Comments on: What’s my agenda? http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/what-agenda/ A jaundiced view of the mainstream media. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:37:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Blink http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/what-agenda/#comment-11976 Blink Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:48:18 +0000 http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=5274#comment-11976 Blogs are in their infancy so maybe only some have noticed..... the enemy MSM, politicos and cranks... but the collective value is yet to be redeemed me thinks. They are sounding off boards, often with good reason as we feel the voices we have are powerless, not listened to They are advertisements for civil action - single issue or otherwise. They are a particularly easy means of communcation. I happen to think the expert use of communication is a vital tool in the warriors armoury And maybe in time they will grow up. The potential is enormous and in gifted hands could become the the new revolutionary tool. I believe there is sufficient ground for people to come together at this moment. Maybe the energy isn't there, maybe the will....I don't know. But irrespective of party politics I know that the country I have grown up in has been taken over by an invidious elite who are denying us our humanity and our care for one another. They need to be removed. Blogs are in their infancy so maybe only some have noticed….. the enemy MSM, politicos and cranks… but the collective value is yet to be redeemed me thinks.

They are sounding off boards, often with good reason as we feel the voices we have are powerless, not listened to

They are advertisements for civil action – single issue or otherwise.

They are a particularly easy means of communcation. I happen to think the expert use of communication is a vital tool in the warriors armoury

And maybe in time they will grow up. The potential is enormous and in gifted hands could become the the new revolutionary tool. I believe there is sufficient ground for people to come together at this moment. Maybe the energy isn’t there, maybe the will….I don’t know. But irrespective of party politics I know that the country I have grown up in has been taken over by an invidious elite who are denying us our humanity and our care for one another. They need to be removed.

]]> By: Anna Raccoon http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/what-agenda/#comment-11975 Anna Raccoon Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:15:42 +0000 http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=5274#comment-11975 Blink, Its the protest ground alright - but has anybody else noticed - we all seem to be over the age of consent, or 'suffciently decayed' anyway. That's the big difference. Blink,
Its the protest ground alright – but has anybody else noticed – we all seem to be over the age of consent, or ‘suffciently decayed’ anyway. That’s the big difference.

]]> By: Blink http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/what-agenda/#comment-11974 Blink Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:08:55 +0000 http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=5274#comment-11974 I've watched a documentary called 'Get Up, StandUp' produced by Arte and ZDF. It tells of the relationship between music and politics. It highlights how music has been influential in being an entity in the demand for change by people in mdern history. Footage of Woody Guthrie singing in the back of his pick-up, his links with blues and folk music and how it sowed the seeds of revolution in America during the civil rights movement. It highlighted the musical legacy of the free Nelson Mandela movement. There were many items that could have been added such as the anti-war movement in the States over Viet Nam, the misuse of Springsteen's Born in the USA by Reagan, the Dixie Chicks and George Bush, The Specials 'Ghost Town'. It made me think. I wondered whatever happened to the self styled sort of protest. Usually about an issue and not necessarily party political? There doesn't seem to be the same focus these days. I often ask - where is the protest - about the economy, about the war (again), about political abuse of our money etc??? The only answer I could come up with is the Internet, blogs like this. Out of small things and all that .... maybe we bloggers should start defining our aims and go for them.....use the media and deliver the message.... maybe this is this generations protest ground??? I’ve watched a documentary called ‘Get Up, StandUp’ produced by Arte and ZDF. It tells of the relationship between music and politics. It highlights how music has been influential in being an entity in the demand for change by people in mdern history. Footage of Woody Guthrie singing in the back of his pick-up, his links with blues and folk music and how it sowed the seeds of revolution in America during the civil rights movement. It highlighted the musical legacy of the free Nelson Mandela movement.

There were many items that could have been added such as the anti-war movement in the States over Viet Nam, the misuse of Springsteen’s Born in the USA by Reagan, the Dixie Chicks and George Bush, The Specials ‘Ghost Town’.

It made me think. I wondered whatever happened to the self styled sort of protest. Usually about an issue and not necessarily party political? There doesn’t seem to be the same focus these days. I often ask – where is the protest – about the economy, about the war (again), about political abuse of our money etc??? The only answer I could come up with is the Internet, blogs like this. Out of small things and all that …. maybe we bloggers should start defining our aims and go for them…..use the media and deliver the message…. maybe this is this generations protest ground???

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