Patti Smith, Michael Stipe, Cyndi Lauper e mais fazem versão de ‘People Have the Power’

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Patti Smith reuniu um grupo de estrelas para uma versão de seu clássico “People Have the Power”. Entre os nomes estão Michael Stipe, Joan Baez, Ben Harper, Cyndi Lauper, Nikolai Fraiture (The Strokes), Tony Hawk e Stella McCartney.

A canção foi gravada para incentivar os cidadãos a votarem, com apoio da organização sem fins lucrativos Pathway to Paris, fundada por Jesse Paris Smith, filha da “madrinha punk”. Confira o vídeo abaixo.

“É uma convocação para que os americanos votem em novembro, e para que todos no mundo votem em suas próprias eleições locais, sempre que possível”, diz a legenda do clipe no Instagram. “Vote frequentemente e em qualquer lugar; em seu país, em seu estado, em sua cidade, em seu bairro, em sua escola. Vote para escolher algo, vote para rejeitar algo. A noção de ‘votar’ é um pedido para exercer seu direito de ‘usar sua voz'”.

 

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On their 6 year anniversary, during Climate Week NYC, Pathway to Paris has released a new video featuring individuals from around the world singing the song ‘People Have the Power,’ written by Patti Smith and the late Fred Sonic Smith. Along with Patti Smith and Founders of PTP, Jesse Paris Smith and Rebecca Foon, the video includes participants from 24 countries, 38 cities, and 6 continents. Fred Sonic Smith envisioned this song to be an anthem for the world, to serve as a unifying aid and amplifier for protest movements, political campaigns, and more. It has been claimed globally by individuals and groups, sung by choirs, children, chanted during marches and protests, its lyrics adorning handmade signs, sung during political campaigns, gatherings for environmental and humanitarian causes, and often serving as a finale song for fundraisers and concerts, as it has for all PTP events since 2014. This is the simple notion of the video: ‘VOTE.’ A call for Americans to vote in November, and for everyone in the world to vote in their own local elections, whenever they may be. Vote often and everywhere; in your country, in your state, in your city, in your neighborhood, in your school. Vote to choose something, vote to reject something. The notion to ‘vote’ is the plea to exercise your right to ‘use your voice’. Identifying your own platforms, abilities, and resources, and using them to your advantage – in the voting polls, writing letters, signing petitions, calling local government officials, organizing concerts, speaking to your family, friends, and neighbors. Have the difficult discussions, have the hopeful discussions, and ‘vote like your life depends on it, because it does.’ This coming election serves as an enormous opportunity to help move the Paris Agreement into action. Pathway to Paris brings together what seems to be both our finale song for the current era, and an opening song for the next. Let’s not allow 2020 to be the finale for the end of the world, but a transition into something new, as we join together like never before in human history, to start a new chapter of true unity – a new era for each other, for our children, and future generations.

Uma publicação compartilhada por Pathway to Paris (@pathway2paris) em 22 de Set, 2020 às 6:00 PDT