The Tide (A Folk/Protest Song) by Sharee Anne Gorman

 The Tide 

Written and Performed

by

Sharee Anne Gorman

(annienomad-cyberpoet) 

 

 The Tide  

(rough mix...not mastered)

 

I spent the day at Moose-Creek-Recording-Studio yesterday

to get my folk/protest song "The Tide"

set to music.

 

It's been many years since I have sung into a professional mic capable of picking up every last tremble and waver of my voice...and the terror is pretty apparent in my voice:) 

 

I may not have the chops for professional level recording, but I'm glad I did it because I wanted to hear what the song sounded like with accompaniment.

 

I chose a very stripped-down instrumental because I wanted the music to be as stark as the working conditions and lives of the miners and tireless labor activists who placed themselves in harm's way to get fair and safe working conditions for exploited laborers. 

 

Kevin at Moose Creek Recording was very patient and did what he could to digitally smooth out my nerves. I'll have to work on my fear in order to push through to the quality of my relaxed voice...but it's a start.

 

Moose Creek provides a very relaxed atmosphere, with a cutting-edge, state-of-the-art set-up. The owner, Kevin, is a patient and professional musician/technician. He takes you step-by-step through pre-recording practice to sound-booth recording and sound-board mixing, so that you have input and can make adjustments throughout every step of the song recording process.  

  

Kevin Deily, the owner of Moose Creek Recording Studio, also plays bass on this track.

Thank you, Kevin!

 

 

Please feel free to check out and "Like" my facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/GlobalLaborTreatyforLivingWages  

We are a 21st Century Digital Peace March!

 

No traffic jams!

No missed work days!

No pepper-spray!

No head-bashing!

 

We have a 5 Star Rating, but we could always use more!
:) 

 

 

 *Recording picture was taken in 2011, the day I first recorded "The Tide" a cappella) 

 

 

Did You Help Save the World Today? Well, You CAN!!

Global Labor Treaty for Living Wages

 

 

Join the movement!

 

A New People Movement to End Corporate Hegemony!

When secret trade-agreements like the TPP start to pass we are seeing the future of oppression written out in contractual agreements with global implications.

What corporations don't want us to look at is that PROFIT COMES FROM SOMEWHERE.

Global Labor Treaty for Living Wages is a new global people movement. We created this petition asking President Obama to enact a world-wide labor treaty for living wages because economic inequality and social injustice is suffocating the natural gifts and resources of our human potential.

The corporate ethos of "Profits Over People" is quite literally killing the world...destroying nations, enslaving the vulnerable and poisoning our planet.

In order to bring balance back to our Earth and restore dignity to our civil unions we must take back the power of people-driven politics, so that we may rein-in runaway corporate abuses and growing shareholder hegemony.

Please SIGN and SHARE this petition to President Obama for a Global Labor Treaty for Living Wages. 

If we CHANGE the way BUSINESS is done in the world - WE *CAN* CHANGE THE WORLD!! 

Please *like* us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GlobalLaborTreatyforLivingWages

Please, "like", "tweet", "G+", "Pin us", "email us" and any other method of communication you can think of...including well-trained Carrier Pigeons :)


Thank you SUPER HEROES for helping to save the world!


Thank you for spreading the news!


Sharee Anne Gorman
annienomad-cyberpoet
http://annienomad.com

What "12 Years a Slave" reveals about Capitalism.

"I Don't Want to Survive...I Want to Live"

"12 Years A Slave" won the Best Picture Oscar last night for 2014. Why is this significant? And what does it reveal about Capitalism?

This is a significant win because "12 Years a Slave" has a unique opportunity to provide an historical example of the consequences of oppression...which in reality is the basis of Capitalism.

How so?

Switch out the word "plantation owner" and replace it with the word "shareholder".

(Think Apple, whose iphones cost $199 to manufacture, but who sell it for $649.00 as reported by Computer World. Apple sees such a high margin on their "investments"... not because Apple products are so expensive to manufacture, but because they utilize slave-labor in order to put more money in their investors' and CEO's pockets.)

Switch out the word "plantation owner" and replace it with the word "corporation".

Switch out the word "cotton" and replace it with the words "conflict minerals" or "slave wages". 

Slavery is not over in America...nor, is it over in any other country.

We only *think* slavery is over because it has mostly been outsourced. We no longer throw people on a boat, strip them of their rights and put them to work, under threat of the lash, on our inherited lands. 

No, now corporations take the plantations to the slaves, in order to escape the horrible stigma of being branded "slave-makers". Out of sight, out of mind.

As long as you have enough distraction in the media, corporations and shareholders
don't have to be called what they are - modern-day, plantation owners.

Not that we still don't have domestic slaves.

Switch out the word "migrant worker" and replace it with the word "slave".

We don't see black people carrying around bales of cotton, so we don't equate it with slavery. As if cotton were the only product of slavery.

The government pretends they don't want "illegal aliens" here. They look the other way while "illegal aliens" slip under a very conveniently porous fence...so that, on the surface, it looks voluntary. 

But, it was our strategic trade-policies (NAFTA) that impoverished the economies of these workers, forcing them to migrate north so that business owners could have the benefits of nearly, slave labor.

Once immigrant workers are in the country illegally, it is simply a matter of imposing on them the status of an "illegal", so that our fearless leaders can strip them of their civil rights...just like they did with the slaves of the old south.

Click to watch "12 Years A Slave" trailer 

 

 

Perhaps someday (and maybe, because of this movie) someday soon, a new generation will be able to throw off the blinders of indoctrination and see where profit and luxury actually come from.

 

Perhaps, those who never thought about it before, will finally come to understand that Profit Comes from Somewhere...it comes from crushing people.

 

Please sign and share this Global Labor Treaty for Living Wages petition. Let's end economic and manufacturing slavery. Let's change the way business is done in the world. Let's get this conversation started!

 

http://www.change.org/petitions/sign-now-to-enact-a-global-labor-treaty-for-living-wages

 

 

At least, that's the way it seems to me,

 

Sharee Anne Gorman

(annienomad-cyberpoet)

http://annienomad.com

Re: Russell Brand's Article on Philip Seymour Hoffman's Death

 

 

Russell Brand wrote an article for The Guardian in which he addresses the tragic, pointless and untimely end to Philip Seymour Hoffman's life. You can read it here: Another Victim Of Extremely Stupid Drug Laws by Russell Brand

Russell's open letter is a passionate and unapologetic indictment of current drug laws and is buoyed by his own personal struggle with addiction and recovery.


And I agree with much of what he has to say.



Firstly, that Philip’s death was indeed, tragic and avoidable.

Secondly, that we need to de-criminalize drugs and address the ways in which addicts are perceived and treated. History has painfully illustrated the pitfalls of prohibition and common sense dictates that we are very much in need of regulations for safe access, education for proper care and compassion for understanding.

But, in tandem, I feel we should also address the condition of what Russell describes as “…the unrelenting echo of an unfulfillable void”…beyond the cause and effect of addiction.

I believe addiction isn’t just a physical/biological condition. I believe it starts when intelligent, sensitive observers seek refuge from unrelenting, meaninglessness and injustice.

Isn’t it time for an acknowledgement of the crisis of culture?

Isn't it time to recognize and reject the endless forwarding of the cult of personality, spectacle and crisis to divert human consciousness away from awareness and justice - toward complacency, inequality and resignation?

It’s time to identify the real enemy. The Masters of Diversion and Misdirection - the owners, the oppressors and the geopolitical planners.

It’s time to call these entities out. It's time to call them what they are...the architects of power, the engineers of economic inequality and the perpetrators of social injustice. 

If not now...when?


***About***

it’s not about the bulge in his pants
or, the rose beneath her lace
it’s not about the property lines
or, lovers losing face
it’s not about who’s right or wrong
or, who will win the case
it’s about the roles we play
and the lies we’re told
that keep us in our place
those who print the money
rule by phones without a trace…
while poets
vainly soliloquize
on the lack of human grace


©2005shareeannegorman


At least, that's the way it seems to me,

annienomad-cyberpoet
http://annienomad.com

An Open Letter to Chris Hedges...by annienomad-cyberpoet

This is a slightly revised letter that I sent to Chris Hedges, via Common Dreams:

 

Dear Chris,

 

Thank you for your many informative and uncompromising articles. You are a one-man, de-programming machine:)
 

I am writing to you because I have noticed recently that the Occupy Movement is calling for a global citizens' movement and I have an idea that I think will bring the 99% of the world (first world and third world citizens) together in Solidarity...not because I'm a genius or anything. I just think maybe people have been concentrating on the symptoms of the global crisis rather than the cause and might, therefore, have missed the root of the problem.
 

As you know, one of the many strategies the rich rely upon in gaining and maintaining their wealth is to apply downward pressure on labor. And, of course, the benefit to oppressing workers lies not only in increased profits via slave-wages, but in keeping the 99% in constant survival/panic-mode so that the 1% have less opposition from a frightened, and therefore, more easily-controlled populace.

I would just like to remind everyone that LABOR crosses all demographics - race, gender, religion, sexual orientation and all other cultural and social markers. Which makes it the perfect binder for social and economic change.

 

Labor has, in fact, been the basis of the most lasting changes in some of the largest social movements in history. 

 

Sometime ago, I started a petition for a Global Labor Treaty for Living Wages. I am not under the impression that, on its own, a petition will solve anything. 

 

Clearly, a Global Labor Treaty for Living Wages *movement* will require the collaboration of lawyers, journalists, social leaders and political strategists for said movement to come to full fruition...but a petition creates a good starting point for the right conversation.

A sort of Genesis point.
 

I believe a Global Labor Treaty for Living Wages is a good idea, but I am only an unknown poet.

There is simply no reason to listen to me....I have no "branding".

My one claim to *non-fame* is that Noam Chomsky once called my poem "Vigil - A Poem of American Crisis"..."Moving and evocative. And so true".

 

I have posted my Global Labor Treaty for Living Wages petition on many sites (AlterNet, Truthdig, Truthout, Common Dreams, Facebook, Twitter) trying to build support for what seems, to me, to be a viable approach for stopping runaway corporate worker and third world exploitation but no organization or group has stepped up to lend their numbers...so, I figured, maybe, bringing the idea to the attention of someone who has been writing extensively about the dangers of growing corporate feudalism might possibly help move the cause forward.

 

Probably not...but I thought I'd try.

 

 

Here is the link for the petition:

http://www.change.org/petitions/sign-now-to-enact-a-global-labor-treaty-for-living-wages

 

Here is the link to the website:

http://globallabortreaty.org/

 

Here is the link to my poem:
Vigil - A Poem of American Crisis
 

Or, here is the link to the animated, multi-media version of "Vigil":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53fHIfd6vtw
 

I have no idea whether you will find this idea to be worthy of endorsing or viable enough to consider forwarding...but, in any case, thank you so much for your enlightening journalistic work.

 

At least, that's the way it seems to me,

 

Sharee Anne Gorman

annienomad-cyberpoet

http://annienomad.com/