Power In A Union - The Mountain Goats video free download


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Duration: 02:07
Uploaded: 2011/03/12

From John Darnielle's Vimeo:

Everybody knows I don't generally do the acoustic guitar guy rocking political jams deal but as a former member of SEIU 660 & the California Association of Psychiatric Technicians & a kid who benefitted from great teachers I wanted to spend tonight saying WE ARE ON YOUR SIDE xo jd

Comments

9 years ago

Samantha Lee

We need more of THIS though!! Lets bring back old labor songs for the new labor movement! 

10 years ago

Moira Russell

.....this is the best damn thing I have seen all day

10 years ago

John Doe

Despite his garbage political views, I still can't help but to love Darnielle's non political music.

10 years ago

halfwrittentale

This is one of my favourite songs, and JD does an awesome cover of it :)

10 years ago

Dillon Q

There are more than 14 distinct kinds of nationalism, not all of them contradict egalitarianism, not all of them are incompatible with the international struggle, and not all them have to do with a literal 'nation'. There's nothing wrong with being proud of one's culture or heritage, and respecting other peoples' cultures is a much better way of standing in solidarity with them than expecting them to erase their background and conform to one's own.

10 years ago

deliciouscancer

Infiltrator! Lets not take all the passion we have for fighting the bosses and use it to turn against each other.

10 years ago

deliciouscancer

Better solution, workers can use their collective power to take control of the means of production and distribution, do away with the wage system, produce for use not for profit and make the ownership class do a fair days work, like the rest of us.

11 years ago

Kevin (KSERIOUS) Bicknell

first time I saw this song (this version) was performed in San Francisco at the Kusinich center...

11 years ago

Arunabha D.

I have spent the last 2 weeks trying to find this song without knowing the title. Thank you. I can now die in peace.

11 years ago

delusionaldiminutive

This is a great cover. I used it to help me practice for our union rally.

11 years ago

Nipple Bottom

YES GOOD GOY! Nationalism is bad!

11 years ago

Kalle Soderberg

You should never be proud of your nationality, take pride in being a worked. International solidarity, not national.

11 years ago

bellbonne

Tell it!!!!!

12 years ago

delusionaldiminutive

Awesome cover! If JD was a union leader, the corporations would be in serious trouble ;)

12 years ago

webmaster8040

@GHETTOBLASTAS2DECKS there is a way to make things better without cutting costs: put higher taxs on the people who can afford to pay for it. what we need is more tax on the upper class so that the government dosent have to cut things all the class's need.

12 years ago

Deke Hager

Awesome.

12 years ago

beshortcuts

amen, brother.

12 years ago

ThirdEyeOpen123

billy bragg.. love it.

12 years ago

GHETTOBLASTAS2DECKS

@grimmorrigan for the record ive read about antonio Gramsci. im also a karl marx fan.

12 years ago

GHETTOBLASTAS2DECKS

@grimmorrigan dude lets just let it go. im not down for internet arguments. you can think as you wish

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