Stop the war Coalition offers more detail about the Bureau of Investigative Journalism's report here and poses the question 'If US drone attacks don't harm civilians what blew away these two legs and an eye', referring to Sameeda Gul, 6, who was injured in a drone strike in Pakistan in 2009.

Breaking News: The IPCC has confirmed that Mark Duggan did not fire at police. They confirm that a non-police issue handgun was found at the scene and in addition that Mark Duggan was not shot in the face or the head, rather in the chest. Still many questions remain. I have not yet heard any clarification regards the bullet in the police officers radio. The IPCC have confirmed that the bullet in the radio was 'police issue', but how?  I am personally getting annoyed by the BBC coverage constantly showing the picture of Mark Duggan with his fingers in a gun shape, hardly neutral. 

In defense of Anders Breivik, the cockroaches begin to apppear. Prominent Italian politician and former minister Francesco Speroni has said:

 "Breivik's ideas are in defence of western civilisation." 

Her colleague Mario Borghezio who sits in the European Parliament's committee for civil liberties (yes you did read correctly) has also defended Breivik: 

 "Christians ought not to be animals to be sacrificed. We have to defend them."  he has also said that  "this massacre is being used to condemn positions like that of Oriana Fallaci". 

Oriani Fallaci popularized the term 'Eurabia' to describe a future europe dominated by Islam. Boghezi's outrageous comments were defended by Speroni:

 "I'm with Borghezio.......... If [Breivik's] ideas are that we are going towards Eurabia and those sorts of things, that western Christian civilisation needs to be defended, yes, I'm in agreement,"


ps. No offense to cockroaches

As we pass our deepest sympathies to the people of Norway, the teenagers who managed to escape, swim away or hide and the family and friends of those who's lives were extingusihed in such a horrific way, we are reminded how the hateful ideology of the far right is so far from benign. In fact it is alive and on the march in Europe, expanding in particular in France, Germany, Italy and notably In the Netherlands. Publicly the far right organisations are typically dressed as being plausible and even benevolent but you never have to scratch too deeply from the surface to expose the irrational and misguided hatred that lies beneath. Personally It saddens me on a regular basis to know or to have known so many people who should be today's socialists but instead succumb with no apparent resistance to thinking in ways concordant with the far right. Perhaps this act will make at least some of them who exist on the fringe of this ideology; reconsider.


Anders Brehing Breivik has killed at least 91 people the majority of whom were aged only 14 - 19 years and members of a left leaning political youth group. Many details are still to emerge but witnesses report that more than 100 people were rounded up by the man dressed as a police officer, assuming this was a person who could be trusted, he then opened fire, killing in the region of 60 people in just a few short moments whilst the others began to run for their lives. 

The guardian reports on the link between Breivik and the English Defence League

Breivik had talked admiringly online about conversations he had had with unnamed English Defence League members and the organisation Stop the Islamification of Europe (SIOE) over the success of provocative street actions leading to violence" 
A translation of Breiviks writings appeared in part in the Guardian but more fully in Socialist Worker 


 "I have on some occasions had discussions with SIOE and EDL and recommended them to use certain strategies,"
" I am very impressed with how quickly they (the EDL) have grown but this has to do with smart tactical choice by management"

(He refers to a win win situation for both EDL and BNP and is likely refering to BNP as being Management)
" Creating a Norwegian ' EDL' should be No. 3 on the agenda after we have started up a cultural conservative newspaper with national distribution.

The agenda of the Norwegian cultural conservative movement over the next 5 years are therefore:

1 Newspaper with national distribution

2 Working for the control of several NGOs

3 Norwegian 'EDL'”

There is a protest against the EDL in Tower Hamlets, London on Saturday 3 September. Hope to see you there.

Agent orange takes its name from the toxic colored orange stripes that covered the barrels in which it was stored.  Monsanto's corporate distinction was assured thanks to it's most potent addition, which contains one of the most poisonous known chemicals ever created, Tetrachlorodibenzop (TCDD). 

During the invasion of Vietnam, United States forces sprayed 50,000,000 litres of  Agent Orange. The goal was to defoliate forested land and destroy rural areas, depriving the vietnamese fighters and people of food and cover, thus forcing them into urban areas under US occupation.

For those that survived contact with Agent Orange many suffer reproductive problems, birth defects and cancers. (see images below) In Vietnam 400,000 people were killed or maimed and 500,000 children have been born with disabling and de-figuring genetic defects. Figures for the loss of other species are less well documented. The chemical's effect on the environment has been profound and enduring. To this day an estimated one million Vietnamese, more than one per cent of the population, suffer disabilities that are directly associated. Last month, over three decades after Agent Orange was last used in Vietnam, the US has finally begun to fund a  decontamination operation. 

Meanwhile, in the Brazilian Amazon agent orange has been reborn.  Last week approximately four tons of the highly toxic herbal pesticides were found hidden in the forest awaiting dispersion. If these were released it is estimated that some 7,500 acres of rainforest would have been destroyed, killing all the wildlife that resides there and contaminating groundwater. This discovery may have saved an enormous loss of life but it was not enough to stop ranchers who had already begun spraying in other areas. 

Officials were made aware when routinely viewing anomalies on satellite images. An aerial survey confirmed that some 440 acres of rainforest had been sprayed with many thousands of trees left ash colored and dyeing. (top left image below). One can only imagine that the loss of life to other species in the planets most richly biodiverse area is very significant.  Jefferson Lobato, a representative from the Brazilian environmental agency IBAMA reports that Agent Orange was likely dispersed by aircraft by a yet unidentified rancher and:"They [deforesters] have changed their strategy because, in a short time, more areas of forest can be destroyed with herbicides. Thus, they don't need to mobilize tree-cutting teams and can therefore bypass the supervision of IBAMA," 

The fight to save the Amazon has never been so critical. The powerful image that heads this website, the lungs of the earth is a graphic reminder of the role these forests play in the survival of our and other species. These lungs have become cancerous, the tumour is not benign. Recent research suggests that the release of carbon from forest areas could become so significant that the regions as a whole act less as a carbon sink and more of a carbon emitter. This is both directly and indirectly related to deforestation and another example of a feedback mechanism; warming is causing increasingly severe droughts, killing more trees, these are not only incapable of absorbing CO2 but they release it in to the atmosphere as they decay.  Click here for full report. In addition many brave activists that protect these territories have been murdered in the past few weeks. We can only hope that today's announcement that in the future these great defenders of environmental justice will receive greater protection is realized. We owe it to them, to ourselves and to future generations to organize and mobilize in whichever ways we can.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_amazon/?fp

Please add any useful resources, campaigns, organizations etc in to the comment section below. 

The brilliant documentary 'The War You Don't See' has already screened here in the UK. The film provides a fascinating account of the misreporting of war by mainstream sources and detail's how this manipulation occurs. It is illuminating albeit repugnant to glance deeper at it's manifestations.

John Pilger is seemingly bamboozled as to why the film has been banned 'at the last minute' and has written this letter, released on his website:

I am writing to you and a number of other friends mostly in the US to alert you to the extraordinary banning of my film on war and media, 'The War You Don't See', and the abrupt cancellation of a major event at the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe in which David Barsamian and I were to discuss free speech, US foreign policy and censorship in the media.

Lannan invited me and David over a year ago and welcomed my proposal that they also host the US premiere of 'The War You Don't See', in which US and British broadcasters describe the often hidden part played by the media in the promotion of war, in Iraq and Afghanistan. The film has been widely acclaimed in the UK and Australia; the trailer and reviews are on my website www.johnpilger.com.

The banning and cancellation, which have shocked David and me, are on the personal orders of Patrick Lannan, whose wealth funds the Lannan Foundation as a liberal centre of discussion of politics and the arts. Some of you will have been there and will know the Lannan Foundation as a valuable supporter of liberal causes. Indeed, I was invited in 2002 to present a Lannan award to the broadcaster Amy Goodman.

What is deeply disturbing about the ban is that it happened so suddenly and inexplicably: 48 hours before David Barsamian and I were both due to depart for Santa Fe I received a brief email with a 'sorry for the inconvenience' from a Lannan official who had been telling me just a few days earlier what a 'great honour' it was to have the US premiere of my film at Lannan, with myself in attendance.

I urge you to visit the Lannan website www.lannan.org. Good people like Michael Ratner, Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald are shown as participants in discussion about freedom of speech. I am there, too, but my name is the only one with a line through it and the word, 'Cancelled'.

Neither David Barsamian nor I have been given a word of explanation. All my messages to Lannan have gone unanswered; my calls are not returned; my flights were cancelled summarily. At the urging of the New Mexican newspaper, Patrick Lannan has issued a one-sentence statement offering his regrets to the Lannan-supporting 'community' in Santa Fe.  Again, he gives no reason for the ban. I have spoken to the manager of the Santa Fe cinema where 'The War You Don't See' was to be screened. He received a late-night call. Again, no reason for the ban was given, giving him barely time to cancel advertising in The New Mexican.

There is a compelling symbol of our extraordinary times in all of this. A rich and powerful individual and organisation, espousing freedom of speech, has moved ruthlessly and unaccountably to crush it.

 

With warm regards

John Pilger

The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from off the goose.

The law demands that we atone
When we take things we do not own
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine.

The poor and wretched don’t escape
If they conspire the law to break;
This must be so but they endure
Those who conspire to make the law.

The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
And geese will still a common lack
Till they go and steal it back.

(Unknown Author)

Mainstream reporting from supposedly left leaning publications has in my view been wholly inadequate when addressing the upcoming (Sunday) Peruvian presidential election. It's as if it has been co-opted toward the right without framing the issues adequately with necessary weighting toward those who are most vulnerable and have the most to lose. Instead reports have been weighted around questions such as is neoliberalism correct for Peru? (When was that ever a reasonable question for the left) or non-commital centred around the notion of an overall lack of choice; the oft quoted Vargas Llosa 'Choosing between candidates like Keiko and Humala is like opting between cancer and AIDS'. That's not to deny that there are reasonable grounds to throw mud at both remaining candidates but what about framing the issues from an indigenous perspective, those at the cole-face of social and environmental justice, what do they think? Well here there is no longer need to be bamboozled by the rhetoric, the latest wiki-leaks cable and so on, here the choice is obvious and it's in this spirit this article is written and it's Humala all the way. The following is a montage from various sources referenced below.

1. What do the ‘left’ indigenous peoples, activists and human rights organisations think?

 According a report by the ombudsperson's office, there were 233 protest demonstrations in the country in the month of April alone, most of which were held in the poorest regions, involving socio-environmental complaints and demands. There has been an overt lack of acknowledgment of these concerns in left leaning mainstream western media. In the first round of voting, on April 10, Ollanta Humala won in the regions with the highest poverty rates, predominantly in the rural highland regions of Apurimac, Huancavelica and Ayacucho. Aidesep the organisation of Peruvian indigenous people in the Amazon are calling on all Peruvians to vote for Ollanta. They released this statement, translated by Derek Wall:

 The CDN of Aidesep has today exhorted the people and all Peruvians to vote with hope, without fear, without forgetting, on 5th June voting for a country without discrimination, respecting the rights of indigenous people to free self-determination of their ancestral territories and respecting international law with convention 169 of the ODT and the UN declaration of Indigenous people.

In this context, the polarization of the presidential campaign is depressing where the injury, the lies, the insults are transformed into the main form of media communication, forgetting the suffering of our country in the 1990s during the Fujimara government, the seizure of the main forms of media communication including writing, radio and audiovisual, the forced disappearance of college students, the control of judiciary, the destruction of the constitutional Tribunal, the buying of Congress, the armed forces, etc.

So the (indigenous) people have decided to support the project because Gana Perú as the best replacement option for the country, because they (Humala's Party) supported indigenous peoples during the peaceful protests of 2008 and 2009, where we sought to stop the government of Alan Garcia from meeting his dream of deforesting the Amazon for cash.
 
It’s not just in rural areas that people are mobilizing for Humala and against Fujimori:

 On Thursday, May 26, thousands of people took to the streets in Lima, and activists organized various actions and marches across the nation against Keiko Fujimori, and the political Fujimorismo that she embodies. Silva Santisteban, a human rights leader participating in the march, told La Republica newspaper. . “Keiko Fujimori represents the worst period in our history, we don’t want this dark period of our history to return and that’s why we're in the streets.”

The activists were mobilizing largely under the banner of The National Coordinator of Human Rights and the “Fujimori Never Again” Collective, which brings together 79 social and activist organizations. With their chants and banners they urged voters to not to vote for Fujimori in the upcoming elections.

Concordantly this statement was released in the Peruvian Times, viewing Fujimori as a threat to human rights, democracy and the most vulnerable in Peru:

As political scientists we especially value democratic government, because it permits pluralism and open debate, it protects fundamental liberties and human rights, restrains opportunities for corruption and favours achieving agreements that generate development and public policies in favour of the most vulnerable population.

2. What do the polls say?

Two or three weeks ago the Keiko team had been confident of a safe though perhaps not solid victory.  The latest survey by the Ipsos Apoyo polling firm shows Fujimori in the lead, with 50.5 per cent support, but just one point ahead of Humala, who has 49.5 per cent. According to another leading pollster, Imasen, Humala is the front-runner, with 43.8 per cent support, but barely ahead of Fujimori, with 42.5 per cent.

3. What did daddy do? And will daddy's girl be any different?

When Alberto Fujimori came to power in 1990 he unleashed neoliberal reforms, often referred to as the Fujishock. Electricity costs quintupled, water prices rose eightfold, and gasoline prices rose by 3000%. In this period Peru was made ripe for capitalism and globalisation. It wasn’t enough however for Alberto, feeling that Congress i.e. democracy was holding him back. With the support of the military he carried out a presidential coup and formed a dictatorship.

During his reign torture, murder, rape, and the disappearance of thousands of Peruvians took place in the midst of the Shining Path guerrilla movement. Amnesty International stated “the widespread and systematic nature of human rights violations committed during the government of former head of state Alberto Fujimori (1990–2000) in Peru constitutes crimes against humanity under international law.” He is serving a 25-year sentence for embezzlement and directing death squads.

In addition, from 1996-2000 Fujimori’s administration waged a sterilization campaign against poor, indigenous and rural women. As a result c.300, 000 women in rural and marginalized urban communities were sterilized without consent. Note the image in the top left. This painful past of what could be considered a form of ethnic cleansing has clearly not been forgotten but remarkably has not condemned his daughter’s chances of success. Even more remarkable, when one considers that Fujimori junior is surrounding herself with her father’s advisors, the very same people who supported his ‘crimes against humanity’.

During an interview with Beto Ortiz, the host of TV program Buenos Dias Peru, Keiko Fujimori’s vice president running mate, Rafael Rey, was questioned about the government’s forced sterilization program in the 1990’s and about a specific woman Mrs Victoria Vigo. The interview has caused concern among human rights organizations, Rey said the forced sterilization of Victoria Vigo was not “against” her will, but rather “without” her will. As if this was adequate justification. He went on to say that “while doing an operation, they sterilized her, without being consulted.” When Host  Ortiz pointed out reports in the media that Vigo was forcefully sterilized by the government she made the analogy. “Is that to say that if one is castrated while sleeping, it is not against your will but without your will?”

Rey lamely responded that NGOs and human rights organizations supported the government program. Daniel Roca, the Coordinator of National Organizations of People Affected by Political Violence in Peru (Covanip), rejected that claim. “Human rights organizations and associations for victims of internal violence have never kept silent in the face of the sterilizations,”

Another rare blunder in an otherwise polished campaign came from Ms. Fujimori’s main spokesman Jorge Trelles. When asked about Mr. Fujimori’s record he flippantly replied “We killed fewer people than the two prior governments”

The making of Daddy’s girl: A few years before Fujimori’s reign ended with his incarceration he had separated from his wife Susana Higuchi. He formally stripped her of the First Lady title and gave it to his daughter Keiko instead. Susana Higuchi publicly denounced Fujimori as a “tyrant” and claimed that his administration was corrupt. She claimed that she herself had been tortured.

Many human rights activists in Peru believe the younger Fujimori signals the resurgence of her father’s dictatorial policies, what’s more she has been frank about her mission to free her father. In 2008, she famously said that after being elected president, her “hand would not tremble” if she signed a pardon for her father. She has been more guarded since then, recognizing that a pardon would be unconstitutional, there is little doubt that she’ll do what she can to help her father and that this is a large part of her motivation for running. Upside down world reports that Hector Bejal, a Peruvian lawyer and member of Global Call to Action Against Poverty has stated that:

“There is no doubt that she would encourage judicial powers to end the sentence or give him home detention, citing his age or sickness”

Wikileaks have released cables that corroborate suspicions that if elected Keiko might use her power and influence to gain political amnesty for her disgraced father. In a 2006 communication with US diplomats in Lima  both she and uncle Santiago Fujimori told the Americans that they sought to cut political deals with the government in exchange for an end to "political persecution" of Alberto

The above mentioned views are summarised in this statement reported in the Peruvian Times:
Owing to these considerations of principle we are very concerned about the election of Ms Fujimori as President of the Republic, as it will constitute a vindication of her father’s government which, precisely, wiped out democracy in Peru and imposed an authoritarian regime that committed crimes against humanity as policy organized from the height of power and turned exclusion, patronage, abuse and corruption into its principal mechanisms of government.

The current Fujimori campaign, unfortunately, has not broken away from the practices that we deplored in the Alberto Fujimori government. In the past several weeks we have seen how their spokespersons have praised, justified or minimized these practices, which makes it impossible for us to believe that Ms. Fujimori represents a different and democratic government.  Therefore, and because we believe that the defence of democratic values is fundamental to our commitment to Peru, we declare that we are against Keiko Fujimori’s candidacy.

Lastly, independently of who wins the presidential elections, we believe that we will need to remain alert to any attempt to act above the rule of law and democratic institutions.”

4. Who wants K?

Money talks as clearly here as anywhere else and what the market is saying is that it expects from a Fujimori government all the good things and more that it got from Alberto, i.e. pro-business, pro-growth legislation and non-bloated administration (dictatorship!) Stock markets shot up sharply by seven points on Thursday, as polls favoured Fujimori. Backed by record copper, gold, silver and other exports and a massive tract of rainforest to exploit, Wall Street will have a clear favourite. On the flipside Wikileaks cables confirm that the US view Humala as a threat.

5. Don’t believe the spin

Keiko Fujimori’s campaign has been polished and ‘silver-tongued’. She knows rhetoric and how to play the game. For example through grinning teeth she doesn’t say ‘crimes’, she says ‘errors’ or ‘mistakes’. She made light work of Humala in a last-ditch face-to-face TV appearance on Sunday evening Telling him “to go and talk it over with her dad in jail if he wanted to complain about the old days” Propaganda is full of her hugging indigenous women, kissing indigenous babies and wearing indigenous costume. Matt Wootton a member of the England and Wales Green Party is currently in Peru and reports that:  Keiko’s campaign is a million times more slick than Ollanta Humala’s. You see, she even tricks me into calling her “Keiko”. The political party she’s created for this campaign is just the letter “K”. Everybody loves her. Everybody thinks she’s part of their family. With her clear, populist bribes of free school meals, her politics are kind of Jamie Oliver meets Pol Pot.

Distancing herself from the Fujimori name is of course a mindful part of the rhetoric. Her campaign, Fuerza 2011, has handed out t-shirts, cooking utensils and even food, in an open show of patronage. (These practices are not banned by the election laws in Peru) "We simply want to reach the disadvantaged so they will remember the considerations that Alberto Fujimori had towards the neediest segments of society,"

6. What about Humula?

Humala is a nationalist and former lieutenant colonel. In 2000 he led a failed revolt against Fujimori's electoral fraud and even kidnapped a general (he later received a congressional pardon). He ran in 2006 and was beaten by Garcia. He would likely renegotiate contracts with foreign oil and mining companies. According to reports investors are nervous about him emerging as president. In 2006 he was overtly socialist linking with Chavez wearing red through his campaign. This time around he has been doing his best to steer clear of any controversy, even speaking warmly of free markets, and has pledged to support investors' rights citing the World Bank when making his points. This time around he is grey suits and ties. When Chavez described him as a "good soldier", one of Humala's own congressional candidates threatened to launch a lawsuit against the Venezuelan president. Humala reportedly told Chavez to butt out of Peruvian affairs. "The Venezuelan model is not applicable in Peru,"

Keiko says, Grow out of poverty.  Humala says redistribute. The support I feel for Humala is informed primarily for a profound distrust of his opponent. Whichever candidate wins will have half of the country against him or her and a fragmented congress. I doubt Humala if he were to get in would leave on a ‘high note’. Though Humala is the only leftist candidate he seems to lack something to be desired. It would however be a massive understatement to posit that the alternative must not be given the opportunity to follow in her father’s footsteps. This would be a stab in the back for 3000 indigenous and other rural peoples that are no longer able to give birth after being sterilized without consent. These people and thousands more have let their feelings be known in the hundreds of marches and protests that have taken place over this past month. It would be an understatment to suggest that in view of being backed by the same advisors as her  father (who directed death squads, formed a dictatorship and looted the government purse to the tune of 600 million dollars) that democracy and human rights are at stake. Our allegiances are informed by the many issues raised in this article and in this regard it seems bizarre that so much of the coverage has been so non-commital and not overtly backing the Humala camp.

The video below is from the 'no a Keiko Fujimori' campaign.



http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/06/201163192227799551.html
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/06/2011627179165204.html
http://www.peruviantimes.com/02/human-rights-groups-question-reys-remarks-on-forced-sterilizations/12483/
http://www.peruviantimes.com/31/political-scientists-say-no-to-keiko-fujimori/12443/
http://www.peruviantimes.com/03/business-is-betting-that-keiko-will-be-first-past-the-post-in-a-photo-finish/12498/
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/peru-archives-76/3062-elections-in-peru-a-battle-over-memory-and-justice
http://www.dailyplanet.org.uk/04/06/2011/something-rotten-in-the-state-of-peru/
http://noakeikofujimori.wordpress.com/

Based on the headline your first reaction might be, why would he bother? Hasn't his Granddad already achieved such a feat allbeit on the mainland? The democracy we have is for the most part illusory and corporations already own government and many of the people through corporate media and advertising. But Friedman junior's idea would pave the way for a more pure interpretation of his granddad's free market ideals. Pure in that there would be no government to manipulate or working class to labotimize.  Both time consuming and irritating activities for neoliberals and they don't always succeed.

The proposed island would be afloat and would be able to hoist anchor and move around. Initially it would be situated 12 miles off the Californian coast. Tens of millions of residents are 'expected' by the time it's completed (in 2040) and may ultimately be floated down the Pacific toward San Diego. The project has already attracted $2 million and is backed by the co-founder of paypal Peter Thiel who comments "in San Francisco there's no room for competition, and government uses the threat of violence to impose rules,"  Blimey, sounds like neoliberalism then.

The rationale according to Patri; referring to the limitations of setting up the project on the mainland is "because I can't come up with my own whole set of rules and implement it,". Oh, the joys of dictatorship. The team ( a think tank of 10) plans to colonize the sea beyond the reach of existing nations thus creating a political vacuum. "We can't experiment here because all the land is claimed - the only place left is the ocean," Sadly Friedman junior forgets the countless thousands of executions that were required in Chile when Friedman senior and the Chicago boys first rolled out and experimented with free market neoliberalism. However unlike Chile and, everywhere else you would have the choice to opt in "I envision tens of millions of people in an Apple or a Google country," where the high-tech giants would govern and residents would have no vote. If people are allowed to opt in or out, you can have a successful dictatorship," . Just dreamy ain't it.

We should not mock, this does of course open an interesting opportunity for the rest of us. Perhaps the corporations 'the big 500" Monsanto, Cargill and wealthy capitalist friends could all be persuaded to join the corporate flotilla. It could become a kind of retirement home for an irrational, cruel and inhumane group of billionaires. It could represent a kind of zoo where the modern mainland human could witness the under-evolved, like homosapiens viewing waxworks of Neanderthals in a natural history museum. Undoubtedly on a long enough time-line they would meet the same fate as the Easter islanders as they obsessively worship growth, the bottom line, deregulation, free-market competition and so on; blinded by any extra-economic criteria as their society fades out like a pre-occupied leper who forgets to monitor his decaying limbs.

By leaving the rest of us on the mainland we could get down to the business of creating a socially and ecologically rational society. A world that could sustain life and reconnect with the spirit of solidarity and cooperation. Wouldn't it be that much easier.

The godfather of hip hop has died aged 62. A poet that fused political commentaries of oppresion and hope with blues, soul, jazz and an evolving style of oral overlay.

In the top video, A poem 'Work for peace, The Military and the Monetary' (are turning parts of our planet in to cemetaries)

An explanation of the meaning of his most well known  piece ''The revolution will not be televised' is included in the lower video.