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Songs of Resistance

Songs of resistance are love songs. Anthems sung together from churches and temples to town squares and capital sold-out markets. Sounds of acquiescence are cowering silence suffered alone through long and lonely nights of fear and anger. Great lovers prefer to sing in full harmonies and resonant octaves of sound and loving light, whether resisting persisting or assisting escorting affirming love's compassioned notes. We sing when climbing up jacob's ladder together. When climbing down we feel alone, are silent and live in sorrow for love life's absence. Silent majorities and minorities reassure bullies and defenders of plutocracy. Resistance songs are love medicine fear-mongerers fear, yet need the most.

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