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John Farnham: You’re The Voice

Creator: “You’re the Voice” is a song written by Andy Qunta, Keith Reid, Maggie Ryder and Chris Thompson for John Farnham. It was recorded in 1986 and released on his album “Whispering Jack”.

Purpose: The song is about standing up to make your family and the world work a little better.

Song Manifesto

We have

The chance to turn the pages over

We can write what we want to write

We gotta make ends meet, before we get much older

We’re all someone’s daughter

We’re all someone’s son

How long can we look at each other

Down the barrel of a gun?

Chorus:

You’re the voice, try and understand it

Make a noise and make it clear

Oh-o-o-o, whoa-o-o-o!

We’re not gonna sit in silence

We’re not gonna live with fear

Oh-o-o-o, whoa-o-o-o!

This time

We know we all stand together

With the power to be powerful

Believing, we can make it better

Oooooooh,

We’re all someone’s daughter

We’re all someone’s son

How long can we look at each other

Down the barrel of a gun?…

You’re the voice, try and understand it

Make a noise and make it clear

Oh-o-o-o, whoa-o-o-o!

We’re not gonna sit in silence

We’re not gonna live with fear

Oh-o-o-o, whoa-o-o-o!

{Instrumental[Bag Pipes(Tin Whistle)]}

Ooooooh

We’re all someone’s daughter

We’re all someone’s son

How long can we look at each other

Down the barrel of a gun?…

You’re the voice, try and understand it

Make a noise and make it clear

Oh-o-o-o, whoa-o-o-o!

We’re not gonna sit in silence

We’re not gonna live with fear

Oh-o-o-o, whoa-o-o-o!

(repeat until end of song)

Source

Original Song Video: http://youtu.be/KxlE7yCSHAM

Song Lyrics: http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/you%27re-the-voice-lyrics-john-farnham/e9f84d430c37581048256aa9001e6d9f

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re_the_Voice

Official John Farnham website: http://www.johnfarnham.com.au/

Rose Tattoo: We Can’t Be Beaten

Creator: Rose Tattoo’s song ‘We Can’t Be Beaten’ was released in 1982

Purpose: An anthem to “make the streets free”. (song lyrics)

Song Manifesto

If ya wanna be in my gang, stand up with me
We’ll start a revolution and make the streets free
We’ll never weaken, we’ll give it our best
Can’t be defeated, we’re better than the rest

Shoulder to shoulder, we’re gonna stand
We’re gonna fight to the very last man
Can’t be defeated, don’t know the word
Shoulder to shoulder, we’ll fight the world

We can’t be beaten, what’ll we tell ’em boys
We can’t be beaten

There comes a time, when every man must fight
When he believes in justice and right
He’ll take so much till he’ll take no more
They’ll hear us coming when they hear the mighty roar

Shoulder to shoulder, we’re gonna stand
We’re gonna fight to the very last man
Can’t be defeated, don’t know the word
Shoulder to shoulder, we’ll fight the world

We can’t be beaten, Let me hear ya
We can’t be beaten, Sing it out loud
We can’t be beaten, We’ll tell the world
We can’t be beaten

Now listen, everybody out there that really cares
You gotta realize that you’re the real power
We can rule the streets
It’s just up to you and me

Can’t be defeated, don’t know the word
Shoulder to shoulder, we’ll fight the world

‘Cause
We can’t be beaten, hey hey
We can’t be beaten, you gotta believe it
We can’t be beaten, they’ll soon find out
We can’t be beaten, no
We can’t be beaten
We can’t be beaten, when they hear our voice
We can’t be beaten, they’ll hear us comin’
We can’t be beaten, we’ve got the cause to fight

Source

Official Band Website: http://www.rosetattoo.com.au/

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Tattoo

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZZnhBQXRaI

Lyrics: http://www.lyricstime.com/rose-tattoo-we-can-t-be-beaten-lyrics.html

Bobby McFerrin: Don’t Worry, Be Happy

Creator: Bobby McFerrin released the song ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy’ in 1998 (Capitol Records) and it rose to #1 on Billboard and won a Grammy for Song of the Year in 1989.

Purpose: The saying ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy’ was made famous by Meher Baba. And McFerrin wrote the song because it was a “…pretty neat philosophy in four words”. (Wikipedia)

Song Manifesto

Here is a little song I wrote

You might want to sing it note for note

Don’t worry be happy

In every life we have some trouble

When you worry you make it double

Don’t worry, be happy……

Ain’t got no place to lay your head

Somebody came and took your bed

Don’t worry, be happy

The land lord say your rent is late

He may have to litigate

Don’t worry, be happy

Lood at me I am happy

Don’t worry, be happy

Here I give you my phone number

When you worry call me

I make you happy

Don’t worry, be happy

Ain’t got no cash, ain’t got no style

Ain’t got not girl to make you smile

But don’t worry be happy

Cause when you worry

Your face will frown

And that will bring everybody down

So don’t worry, be happy (now)…..

There is this little song I wrote

I hope you learn it note for note

Like good little children

Don’t worry, be happy

Listen to what I say

In your life expect some trouble

But when you worry

You make it double

Don’t worry, be happy……

Don’t worry don’t do it, be happy

Put a smile on your face

Don’t bring everybody down like this

Don’t worry, it will soon past

Whatever it is

Don’t worry, be happy

Source

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Worry,_Be_Happy

Lyrics: http://www.lyricsondemand.com/onehitwonders/dontworrybehappylyrics.html

Community Engine Culture, People and Core Values

Creator: Community Engine: provides social media, membership management & community engagement technology, products and services for all types of organisations, including business, government and the not-for-profit sector.

Purpose: To build a successful organisation.

Manifesto

Our Culture and People

We’re a smart, creative and agile group of people, with a relentlessly positive culture that supports rapid change and fast growth.

We have a track record of achieving big things. How do we manage it? By openly recognising and addressing the challenges that face us.

Get used to learning by doing. We keep our business agile by practicing the art of achieving clarity through action – by acting, reflecting and reacting rapidly.

We believe simplicity is everything. From the way we engage with customers to the way we design, build and support our software – we look to simplify. We even made it a verb: to ‘simplicate’.

Our core values, simply stated

We make software with a purpose.

Social networking software has the power to improve the way we live, work and play. Our mission is to put the power of social network publishing into the hands of the community, for the benefit of all.

We work with – not for – Community Engine.

We make software for collaboration and we collaborate at work and with our customers.

We seek to ‘simplicate’ everything.

From the way we engage with our customers to the way we design, build and support our software; we look to simplify. Simple is strong, easy to grasp and quick to learn. Simple scales rapidly, and we grow fast.

We seek clarity through action.

We believe in the power of doing, so get stuck in and have a go. Through experimentation, risk and measurement we learn more, faster, about what works better.

We are relentlessly positive.

We believe every challenge contains an opportunity. It may be wrapped in many layers of cheap, nasty paper, but it’s in there.

We employ self-sustaining people.

We employ the brightest talent, provide them with a collaborative and supporting environment and allow them to grow.

Customers matter.

Our customers give us their time, money and trust. In return, we owe them great service, intuitive products and respect.

Source

Website: http://www.communityengine.com/careers/culture-and-people/

The Euston Manifesto

Creator: Norman Geras, Damian Counsell, Alan Johnson, Shalom Lappin and 2844 others in 2006.

Purpose: “For a Renewal of Progressive Politics.”

The Euston Manifesto

The Manifesto consists of four sections:

1. Preamble

2. Statement of Principles

3. Elaborations

4. Conclusion

The following are the headings in the Statement of Principles Section:

1. For democracy

2. No apology for tyranny

3. Human rights for all

4. Equality

5. Development for freedom

6. Opposing anti-Americanism

7. For a two-state solution

8. Against racism

9. United against terror

10. A new internationalism

11. A critical openness

12. Historical truth

13. Freedom of ideas

14. Open source

15. A precious heritage

Source

Complete Manifesto: http://eustonmanifesto.org/the-euston-manifesto/

General: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euston_Manifesto

Photo: The launch of the Euston Manifesto

The Vogma Manifesto

Creator: Adrian Miles, RMIT, Melbourne.

Purpose: The principles for creating a Vog. A Vog is a video blog (web diary) that explores the relation of the word to the moving image with an emphasis on radical notions of interactivity.

Note: A Vog is more commonly known as a Vlog today.

the vogma manifesto

[ in no particular order ]

1. a vog respects bandwidth

2. a vog is not streaming video (this is not the reinvention of television)

3. a vog uses performative video and/or audio

4. a vog is personal

5. a vog uses available technology

6. a vog experiments with writerly video and audio

7. a vog lies between writing and the televisual

8. a vog explores the proximate distance of words and moving media

9. a vog is dziga vertov with a mac and a modem

10. a vog is a video blog where video in a blog must be more than video in a blog

Note: Principles 1-9 were written 6-12-2000, Principle 10 was added 2-2-2003.

Source

Website: http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/manifesto/

The Cloud Appreciation Society Manifesto

Creator: The Cloud Appreciation Society

Purpose: Because “…we love clouds and we’re not ashamed to say it and we’ve had enough of people moaning about them.” (Society home page).

The Cloud Appreciation Society Manifesto

WE BELIEVE that clouds are unjustly maligned and that life would be immeasurably poorer without them.

We think that they are Nature’s poetry, and the most egalitarian of her displays, since everyone can have a fantastic view of them.

We pledge to fight ‘blue-sky thinking’ wherever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day.

We seek to remind people that clouds are expressions of the atmosphere’s moods, and can be read like those of a person’s countenance.

Clouds are so commonplace that their beauty is often overlooked. They are for dreamers and their contemplation benefits the soul. Indeed, all who consider the shapes they see in them will save on psychoanalysis bills.

And so we say to all who’ll listen:Look up, marvel at the ephemeral beauty, and live life with your head in the clouds!

Source

Website: http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/manifesto/

The October Manifesto

Creator: Written by Sergei Witte and Alexis Obolenski in early October 1905 and presented to Tsar Nicholas 11 of Russia on 17 October 1905.

Purpose: It was written as a response to the Russian Revolution of 1905. Later, it became the precursor for the first ever Russian Constitution.

The Manifesto on the Improvement of the State Order

(Excerpt)

We require the government dutifully to execute our unshakeable will:

(1.) To grant to the population the essential foundations of civil freedom, based on the principles of genuine inviolability of the person, freedom of conscience, speech, assembly and association.

(2.) Without postponing the scheduled elections to the State Duma, to admit to participation in the duma (insofar as possible in the short time that remains before it is scheduled to convene) of all those classes of the population that now are completely deprived of voting rights; and to leave the further development of a general statute on elections to the future legislative order.

(3.) To establish as an unbreakable rule that no law shall take effect without confirmation by the State Duma and that the elected representatives of the people shall be guaranteed the opportunity to participate in the supervision of the legality of the actions of Our appointed officials.

We summon all loyal sons of Russia to remember their duties toward their country, to assist in terminating the unprecedented unrest now prevailing, and together with Us to make every effort to restore peace and tranquility to Our native land.

Source

General: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Manifesto

Full Text: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/October_Manifesto

Greg Costikyan: The Scratchware Manifesto

Creator: Greg Costikyan, CEO of Manifesto Games.

Purpose: To inspire the gaming industry to being innovative and exciting and not the “morass of drudgery and imitation” it is becoming.

The Scratchware Manifesto

The machinery of gaming has run amok.

Instead of serving creative vision, it suppresses it. Instead of encouraging innovation, it represses it. Instead of taking its cue from our most imaginative minds, it takes its cue from the latest month’s PC Data list. Instead of rewarding those who succeed, it penalizes them with development budgets so high and royalties so low that there can be no reward for creators. Instead of ascribing credit to those who deserve it, it seeks to associate success with the corporate machine.

It is time for revolution.

The Manifesto defines three gaming industry problems and three missions to overcome them:

Problem 1: Driven by Moore’s Law

Mission 1: Build a viable channel for independently-created games.

Problem 2: The narrowness of the retail channel

Mission 2: To create a long tail for games, to allow a thousand different games to find their audience, to smash the iron logic that prohibits innovation.

Problem 3: Publisher cowardice.

Mission 3: To sustain the enormous ferment of creativity we’ve seen over the last three decades into the future, even as the mainstream game industry becomes tired and decayed.

There are also sections titled:

Games are Art

Creators Should Have an Upside

Gamers Rule

And the manifesto concludes with a call to…

Join the Revolution

Join us, and help build a better tomorrow. Get the word out that there’s more to games than you’ll find at Best Buy, and that Manifesto Games is the place to find the best of the rest, the products of individual vision, games created for love and not at the behest of some blinkered suit whose last job was selling Tide.

Let a thousand flowers blossom; let a thousand different games contend.

From now on, we must all strive resolutely to bring about the overthrow of the existing order.

Gameplay over glitz.

Michael Tunison: The Football Fan’s Manifesto

Creator: Michael Tunison, football blogger at KissingSuzyKolber.com. His book, The Football Fan’s Manifesto was published by Harper Collins in 2009.

Purpose: The essential rules and ten commandments that every football fan should know.

The Football Fan’s Ten Commandments

1. You Must Choose Your Team by the Age of Eight.

2. Value That Team Above All Else, Even Yourself.

3. Under No Circumstances Can You Switch Teams (And Expect to Live).

4. There is a Limit to the Amount of Merchandise You Can Own (But It’s Very Generous).

5. Sportsmanship is for the Athletes. Fans Can Gloat Endlessly.

6. A Self-Induced Coma to Skip the Off-season is a Practical Solution to an Annoying Problem.

7. An Inoffensive Fantasy Football Name is a Lame Fantasy Football Name.

8. Wealth Doesn’t Matter So Long As You Don’t Have to Work Weekends.

9. Respect Superstitions. If Your Team Lost, It’s Because You Jinxed Them.

10. In Life, the Order of Importance: Football First, Football Second, Football Third, Family . . . uh, I Don’t Know, twelfth?

Source

Book Promo: http://www.harpercollins.com.au/books/Football-Fans-Manifesto-Michael-Tunison/?isbn=9780061735141

Authors Blog: http://kissingsuzykolber.uproxx.com/