Hawaiian Singer crashes Obama summit with 'Occupy' song

Have you ever experience fighting for your right against someone who is more superior than you? Or being a protest member who endlessly march the street while screaming for the government to notice and hear your voice? Well, there are really times that we felt injustice, powerless and being an inferior who wants to dignified ourselves because we are right to what we’re fighting for.

As what is happening around us now, inequality is everywhere and we all wanted to prevent it for the government to acknowledge our dignity as a person and as a human being, who deserves to know our rights and not to be confused doing it!

I wish we’re more than brave like Makana, a 33 years old popular Hawaiian recording artist who was enlisted to play an Hawaiian feast or known as ‘luau’ during the APEC summit which was in Honolulu Hawaii. In the midst of the dinner of Pacific-Rim leaders that was hosted by President Obama, Makana pulled open his jacket to reveal a T-shirt that read “Occupy with Aloha” and then sang a marathon version of his new song “We Are The Many” to support the Occupy movement.

Occupy Wall Street, or popularly known as OWS is initiated by Adbusters, a Canadian activist group that began on September 17, 2011 in a series of demonstrations in Zuccotti Park New York in the Wall Street financial district and participants are mainly protesting social and economic inequality, corporate greed, corruption and influence over government.

This is particularly from the financial services sector—as well as lobbyists and the jobless rate. Its slogan, “We Are 99%” refers to the diffrence in wealth and income growth in the U.S. between the wealthiest 1% and the rest of the population.

As Makana sang the song, about 400 protesters including anti-globalization and native Hawaiian rights activists staged a protest march toward the dinner site but turned back after encountering the smothering security.

Makana said that he released the song on the Internet the day before and decided to play it at the urging of fans.

The song “We Are The Many” features the refrain, “We’ll occupy the streets, we’ll occupy the courts, we’ll occupy the offices of you, till you do the bidding of the many, not the few.”

The Hawaiian singer sang it “over and over” for 40 minutes, varying his tempo and delivery to avoid triggering an overt reaction.

“I was pretty nervous. In fact I was terrified. I kept thinking ‘what are the consequences going to be? It was incredibly comical. I was terrified but also enjoying it,” Makana told the AFP.

Protest long enough as long as you’re absolutely right because you have the right!