Here’s an interesting twist in the Occupy movement.
Hawaiian recording artist Makana was supposed to play a luau Saturday night – November 12 – at Waikiki Beach for leaders at an annual summit that is putting together plans for a Pacific free-trade pact. The Obamas and leaders of 21 economies from the Asia Pacific were present. Among the attendees were Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Security was apparently tight.
So there they are, these leaders, doing whatever leaders do at a private shindig on Waikiki Beach, and the young man who is supposed to play for the Hawaiian feast opens his jacket to reveal a t-shirt that reads, Occupy for Aloha. The five-minute song in the video is what he sang repeatedly for forty minutes. Here’s the refrain I love:
“We’ll occupy the streets, we’ll occupy the courts, we’ll occupy the offices of you, till you do the bidding of the many, not the few.”
Impressive! “…till you do the bidding of the many, not the few” that sums it up perfectly.
I love this! So awesome… So glad to see this at a time when they have pushed Occupy Portland out of their park space. It’s so crazy to see not only the support, but the vitriol surrounding this movement! I am so perplexed at times at how people are so angry at people for peacefully protesting..
I read about Portland this evening. It’s the dying gasps of the old paradigm, Jen. That’s where the vitriol comes from, I’m sure of it. But then there are stunning moments and courageous people like this singer.
Wow, wow, wow!!! I love this. Talk about taking the message directly to where it needs to be! We’re off to Hawaii this week – I’ll have to see if I can find one of those t-shirts.
You’re traveling before the merc retro! Good. Maybe you’ll run into this singer. Tell him thank you from the mainland.
BRAVO!
BRAVO!
BRAVO!
Talk about courageous! I mean, really, he sings it for 40 MINUTES?!
i get cold chills just thinking about it! fantastic!!!