Lyrics "The Revolution will not be televised"

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,
Skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John
Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat
hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.
The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be brought to you by the
Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie
Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia.
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs.
The revolution will not make you look five pounds
thinner, because the revolution will not be televised, Brother.

There will be no pictures of you and Willie May
pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,
or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.
NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
or report from 29 districts.
The revolution will not be televised.

There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being
run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy
Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion.

Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville
Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Dick finally gets down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people
will be in the street looking for a brighter day.
The revolution will not be televised.

There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock
news and no pictures of hairy armed women
liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,
Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom
Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth.
The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be right back after a message
bbout a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
You will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with Coke.
The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.
The revolution will put you in the driver's seat.

The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,
will not be televised, will not be televised.
The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be live.

For more information about refrences go to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revolution_Will_Not_Be_Televised#References

The revolution will not be televised vs. Did you know? we are living in exponential times

When we are children we may believe that somethings happen with no other explanation than magic. As we grow up this is no longger acepted by others when we bring it up, so we replace it with the "he/she did it", or even the classic "i don´t know, it was like that when I got here". It seems to me that we go through live avoiding and dodging those situations in which we, individually, need to take responsability about something.
I recently got a link for a youtube video and against my will I actually took the time to watch it. Alarming numbers, statistics and predictions about the population, technology, careers and much more reminded me of a poem/song that stuck in my mind since I heard it for the first time. So I started to compare both and the constrast between them grew by the moment.
On one hand I have the evidence that supports the fact that people relay on technology to stay informed, communicated and basically updated. But then again the mayority of these users do little if not nothing to get involved on a social discourse.
On the other side I have this 1970 song by Gil Scott Heron which, aside of giving many cultural refrences of the time, sends the message of getting into action and being part of whats going on in the world. Taking responsability on our actions and more importanly go out there and act.

1. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xpqut_the-revolution-will-not-be-televise_music
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUMf7FWGdCw

Two links. Compare and contrast. Any comments? Post them.

What did I learn thanks to the interview?

In addition to the answers I got to each question, I could appreciate that Betty is very much involved with everything related to Detodas. Also got a strong sense of how grateful Betty is for the job she's got and the support received from the cooperativa. Finally I can't explain exactly how but I can say that she shows a lot of self confidence and pride of what she does and they way she got to the point in which she is right now in her life.

Cooperativa detodas - Entrevista

Nombre: Betty Arroyo Ceballos

¿Cuántos años lleva en la cooperativa?

3 años y trabajo primero en una fundación de la iglesia donde ella asiste

¿Cómo la conoció?

Ellos visitaron mi comunidad y me presentaron el programa de créditos, yo trabajaba en otra fundación y por el momento no me interesaba, luego mi hija se unió a la cooperativa me enseñó los folletos y en ese momento decidí unirme. Ya ahora al pasar los años, ellos me contrataron y soy inspectora de esta fundación.

¿Qué es lo que más le atrajo de esta fundación?

La capacitación, se preocupan mucho por el desarrollo empresarial, personal y sobre tu autoestima. Esta fundación se preocupa de enseñarte la manera correcta de manejar tu negocio y también ayuda mucho a nivel familiar. Algo que también me interesó es que se enfoca a preparar a la mujer y es todo un abanico de oportunidades.

¿Cuánto crédito les presta, lo que ustedes piden o es algo específico?

El ingreso va subiendo de acuerdo al plan de inversión, se empieza con 100 luego va subiendo a 300.

¿Cómo fue el comienzo de su negocio, prosperó de una o fue de poco a poco?

De una prosperó, yo tengo una fundación llamada “Shadder”, yo trabajo como capacitadora en el que hacemos actividades manuales con materiales reciclables.

¿Cuál fue la reacción de su esposo cuando se unió a DE TODAS y comenzó su negocio?

Al principio ellos piensan que están locas, cuando me ve con botellas o materiales que parece basura, pero luego se fue interesando y hasta ahora ya me trae materiales, ya ahora es un negocio familiar.