“Off the breaking backs of others/Where you got all your bucks/Till we make the revolution I just hope your life sucks”
Street Sweeper Social Club is an American rap rock supergroup, formed in Los Angeles, California in 2006. The band primarily consists of guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and vocalist/emcee Boots Riley...
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Street Sweeper Social Club
They’re not the world…
A classic subversion of “We are the world” by the Houston band Culturcide. As Utah Phillips said, “Change the words so they make more sense.”
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Television – Drug of A Nation
From Michael Franti and the Disposable Heroes:
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Live Aid – another lesson from history
Twenty-two years ago today Bob Geldof asked “..why do people starve on one side of the world while on the other people are paid not to produce food, or “surpluses” are allowed to rot? He said that no-one had yet answered that question for him satisfactorily..”
Well, in an article titled ‘Politics of Live...
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THIS LAND IS THEIR LAND
You must have heard the song by Woody Guthrie:
“This land is your land,
This land is my land, … “
It should be, but in fact it isn’t. Many millions of working people own no land at all. Those who are a bit better off own the small plot on which their house stands — a...
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