Remy's Occupy Wall Street Protest Song
As the Occupy Wall Street movement spreads like a, well, financial contagion through global markets, intergalactic Internet sensation Remy and Reason.tv give the movement its anthem.
Written and performed by Remy and produced by Meredith Bragg.
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Lyrics to the "Occupy Wall Street Protest Song"
Come gather round people
come and join your hands
we're taking Wall Street
and we're making demands
and we're heeding the call
and we're crying for help
only 1% of us have wealth
but first we need posters
we need to make signs
but to do so it seems
that we need some supplies
We need poster board
I can't make it myself
but it's 10 cents a sheet
at the store it's on sale
an example of economies of scale
it's so evil
They're saying that freedom
has done little to stop
Corporations from keeping
the wealth at the top
But at what point in history
would a kid and a king
both have clean water to drink?
George Washington was
the richest man of his age
But he lost all his teeth
at a very young age
Because they didn't have Scope
and they all crapped in trays
we're not wealthy?
now there's fountains on streets
from which clean water pours
Four dollar generics
at all big box stores
a sultan and student
both have iPhone 4s
it's not fair
Come gather young people
come on everyone
and I'll tell you a tale
of a fortunate son
He's born in a country
and given vaccine
and rendered immune
to all kinds of disease
the Kardashians are on
all his TVs
it's not perfect
Banks don't need bailouts
on that we agree
so let's start up a group
and let's take to the streets
because if we do that then
you know what that means
we're racist.
[End]
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This is gibberish. The people of this planet need to get to some serious neo-paleolithic methodolgy (well researched and critiqued, mind you!) to solve our problems.
Go ahead, read the stupid. I double-dog dare you.
You mean you didn’t eat the dog?
http://www.slaveryinamerica.or…..lavery.htm
Where the hell are all the comments from this weekend?
it’s best not to go back there
Go back to the hit & run top page. Scroll down about eight stories below this one.
Is there any, ahem, “Reason” some of these stories get re-posted?
“Is there any, ahem, “Reason” some of these stories get re-posted?”
yes, it increases the content and takes no work. Libs love it!
I applaud this folk singer. True words, as from those of the ’60’s.
The teabaggers definitely have a logical leg up on the Wall St. protesters, but unfortunately the only real change in government will be through revolution. Democrats to attest to the fact that voting someone different in doesn’t change anything.
Real constitutional limitation of government is necessary. Voting for a subset of the Republican party isn’t going to result in real change.
And now that song is stuck in my head. 🙁
Brilliant. The protestors have access to clean water, and some poor people have TV’s therefore economic inequality isn’t a real issue. George Will would be proud of all the straw men you’ve managed to hoist in a single verse.
“…therefore economic inequality isn’t a real issue.”
Can you please logically explain to me how “economic inequality” is hurting anyone?
The rich have more than the poor. AND now the rich are getting even richer than they used to be…How exactly does this hurt the poor?
It’s hurting people to the extent that the rich become rich from the state’s various monopoly privileges rather than making profit through a non-zero-sum system of voluntary market exchanges.
The exact degree to which this does or doesn’t apply depends on the specific industry and business. But the financial sector is arguably the most government-distorted part of the US economy, with the possible exception of the IP rent-seekers.
By historical and worldwide standards, the so-called “poor” of America are fantastically wealthy. That’s just a fact, but facts are no good when you’re dealing with jealousy.
Go away! We’re watching Game of Thrones!
Democrats are the party of envy.
The pursuit of economic equality has historically tended to lead to widespread poverty. If inequality tends to make everyone better off, I think that’s a relevant criticism of the envy movement.
Wealth distribution is only part of the reason to ‘Occupy Wallstreet’, it’s not ALL about who gets rich and who stays poor, or who got screwed.
The problem is we aren’t a democracy, we’re a plutocracy, a ‘monied-aristocracy’ which is able to saturate the ‘market place of ideas’ with the most ad space and thus advance a narrow agenda.
Democracy is about having an informed electorate, capable of making informed decisions — and we have a misinformed electorate! We have an electorate that’s passively controlled by a narrative dictated by the plutocracy, looking to advance the interests of industry (which is normally contrary to the interest of the majority).
‘Occupy Wallstreet’ is about taking control of democracy back!
I’m guessing that you, and those that believe as you do, are informed and the rest of us are misinformed.
I believe the phrase is “false consciousness”. They just don’t want to come right out and use it, and thereby show their hand too early.
Occupy Wallstreet’ is about taking control of democracy back!
It’s actually about a bunch of privileged white kids having their own 1960s moment like their grandparents did.
It’s incoherent anger expressed by the fatally naive against vague opponents.
So FredT, how much cash did you have to pay to display your thoughts on this website before a large national audience?
I just wanna point out that few people actually have the iPhone 4s yet.
Um… iPhone 4s have been out for what, at least a year now?
The Iphone 4s comes out this Friday. The song refers to the plural verson of the Iphone 4. This kind of confusion is how world wars get started.
Excuse me. iPhone. My capitalization was a war crime in itself.
Wait a minute… how would you know how World War S gets started?
It’s plural iPhone 4, not singular iPhone 4S.
I don’t want to hear anyone at Reason bitching the next time someone brings up Somalia.
I took a shit on a tray once.
Ah, the old fashioned German toilet.
He’s like a bizarro Billy Bragg. Awesome.
The New York City Craigslist posted 100 new jobs in the last hour alone. If employees and employers were flexible, it should be easy to find work.
There is a special section on Craigslist for flexible people looking for work.
Yoga instructors are in high demand, it would appear.
I live in NYC, and even though I’m not down with the revolution, I don’t like it when cops go apeshit on people or when banks get bailouts, so I went down to Zucotti park to see if what I saw would challenge my pre-conceived narrow world-view. No, it didn’t.
There were like 5 Ron Paul people, but just about everybody else was sporting some brand of superlefty orthodoxy.
Maybe that will change. Maybe more representative New Yorkers will be attracted by the presence of the morbidly obese TWU workers who make the MTA a shitshow that makes them late to work every other day and raises the fares every other week.
It’s weird because I’m as socially liberal as anybody in the park, to a tee, but somehow I don’t think we’d end
up very liberal if that crew was in charge. We may live in a time when the Puritans are the last true defenders of
debauchery.
My friend (buddy?), I feel as you do
Seriously, the fucking MTA/TSU made me a libertarian more than anything.
I invite you to Teddys in Williamsburg any weekend brunch-time to be served stupid by Taylor… just walk in and yell, “GILMORE!”…I’m usually in the corner reading.
I just crunched the numbers:
5 weeks of protesting instead of working a standard 36 hour work week equals 180 hours of lost labor.
At a minimum wage of $7.25 that comes to $1,305 in lost income.
A fully assembled home factory (AKA a makerbot) costs $1,299. At this point in history, cost of protesting capitalism is greater than the cost of becoming a capitalist factory owner.
Correction: I was citing the price for the user assembled model.
http://store.makerbot.com/thin…..t-mk7.html
Ya, but their friends don’t want to work for min wage. They might have to work with Mexicans.
Working with Mexicans would be one way of saying that you aren’t any better than Mexicans, which is an infinitely cool thing to say, but nobody would see your actions saying it, except Mexicans.
In the park, you can breathe in the night air and say aloud something about
how much you love and respect the Mexicans that aren’t too good to do the
things for you that you should never have to do. People, future tastemakers who will one day hate themselves comfortably, for selling out, in their Williamsburg condos, will hear you say it, and you’ll feel like you’ve got a backing track by Brian Eno while you’re saying it.
Then one day you’ll replay it in your mind with the caption, “We were beautiful and young” and cry a little about how beautiful and young you were.
You could never really create that flash back with Mexicans who listen to that shitty, martial sounding music, and who will probably never have the kind of achingly gorgeous and selfless thoughts that you will one day be able to successfully channel into your own branding agency.
Maybe that’s what they’re thinking? Safe bet as any.
I do believe I lost my sh*t with the Arrested Development sign.