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Kay Miranda Gilbert @kaymirandagilbert.bsky.social · 2h

Gathering at Sepulveda and La Tijera in Westchester.

Kay Miranda Gilbert @kaymirandagilbert.bsky.social · 3h

1. Great sign!
2. It's standard protocol to not photograph people's faces at these marches, unless they consent.

Kay Miranda Gilbert @kaymirandagilbert.bsky.social · 3h

Yep.

Kay Miranda Gilbert @kaymirandagilbert.bsky.social · 4h

Wearing red, white and blue to the march, because I refuse to concede ostentatious displays of patriotism to the Right. It's our flag, too.

Kay Miranda Gilbert @kaymirandagilbert.bsky.social · 7h

I read that the posters for today's No Kings March should be positive and family friendly, so I guess my usual "Oh, HELL No!" sign won't cut it. I made this new double-sided sign for the march, but, really, "Oh, HELL No!" more accurately expresses my feelings.

Each side has an American flag pasted to it. One side says "FULFILLING MY PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE BY FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY", the other says "WE'RE MARCHING FOR DEMOCRACY".

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Kay Miranda Gilbert @kaymirandagilbert.bsky.social · 7h

Will you give all you can give
So that our banner may advance
Some will fall and some will live
Will you stand up and take your chance?
The blood of the martyrs
Will water the meadows of France

CHORUS

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Les Miserables 25th anniversary - Do you hear the people sing?

YouTube video by Belen Duarte

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Kay Miranda Gilbert @kaymirandagilbert.bsky.social · 7h

Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?
Then join in the fight
That will give you the right to be free

CHORUS

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Kay Miranda Gilbert @kaymirandagilbert.bsky.social · 7h

CHORUS
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes

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Kay Miranda Gilbert @kaymirandagilbert.bsky.social · 7h

We can do the same (though, one hopes, without the blood of martyrs watering our meadows). To inspire you to get out there and march, here's a stirring version from the 25th anniversary concert.

LYRICS

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Kay Miranda Gilbert @kaymirandagilbert.bsky.social · 7h

PROTEST SONGS #198: Resist/Rebel/Revolt

It's No Kings Day, so here’s a song of anti-monarchist revolutionaries, "Do You Hear the People Sing?" from Les Misérables. This battle didn't end well for them, but they didn't give up, and they eventually got rid of their king.

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Kay Miranda Gilbert @kaymirandagilbert.bsky.social · 1d

This surprised exactly no one. Santos is his kind of guy, and he'll keep pardoning and commuting the worst of the worst until we forget about Epstein. Fat chance.

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Kay Miranda Gilbert @kaymirandagilbert.bsky.social · 1d

A din has been building
The world's in its throes
Its feedback is drowning us
And we aren't listening anymore

CHORUS

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YOUNG GALAXY - Long Live The Fallen World

YouTube video by Paper Bag Records

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Kay Miranda Gilbert @kaymirandagilbert.bsky.social · 1d

Is no devastation
Ever enough?
I want to believe that
No weight is too much
When will inspiration
Ever be enough?
You want to believe me?
Then sing it with love

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Kay Miranda Gilbert @kaymirandagilbert.bsky.social · 1d

We've squandered utopia
We've sold out our views
We've torn into secrets
Bought into the cheap and new
Is all my frustration
Inside of you too?

CHORUS

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Kay Miranda Gilbert @kaymirandagilbert.bsky.social · 1d

CHORUS
Long live (long live the fallen world)
The fallen world (the fallen world)
Long live (long live the fallen world)
The fallen world (the fallen world)

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Kay Miranda Gilbert @kaymirandagilbert.bsky.social · 1d

LYRICS

The passage is washed away
The garden unloved
The last wine is poisoned while
We're still drinking from the cup
And no demonstration, no
Feels potent enough

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Kay Miranda Gilbert @kaymirandagilbert.bsky.social · 1d

PROTEST SONGS #197: Environment

"Long Live the Fallen World" by Canadians Young Galaxy laments the destruction of nature. The song is bleak but beautiful, with an ending that suggests either the possibility of change, or that time is quickly running out. From their 2009 album Invisible Republic.

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Kay Miranda Gilbert @kaymirandagilbert.bsky.social · 2d

All for freedom and for pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world

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Everybody Wants To Rule The World

YouTube video by Tears for Fears - Topic

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Kay Miranda Gilbert @kaymirandagilbert.bsky.social · 2d

I can't stand this indecision
Married with a lack of vision
Everybody wants to rule the
Say that you'll never, never, never, never need it
One headline, why believe it?
Everybody wants to rule the world

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Kay Miranda Gilbert @kaymirandagilbert.bsky.social · 2d

There's a room where the light won't find you
Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down
When they do, I'll be right behind you
So glad we've almost made it
So sad they had to fade it
Everybody wants to rule the

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Kay Miranda Gilbert @kaymirandagilbert.bsky.social · 2d

It's my own design
It's my own remorse
Help me to decide
Help me make the
Most of freedom and of pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world

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Kay Miranda Gilbert @kaymirandagilbert.bsky.social · 2d

And you can dance to it. From 1985's Songs from the Big Chair.

LYRICS

Welcome to your life
There's no turning back
Even while we sleep
We will find you
Acting on your best behaviour
Turn your back on Mother Nature
Everybody wants to rule the world

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Kay Miranda Gilbert @kaymirandagilbert.bsky.social · 2d

PROTEST SONGS #196: Anti-war

Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" would be a more obvious anti-war song under its original title, "Everybody Wants to Go to War". As Kurt Smith said, it's "quite serious—it's about everybody wanting power, about warfare and the misery it causes."

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Kay Miranda Gilbert @kaymirandagilbert.bsky.social · 2d

That dinosaur looks like what I remember from post-Halloween sugar rushes.

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