New Party Systems - We Are

New Party Systems was formed when four musician friends - Kyp Malone (TV On The Radio), David First (Notekillers), Greg Fox (ex-Liturgy, Guardian Alien) and Bernard Gann (Liturgy) all ran into each other the same day at Zuccotti Park, early on during the Occupy Wall Street occupation. Out of that fateful meeting came the decision to form a music collective inspired by and supporting the movement. The video by director Toni Comas and producer Anna Franquesa features people from all over the world, including musicians Martin Bisi, Kid Millions (Oneida), Bob Ostertag and the students who were involved in the UC Davis pepper spray incident. The chant at the end of the video was recorded during the November 17th March on Wall Street in lower Manhattan.

From the upcoming Occupy this Album
http://musicforoccupy.org/category/album/

We Are

We are the dawn's electric rise
A gathering of consciousness creating
We are an overwhelming tide
Of heat and light and sound to break the chain

Time to take the keys back to our kingdom
It is time to move the rules to fairer ground
Equality and justice so the masses can breathe free again
The workers and the players have to take this world and turn it all around

We are the dawn's electric rise
A gallery of consciousness creating
We are an overwhelming tide
Of reason and rights endowed to change the game

And to those who think that nothing ever happens
When peaceful forces speak the truth to power
Watch the water carving through the mountain's heart of stone
How simple winds increase until they topple every tower

And we love to see you
Stepping up across the lands
And we love to be with you
As you make your righteous stand

And we love to hear you
Shouting out your desires
And we love to cheer you
As you join the expanding choir

We are the dawn's electric rise
A galaxy of consciousness creating
We are an overwhelming tide
The heat and light and sound they can't contain


http://newpartysystems.bandcamp.com/
http://newpartysystems.org/
Music Lyrics by David First ©2011 Silent Graph ASCAP

The video was directed by Toni Comas and produced by Anna Franquesa Solano

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[clicktoverify]

Proud to be a part - congrats to all!

[Atomblaster5]

Cheap capitalism will not guarantee you a job or retirement. Exploiting people for some guy to sit pretty in a suit at desk is immoral.  It is immoral to get rich off of other people's labor. Learn.

[sewellanne]

@clicktoverify Me too! We can do it.. :o)

[CharlesDoubleReeds]

This song was on AAA radio the other day up here in New Hampshire. Cool!

[finalcu7]

skip to the 4:00

[fishpawsable]

Music is mediocre indie-pop AT BEST, lyrics are corny, simplistic feel-good gobbledeegook. The camera and editing work flat-out sucks whale balls. Just seems like a cheap grab for attention.

[astronato]

OWS = marxist scum

[Postglobalism]

I am not agree that I don't have ability to be rich with my job, but I like capitalism, but it must pay me more

[CharlesDoubleReeds]

This song is obviously not about economics. Where did you come up with that?

[mjcoelho3]

this is what happens when people who know nothing about economics write songs about economics.

[avenhellpl]

Free market will save your soul.