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February 11, 2011 05:25 PM

صوت الحريه (Voice of Freedom)

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A music video made by Egyptian musicians with the revolution as their backdrop, sung in Arabic it's been viewed over 100,000 times since it was upped to YouTube yesterday. A people that can be make such upbeat pop songs in the midst of brutal repression were never going to lose to a mere dictator.

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Handypants's picture
^..^
Handypants — 2/12/11 5:14pm

Can't tell what they are saying but obviously uplifting.

Good stuff.

"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )

steveboston's picture
'freedom's on the march'
steveboston — 2/12/11 5:22pm

Click on the 'CC' on the YouTube to get the translation. Thanks for posting!

thinkerfromiowa's picture
Wonderful song!
thinkerfromiowa — 2/12/11 5:39pm

What a song! The looks on the faces of those people were precious.

It also made me wonder: Do the downtrodden people of this country have what it takes to do here what the Egyptians did in their country? I don't think so. Everyday one hears or reads of more sanctimonious crap that Obama and his Republican friends are dishing out to the poor and even the middle class. And these people are willing to sit on their butts and take it? Thank goodness that they live in the US, because if they had lived in Egypt, the revolution would have mowed them down like dry grass.

Ecclesiastes 3 says that there is a time to keep silent and a time to speak. The brave Egyptians chose to speak. The cowardly Americans choose to keep silent. I have no sympathy for them.

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(
ysbaddaden — 2/12/11 6:04pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRx0bup8ubM

Diabolus est Deus Inversus

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(
ysbaddaden — 2/12/11 6:17pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcWlzah6hJE&fe...

Diabolus est Deus Inversus

Mike The Riverine's picture
I don't even need a
Mike The Riverine — 2/13/11 7:39am

I don't even need a translation to know what they are saying.

It's the same song they sang in Poland, East Germany and all the Iron Curtain countries after the fall of communism there.

It's the same song that was heard all over Europe and the Pacific after VE and VJ days

It's the same song in India in 1947 and (most of) Ireland in 1922 after the British pulled out. We heard the same song at Yorktown in 1781.

It's the same song heard in France after the Revolution and again after the fall of Bonaparte.

The song of freedom has no language.

Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(
ysbaddaden — 2/13/11 9:05am

Except for the foreign language, it's sounds less ME, and more pop rock.

Diabolus est Deus Inversus

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