BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//InvisionCommunity Events 5.0.18//EN METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN REFRESH-INTERVAL:PT15M X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M X-WR-CALNAME:RMCommunityCalendar NAME:RMCommunityCalendar BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:https://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Revolution Will Be DTSTAMP:20251016T231849Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:544-7-c3fe8195a3dde498d013e477e2142422@aalbc.com ORGANIZER;CN="richardmurray":noreply@aalbc.com DESCRIPTION:\n Someone somewhere cited The Revolution Will Not Be Telev ised in a quick graphic.\n\n\n\n MY REPLY\n\n I told someone else somewher e\, the issue is guidance. All movements need a destination. Absent a dest ination\, a movement is bound to fail\, meaning it will not move the world around the movement to somewhere. \n\n IN AMENDMENT\n\n yeah gil scott h eron:) .. I said somewhere else\, the usa will be 250 years old next year\ , that is a quarter of a thousand years. not a little bit of time. I don't see the revolution today\, I think more of the time the roman empire chan ged location from roma to nova roma/constantinople. A time of change or up heavel\, but alot of it wasn't the people of the roman empire which stretc hed from modern spain to syria uprising as much as after some chaos\, the government remade itself to fit the people who lived under it. I think the usa is in that situation. The United States of America was founded by fir st people/native American slaughtering black African enslaving financially wealthy white European outcast. Said outcast developed a legal system tha t allowed for governmental flexibility more than any other at the time. Bu t\, the flexibility wasn't and isn't  impervious to being used to maintai n rigid orders/systems/structures. The white power order [white is top\, w hite is best\, white is right\, white is normal and not white are the oppo sites]\, the systems of inequality applied across all forms of race [pheno typical/gender/age/religion/ancestry/fiscal quality and all other] \, the structures of slavery from the prisons to the hospitals to the schools tha t allow the control of various people legally\, to their detriment\, are n ot as they were\, have the same level of potency or presence\, when the US A was founded. No\, Richard has never been shackled or called boy by white s. But while said orders/systems/structures exist they are weaker than eve r before in the usa or the European colonies that preceded it\, and must e mbrace coexistence with new orders/systems/structures. Within the USA regi onal varieties of the orders/systems/structures will need to be embraced b y all under one roof. Orders not based on whiteness but on wealth\, allowi ng all who are financially wealthy the same privileges as white males when wealthy. Systems of inequality will remain but applied across fewer forms of race. phenotype\, gender? no. religion somewhat\, age\,fiscal quality? yes. Structures of slavery will have to be replaced with structures of po verty. Yes keeping people poor. The USA is not becoming Star Trek\, but th e fabric of its populace is more varied than ever before in the past\, mor e financially potent across all racial lines than ever before \, more lega lly present /represented/demanding than ever before across all racial line s. So the federal government has to use its flexibility to reflect that. W ill it? I don't know. Will I gamble it will? I gamble the USA will break a s the people in it will not use the flexibility within the legal code to c hange the government to suit them. \n\n The people outside the usa in man y countries biggest issue is the strategic view of immigration\, the age o f the usa from the end of world war two to today has made immigration a be tter choice than scuffling to make ones country better. It is easier for a small family to move than to be part of a movement. The uprising outside the usa will require a change of minds. Cause\, at the moment\, it will ne ver be easier to change Mexico/Nigeria/India than immigrate away from said places to a country like the USA\, unless the USA closes up shop. Scrumpt is trying to get that to happen to support the old oders/systems/structur es trying to hold on to dominance in the usa. I don't see long term that h appening. Though\, a big part of that is how the states are managed. For h istorical precedence\, the articles of confederation did precede the const itution and its entire design was based on the idea that the states only u ndeniable unifying factor was self defense\, which is still true today.   But such a change will require a change in the quality of elected official s in the usa at the which I do not see at any level. \n\n\n\n Gil Scott H eron- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised\n\n LYRICS\n\n\n\n You will not be able to stay home\, brother\nYou will not be able to plug in\, turn on and cop out\nYou will not be able to lose yourself on skag\nAnd skip out for beer during commercials\, because\nThe revolution will not be televise d\nThe revolution will not be televised\nThe revolution will not be brough t to you by Xerox in four parts\nWithout commercial interruptions\nThe rev olution will not show you pictures of Nixon blowing a bugle\nAnd leading a charge by John Mitchell\, General Abrams\, and Spiro Agnew\nTo eat hog ma ws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary\nThe revolution will not be televis ed\nThe revolution will not be brought to you by the Schaefer Award Theatr e\nAnd will not star Natalie Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Jul ia\nThe revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal\nThe revolution wil l not get rid of the nubs\nThe revolution will not make you look five poun ds thinner\, because\nThe revolution will not be televised\, brother\nTher e will be no pictures of you and Willie Mays\nPushing that shopping cart d own the block on the dead run\nOr trying to slide that color TV into a sto len ambulance\nNBC will not be able to predict the winner\nAt 8:32 on repo rt from 29 districts\nThe revolution will not be televised\nThere will be no pictures of pigs\nShooting down brothers on the instant replay\nThere w ill be no pictures of pigs\nShooting down brothers on the instant replay\n There will be no pictures of Whitney Young\nBeing run out of Harlem on a r ail with a brand-new process\nThere will be no slow-motion or still lifes of Roy Wilkins\nStrolling through Watts in a red\, black\, and green liber ation jumpsuit\nThat he has been saving for just the proper occasion\nGree n Acres\, Beverly Hillbillies\, and Hooterville Junction\nWill no longer b e so damn relevant\nAnd women will not care if Dick finally got down with Jane\nOn Search for Tomorrow\, because black people will be in the street\ nLooking for a brighter day\nThe revolution will not be televised\nThere w ill be no highlights on the eleven o'clock news\nAnd no pictures of hairy armed women liberationists\nAnd Jackie Onassis blowing her nose\nThe theme song will not be written by Jim Webb or Francis Scott Keys\nNor sung by G len Campbell\, Tom Jones\, Johnny Cash\nEngelbert Humperdinck\, or The Rar e Earth\nThe revolution will not be televised\nThe revolution will not be right back after a message\nAbout a white tornado\, white lightning\, or w hite people\nYou will not have to worry about a dove in your bedroom\nThe tiger in your tank\, or the giant in your toilet bowl\nThe revolution will not go better with Coke\nThe revolution will not fight germs that may cau se bad breath\nThe revolution will put you in the driver's seat\nThe revol ution will not be televised\nWill not be televised\nWill not be televised\ nWill not be televised\nThe revolution will be no re-run\, brothers\nThe r evolution will be live\n\n\n\n\n \n\n URL\n\n https://youtu.be/vwSRqaZGsPw ?si=8aq4usxHRcXjL_wF\n\n\n\n VIDEO\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n  \n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251016 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR