Midnight Oil - We Resist (Official Video)

"We Resist" Jim Moginie: " The history of resistance should be taught at school. Without it, we wouldn't have made the progress we have. The Freedom Ride and Rosa Parks turned the spotlight onto racial issues, which then changed. John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 'War Is Over If You Want It' campaign, hand in hand with the fallout of the Kent State shootings and worldwide mass demonstrations ended the Vietnam War. Suffragettes marched for women's rights and undertook hunger strikes, which both Gandhi in India and Irish Nationalists undertook to achieve self-sovereignty. These people were brave enough to ignore the conventional orthodoxy of the time and speak out, often risking their lives in the process. The irony is that successful protesters never worked alone-they were part of strategic, highly connected networks."

 

‘We Resist’ (Written by Jim Moginie) Putting flowers into guns This is not the summer of love Throwing tea into the sea Indigenous apology Only if We resist It’s a storm without end Where’s the lighthouse? where’s a friend Come to think It can’t last Only if We resist Free market and labour rights Women’s vote and hunger strikes War is over in times square Please don’t say that nobody cares Standing up to those who sell fear With a polite insistence to hear Only if We resist It’s a storm without end Where’s the lighthouse? where’s a friend Come to think It can’t last Only if We resist #midnightoil #resist #weresist