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  • Yes! We need to demand our public officials meet their promises to end extreme poverty. I created a website to help people do this easily: effensource PERIOD com SLASH endpoverty PERIOD html

    I welcome all feedback to help me promote this cause even more! Thank you

  • violense is an energy against the enemy. silence is the enemy.

    we can end poverty. we can end opression and suffering. but we must be brave enough to spill blood. these people, these innocent souls are taken advantage of by the leaders who must die. they say violense is not the answer, that violense never solved anything. tell that to the soldiers at stalingrad. we can exterminate the evil people. the question is, can we, as human beings, make that choice? or are we too afraid of direct actio

  • admirez le monde, mangez et n oubliez pas de remercier Jésus, car on a bien mangé et on a bien bu...

  • Thou shalt not kill perios. Not thou shalt not kill because I don't agre with you...

    God save us...

  • anyone ever listened to symapthy by rare bird?

  • The problem is that all these kids that work as slaves are the reason why we are where we are. I believe that many of you live a decent life, because many of the things you own are cheaper because those kids work to make them. If they wouldn't exist, as many of you say it would happen if their parents would have used condoms, maybe we will have to suffer to. It's the circle of life.

  • Blame these children government  for why they are so poor not America!!!

  • We Are AT War

    War With A Machine

    Corporate America Created The Machine

    The Machine needs no food, no water, nosleep. no love, no compassion, it demands only one thing from all of us SERVITUDE.

    Those who created The Machine now are Slaves To The machine.

    When a mother and wife arrives home at 7PM too tired from her 12 hour day to cook dinner, play with her children or talk to her husband she is enslaved to The Machine.

  • Geez, so much hatred. I agree with Stin though, that some people actually do care about what is going on the world. I'm actually doing something about it, mostly with my band, whether it's protesting, shutting shit down, handing out food, fundraisers, etc.

  • no one gives a fuck about you either. you fucking cunt bag! i hope you die of cancer!

  • DOKJAMPEE someone forgot his condom and there you are.. .

  • they need condoms and contraceptive pills! the more they breed the more poor people! then they say its our fault!

  • John lennon lives on

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  • what happens at 3:32 those kids did nothing why do they take em,they did nothing kidnapping FAGS!

  • chaos in Africa, even in Europe in 21. century there are a people who are living like slaves, without electricity, hospitals, without money, without right for living, and whole western world is against that people. Its a Serbs on SERBIAN KOSOVO!!!! FUCK NATO, FUCK EU, FUCK USA, FUCK UN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FREEEDOOOOM

  • tylerchrestman obivously doesnt get it, because he doesnt know that what is going on in africa is more serious

  • these children look sad and be treeted like athors

  • dude fuck the people in other countries we need to get our priority's straight first there are people in this country going with out food and homes so shut the hell up about people in africa no one gives a fuck

  • well i'll tell you what dude. you fucking cunt! some people do actauly care about what goes on in the world, america is not the be all, and end all,and im sure if you died no one would give a fuck !!!!

  • very sad!!!!!!!!!!!

  • yay

  • Very sad!!!!!!!!

  • Very sad!!!!

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  • all this misery is american and others imperialism countrys faults.

    Shame on you USA and your capitalism

  • this was beautiful and sadness at the same time, beautful cause it was a nice melody. What´s the name of it?

  • why is it that the copyright and the maker of this video's name are ironic in some way

  • omg im crying why i dont cry but THIS is why i want to be a lawyer for neglected kids

  • How can the world not care about all this?...how can the world be so fucked up?...ive been asking myself this question for more than 6 years and i still haven't found an awnser

  • what have u done about it? i acually want an answer?

  • heres your awnser

    Aside from donations ive done practically nothing...but it shouldnt be up to 15 year olds with no money to change the world..just like 5 year olds shouldnt fight in wars....it should be up to other countries to send help...but the leaders have a moral compass so fucked they have difficulty finding the local strip club...Obama shows promise but the rest need to be dealt with....like Mugabe (know who that is?) and Brown....another question would be "What Have You Done? awnser me

  • yeah you're right it's not for 15 year olds to handle, and i see what u mean i can't work to earn money to donate, nor can i help them in person

    i can't even vote about what goverment that should do something about it...

  • see thats why people like you and me should be able to vote...cos we have clear heads and know whats going on...not these old guys who want to further their own agenda...Our Prime Minister Berlusconi was in spain 2 weeks ago getting laid with hookers instead of clearing up the mess hes already made....just an example of how much shit we're in

  • This is why I want to fight cause at least I feel like I'm doing a differance. I could add more to this statement but I rather not.

  • communist part of greece

    venceremos!!!!!!

  • "all my live I've been waiting for

    I've been praying for

    for the people to say

    that we dont wanna fight no more

    they'll be no more wars

    and our children will play"---one day by matisyahu

  • look at the picture at 2:52 its cute the soldier is taking that kid

  • i dont think u need the song, its nice as it is like this.

  • Get off the grid People!

    Boycot the military and police and don't give a crap about government, they never fulfill what they promise before the elections anyway.

    Democracy is an illusion.

  • military is how were going to prevent this we cant just ask nicely because theyre not just gonna be like oh ya ok whatever we need to lead them until a proper leader is found for them

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  • 2:49 X-( I can't look at that picture..

  • The pic at 1:31 is so heartbreaking

  • i can tell this would have been a good music vid. those pictures go well with the meaning of the song.

  • copyright twats

  • damn it man...not the right moment to see this

  • no offense but at 3:07 i thought he was devouring his own arms

  • he does or does he have no hands

  • TheNameIWantIsInUse: LOL

  • why not stand up and fight it then??? why stand back and let this happen as we all go on our little holidays... we dont deserve holidays... holidays from what??? a family and a 50 inch tv and a leather couch... where are these peoples holidays?? there is enough food in the world for every 1 to survive... governments all over the planet have to make trade fair and stop ripping these people off.. they do more work in a day than we do in a month.. its sick

  • you want poverty and hunger to stop?

    destroy any and every form of money or currency!

    but that would require a lot of sacrifice,wouldnt it?

  • why dont you get off your fucking ass Norman Borlaug did but youve probably never heard his name. go ahead look it up.

  • i dont see anybody destroying money just yet...or ever for that matter....i guess we're doomed

  • so in a day they have 24 hours ok so my mom doesnt work at least 24 hours in a month are you high

  • ya she gets paid doesn't she.. do these people get paid they dont have electricity.. your mom and mine do 24 hours can be a year to us in their world... its not close to your perfect little life and if you have a problem with that get the fuck off this page and if i was high which i occasionally like to be then fuck it im not killin anyone.. but u have a gun to support troops in a war for oil... well done you..

  • These are the pictures of what should be on the news every day....so that when the weak minded morons in the republcian party and the few dopes in the Dem part who still want mindless murdering war these pictures like during vietnam are shown to the american people and they can see the genocidal destruction of limbs, intestins and blasted brains all over the sidewalk. War is the failure of good people to stop it.

  • That is completely heartbreaking..

  • hard to watch.. really sad

  • these photos are so horrible!!

  • indeed they are. the truth hurts, but it's hidden from us so that we can live our lives in blissful oblivion and the powers that be can go on manipulating the world and its people.

  • war sucks look at the sadness on the childrens and peoples eyes.

  • wow...... I feel awfully ignorant.. and this video is so true.. It's disturbing ='(

  • oh mein gott!! die armen kinder

  • It's amazing how blind the world is...

    This is going on and yet we read magazine's about celebrities and buy branded clothing. Even though we're not aware of it everyone in the world is a cause of this direct or indirect even myself I looked at my Nike shoe just now it says " Made in Vietnam ".

  • it's bad for people living in poverty in the world's richer countries too, because although we don't go through even 1% of the shit they do, we are still forced to buy cheap clothing made by people working in the worst of conditions. there is no other option but to be clothed from head to toe in guilt.

  • the poverty in argentine make feel ashamed!

  • Man thanks for posting this video, If people would take at least one minute to look how other people suffer and live in such disgrace,maybe we wouldn't have so many people who complain about economy because they can't buy a brand new car or brand new cellphone and shit. People need to realize that the only thing that matters is that we have food on the table everyday, and they should stop wasting money on shit and start giving it to those who really need it.

  • I'm very sad about how our world is so self serving . I grew up very poor in Arkansas . I was one of 9 children . A thought ....why don't we .......Pay people to use birth control ? Make abortion available . If my parents would have had a number of children they could afford ,we could have had food everyday to eat . And clean water to drink .

  • On the bright side all that poverty, social and political turmoil, and cheap labour lets Nike & Cathy Lee save save save, and pass the profits onto their wealthy shareholders. Like any good capitalist I support my God-given right to molest children for my image (think of that next time you see someone showing off their corporate logo'd Nike Swooshtika emblazened merchandise).

  • i hope you are joking.

    A lot of americans have this disease that is really terrible: We think we are the only country in the world that matters BUT WE ARENT!!!!

  • that'd blatantly a joke dude... i really don't think you need to worry. it's just highlighting the views of the blissfully ignorant upper/middle-class citizens out there.

  • unfortunatly it is true....

  • 1:46 that looks like photo shop 0.0

  • We should all be ashamed.

  • ok guyts not al americans re eviel but if u wont to hayt a n american then hasite bush !!!!! and god that child with his arms blown o fand no legs and a bandaed head i feel so srry omg that it im only 11 so i still have a chance to do somthing for this stupid planet i jsut cant belive it i wana go show thes counterys i will jsut ..................... ok iv got to let my anger out fuck all the counteris who od this and hav not signed the children rights thingy i will 1 day help this planet

  • We'll be there for you. Do not feel lonely. Find peace. Blessings.

  • god help us all =( its so sad little inocent children have to go to war and the terrorists just cus people anrt all like eachother crap guys lsien to this song it say exactly wot we are doing to our planet its a son bye linking park caled what iv done

  • 1 c0ver y0ur m0uth with y0ur hand

    2 make a wish int0 it

    3 cl0se y0ur hand {make it int0 a fist}

    4 h0ld y0ur fist t0 y0ur heart f0r 5 sec.

    5 send dis t0 3 m0re vide0s

    6 t0m0rr0w will be y0ur best day ever SOMETHING GOOD WILL HAPPEN TO U AT 9:10 SOMEONE WILL CALL YOU OR TALK TO YOU ONLINE AND SAY I LOVE YOU OR ASK YOU OUT BUT HERES THE CATCH Send To 3 vids

  • Yeah, I wish I could do more to help those poor little kids. They don't need this crap, and I honestly take advantage of too much while they suffer. I will continue to pray for them. Your goals are noble, but you will not be able to end poverty, sorry to say that, but it is the truth.

  • Until the majority of the world realizes that it is PROFITABLE for much of the earths population to be in pain, poverty, sickness, ignorance, and fear, these atrocities will never cease.

    As of now...we are concerned with materialism and pop culture, not freedom through truth.

    :(

    RIP lennon.

  • que deus salve essas criança .

  • Less THAN

  • :(

    thats so sad

  • For evry penny whe got extra sombody got's to suffer ! it's time for action , and it starts with you'rselve's !

  • shut yo face

  • john lennon, yuk

  • Is that supposed to be my problem ?

    I cant do anything about it, but it makes me sad to :(

  • que DEUS guarde essas crianças em seu paraiso pra sempre.

  • =(  .....

  • :'( it makes me sad too:'(

  • instead of doing something bout these kind of things

  • yes i do think that if politicans threw money at the problem it wouldnt maybe be solved, but it wouldnt be as bad as it is, and the rlly sad part is that usa is one of the richest countries of the world and they put very much money on making weapons and stuff...

  • America has been the most philanthropic super power ever.

    look at the money that we DO throw at other countries.

    Its corruption of the government of those countries that keep their people in poverty.

  • America is a CONTINENT not your stupid country, your country is called united states of america, OF AMERICA so... you are part of the 14 countries of America ,you should only be called united states in a formal way, and fucking monsters of war makers in a informal way .. i hate your bastard war makeing country!!!!! you are the true cancer of the world , but you will soon fall, just as any other empire......... and that day i will be overjoid ......FUCK YOU ALL!!!

  • Screw you, don't talk about my country and expect help from us. That is why we are in better shape then you crippled lame ass country. No nothing retarded fool, with weak backs and minds. The whole world is connected by economy, we fall you fail, get it! You TERRORIST!! you need to die!!!

  • Why in one comment your saying that you wish you could do more for those kids and that you'll pray for them but then your telling someone from a 'crippled lame ass country' (to use your words) to go die, kinda Hypocritical don't you think? And it's not like you should be giving Bush any props, i mean he fought with everyone, why do you think most countries hate America? And he profited off every war because he owes a facotry which produces military equiment.

  • The person insulted my country and wished that we would die. I believe I said that I wish the terrorist would die. No one should wish another country dead. Those other countries are just jealous because America made it from nothing. As a country we have supplied and helped the world like no other country, yet they hate us? I don't believe everyone hates us, terrorist do. I will pray for those kids, but I will not tolerate someone speaking of my country that way.

  • I appologize for my mistake, the way the comments were it looked as if you replyed to a comment that was semi insulting your country, i can see now it wasnt the right comment. No the ones that benfit from it don't hate america or any other country that helps them, its the ones in thoses countries (like the tailaban) that are fighting to keep the counties the way they are (no rights or anyone except weathly men)

  • I accept your apology, and I was not trying to be sarcastic. The taliban's culture involves killing infidels aka anyone who isn't a Muslim. according to them they could lie to my face and kill me and God would say it is good. I have heard one on them tell me that before, and I can't say that I want to kill them, but the only way I know I am safe is if all the lunatics like them are killed are locked up. Thank you for not pursuing an argument to

  • Did you vote for Obama by the way? Biden seeks to go to war to resolve Darfur, the Russian invasion to Georgia, That was just a few things he mentioned with resolving with conflict. Too much war is bad of course, but to sit and hide and wait until the conflict comes to your door is not advisable. Take a look at World War 2, it is just not beneficial. Oh, the whole source for Biden seeking conflict was one of his speech's that I heard on CNN. In my opinion the UN should be resolving Darfur.

  • I can't tell if that question was scarcastic or not, so if it was no i didn't vote, I'm a candian so i couldn't.

  • I've never been to cannada. do they have good food (especially bacon). how do you spell cannada?

  • It's spelled Canada, well our food isn't much different from what you would find in the United States, except for bacon, seafood, poutine (fries, gravy with melted cheese) and the beer is a lot better ; )

  • Jim1068, I will suggest that you read "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" by John Perkins.

    If you think that the U.S. does ANYTHING out of altruism

    for sure you will find out the hard way. Don't forget to take your vaccination Fall 2009. It's because they care for you.

  • No country does ANYTHING out of altruism. And Jim's right - those African nations are mostly governed by tinpot dictatorships. That is, when there's much of a country to govern, as opposed to, say, a toxic dumping ground or famine stricken wasteland.

    The book you mentioned is written from one man's point of view - and many have found flaws with Perkins reasoning, research and reliability as a witness.

  • Nah, we can both agree that almost every countrys goverment is corrupted, and no less than America.

    America maybe "throw" money to other countries, not exactly what I think but if you say so, but, America goes into war with countries they should fuck off,. Just look at your former wanker to president Bush, what the fuck did he do in Iraq? Oil? Wow, that's absolutely a good reason to kill thousands of people on the other side of the world

    Go Obama !

  • i know ...

  • That is truly sad. we can't just let these kids die because politicians are too greedy to throw money at it. we as a society have to become active in helping these children.

  • Lol.

    Do you honestly think if politicians threw money at the problem, it would be solved?

  • Very sad... :(

  • omg i cant stop thinking these innocent lives....

  • :'( it makes me sad :'(

  • you are right not god has to do something .We the lands with the most power have to do somthink ... i hope that obama see this vid an go to help them he is the best presiedent taht the usa ever had . an the un have to do some think . i m agains wapons but if i can help this poor humans i would go to the UN blue hemls to save them .

  • NO! it's so terrible :'( these poor kids, what could we do? WE must help THEM! :'( it's so damn unfair and horrible. God what's up with you?

  • It's those damn kids that need money for their porn addiction to PornHub, go away! You all eat too much!

  • LMFAO!

  • oh man very sad it makes cry

  • ready when you up!

  • very very very sad

  • sad

  • no way to describe the feelings while watching this vid...

  • thank you for putting something on youtube worth putting up

    you are intelligent thoughtful caring human being and for that i commend you...

    i put beautiful peace videos up but they got deleted for violent images.

    the world wishes to be blind...

    all you need is love.

  • min. 3:19

  • join AI

  • John Lennon Yeah!

  • No song but good message i guess

  • i want good music and i get this

    wtf this is what the song abut

  • Read the comment the original poster put up. She had to remove the song due to copyright issues.

  • Why do all of the versions of this song by green day keep getting removed? People are so grouchy. I have to re-find this song about every few weeks so I can re-add it to my playlist, because they keep getting removed... What a bummer.

  • is a pity we are not all happy :(

  • For a band who call themselves punk,Green Day sure do spend a fuck of a lotta money on their videos,merchandise,image & marketing.Love the video,not fussed about Greed,sorry,Green Day song.Fair play to them(& takingbackfreespeech) for highlighting a subject most Americans know fuck all about.

  • if thay can afford guns!! that not a doller !

  • Dont worry son, I love the vid, if you dont mind I'll rip it put the song back and post it on multiple accounts aka thousands

    You are a credit to our species :)

  • Why did you have to remove that song. Did Green Day say they don´t want that or what ?!

  • :( SAD!!!!!!!!!!!

  • I love you!

  • WARNER BROS FUCK OFF.YOU ARE DESTROYING THE MORE IMPORTANT ASPECT OF YOUTUBE.Youtube staff you will see how that will backfire.

  • 1:26 is discusting

  • he says is discusting ...u are discusting ! u fuck ..hope u die ! ;;)

  • hey fuck you u fucking skank

  • this is horrible they butchered one of Lennon's classics

  • Same message to a new generation. John would have been proud. It"s the message that counts, not the messenger, peace..

  • guys gat alife we can pay for those lower class people and if green day is so consernded why dont they give them money if they do props man but come on money is money

  • Do some frigging Research, dont you think Green day has given money? Especially by making a fucken Vid bout Darfur.

  • They do but thats not the point of the song. there saying how we dont give money. an plus all downloads of this song the money goes to Africa. same with saints are coming. it went to new Orleans . so in the kindest way please don't say stuff like that before you actuality know the true facts

  • bare with me here. you are an a s s.

  • Hey man that's a really honest movie.. But did Green Day really stop you from using there number??

  • Probably the fat cats and execs at the record company. There was a time when YouTube stood up to the likes of those people but now they are just part of the corporate machine themselves.

  • title has nothing to do with the video

  • how can it be so?

  • So what if the pictures are not of the working class. Some of what this song is talking about is not always about the working class, in MY opinion they are trying to soften a hard political observation. Many of what this song is talking about is about the the lowest class. You know, the ones we don't dare to speak of? There photos aren't here, becuase none has the guts or the resources to put them up but the photo's here do have some of the lowest class, and of a class just above it, forgotten..

  • that is so sad good job who did this video because people need to get the point someone should do one for the animals and the meat factory i would do it but im so sat to do it

    :(

  • The pictures and the music don't match at all. The result is confusion. It's like having a voice-over about rape over scenes of abandoned puppies. Pick one message and stick with it.

    If you want to use rock music as a cover for a charity/political appeal don't use a song with a strong but different political message. Is there a shortage of mindless rock music?

  • this song was done for Amnesty Internationals instant karma CD to raise funds to try and stop this. so it has everything to do with the pictures

  • Officially. As endorsed by a self-appointed international body. Who am I to argue? A free man.

    My opinion is, and I've checked, that it's confusing and distracting to sing a song about one issue when trying to get people to pay attention to another issue.

    That's just me taking back free speech while I still can. Thank you.

  • im not argueing with you i was just leting you know why i used that song

  • first of all watch green day's original video before you talk about the meaning

  • The meaning of a song is put there by the songwriter, not by the maker of a video of a cover version thirty seven years later.

  • plz man, both of you grow up .....

  • wat ever

  • it is sad but awsome song

  • excellent lennon's song!!!

  • GREAT SONG!!!WRONG VIDEO