Utah Phillips said it: current protest songs and movements are about "I", not about "we."

It's now, "What's in the strike/protest/demonstration for ME?" and not "What's in it for US?"

"One big union" -- the old Wobblies had that right. It can't be a mish-mash of gay rights, women's right, civil rights, religious rights -- it's got to be a call for "Human Rights", the rights of everyone to live freely and responsibly (for they got hand-in-hand), to allow people to be different and to celebrate the differences, to see that all who can work can get work for decent wages and benefits in decent and safe working conditions, and, perhaps most importantly, for people to have the hope and vision that things will be better for their children. We should be building a better future on the past.

Ol' Ben Franklin said it best: If we don't all hang together, we'll all hang separately.