Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Get Up!
I encourage everyone to do as the song says and GET UP!
Stop sitting around on your iPhone and MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
The environment, corruption, and human rights are all causes you can donate to with just the click of your mouse.
It only takes one click; that same click that would normally go toward your narcissistic Facebook page.
Here's a few good places to start:
https://www.aclu.org/ for those who are concerned with their rights to freedom, privacy, and everything else covered by our Constitution.
http://www.hrc.org/the-hrc-story for those who are most concerned with LGBT equality.
http://www.amnestyusa.org/ for those who are concerned with human life and protecting it.
http://musicwam.org/ for those who play music with a message
Today's Problems in Song
Rise Against are the current kings of political punk. Their causes include freedom of speech, animal rights, and humans rights issues, from immigration reform to a worker's right to unionize.
The song "Re-Education(Through Labor)" is about your everyday worker, working 9-to-5, slaving away so a big man can get even richer. You struggle to make ends meet stay there with fear of being homeless. You can't leave the thing that will be the death of you. The song also parallels the mentality of sweatshop workers and their abysmal working conditions.
The song "Help is on the Way" is about the victims of Hurricane Katrina and how George W. Bush and FEMA failed to handle this tragedy properly, the government's efforts to bring the neighborhoods back to normal, as well as how they handled the BP oil spill.
The song "Re-Education(Through Labor)" is about your everyday worker, working 9-to-5, slaving away so a big man can get even richer. You struggle to make ends meet stay there with fear of being homeless. You can't leave the thing that will be the death of you. The song also parallels the mentality of sweatshop workers and their abysmal working conditions.
The song "Help is on the Way" is about the victims of Hurricane Katrina and how George W. Bush and FEMA failed to handle this tragedy properly, the government's efforts to bring the neighborhoods back to normal, as well as how they handled the BP oil spill.
Punk in the 90's
Bad Religion had already been on the L.A. punk scene for 10 years before they hit it big with their album Recipe For Hate. The hit single, "American Jesus", is about how George H.W. Bush thought we would win the Gulf War because "we had God on our side".
The Offspring released Smash in 1994. The song that made people take notice was "Come Out and Play". It's debated as to what its lyrics actually are talking about, but it obviously has to deal with guns and the safety of children, a topic which is still being debated today.
The Offspring released Smash in 1994. The song that made people take notice was "Come Out and Play". It's debated as to what its lyrics actually are talking about, but it obviously has to deal with guns and the safety of children, a topic which is still being debated today.
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