4th of July Song

One of the most important tasks for the post-Occupy world is to rethink, reconfigure, and refunction the mainstream media forms of the neoliberal era -- and specifically, those of the 1960s counter-culture, which were neoliberal to their core.

I can't sing worth a lick, but at least I can write.

For What Its Worth (with apologies to Buffalo Springfield):

There's something happenin' here

what it is, is crystalline clear

there's an Empire with guns over there

tellin' me I got to beware

I think it's time we stop, shabab,

what's that sound

everybody look what's goin down

there's battle lines being drawn

The one percent plundered too long

the ninety-nine are speaking our mind

getting so much resistance from neoliberal swine

it's time we stop, hey

what's that sound

everybody look what's goin down

Quite a haul for Wall Street

they stole trillions without missing a beat

but there's five billion cellphones online

MP3s and screens -- this is our time

it's time we stop,

hey what's that sound

everybody look what's goin down

Neoliberalism cuts deep

the bad sleep well, the 99 percent bleed

they start by privatizing the state

till there's nothing at all... left to devastate

we better stop

hey what's that sound

everybody look what's going down