"The revolution will not be televised"

[RaulVB]

Indeed!

Remember what you have done, guys, remember those who doubted or denied it.

Be generous in victory, but don't forget their names.

Keep searching the media websites.

Long days (and happy) ahead of us.

[knowbody0]

1. take strength from our brothers in revolutions throughout

history. it took the algerians 130 years to take back their country.
viva

[rumpel]

3. I would have to reincarnate to see then.

[knowbody0]

5. or you could see the great film

the battle of algiers

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. silently I stand among you.....

With a great big goofy grin! :silly:

on edit: The revolution will not be televised... but by god, it will be blogged!

[BrotherBuzz]

4. The revolution will be live

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

by Gil Scott-Heron

You will not be able to stay home, brother.

You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.

You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,

Skip out for beer during commercials,

Because the revolution will not be televised.



The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox

In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.

The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon

blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John

Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat

hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.

The revolution will not be televised.



The revolution will not be brought to you by the

Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie

Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia.

The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.

The revolution will not get rid of the nubs.

The revolution will not make you look five pounds

thinner, because the revolution will not be televised, Brother.



There will be no pictures of you and Willie May

pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,

or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.

NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32

or report from 29 districts.

The revolution will not be televised.



There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down

brothers in the instant replay.

There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down

brothers in the instant replay.

There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being

run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.

There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy

Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and

Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving

For just the proper occasion.



Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville

Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and

women will not care if Dick finally gets down with

Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people

will be in the street looking for a brighter day.

The revolution will not be televised.



There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock

news and no pictures of hairy armed women

liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.

The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,

Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom

Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth.

The revolution will not be televised.



The revolution will not be right back after a message

bbout a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.

You will not have to worry about a dove in your

bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.

The revolution will not go better with Coke.

The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.

The revolution will put you in the driver's seat.



The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,

will not be televised, will not be televised.

The revolution will be no re-run brothers;

The revolution will be live.

[knowbody0]

6. thank you thank you thankyou

[RaulVB]

7. Thanks, man (n/t)

[rumpel]

8. Seriously, let's brainstorm.

I wish I had the resources to send a crew to cover, then we can use it as a pool to feed all stations. If C-Span does not cover, I thougt maybe to get some local production company to work deferred or pro bono.
But then I thought, it may be worth contacting the media students from the University nearby to cover it. Video crew is simple set up can be assembled in 30 minutes. (if you have equip)
I have no knowledge of geograpgy of Ohio and I don't know which area to check and whom to contact. It is too late for even a red eye to send an idependent crew from the w.coast.
any good ideas?

[4democracy]

12. Ohio State U is in Columbus, they have WOSU

a radio and some sort of tv broadcast station. Maybe if they get a lot of requests, they would cover it. http://www.wosu.org/contact.php
ph#614-292-9678, email [e-mail]

[helderheid]

9. The revolution will not be televised

But by GOD it will be BLOGGED!

[Kip Humphrey]

10. YOU WANT REVOLUTION? EMERGENCY NATIONAL CALL TO ACTION

I am calling a national call for action:

Its time for DUers to shine!

I need your help. We need protesters to picket the 88 COUNTY ELECTION COMMISSION offices in Ohio daily demanding the release of all voting records and machines and full compliance with the manual recount.
To do that I need the following:

- Location addresses and directions to every one of the 88 Ohio election commission offices - post it here

-I Every email address in Ohio to receive:
emails:
Describing the problems with voting in Ohio
Describing the threat to our democracy
Explaining there is a citizens movement to stop the theft of our
rights and our votes
Calling to action the citizens of Ohio to take back their voting power with the first action being daily, picketing of the 88 election commission offices to stop resisting and start assisting the recount and the fraud investigators.

Spammers and email harvesters, give it up for our democracy. We need Ohio email addresses. Distribute among willing DUers who volunteer here.

-Good concise email composers/writers to compose the emails to Ohio - post compositions here.

-Everyone who knows anyone in Ohio or knows someone who knows someone in Ohio, tart a email chain - ask the Ohioans to get in the picket line and spread the word to neighbors, co-workers, family, friends; ask them to get in the picket line and spread the word....

THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN NOW!

-Start posting your availability and resources here. Let's get coordinated and get going: THIS NATIONAL CALL TO ACTION NEEDS TO GO OUT ACROSS THE NET NOW:

-Someone to organize here on DU

-EVERYONE: SEND OUT THE FOLLOWING NATIONAL CALL TO ACTION TO EVERY ACTIVIST ORGANIZATION YOU THINK WILL RESPOND POSITIVELY:


EMERGENCY NATIONAL CALL TO ACTION

PICKET ALL 88 ELECTION COMMISSION OFFICES DAILY DEMANDING THEY STOP RESISTING AND START ASSISTING THE RECOUNT AND FRAUD INVESTIGATIONS NOW.

CONTACT ALL OHIO RESIDENTS: ADVISE THEM OF THE SITUATION, CALL THEM TO THE PICKET LINE, AND ASK THEM TO SPREAD THE WORD.

ANYONE WHO CAN, GET TO OHIO AND START PICKETING.



DUers, please help.

Kip Humphrey
51 CAPITAL MARCH

[rumpel]

11. Don't spam get the hands on the get out the vote calling list

spamming is annoying and illegal ( I think)

[Kip Humphrey]

14. Nix the spam - we do this by word-of-mouth-email

Nix the spam. I got too excited. We do this legit, but we do it fast!

[ClassWarrior]

13. Hi five Raul...

Tonight we celebrate, my friend.

But tomorrow the battle continues. The comment above about Algeria should not be taken lightly. It will be a long, hard, ugly struggle. But it IS worth it. And some day they'll sing songs about us.

NNNGU.