We Walk Lyrics
To honor our grannies and sons.
We walk for an end to corruption
To "the will of the people be done."
About
The #NHRebellion walk was a political protest march from Dixville Notch to Nashua, NH, in January, 2014, inspired by Granny D and Aaron Swartz.
At the age of 88, Doris Haddock (aka, Granny D) began walking across the country from LA in January 1999. Thirteen months later, she arrived in DC at the age of 90.
Aaron Swartz was a social and political activist who was driven to suicide by federal prosecutors after he was accused of trying to “liberate” academic articles to the developing world.
The walk began on the one year anniversary of Aaron Swartz’s death. It ended on what would have been Granny D’s 104th birthday. Its purpose was to revive an anti-corruption movement in New Hampshire, so that this issue might be a central issue in the 2016 campaign.
Walkers on the walk sang this song as they crossed the 185 miles from the top of New Hampshire to the bottom. In January, in case you forgot that bit.
The song was written by Colin Mutchler, and is arranged and sung here by Lawrence Lessig. The music is licensed CC-BY; the recording is CC-BY.
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