport, Little Rock to Jackson
Deep South: San Antonio and Austin to Houston
Day 9 – June 19
South: Shreveport through Baton Rouge to New Orleans (Hub), Jackson to New Orleans
Deep South: Houston through Baton Rouge to New Orleans
Day 10 – June 20
South: DAY IN NEW ORLEANS
Day 11 – June 21
South: New Orleans through Montgomery to Birmingham
Day 12 – June 22
South: Birmingham through Atlanta to Athens, Ga.
Day 13 – June 23
South: Athens to Asheville, all Tennessee to Asheville
Deep South: All Florida to Jacksonville
Day 14 – June 24
South: DAY IN ASHEVILLE
Deep South: Jacksonville through Savannah to Charleston, SC
Day 15 – June 25
South: Asheville to Charlotte
Deep South: Charleston through Columbia to Charlotte
Day 16 – June 26
North: Minneapolis through Madison to Milwaukee; Omaha and Des Moines to Chicago
South: Charlotte to Raleigh
Day 17 – June 27
Northeast: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Providence and Boston to Worcester, MA
North: Milwaukee and Chicago to Indianapolis; Kansas City, St. Louis, Evansville and Louisville to Indianapolis
South: Raleigh to Richmond
Day 18 – June 28
Northeast: Toronto and Upstate NY to Albany; Worcester through Hartford to New Haven
North: Detroit through Cleveland to Pittsburgh; Indianapolis and Cincinnati through Columbus to Pittsburgh; Charleston, WV to Pittsburgh; Erie to Pittsburgh
South: Richmond to Washington, DC
Day 19 – June 29
Northeast: Albany, NYC and New Haven to Newark, NJ
North: Pittsburgh to Harrisburg
South: DAY IN WASHINGTON, DC
Day 20 – June 30
EVERYONE: Washington through Baltimore to Philadelphia; Harrisburg to Philadelphia; Newark to Philadelphia
It reminds me of the Gandhi Salt March.
A powerful quote from Gandhi's speech before the march:
My compact with the Congress ends as soon as I am arrested.
In that case volunteers, wherever possible, civil disobedience of salt should be started. These laws can be violated in three ways.
THE LAWS WE OBJECT TO:
It is an offence to manufacture salt wherever there are facilities for doing so.
The possession and sale of contraband salt, which includes natural salt or salt earth, is also an offence.
The purchasers of such salt will be equally guilty.
To carry away the natural salt deposits on the seashore is likewise violation of law.
So is the hawking of such salt.
In short, you may choose any one or all of these devices to break the salt monopoly.
We are, however, not to be content with this alone. There is no ban by the Congress and wherever the local workers have self-confidence other suitable measures may be adopted.
I stress only one condition, namely, let our pledge of truth and nonviolence as the only means for the attainment of Swaraj be faithfully kept.
For the rest, every one has a free hand.
But, than does not give a license to all and sundry to carry on their own responsibility.
Wherever there are local leaders, their orders should be obeyed by the people.
Where there are no leaders and only a handful of men have faith in the programme, they may do what they can, if they have enough self-confidence.
They have a right, nay it is their duty, to do so.
The history of the is full of instances of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
We too, if we sincerely aspire to Swaraj and are impatient to attain it, should have similar self-confidence. Our ranks will swell and our hearts strengthen, as the number of our arrests by the Government increases.
At some point in time, a suppressed and/or oppressed people reach a tipping point.
Like Gandhi's India, they no longer fear the billy clubs and bullets. Like the license plate of New Hampshire, they become determined to Live Free or Die.
This scene from the Gandhi movie is that tipping point. The British Empire lost the respect of the world after this egregious violence against non-violent protesters standing up to the unfairness of their governance.
And the infamous bravery of the determined people at the Salt Works
What is America's tipping point? Will the day come that we no longer fear the billy clubs and bullets and/or the new "crowd control" technologies paid for by the blood, sweat, and tears of sand pelted, flea bitten, heat suffering soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq?