One comment about protest songs.
"MEHSC MOBERATOR" <snailmail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>"**Rowland Croucher**" wrote:
>> On what basis should Australia remain a constitutional monarchy? There
>> is no credible argument left... If the queen died tomorrow, the streets
of
>> our cities and towns would not be lined with thousands of mourners as
>> they were in January 1936 with the death of George V, when the empire
>> stood still and silent in grief (Mark McKenna)
>There could be huge crowds on the street protesting the coronation of
King
>Chuck & Queen Camel.
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>Where are the protest songs? Where are the paintings that challenge one
to
>think? Where is the great Oz novel that one can't put down? Where are
the
>movies that speak about the plight of the downtroddden Aussie battler?
What
>Aussie art speaks of Australians post 2000????
My wife and I were part of the crowd in Hyde Park, Sydney, in 1993
whenm there were massive protests about the possibility of us getting
involved in Iraq.
While we were waiting to join the long procession a number of songs
were broadcast over the PA system - in among announcements.
One of these had two memorable lines:
I want a world where children are taught
that one Iraqi child is worth a US astronaut.
There was so much applause that we couldn't hear the rest of that
verse.
Most peole had in mind the massive media attention to what happened
when one of the Space Shuttles blew up, and only seven astronauts were
killed.
This must have been written fairly close to then, and should count as
a 2002/2003 protest song.
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