[free-sklyarov] Congress says: Keep Dmitry in jail! Washington loves DMCA...

[Seth Finkelstein]

"Mark K. Bilbo" wrote:
> 
> Nah, the Wobblies are too much for me too. I'm just tired of the IT folk
> being smeared and outlawed every time we turn around these days. By, of
> course, the very same people who couldn't boot their computers without the
> Help Desk.

http://www.crixa.com/muse/unionsong/u025.html

Solidarity Forever

    A Song by Ralph Chaplin 

    When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run 
    There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun 
    Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one 
    For the Union makes us strong 

    Chorus 
    Solidarity forever, solidarity forever 
    Solidarity forever 
    For the Union makes us strong 

    Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite  
    Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might?   
    Is there anything left to us but to organize and fight?   
    For the union makes us strong 

    It is we who ploughed the prairies, built the cities where they trade 
    Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid 
    Now we stand outcast and starving 'mid the wonders we have made 
    But the union makes us strong  

    All the world  that's owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone  
    We have laid the wide foundations, built it skyward stone by stone  
    It is ours, not to slave in, but to master and to own   
    While the union makes us strong 

    They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn 
    But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn 
    We can break their haughty power gain our freedom when we learn 
    That the Union makes us strong 

    In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold 
    Greater than the might of armies magnified a thousandfold 
    We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old 
    For the Union makes us strong 
      
      

    Notes

    Ralph Chaplin was a poet , artist, writer and organiser for the
    Industrial Workers of the World. He wrote this song in 1915
    just six months before his fellow IWW songwriter Joe Hill 
    was executed. It was to become the anthem of the American
    labour movement. It goes to the tune of the American
    Civil War song John Brown's Body.Ralph Chaplin said
    "I wanted a song to be full of revolutionary
    fervour and to have a chorus that was singing and defiant" 

--
Seth Finkelstein  Consulting Programmer  sethf at sethf.com  http://sethf.com
http://www10.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/technology/circuits/19HACK.html