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The War Against Forgetting

from It Is Right to Rebel by Mat Callahan & Yvonne Moore

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    It Is Right to Rebel is an exciting and thought provoking new record from Mat Callahan & Yvonne Moore and friends. The double LP consisting of 15 tracks are mostly rooted in the folk music tradition with the unifying elements of rhythm, group singing and acoustic music. Lyrically it deals with topics such as the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, political prisoners and environmental issues.

    The central theme of the record is awareness. It Is Right to Rebel is a battle cry, a wake up call, an invitation to join the struggles of our time, a celebration of rebellion and social movements and a musical thumbs up to all the people that realize that big changes have to be made.

    The double album comes in a gatefold sleeve with cover art made by graphic designer and author of The Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels, Josh McPhee, from the Just Seeds collective.

    It Is Right to Rebel is a true product of internationalism. It is recorded in Switzerland by an American and a gang of Swiss musicians, the cover art is made by an American activist from Brooklyn and the record is released by a Norwegian leftist record label.

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In 2000 the Zapatistas launched a campaign called "The War Against Forgetting." The obvious targets were the erasure from history of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and the ongoing plunder carried out by modern-day Conquistadors. But, as so often with the Zapatistas, there was another insight woven into their slogan's poetic imagery: the vast memory storage capacity offered by computers was a snare and a delusion. The theft of our collective memory was disguised by its conversion into "data" stored on hard drives or in clouds. This erasure was even more devastating as it took with it the ability to think critically and to imagine a future that is different than the present or the past.
– Mat Callahan

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The War Against Forgetting

We headed for the hills
with our children and our animals,
we left the camp a ruin and we left the plains to burn
The soldiers were a-comin',
a cloud of dust approaching,
a thunder and a squealing of the gears on gatling guns

CHORUS:

In the war against forgetting
there will be no prisoners taken
'cause if no one can remember,
no one can foresee
In the war against forgetting
as our memories awaken, (as our shackles we are breaking)
the future is our banner
as we make history

It wasn't just their numbers
or the power of their weapons
their lies are what disarmed us, such boundless treachery
They promised bright tomorrows
in return for all our yesterdays
our struggle soon forgotten, then work would make us free

CHORUS

Down the generations
we have borne ten thousand sorrows
we groaned beneath the mountains of the slaughter and the lie
But the strength of our resistance
is greater than the horror
we hear the truth undaunted in a new born baby's cry

CODA:
Their books can’t make us disappear,
For wherever there is,
We are here!

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from It Is Right to Rebel, released July 29, 2022

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Mat Callahan & Yvonne Moore and friends will release their album It is Right to Rebel in 2022.

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