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Related: About this forumSing it Louder Roger..For children fleeing around the world, from the egos of grown men.
Gaza, Nigeria, Central America, to name a few. Kids with no where to go. Hiding from rockets blowing up their shelters & men of terror stealing them in the night, and on our own US Border kids are met with assault weapons pointed in their faces.Shame & blood on the hands of all who brought this about.
Great voices are needed. Here's a starter..waiting for others to follow. Who are not so wrapped up in their own drive for self promotion, profit & greed.
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(50,983 posts)misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Over the new year 2009-2010, an international group of 1500 men and women from 42 nations went to Egypt to join a Freedom March to Gaza. They did this to protest the current blockade of Gaza. To protest the fact that the people of Gaza live in a virtual prison. To protest the fact that a year after the terror attack by Israeli armed forces destroyed most of their homes, hospitals, schools, and other public buildings, they have no possibility to rebuild because their borders are closed. The would be Freedom Marchers wanted to peacefully draw attention to the predicament of the Palestinian population of Gaza. The Egyptian government, (funded to the tune of $2.1 billion a year, by us, the US tax payers), would not allow the marchers to approach Gaza. How lame is that? And how predictable! I live in the USA and during this time Dec 25th 2009-Jan3rd 2010 I saw no reference to Gaza or the Freedom March or the multi national protesters gathered there. Anyway I was moved, in the circumstances, to record a new version of "We shall overcome". It seems appropriate. (Roger Waters)