Timothy Blinks - Jesus Christ (Woody Guthrie)
Channel: TimothyBIinks
Date: 17/10/2011

Ukulele version of Woody Guthrie's "Jesus Christ."

Hmmm. Woody's definitely got a point here. As he's described in the gospels, Jesus seemed very concerned with 'economic injustice' — if you'll pardon the anachronistic term. But judging by the sayings — to say nothing of the lifestyle — ascribed to him, he didn't seem to think poverty was the problem. He thought wealth was. He didn't think the solution to economic inequality was for the comfortable and well-to-do to pull the poor up to their level through charity or economic development. The solution was for the rich to become poor.

So might as well send this out to all the brave occupiers worldwide, especially those that are camped out in the wet and cold in my hometown Ottawa.
http://www.occupyottawa.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street

My two cents on 'Occupy':
It is heartening to finally see people standing up against the unlimited greed and power of corporations, especially since it initially seemed that in the wake of the recent Credit Crunch and Bailout Bonanza, the public was just going to take it in the a-- again.

But what I find most exciting about the 'Occupy' movement is not the message. It's large groups of people figuring how to make decisions and live together -- not just protest, let me assert that again, but live together -- in genuinely democratic, consensual, and egalitarian ways. The challenge to the radical left, I think, is to prove it is possible to construct communities and ways of life that are actually of free of hierarchy, coercion, exploitation. Otherwise, how can your criticism that society and its institutions are riddled and dependent on these things be valid?

And there's the 'Occupy' folks doing it, right there in public.

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