Video + Lyrics: Revolution 2.0 (@ExposureOrg ) #Rev2point0

We live in a world where more than a mil­lion people com­mit sui­cide every year; an over­whelm­ing major­ity of people hate their jobs; the lead­ing cause of death is stress related; what it costs to erad­ic­ate world hun­ger (30 bil­lion accord­ing to the UN) is spent with­in just a few weeks on war and mil­it­ary; super­i­or treat­ments for can­cer are sup­pressed because it is a multi-bil­lion dol­lar industry; where gov­ern­ments are in unre­cov­er­able amounts of debt to private banks, yet always ‘magic­ally’ have money for more war but can’t seem to find the funds to help the needy; where more leg­al drugs kill people than illeg­al ones; where more human beings are phys­ic­ally enslaved than at any point in human his­tory; where you are more likely to be killed by a cop than a so-called ter­ror­ist; and where gov­ern­ments use our money as they please, for the most part, through taxes which are enforced by threat of viol­ence or impris­on­ment.

We live in a world where we are the only spe­cies that pays to live here; where people are too busy arguing about who cre­ated the world instead of try­ing to stop those who are des­troy­ing it; where our mon­et­ary sys­tem is delib­er­ately based on debt and is backed by abso­lutely noth­ing; where TV brain­washes us to be mind­less con­sumers chas­ing mater­i­al­ism; sup­port­ing mod­ern day imper­i­al­ism and wor­ship­ing celebrit­ies; while politi­cians, cor­por­a­tions and bankers con­tin­ue their ‘busi­ness’ unabated; and that ‘busi­ness’ is des­troy­ing our plan­et and the lives of mil­lions of inno­cent and good people.

We live in a world where people are more con­cerned with some celebrity act­ing like a cir­cus show than we are about a third world war which will have unfathom­able rami­fic­a­tions.

The world is so messed up, it doesn’t even know what nor­mal is because this is not nor­mal, people. Stop expect­ing author­ity to con­firm this for you, because our ignor­ance is their power. And on the con­trary our know­ledge is their weak­ness. Once we self-edu­cate anoth­er world is pos­sible!

We are here to cre­ate a new world, not con­form or try to be ‘nor­mal’…
The Ideal­ist

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Good even­ing and wel­come. My name is Gil Scott-Her­on. We’d like to do a poem for you called, The Revolu­tion Will Not Be Tele­vised; primar­ily because it won’t be.

You will not be able to stay home, broth­er.
You will not be able to roll up, light up, and burn.
You will not be able to lose your­self on skunk
And skip out for a 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 Fox News.
In four parts, with ads you can skip in five seconds.
The revolu­tion will not show you pic­tures of George Bush blow­ing a bugle
And lead­ing a charge by Hank Paulson, Alan Green­span and Ben Bernanke
To dish out food stamps after you defaul­ted on your subprime loans.
The revolu­tion will not be tele­vised.
The revolu­tion will not be brought to you by Net­flix.
And will not star Jen­nifer Lawrence
And Tom Cruise or Sponge­bob and the Fresh Prince.
The revolu­tion will not give you wings.
The revolu­tion will not obey your thirst.
The revolu­tion will not melt in your mouth.
Because the revolu­tion will not be tele­vised, sis­ter.
There will be no pic­tures of you and Gareth Bale
Mak­ing off from Tot­ten­ham with all the loot.
Or try­ing to slide that flat screen TV away from a burn­ing bus.
ITV will not be count­ing your votes to decide the win­ner of X‑Factor.
The revolu­tion will not be tele­vised.
There will be no pic­tures of pigs shoot­ing down broth­ers caught on CCTV.
There will be no pic­tures of pigs shoot­ing down broth­ers caught on CCTV.
There will be no pic­tures of Juli­an Assange, cooped up in Lon­don for wiki-leak­ing all their secrets.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Edward Snowden,
Strolling through Moscow in a Guy Fawkes mask that he has been sav­ing for just the prop­er occa­sion.
Dr. Who, Down­ton Abbey and The Walk­ing Dead will no longer be so damned rel­ev­ant,
And people will not care who Kim Kar­dashi­an’s next on screen hump will be.
Because the 99% will be in the street look­ing for a bright­er day.
The revolu­tion will not be tele­vised.
There will be no high­lights on the BBC.
And no pic­tures of Occupy protest­ors and Kate Middleton hold­ing the baby.
The theme song will not be writ­ten by John Wil­li­ams or Hans Zim­mer,
Nor sung by Miley Cyr­us, Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Lady Gaga or One Dir­ec­tion.
The revolu­tion will not be tele­vised.
The revolu­tion will not start in 30 seconds,
After a mes­sage about rich foods, rich banks, or rich people.
You will not have to worry about the plastic in your wal­let,
The shell in your tank, or the tiger in your cer­eal bowl.
The revolu­tion will not go bet­ter with Coke.
The revolu­tion will not be fin­ger lickin’ good.
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 and sis­ters;
The revolu­tion will be live.

The jour­ney to justice con­tin­ues…
What role will you play?

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Rishma Dhali­w­al has extens­ive exper­i­ence study­ing and work­ing in the music and media industry. Hav­ing writ­ten a thes­is on how Hip Hop acts as a social move­ment, she has spent years research­ing and con­nect­ing with artists who use the art form as a tool for bring­ing a voice to the voice­less. Cur­rently work­ing in TV, Rishma brings her PR and media know­ledge to I am Hip Hop and oth­er pro­jects by No Bounds.

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