Roger Waters - Song For Palestine
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Roger Waters' song for Palestine - 'We shall Overcome'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z46JhT0RQ0w
"Over the New Year 2009-2010, and international group of 1500 men and women from 42 nations went to Egypt to join a freedom march to Gaza. They did this to protest the current blockade of Gaza. To protest the fact that the people of Gaza live in a virtual prison. To protest the fact that a year after the the terror attack by Israeli armed forces destroyed most of their homes, hospitals, schools, and other public buildings, they have no possibility to rebuild because their borders are closed. The would-be freedom marchers wanted to peacefully draw attention to the predicament of the Palestinian population of Gaza. The Egyptian government (funded to the tune of $2.1 Billion a year by the US tax payers) would not allow the marchers to approach Gaza. How lame is that? And how predictable! I live in the USA and during this time Dec 25th 2009-2010, I saw no reference to Gaza or the freedom March, or the multi-national protestors gathered there. Anyway, I was moved, in the circumstances, to record a new version of "We Shall Overcome". It seems appropriate." - Roger Waters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z46JhT0RQ0w"Over the New Year 2009-2010, and international group of 1500 men and women from 42 nations went to Egypt to join a freedom march to Gaza. They did this to protest the current blockade of Gaza. To protest the fact that the people of Gaza live in a virtual prison. To protest the fact that a year after the the terror attack by Israeli armed forces destroyed most of their homes, hospitals, schools, and other public buildings, they have no possibility to rebuild because their borders are closed. The would-be freedom marchers wanted to peacefully draw attention to the predicament of the Palestinian population of Gaza. The Egyptian government (funded to the tune of $2.1 Billion a year by the US tax payers) would not allow the marchers to approach Gaza. How lame is that? And how predictable! I live in the USA and during this time Dec 25th 2009-2010, I saw no reference to Gaza or the freedom March, or the multi-national protestors gathered there. Anyway, I was moved, in the circumstances, to record a new version of "We Shall Overcome". It seems appropriate." - Roger Waters
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