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From Little Things Big Things Grow

Submitted September 15, 2008 - 1:18 am by Brendan Corcoran

Al, your final phrase reminded me about how central to this whole campaign and movement are the little things that we too often forget or discount. 

In honor of all the little things that are growing into truly marvelous "big things," I encourage everyone to check out the following videos of Paul Kelly and Vincent Lingiari's classic song about the beginnings of the Native Title movement in Australia. 

* From the 2006 Make Poverty History concerts. 

* From the 2007 Live Earth concerts. (Yes, seriousness about the environment remains the touchstone of this campaign and movement.)

* The GetUpMob's remix commemorating Australia's transformative election of Kevin Rudd, which led to the extraordinary 2008 Australian Sorry Day and Official state apology for the Stolen Generations and Australia's racist policies towards Aborigines. This video is seemingly influenced by will.i.am's great Obama video remix. 

The point is that we don't know WHAT the little thing is that will bring the Change We Need. What we do know is that in the same way that Australia was welcomed back into the communion of responsible and serious nations after the fall of the absurdist Howard regime, so to will the USA be welcomed back into this communion of nations with the election of Barack Obama. 

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