There have been many "Yes We Can" songs and videos out there and most have not risen to the quality of will.i.am
But this NEW VIDEO, see link below to "Yes We Can (Change our Destiny)", has that same potential to inspire millions to act, to be involved, to re-engage.
Read on and help this video get to the inaugural to be played via videotape or live. I want no fame or fortune. I just want to make a difference and I know this song and video can. You'll see when you watch it.
The “Yes We Can (Change our Destiny) Project” was created to help ensure that the collective energy of 10’s of millions of people who were inspired by President Elect Barack Obama will be re-kindled on inauguration day to even greater heights (because our world needs us now more then ever).
Watch the Video and help Change Our Destiny. Be inspired.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwspAagg8uw&feature=channel_page
Inspire millions more by passing this video on. Make it go viral. Help it be played at the inaugural.
This video is the output of a singularly special experience created on a single day in Chicago by a group of people who are as talented as they are inspired.
Inspiration is the most powerful force in the world. You can help re-ignite it. We’ve seen that simple actions multiplied by millions can create real change. Your one simple action of sending this video to everyone you know, and they in turn sending it to everyone they know, will once again, inspire millions.
As President Elect Obama said on November 4th at Grant Park, we have an opportunity to put our hands “on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope for a better day.”
Join the movement. Send the video to everyone you know and ask them to do the same.
Yes We Can.
Change our Destiny.
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The Yes We Can Change Our Destiny song and video was written, produced, directed and performed by Steven Miles Sulkin and with nearly 40 of Chicago’s and the nation’s top musicians, filmmakers and engineers. It was recorded (interestingly, though accidentally) on Pearl Harbor Day, December 7th, 2008 at The Chicago Recording Company and written on November 2nd, 2008. It is our hope (but a hope that can only be possible with your help) that this song will be played live or via video at the inaugural, so as to re-inspire 10’s of millions that “Yes We Can” wasn’t about winning an election, it was about winning back our world and shaping a new destiny.
(note: The President Elect Barack Obama footage from Grant Park is legally and fully licensed from a stock footage source).
Peace,
Steven Miles Sulkin
"Mama, what is war?" My four and half year old asked me this morning. I could not bear to tell her. I just looked into her eyes, clean and pure with hope and promise and decided to let her not know what war is for a little while longer.
If you havent watched "We Are The Ones" by Will. I. Am (From the Black Eyed Peas), then pull up a chair and turn it up. Then, when you wipe your tears~watch "It's A New Day"~his latest song available on iTunes.These songs make me proud to be a member of the human race. For the first time in history, I see that anything is possible, and having world peace could possibly happen in a lifetime. Amen brother Will. We love you.
If you have not yet seen this newest video, it really says it all about John "more wars" McCain. Spread this FAR and WIDE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gwqEneBKUs
From Elections'08
Will.i.am totally stole this idea from us, we've been thinking for a long time that earnest people reacting to a candidate is the future of music video. Presented by: The Public Service AdministrationAndy CobbJosh FunkNyima FunkMarc Evan JacksonMark KienlenDavid PompeiiMarc WarzechaSpecial guests:Beth FarmerMatt CraigRebecca AllenKai PompeiiKevin DouglasVictor Lopez
Sing along!The work that we face in our time is greatin a time of warand the terrible sacrifices it entailsthe promise of a better future is not always clearthere's gonna be other warsI'm sorry to tell you there's gonna be other warsthere's gonna be a lot of combat woundsand my friends it's gonna be toughand we're gonna have a lot to doThat old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran?Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb...I'm still convinced that withdrawal means chaosand if you think that things are bad nowif we withdraw--you ain't seen nothing yetwas the war a good idea, worth the price in blood and treasure?It was a good ideaPresident Bush talked about our staying in Iraq for 50 yearsMaybe a hundred, that's fine with meI don't think Americans are concerned if we're there for a hundred years, or a thousand years, or ten thousand years.
Yes We Can/Si Se Puede by will.i.am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjXyqcx-mYY
We Are The Ones by will.i.am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghSJsEVf0pU
If You're Out There by John Legend
Will.i.am, of the Black Eyed Peas and Yes We Can, and Tatyana Ali, of "Fresh Prince of Bel Air," will be appearing on college campuses and in Campaign for Change offices this weekend across Michigan to register voters and energize volunteer canvassers. Will.i.am and Ali will be hop-scotching college campuses across Michigan on Saturday and Sunday, to encourage students to register to vote prior to the October 6th registration deadline and making stops at local campaign offices for canvass kick-offs. Events for Saturday, September 20, 2008, include:
Lansing Canvas KickoffLansing Campaign for change office505 N. Capitol AvenueLansing, MI 4893310:00 am
Albion College Operation RegistrationThe Quad611 E. Porter StAlbion, Michigan 4922411:20 am
Western Michigan University Step for Change ShowParking lot outside Sangren Hall1903 West Michigan AvenueKalamazoo, MI 49008-54211:30 pm
Benton Harbor Canvass KickoffBroadway Park- Broadway & Empire St.Benton Harbor, MI 490223:30 pm
Hope College Operation RegistrationThe Kletz Center150 E. 10th St.Holland, MI 494235:30 pm
Grand Valley State University Operation RegistrationKirkhof Center West Lawn1 Campus DriveAllendale MI 494017:00 pm
Grand Rapids Eastown FestivalGrand Rapids Office1433 Wealthy St. SEGrand Rapids, MI 495068:20 pm
More information on Sunday events to be released tomorrow.
I'm playing one campaign song at the top of every hour on my Internet (Shoutcast) station, http://www.urdomain.us/playing.html (except during the dinner show from 6:30-9:00 Eastern Time [GMT -5], before which I play Pink's Dear Mr. President).
If you have any other songs to recommend, please let me know!
Please note that if you submit (as opposed to recommend) a song to my station, you are saying that you have the authority to do so, and that your are granting to me the right to play the song gratis until such a time as you may withdraw that right.
Support Obama Now!
Thanks.
Henry M
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I'm featuring Obama Campaign Songs at the top of every hour on my Internet (Shoutcast) station, http://www.urdomain.us/playing.html (except during the dinner show from 6:30-9:00 Eastern Time [GMT -5]).
Current campaign songs are by Andy Fraser, will.i.;am, and Cherish Alexander (thanks to all(. Please let me know if you know of any others!
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Feeling inspired and a bit cheeky this gorgeous L.A. afternoon.
With the nomination all but officially sealed, I've had a hankering to revisit the gorgeous work of will.i.am and Jesse Dylan. Oh, people, YES WE CAN and YES WE ARE! In case you're also inclined take the happy trip back down memory road with me, I'm inclined to make it EZ for you...
* Yes We Can * http://www.dipdive.com/dip-politics/ywc/
A'course, that takes my mind to the brilliant follow-up parody skewering Johnny McC...
* john.he.is *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gwqEneBKUs
Ah, good times...
I posted an article this morning on my blog about Barack Obama and how he has developed a strong brand, thanks in part to the engagement of his supporters:
http://eyecube.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/barack-obama-dinu-brand/
Had a great day, working on the campaign today.
And before I put it all to bed (and run the risk that my brain might overwrite the cool specifics of today with more cool specifics tomorrow), I want to note some of the things I accomplished today on behalf of the change we're all working together to create.
Specific #1: I made 105 calls to potential supporters in Rhode Island, Ohio, and Texas. I got so charged up by the process, in fact, that I briefly considered blowing off a commitment I'd made earlier in the week to attend a MoveOn.org phone-bank house party in Mesa, on the grounds that I didn't want to waste the 20-30 minutes that getting myself there and back would require.
But as morning turned to early afternoon and afternoon started winding down, destiny seemed determined to lend a hand in sorting out my plans, as destiny often does: The crisp response that the phone-bank servers here at BarackObama.com showed all morning—feeding up new contacts as fast as I could enter response data on the previous one—started to slow around 1:00.
By 2:00, the servers seemed overwhelmed by the sheer volume of demands on the system—apparently from so many Barack O-volunteers phone-banking simultaneously—that calls took longer and longer to complete. By 3:00, after waiting 5 minutes or so for the system to process my button-click request for 20 new contacts, I decided to restart my computer to clear its cache and, hopefully, get myself back into the game.
When that didn't work, the 4:00 MoveOn house party started looking like the only game in town for the foreseeable future, and the commute suddenly seemed worth the down time.
It was all that, and more.
Specific #2: Even though I only got to make 20 calls to MoveOn.com-ers, I got back in touch with something that I've missed for the past week or two—however long it’s been since my last group phone-bank work: How good it feels to connect with a new group of progressive people who just happen to get that this campaign is only about voting on its surface.
Under the hood, providing all the power that the primaries and causcuses reflect and measure, is a real commitment to action and participation.
In fact, here's the way I responded a few hours ago to MoveOn's request for feedback on the event. There's a moral in here, too. Let's see if we both can find it...
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What was your role in the house party? Guest
How did the event go in general? (on a scale of 1-10 where 10 is high): 10 (best)
How many people attended your house party? 7
Do you feel you made a difference? Definitely
Why/why not? I feel that our house party (and all the others, like it) made a real difference because participation, per se, is the central issue in the Obama movement and the main ingredient in its success to date. Barack Obama understands that political power is nurtured by mobilizing an empowered core of activist-participants, and is grown by increasing the number of opportunities for those people to connect with each other, exchange ideas and perspectives, and thereby multiply their influence among the electorate via coordinated action. I'm thrilled to have had the opportunity to meet and become personally involved with the other participants in today's house party, and I hope (and intend) that we stay connected in the future.
Did you or anyone at your party discover anything that made the calls more effective?Understanding the basic points of the script well enough that it stops being a "script" and, instead, becomes a set of talking points within a larger narrative of personal communication built on authenticity.
What happened at your party?We met, listened to the conference call, and went to work!
What was the best moment? Making calls, then comparing notes (and personal histories) as we got to know each other, during breaks.
If we do this again, what would you suggest we change? Increase the frequency! Is there anything else you want to tell us? Thanks to MoveOn for taking a stand in the nominating process, and for taking responsibility for increasing member participation in the Obama campaign.
Specific #3: Then, after e-mailing my thanks to all my new MoveOn.org party-people friends, I found will.i.am's new video "We Are the Ones" at http://www.dipdive.com/dip-politics/wato/
It's the follow-up to "Yes We Can," and it's every bit as remarkable as the earlier song and video—even more so, in a way, because "We Are the Ones" shifts the focus from Barack's words (except, in a defining moment, towards the song’s end, when he reminds us that "We are the ones we've been waiting for”) to us — and the breathtakingly-simple and honorable dreams we all share.
If you haven't seen it, see it now. And if you have seen it, share it with all your friends—even, like I just did, with brand-new friends I met today phone-banking MoveOn.org members in Texas at a house party in Mesa, Arizona.
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
And I’m thrilled to play even a small part* in inviting the rest of us to the party, so that a skinny, unlikely community-organizer from Chicago can project our vision for America to the rest of the world.
*Except there are no small parts in this movement, only real work that needs to be done. At least it’s fun doing it.
Check out this great video! http://www.youtube.com/v/ghSJsEVf0pU
Check out "We Are the Ones" from the makers of the ever so popular "Yes We Can" video.
Did you get to see this?? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghSJsEVf0pU
Send it around and around and around ...
This weekend is very important - TX and OH are just around the corner!
We're getting closer and closer to 1,000,000 calls
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/phonebankmap
(... but we need a lot more calling!)
Yes We Can. Si Se Puede.Obama 08~LaLaInKCMO
