“Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday, Sunday, Bloody Sunday (alright)
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday, Sunday, Bloody Sunday (alright)
And the battle's just begun
There's many lost, but tell me who has won
The trench is dug within our hearts
And mothers, children, brothers, sisters torn apart” (Sunday Bloody Sunday/Bono-The Edge)
There's many lost, but tell me who has won
The trench is dug within our hearts
And mothers, children, brothers, sisters torn apart” (Sunday Bloody Sunday/Bono-The Edge)
On March 7, 1965, when then-25-year-old activist John Lewis led over 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama and faced brutal attacks by oncoming state troopers, footage of the violence collectively shocked the nation and galvanized the fight against racial injustice.
"Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio."
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio."
"Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago."
Soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago."
"What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground?"(Ohio/Crosby-Stills and Nash)
On May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students. The impact of the shootings was dramatic. The event triggered a nationwide student strike that forced hundreds of colleges and universities to close.
“There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Everybody look what's going down
There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind” (For What It’s Worth/Stephen Stills)
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind” (For What It’s Worth/Stephen Stills)
On July 13, Trump boasted that his agencies curbed an uprising in Portland that local cops couldn't control. "We've done a great job in Portland," Trump said. "Portland was totally out of control. We very much quelled it, and if it starts again, we'll quell it again very easily. It's not hard to do, if you know what you're doing." "They are sharply escalating the situation," Mayor Ted Wheeler told CNN on Sunday. There have been nightly protests against police brutality in the city since the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, in Minnesota in May. "Their presence here is actually leading to more violence and more vandalism. "They're not wanted here. We haven't asked them here. In fact, we want them to leave," he said.
"They're not wanted here. We haven't asked them here. In fact, we want them to leave," he said.
"Fools, " said I, "You do not know
Silence, like a cancer, grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words, like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells, of silence.” (Sounds of Silence/Paul Simon
Silence, like a cancer, grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words, like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells, of silence.” (Sounds of Silence/Paul Simon
And the longer we do not RESIST/SHOUT/SCREAM/DEMAND/DEFY, this nations Democracy dies. There is history to learn from or history to ignore. Do we remain the FOOLS or the FREEDOM FIGHTERS?
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