#OWS The Ghost Of Tom Joad

[Hissyspit]

Run time: 03:14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6jBcj2youI   Posted on YouTube: November 29, 2011 By YouTube Member: Hissyspit Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: November 30, 2011 By DU Member: Hissyspit Views on DU: 5638

 
Hi, everyone. This is the video version I decided to do of the Occupy Wall Street Thanksgiving Day post I created which visually documented Occupy Wall Street through one particularly appropriate verse of Bruce Springsteen's song. You can find the original thread here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2374970 I will only be leaving it up for a week or so, so watch it while you can.

[WillyT]

1. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

:yourock:

:bounce:

:hi:

:kick:

[regnaD kciN]

2. Not to be off-topic, but a reminder...

If either of the two Internet Blacklist bills become law, posting that video here would be cause for having DU blocked from the Internet permanently.

[Hissyspit]

7. Yup. nt

[reggie the dog]

32. pretty much all non corporate websites will be gone

and then most of the corporate ones too.

basically any website that allows random people like us to post is going to be shut down.

[nineteen50]

3. Where is the MSM?

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. K&R!

:hi:

[DeSwiss]

5. K&R!!! - n/t

[Spazito]

6. Excellent!

Thanks again for all the work you have put into doing this, it is very powerful.

Recommended

[Enthusiast]

8. Kicked and recommended!

We are there.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

9. Very cool!! Kick and rec!

[Bozita]

10. Brilliant! ... Flat-out brilliant!

Thank you, Hissyspit.

[annabanana]

11. kickerino ,. ., . .n/t

[The Wizard]

12. K&R

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[Desertrose]

13. Nicely done...thanks!!

K & R

[tosh]

14. K&R!!

Thanks Hissyspit! What a treat.:patriot:

[Magoo48]

15. Wonderful, perspective on the ongoing nature of this struggle.....thanks

[dotymed]

16. K&R. We have to overcome. Thanks Hissy n/t

[lonestarnot]

17. Excellent! Thank you Hissyspit!

[deutsey]

18. Excellent. K&R

[ooglymoogly]

19. It is these things of such excellence that gives us a chance to

fight the monster that bares its venomous fangs before us.

[freshwest]

20. Powerful! Well done. K & R!

[Utopian Leftist]

21. Haunting and beautiful, thanks! n/t

[Larry L. Burks]

22. Thank you Hissyspit for your post

It's called the ghost hidden in the darkness.

This is why, when they walk down the road they are all ways looking over their left shoulder.

They know that we are there, hidden in the shadows.

They know that they have done wrong by us.

And we know it to.

They know that some day we will step out in to the light.

And they will have to face us.

It's the sum of all fears.

Their day is close at hand.

Larry L. Burks

[girl_interrupted]

23. K&R

[Starry Messenger]

24. k&r!

Thank you Hissyspit!

[Johnny Noshoes]

25. Thank you

nt.:toast: :thumbsup: :fistbump:

[zeemike]

26. Here is the lyrics to that song by the Boss.

Men walkin' 'long the railroad tracks
Goin' someplace there's no goin' back
Highway patrol choppers comin' up over the ridge

Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge
Shelter line stretchin' 'round the corner
Welcome to the new world order
Families sleepin' in their cars in the Southwest
No home no job no peace no rest

The highway is alive tonight
But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad

He pulls a prayer book out of his sleeping bag
Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag
Waitin' for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last
In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass
Got a one-way ticket to the promised land
You got a hole in your belly and gun in your hand
Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock
Bathin' in the city aqueduct

The highway is alive tonight
Where it's headed everybody knows
I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad

Now Tom said "Mom, wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy
Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
Where there's a fight 'gainst the blood and hatred in the air
Look for me Mom I'll be there
Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand
Or decent job or a helpin' hand
Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free
Look in their eyes Mom you'll see me."

Well the highway is alive tonight
But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
With the ghost of old Tom Joad

[bvar22]

27. WEll Done.

Enthusiastic K&R
:patriot:



You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.
Solidarity99!
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[russspeakeasy]

28. Wow ! Thanks Hissy.

[tpsbmam]

29. Brilliant!! Huge K&R! nt

[midnight]

30. The Jobless keep moving message is the same today as it was

back in the depression, except now an additional kick to those unemployed is that they won't be hired because they are unemployed....

[raouldukelives]

31. K&R

[countryjake]

33. A kick for the people!

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[Stardust]

34. Thank you. So very powerful.