New campaign jingle/ringtone from US Hip-hop artists
For immediate download: http://textbackusa.mstore.xingtone.com/
ARTISTS ACROSS THE U.S. UPLOAD FREE RING TONES WITH TEXT B.A.C.K. USA;
US FILIPINO YOUTH LAUNCHED E-BOTO KABATAAN CAMPAIGN
Hip-hop artists, BLUE SCHOLARS and KIWI, and metal/punk bands, FLATTBUSH and KADENA condemn the political killings in the Philippines and have joined the TEXT B.A.C.K . USA (TEXT Brigade Against Cheatings and Killings USA) campaign, uploading their music as ring tones to literally ROCK THE VOTE for the Kabataan Party list on May 14, 2007 and to further advance the ÒStop The KillingsÓ campaign.
These artists, and others across the US have either held concerts or nation-wide tours as part of the Stop the Killings campaign earlier this year, and are now taking their music to the universe text-powered campaigning to draw attention to the escalation of extra-judicial killings and to bolster the campaign of the Kabataan Party with political support from around the world.
In support of the TEXT BACK campaign the US Filipino youth and students sector also launched “E-Boto Kabataan Campaign” youth-powered by Anakbayan-New York/New Jersey, Anakbayan-Los Angeles, Anakbayan-Seattle, Anakbayan East Bay, Anakbayan-Honolulu, League of Filipino Students (LFS) SFSU, Sandiwa National Filipino Youth Alliance, PF Youth will be spreading the word to thousands of youth via text and cyberspace. “We are using the technology of text messaging and the internet to spread our message. We call on all youth to download the ring tones, and text, e-mail, and
myspace message all their friends and families continuously over the next 3 days,” said Christina Hilo, member of Anakbayan-NY/NJ one of the
initiators of ÒE-Boto KabataanÓ.
TEXT Brigaders Against the Cheatings and Killings can now download exclusive, FREE ring tones at http://textbackusa.mstore.xingtone.com/ as part of the TEXT B.A.C.K. USA and “E-Boto Kabataan” Campaigns’ “Effort of the US Filipino youth to blast thousands upon thousands of “E” mails to the Filipino youth for last minute campaign for Kabataan Party. A SAMPLE BALLOT can also be viewed while downloading your TEXT B.A.C.K USA artists’ ring tones.
The launching of the exclusive TEXT B.A.C.K. USA artists’ ring tones also coincides with the re-launching of the TXTPOWER website (www.txtpower.org) that exposed the election fraud via the most popularly-downloaded “Hello Garci” ring tone in 2005. The “E-Boto Kabataan” Campaign is the response to the launching of the Kabataan Party’s “Kabataan Cyber Fever.”
Lyrics:
For the workers
For the students
For the peasants
For the women
For the poor
For the hungry
For the youth
KABATAAN (partylist)
Human rights
Education
For our people
For our nation
For our future
For our life
KABATAAN (partylist)
Kiwi:
This is our mission / this is our struggle
This is history rewritten… . this is for the children
Switchin’ up the drama of this system / now listen
The youth are in the building / bringing you a newer vision
It’s time to mobilize / take to the streets and organize
Take control of our lives / see the world with open eyes
The youth see through the lies / and we want what is just
They’re sayin we’re the future, so the future’s up to US!
It’s our basic right to get a decent education
So we can have the tools to really build a better nation
Para sa ating bayan nyayon ay lumalaban
Isangmahal sa lahat ng mga KABATAAN!!!