We are the leapers we were waiting for – Fridays with Billy.

It’s an election year.

They’re telling us women can’t be trusted with our reproductive health, LGBTQ folks can’t be trusted to get married, black, brown, and poor folks can’t be trusted to vote, and only the rich can be trusted with our money (and while we’re at it, they’re also telling us that Palestinians don’t deserve human dignity).

Here’s what Billy has to say about all of that:

You can be active with the activists
Or sleep in with the sleepers
While you’re waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
One leap forwards, two leaps back
Will politics get me the sack?
Here comes the future and you can’t run from it
If you’ve got a blacklist I want to be on it
It’s a mighty long way down rock ‘n roll
From Top of the Pops to drawing the dole
If no one seems to understands
Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman
In a perfect world we’d all sing in tune
But this is reality so give me some room
So join the struggle while you may
The Revolution is just a t-shirt away

full lyrics; What is Fridays with Billy?

by emilylhauser on May 25, 2012 • Permalink

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Posted by emilylhauser on May 25, 2012

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8 Comments

Lise
/ May 25, 2012

My favorite line: “If you’ve got a blacklist, I want to be on it.” Unfortunately, this actually happened to me. I signed a petition supporting two midwives in a situation at a birth center in Mexico back in the ’90s. The midwives left, the director stayed, and she’s not forgotten nor forgiven me suportting her “enemies”, so I’m not welcome to visit that birth center. A real shame, for all concerned. I didn’t really want to be on her blacklist.
- emilylhauser
  / May 25, 2012
  
  Dude, I’m on an actual black list! Only it’s called the “SHIT List” (for “Self-Hating &/or Israel Threatening”).
  
  http://www.masada2000.org/list-HIJ.html
  - aaron singer
    / May 25, 2012
    
    What kind of disturbing hate group is that site?
    - emilylhauser
      / May 25, 2012
      
      Some disturbing hate group. There are a lot of them in my line of business, unfortunately. Kind of on all sides. Whee!
dmf
/ May 26, 2012

hey are you up twittering @ 1am?
- emilylhauser
  / May 27, 2012
  
  Sometimes one finds oneself awake…!
  - dmf
    / May 28, 2012
    
    yes one does but perhaps one should be wary of unwanted feedback loops of over stimulated neurons…
Bob Schubring
/ May 26, 2012

A lifetime of independent thinking, begins with a single thought.