Waiting for the World To Change
This so-called group of “dirty hippies” have created something so new that even the old leftist (what was the New Left) say will not resonate with most Americans. It has lasted for 14 days and in bad weather. Today at least 5,000 people showed up. Next week the unions are coming along with more traditionalist progressive groups and the number could increase to a million or more.
There were complaints that they didn’t dress like most Americans, they did not have a leader, they did not have demands. I heard those same complaints when watching the Arab Spring unfold across North Africa. And it is spreading across the United States. There are Occupy Boston, Occupy Chicago, Occupy Minneapolis, Occupy Dallas, Occupy Austin, Occupy Los Angeles, Occupy Las Vegas, Occupy San Francisco and many more.
These young people are attempting to create a paradigm shift much like my generation tried in the 60s and early 70s. They have many more tools to use and they know how to use them.
You can watch it at globalrevolution.
Here’s the lyrics for those who can’t watch! 😉
“Waiting On The World To Change”
Me and all my friends
We’re all misunderstood
They say we stand for nothing and
There’s no way we ever could
Now we see everything that’s going wrong
With the world and those who lead it
We just feel like we don’t have the means
To rise above and beat it
So we keep waiting
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change
It’s hard to beat the system
When we’re standing at a distance
So we keep waiting
Waiting on the world to change
Now if we had the power
To bring our neighbors home from war
They would have never missed a Christmas
No more ribbons on their door
And when you trust your television
What you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information, oh
They can bend it all they want
That’s why we’re waiting
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change
It’s not that we don’t care,
We just know that the fight ain’t fair
So we keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change
And we’re still waiting
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting waiting on the world to change
One day our generation
Is gonna rule the population
So we keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change
OH HELL YEAH….move over Tea Party Republican movement!!!!! I am dancing!!!!!!!!!!! If this happens here I and many others I know will join to!!!!!! THIS IS SO GREAT…about time…well actually perfect timing!!! Thank you so much John for keeping up with this and posting it!
awesome. Bought time…
This is real change. You won’t see lobbyists buying off these folks. Who needs politicians when you’ve got change on the ground level of existence?
Great Posts, John.
I hope the movement continues to spread.
What they need is a way to be inclusive of people that are not ‘Occupying’.
Reading your title, first thing in my mind was: Utopia. After I remember someone words: the biggest mistake of the mankind is to loosing hope. So, could be….if we keep our hope, this can happen eventually.
It’s about time. You can only keep good people down so long before they fight back.
KIDS TODAY!
Ya gotta be proud.
yep yep ouorchids are light years ahead of us
they’ll leapfrog over over. . .
each is a cosmic update
they’ll never need work for a living
as the parameters shift from working for a living
to having life work for all of us. .
it what happens when your prize innovations and inventions
all focus on taking the work out of living
like putting in a couple of days a week
ought be keeping us all without without trying .
still the answers lie, beyond the limits of our imagination . .
like letting money fall way easy as autumn
leaves dance way at the winds of change and time
have us watch the humanrace meltdown into the HumAN’Dance
as strike on strike society convulses through the contractions
of the labour pains giving way to the Cat in the Hat
with a tale to Match Hatch and Dispatch, the GOldEN YEars
with time to let the grass grow, and let the sweet scents
of success, flower at our feet soon as USing
Bull Roar for fertilizer and the streets for doing the CanCan
long Main Street. . which reminds us how my home town
set up a table right through town when they celebrated
9 centuryes of incorporated community so reminds us of the last time we visited the States Feb of 2001 and began seeing an ad, about where have all the black folks gone, and look at how impoverished this nation would be, without their music muscle and mayhemplaying itsElf out as the RAPture from the Ghettos have youth stomp and rattle us all out of our flatlining on the creativity scale and score all we do, with the music we make
just posted this note on facebook
Someone shared, start some thing new By Renessa Bak
and this one
http://www.youtube.com/wat​ch?v=dX9GTUMh490
Thanks, John. This is first time I’ve felt hopeful since just before Obama was elected.