The War on Democracy Page #9

because they have put us

in the situation we are in,

The fist is very important,

That's how we are,

That's us,

In 20005 the people of Bolivia

took an historic step

For the first time ever, an indigenous person

was voted president in a landslide

Like Chavez in Venezuela

Evo Morales offered

a new democracy and a new beginning

We ask. everyone to start working,

The party is over,

The honeymoon is over,

And it's over forever, for a new Bolivia!

There is no doubt that it is growing,

It is propagating itself,

over the whole continent of Latin America,

of the Caribbean too,

but mainly in South America,

I go around Latin America

and to Montevideo, La Paz,

There is a fervor sparking off everywhere,

There is a fervor,

In Latin America there's now a host of leaders

offering new beginnings

Of course, history is crowded with heroes

who offer new beginnings

The respectability of great power and its games

and deals and plunder always beckon

If these new leaders succumb their biggest

threat may not be from Washington

but from the people on the hillsides

# I was born by the river

#In a little tent

#Oh, and just like the river

#I been running ever since

#Its been along

#A long time coming

# But I know a change gonna come

#Oh, yes, it will

#It's been too hard living

#But I'm afraid to die

# Cos I don't know what's up there

# Beyond the sky

#It's been a long

#A long time coming

#But l know

# A change gonna come

#Oh, yes, it will...

The future is for my children,

for our young people,

This isn't just Chavez's struggle,

it's our struggle,

What Chavez has unleashed

is a recognition of this struggle,

and we are in it together

and we'll carry on fighting,

So the empire's struggle isn't with Chavez,

it's with us,

The great awakening has arrived,

And I think Victor Hugo, let's end with him.

I'm with him on this,

Victor Hugo wrote this - "There is nothing

so powerful as an idea whose time has come,"

The American empire has reached its end

and the world must now be governed by

the rule of law, of equality, justice and fraternity,

Muchas gracias, John,

I want to see you again,

What happened here

at the National Stadium in Santiago, Chile,

has a special place in the struggle

for freedom and democracy

throughout Latin America and the world,

The vow is - never again,

And yet it has happened again

at Guantanamo Bay

and all the other secret places

where imperial power,

regardless of its democratic pretensions,

hides and tortures its perceived enemies,

The questions raised in this film are urgent,

Are the lives and dreams

of the ordinary people of Chile,

Like the people of Venezuela,

Like the people of Bolivia,

Like the people of Nicaragua,

Like the people of Vietnam,

and lraq, and lran, and Palestine,

expendable - worth only a few seconds

on the news if they're lucky?

The answer is no,

and those who see the world

through the eyes of the powerful,

should be warned,

People are rising

from the tyranny and oblivion

to which we in the West

have consigned them.

Indeed, their resistance is well under way

as this film has shown,

I would say it never stopped

and is unbeatable,

#I go to the movie

# And I go downtown

# Somebody keep telling me

don't hang around

#Its been a long

#A long time coming

# But I know a change gonna come

#Oh, yes, it will

#Then I go to my brother

# And I say, "Brother, help me, please"

# But he winds up

#Knocking me

# Back. down on my knees

#Ohhh

# There been times that I thought

I couldn't last for long

# But now I think. I'm able to carry on

#Its been a long

#Along time coming

#But l know

# A change gonna come

# Oh, yes, it will #

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