Tribute to Occupy Wall Street - Bruce Springsteen THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND video free download


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A Tribute to Occupy Wall Street.

On Monday night when I got home from work I thought I would make a video in honor of the protesters. I could not get the image out of my head of the students at UC Davis getting peppered sprayed and wanted to express how I was feeling. Up here in the mountains we are dealing with the same issues as the rest of the country. But there is no protesting here and most of us our dealing with the issues here and have not been watching or paying attention to everything that's been going on. As I pulled each picture from the internet I began to realize the scope of what I was seeing! The news reports that I did watch made it sounds like it was just a bunch of young's partying in tents leaving trash and causing problems. What I did not see in the news reports was that it was all 99% of us. Everyone of us is represented. As I was building the slide show putting the pictures into their placement I began to cry. I am not a real emotional person but what was unfolding in front of my eyes was effecting me and I cried several times during the making of the video. I hoped that if it had this effect on me then it would on others. I found myself getting angry at the police officers for the brutally I was seeing. Then I would feel how sad for them they are part of the 99% and they are our brothers, sisters, moms, dads. I did not seeing any of the 1% out there. Just police against protester or brother, against brother. The songs lyrics were written by Woody Guthrie in 1940. Bruce Springsteen released a live version of it on Live/1975-85, in which he called it "about one of the most beautiful songs ever written. When making this video the words rang out like a message from our past that was never heard!

Russell Johnson Raw

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(NO REVENUE IS BEING MADE FROM THIS VIDEO IT IS A TRIBUTE!)

12/04/2011 Check out my newest video: Anonymous -- Pink Floyd -- The Wall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY9QUknko2I

Here are a couple other videos I made:

Anonymous -- Pink Floyd -- Another Brick in the Wall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY9QUknko2I&feature=channel_video_title

I Love This Bar (I am the one in the red hat) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EohYpWItupU&list=FLwwsHc_3iWxpSc4-6CNM0YA&feature=mh_lolz

If you love the song check out Woody Guthrie's biography

http://www.woodyguthrie.org/biography/biography1.htm

http://www.facebook.com/woodyguthriepage#!/woodyguthriepage?sk=wall

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Land_Is_Your_Land

Comments

7 years ago

Martin Steins

Reminds me sadly of the German Paulskirchen Versammlung.

8 years ago

poeticpagesmig16

Free Chelsea Manning! Free the Move 9, Free Oscar Lopez Rivera, Free Jamil Al-Amin, Free Marie Marius Mason, Free Leonard Peltier, Free Herman Bell, Free Albert Woodfox, Free Russell Shoatz, Free all Political Prisoners.

11 years ago

fingersmalone7

Good job! Bravo!

11 years ago

Russell Johnson

Thanks Tom, I hope to be getting the time to work on more videos soon. Russ

12 years ago

Matt V

I would add that this song is great.

12 years ago

Matt V

OWS protestors lack the understanding of the cause/effect reality of the universe. They need to educate themselves.

12 years ago

The hardline truth

Just don't understand why a peaceful demonstration ,need armed police and why they don't listen to there fellow humans and understand they are standing up for the police officers as individuals who go home to family s like us all and have to pay bill and so on !! are they to not worried for there kids future ,what is wrong with them lost there fucking souls replaced by dirty money !!

12 years ago

John Eustor

what the f**k is right..cruel and inhuman. And people just watched it happen (not us OWS'ers) and either did nothing or just snapped pics, as human beings are being abused by security guards for the rich...who do they protect, who do they serve...the 1%

12 years ago

roxee57

Watch the first two, powerful stuff. It still seems unreal when I remember back to what I thought the world was like just 4 months ago. I wanted to watch the third, But your link to "I love this bar" is not workiing.

12 years ago

Russell Johnson

From: cheryschmidt Your Video is Very Powerful

12 years ago

Chery Schmidt

Thanks for the invite Your Video is Very Powerful

12 years ago

Russell Johnson

I am one of the happiest guys I know! I am glad that money makes you happy!

12 years ago

scubajake

If you spent as much time trying to make money as you did being sad about what you dont have you would maybe have millions of dollars

12 years ago

Hillcrest Productions

I like your composition as well, very nice tribute! :)

12 years ago

Russell Johnson

If you like the video I would like to hear your comments! Russell Johnson Raw

12 years ago

Russell Johnson

PLEASE SHARE ON FACEBOOK!

12 years ago

Russell Johnson

Thank you very much! We are waking-up! Sorry it took so long!

12 years ago

Russell Johnson

I really did not know much about the protest until I saw the news footage of the kids getting peppered sprayed. When I started making this video I was shocked by what I was seeing. A picture is worth a thousand words. It really does suck! please share this video.

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