Seems to me, the Bill of Rights guarantees the right to peaceful assembly. I suppose the cops think the protesters are breaking the law. I’m guessing there are a good many vets in the crowd and the poor fellow in Oakland won’t be the only one hurt. These people are getting roughed up, but the press only seems to notice when a victim of police brutality happens to be an Iraq war veteran. ![]() This is not supposed to happen in our supposedly civilized nation. One was detained for nine hours without charge. My son goes to school in the New York area and some of his friends have been involved in the protests. Some are old enough to have had their ideals trampled upon a time or two. ![]() They are mixed in age and economic status. I know the song is still relevant because people are camped out along Wall Street and in front of City Halls around the country and around the globe, demanding a solution to the problems I tried to give light to when I put my song out seven years ago. We’re playing it again because it seems to still be relevant, and that pretty much sucks for everybody but us. We quit playing “We Can’t Make It Here” for a year or two.
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