Today on the news, a woman who goes by the name of La Nin~a Ninja, and who is part of the Colectivo Flo6x8. This is probably the coolest thing I've seen in, well, a very long time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv5dh8v7mDs&NR=1
The words are something like: banker, banker, banker, with your cold heart and hot purse... I have no money..
The group's by-line (think that's the word) is "Cuerpo Contra Capital" (body against capital).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUzaeOEplnc&feature=related
No one (except kind of fringy, angry people that no one takes seriously) protests anything in Canada because we just never have any problems that affect enough people badly enough. Personally, I've tried, and wanted to be involved in protesting things I was really against, but I couldn't deal with the atmosphere surrounding most protests (both the majority of the people involved and the way the rest of our complacent society views me when I want to take a stand against something). On the other hand, here obviously, since last summer it is a "crisis" (same word in Spanish, which I saw everywhere in the summer).
Brings me back to the idea that you can't change people's hearts or minds very well by fighting or arguing, but you can get to them with humour and through art.
I love the one where they started a dance party in something like a unemployment lineup - not sure what INEM is...
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