¡Que se vayan todos! - that's the global backlash talking

[CHIMO]

Watching the crowds in Iceland banging pots and pans until their government fell reminded me of a chant popular in anti-capitalist circles in 2002: "You are Enron. We are Argentina."

Its message was simple enough. You - politicians and CEOs huddled at some trade summit - are like the reckless scamming execs at Enron (of course, we didn't know the half of it). We - the rabble outside - are like the people of Argentina, who, in the midst of an economic crisis eerily similar to our own, took to the street banging pots and pans. They shouted, "¡Que se vayan todos!" ("All of them must go!") - and forced out a procession of four presidents in less than three weeks. What made Argentina's 2001-02 uprising unique was that it wasn't directed at a particular political party or even at corruption in the abstract. The target was the dominant economic model: this was the first national revolt against contemporary deregulated capitalism.

It has taken a while, but from Iceland to Latvia, South Korea to Greece, the rest of the world is finally having its ¡Que se vayan todos! moment.

The stoic Icelandic matriarchs beating their pots flat even as their kids ransack the fridge for projectiles (eggs, sure, but yoghurt?) echo the tactics made famous in Buenos Aires. So does the collective rage at elites who trashed a once thriving country and thought they could get away with it. As Gudrun Jonsdottir, a 36-year-old Icelandic office worker, put it: "I've just had enough of this whole thing. I don't trust the government, I don't trust the banks, I don't trust the political parties and I don't trust the IMF. We had a good country, and they ruined it."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/06/global-recession-backlash

[Xipe Totec]

1. Speaking as Equals...

León Gieco & Carlos Núñez - De igual a igual

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcJT4n4XhZE

I’m a Bolivian in Italy,
a Colombian in New York,
a South American in Spain
and a Paraguayan in Asuncion.

I’m a Spaniard in Argentina
and a German in El Salvador
I’m a Frenchman gone to Chile
and a Japanese in Ecuador

The world is paneled
with woods from Brazil
and there’s big holes left
in the missionary jungles

Europe has forgotten
the ships she sent this way
People wounded by the wars
were sheltered by this land

If you ask me to go back where I came from
I’ll ask you to take your enterprises from my country
and that’s the way it’s going to be, speaking as equals
and that’s the way it’s going to be, speaking as equals

Tico, Nica, from Borinquen,
Arjo, Mejo, from Panamá
form a line at the embassy
to hope and dream

While the Thiefs
full of precedent
asks for immigration papers
demanded by the president

If you ask me to go back where I came from
I’ll ask you to take your enterprises from my country
and that’s the way it’s going to be, speaking as equals
and that’s the way it’s going to be, speaking as equals

Those so-called illegals
that have no documents
lose their faith
without work or hope

The illegals are those
That let Pinochet get away
While England boasted
of its honor and it’s laws

If you ask me to go back where I came from
I’ll ask you to take your enterprises from my country
and that’s the way it’s going to be, speaking as equals
and that’s the way it’s going to be, speaking as equals

[valerief]

2. We need that girl Tanisha(?) from the Bad Girls Club to be our leader. She's a great pot-banger. nt