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Music Video: http://bit.do/Remember-Love 


Lyrics

Chorus 

Breathe and then remember love 
Let it hold you 
Breathe and then remember love 
Let it hold you 

Verse 1 

Breath... remember love. 
Remember the feeling, let it rush 
Remember the reason we organise, it's all for the light it's all for the love 
That’s why I came, that’s why I’m here 
That’s why the rage and why I’m wiping tears 
What I lacked, that’s what’s around me 
Love allows me to fight the fear 

Reconnect, not reinvention 
Readjust and free yourself 
Meet the rest, share a deep connection 
Live in love and we’ll free the world 
Just take a breath my friend, we’ll find a path to peace 
In our troubles, in our joys 
In our struggles, in our dreams 

Verse 2 

Preserve yourself 
If you go too hard, you'll hurt yourself 
You wanna ride you wanna fight 
You wanna help the world but first help yourself 
Just find your base, find the peace 
Breath, rise, find release 
Find the place you hide beneath 
It’s fine to vibe, just try and see 

Reconnect, not reinvention 
Readjust and free yourself 
Meet the rest, share a deep connection 
Live in love and we’ll free the world 
Just take a breath my friend, we’ll find a path to peace 
In our troubles, in our joys 
In our struggles, in our dreams

Remember Love ft. Lara Lee (Prod. JEB1)

A poem in solidarity with cleaners at the London School of Economics, who will be going on strike again on 11th May.

Learn more here: https://www.uvwunion.org.uk/justiceforlsecleaners/ 

Get involved!
https://www.facebook.com/events/394689427570097/

LYRICS:

All the staff at LSE are in employment, right? 
So every one of them should have the same employment rights.

Just because we clean, does it mean we're not as worthy?
A cleaner has to clean when a company is dirty 

Cos profit's all they want, so they hire us through Noonan
Even though it means that we're not treated like we're human
So now we're digging real dirt and building up a movement
Viva revolution - it's a cleaners revolution

There has to be a change, and there's actually a way
We're claiming parity of rights, on top of parity of pay 
On top of maternity, paternity, we won't accept delays
You'll see our solidarity until our salary's the same

What would you do if your bosses were attacking you, 
When all you've done is serve, and never heard a word of gratitude?
We didn't wanna strike, but we tired the other avenues
We used to clean their building, now it seems we're cleaning attitudes

Teaming up. Cleaning up. We ain't been beaten yet.
It was Harrods last time, the LSE are next.

#Justice4LSECleaners

Cleaning Up!  [A poem for the LSE Cleaners Strike]

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'New Radical' definition:

Q. When I say the word 'activist', what do you think of?

Perhaps you think of a weed-smoking hippy, or an aggressive militant. Maybe you imagine somebody waving a placard, shouting through a megaphone or rioting in the streets. Whatever you imagine, most people would describe an activist as somebody who chooses to fight, to make some sort of change in the world.

But in this exceptionally violent political climate, there is another type of activist on the rise; the 'Accidental Activist' or the 'New Radical'. A New Radical doesn't fight out of choice, they fight to survive. They become active out of personal necessity, to defend themselves and secure their own immediate existence. They don't choose resistance, nor is activism their vocation. If they aren't successful in their struggle, they lose their life - not their job. For this reason they fight efficiently, not gloriously. They move with urgency and secure victory by any means necessary.

Q. When I say the word 'politics', what do you think of?
Maybe you picture the prime minister or old white men in suits. Perhaps you imagine the houses of parliament - filled with MP's who speak in a complicated language that no normal person actually uses. Maybe the word politics makes you think of a faceless, powerful class who all speak in the same accent, wear the same clothes and studied at the same schools. Whatever you may imagine, a lot of people - especially young people - view politics as something that they're not qualified to talk about, or something that they can't/ don't want to become involved with.

But New Radical's understand that they are already involved in politics - whether they want to be or not - and they don't live under the illusion that they are less powerful than those who sit in parliament. They don't accept the narrative that only the privileged in society are deserving of a voice. They don't consider themselves inept or unable to resist, just because they haven't got a masters or a sound grasp of Marxism, for example. They aren't dis-empowered by the circumstance they were born into, instead they take strength from it and use what they've learnt from their experiences to change the system that put them there in the first place. They don't wait for change, because they don't need to. They engage with politics on their estates. They represent themselves, as themselves. They don't wear suits, they wear scars. They push prams and do the school runs. They don't say "here here" they shout "brap brap!!". They spit bars and bun zoots and get waved and skank out. They march in wheelchairs. They didn't necessarily buy their balaclava for the demonstration...  

The definition of “radical” in the Cambridge Dictionary is “believing or expressing the belief that there should be great or extreme social or political change”. So it would seem that in Britain in 2017, the belief that everybody should be entitled to a home, to health care and to have our basic needs met, is radical. We are New Radical.

(c) Potent Whisper 2017
Recorded at Brixton Jamm Studios
Mixed/ mastered by Wizard and Rahka EOS
Rebel Syndrome Records
Cover art design by Teto
Cover art photography by Ty Faruki

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