Protest Songs

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    Good songs!

    I admit, though, that I personally think the spirit of resistance expressed here would be better directed toward Our Corporate Overlords than in anti-vax protests and identity-politics scuffles and so forth. But that's just me!
     
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    Kris Kristofferson has been my favourite singer song writer for decades. I've seen him three times in concert . . . there are very few songs of his that I don't love. Here's one, and as a Vietnam vet he definitely had the creds to sing anti-war protest songs. . . .

     
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    I think we now have chrony capitalism so I agree. I'm all for capitalism when its what it use to be.
     
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    Always stood up for our vets but didn;t agree with V.N. war. I saw some very badly injured young men in V.A. Hospitals.I'll never ever forget. Nobody insults or abuses them in front of me,period!
     
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    This just now reminded me of the first song I heard by Eliza Gilkyson, ripping into GW and his neocons back at the start of this horrible century. Just about says it all!

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    Exactly!!

    Being against any war is NEVER about being against the real human beings who fought it.
     
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    Here's a different sort of protest song from the 60s, and like the others I've posted was a personal favourite. The words make it seem as though it was written today, not 1/2 century ago.

    Edited to add: I still have this album, lol

     
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    I haven't ever heard this one! It's perfect both literally and as a metaphor for our rapidly capsizing social order.
     
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    Well said, and uncomfortably true, too!
     
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    Early 1970s we were stopped at a light in St.Augustine ,Fl at intersection of the Lions Bridge. A hippy stuck his head into my car window cussing V.N. soldiers. I rolled it up on his head and hubby said 'what:eek:. I didn't rioll it up tight.But he couldn't get loose till I rolled it back down. :). Didn't hurt the litle commie of course.
    I did like some of the hippies just not the nuts.
     
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