[Writingworkshop] Flash Mob

[Adam Holland]

this is great!  I love it!
May I pass it around?

Adam

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Neale Morison <neale at nealemorison.com>
wrote:

>
> Flash Mob
>
> What happened to the marching and the banners and the songs?
> What happened to the cheerful, hairy, motivated throngs?
> What happened to the folk guitar that was our fife and drum,
> The swaying to the joyful strains of We Shall Overcome?
>
> We blinked, that's what, they wore us down, they fiddled with the rules,
> And now we need to find ourselves some innovative tools,
> We need to get together on the task that is before us,
> And use now all we have so they no longer can ignore us.
>
> We need to grab our cellphone and our keyboard and our mouse,
> And get online and let them know we're burning down the house,
> They're big, we're small, we have to change the balance and the scale,
> And virtually seize them by the short and curly tail,
>
> The source of information now for group coordination,
> The disenchanted, disengaged in close communication,
> The clandestine injustice now exposed to global gaze,
> The fifteen second sound bite now the google-friendly phrase,
>
> A zombie walk, a pillow fight, with others you resemble,
> Becomes a crime where you're denied the right to free assemble,
> A flash mob drawn by SMS can generate exposure,
> And posting online happy snaps bring governments to closure,
>
> When corporate indifference seems truly insurmountable,
> The secret is it to make them universally accountable,
> You get the information out to those who sympathize,
> With email, blogs and websites: galvanize and polarize.
>
> The fourth estate is failing, in the hands of power and wealth,
> The print and TV moguls are not in it for our health,
> It's up to us to network, with our way of life at stake,
> And let them know we mean it in a manner hard to fake
>
> Their sites of progaganda are our sites of congregation,
> Their channels of control are where we make communication.
> We take a single issue and a strong participation,
> And clearly let them know there will be no capitulation.
>
> The target, beaten by suprise, may now become resistant,
> Spontaneous togetherness must now become persistent,
> The flash mob must become a movement, in a cause united,
> Determined, never deviating, focussed and farsighted,
>
> We're scattered but we're not alone, and many share our goal,
> We're nodes within a network, parts that constitute a whole,
> A whole that is far greater than the parts that form its sum,
> Shall we work together? Then we shall overcome.
>
> --
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