[OccupyCU] [Peace] caroling caroling caroling?
Stuart Levy
stuartnlevy at gmail.com
Fri Dec 14 23:58:26 UTC 2012
Parallels between regrettable-but-inevitable drone bombings and
inevitable-but-regrettable school shootings are too grimly apt.
We could really, really use a song about drones. Has anyone heard
any? (Maybe from Harry Shearer?) I can try for simple protest signs,
but songs are beyond me.
Looked at Roy Zimmerman's facebook page to see whether he's been
thinking along those lines. His latest is about the prospects of life
on Mars - yielding new opportunities for imperialism. But no drones
that I can see, yet.
From a couple of months ago, a Pakistani woman singer came out with a
song whose refrain runs, "My gaze is as fatal as a drone attack."
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/13023455-romantic-pakistani-song-from-peshawar-makes-reference-to-drone-attacks
Unfortunately for our listeners here, it is in (I think) Pashto.
It is just so much easier to bomb people whose languages we don't
speak. Maybe that could be the subject of a song.
Meanwhile I'd still like to go caroling with whatever we can come up
with. Who is in?
I've heard from about 3 people, Dada (yay!), Ya'aqov (interested if we
can get organized enough to hold a practice session and sound decent by
the time we're on the street), and Moonyeen.
On 12/14/12 3:49 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> How can we put into a Xmas carol that Obama had his defense secretary
> quietly announce today - in contrast (to put no finer point on it) to
> Obama's own protestations in the campaign that US troops would be
> withdrawn from Afghanistan by the end of 2014 - that on the contrary
> the US would have "an enduring presence" (perhaps 60,000+ troops)
> there indefinitely after 2014?
>
> Or perhaps a carol about the children he's killed - and continues to
> kill - with drones, while he speaks affectingly about murdered
> American children?
>
> "Washington Post Friday, December 14, 2:17 PM. Here is a ...
> transcript of President Obama's remarks about the school shooting at
> Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012:
>
> "'...We've endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years.
> And each time I learn the news, I react not as a president, but as
> anybody else would as a parent. And that was especially true today. I
> know there's not a parent in America who doesn't feel the same
> overwhelming grief that I do.
>
> "'The majority of those who died today were children -- beautiful,
> little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old. They had their
> entire lives ahead of them -- birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids
> of their own. Among the fallen were also teachers, men and women who
> devoted their lives to helping our children fulfill their dreams...'"
>
> One would have to be a sociopath not to see that his words apply to
> the children he's killed.
>
> On Dec 14, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Stuart Levy <stuartnlevy at gmail.com
> <mailto:stuartnlevy at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> On 12/14/12 2:39 PM, Moonyeen Carlyle wrote:
>>
>>> Stuart,
>>>
>>> Is this only for the Occupy CU people?
>>
>> Just saying that the initiative came from Occupy. Anyone interested
>> is welcome!
>>
>> I'm Ccing here everyone who has sounded interested in this...
>>
>>
>> I like especially the last three songs!
>>
>> Cc'ing here
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Found some alternative lyrics for caroling:
>>>
>>> Deck the Halls
>>>
>>> Send to jail George Bush and Cheney,
>>> Fa la la la la, la la la la.
>>> For the torture of detainees,
>>> Fa la la la la, la la la la.
>>>
>>> And for war crimes of aggression,
>>> Fa la la, la la la, la la la.
>>> This would send Barack a lesson,
>>> Fa la la la la, la la la la.
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> God rest ye merry, veterans
>>>
>>> God rest ye merry, veterans
>>> Let nothing you dismay
>>> The wars you fought have ended
>>> And peace is now the way.
>>> We've now been saved from Satan's power
>>> We will not go astray
>>> O tidings of comfort and joy,
>>> Comfort and joy
>>> O tidings of comfort and joy
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Joy to the World
>>>
>>> Joy to the World, the wars are done!
>>> Let earth rejoice in peace;
>>> Let every heart repair the harm,
>>> And Christian and Muslim sing,
>>> And Jewish and Muslim sing,
>>> And Christian and Muslim and Jewish sing.
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> O little town of Washington
>>>
>>> O little town of Washington
>>> What harm you cause abroad
>>> Will you please put your guns away
>>> And have all war outlawed?
>>> For if thy dark hearts findeth
>>> A glimpse of Truth and Light
>>> And end the fears of all the years
>>> Our future will be bright.
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> All I want for Christmas
>>>
>>> All I want for Christmas
>>> is the two wars ceased,
>>> the two wars ceased,
>>> the two wars ceased.
>>>
>>> Gee, if I could only
>>> have the two wars ceased,
>>> then I could wish you
>>> "Merry Christmas!"
>>>
>>>
>>> Moonyeen
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>>> --- On *Fri, 12/14/12, Stuart Levy /<stuartnlevy at gmail.com>/* wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Stuart Levy <stuartnlevy at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: [Peace] caroling caroling caroling?
>>> To: "Peace" <peace at anti-war.net>
>>> Cc: "Peace Discuss" <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
>>> Date: Friday, December 14, 2012, 1:45 PM
>>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> Some of us in Occupy CU are tempted to go out carol-singing, for
>>> fun - maybe a mix of traditional holiday songs and
>>> peace-and-social-justice songs - and to see if it gives us a
>>> chance to talk with people.
>>>
>>> We'd probably choose songs that are familiar enough that most of
>>> us will know the tune, and we can print lyric sheets.
>>>
>>> We haven't picked specific dates yet. Would try to pick an
>>> evening or two, over the next week or so (say between 12/16 and
>>> 12/22), that are good for as many of those interested as
>>> possible. I'm thinking we might go from 7:30-9, or some such
>>> time - late enough to not interrupt many people at dinner but
>>> early enough that they won't mind seeing people at the door.
>>> Could gather a little earlier (6:30? 7?) to try to practice and
>>> get ourselves organized.
>>>
>>> If interested, please write back to me, and say which nights are
>>> or aren't good, if you think there are songs we should include,
>>> etc...
>>>
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