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In Kingston Jamaica, in 1968, Leonard Dillon and his band The Ethiopians recorded a song called Everything Crash. It was a year of protests, demonstrations and violence. In Jamaica, France, Ireland, the USA, South America, Pakistan and many other countries, young people took to the streets to voice their frustration at governments that were ineffectual, unrepresentative or simply corrupt.
The following year, Prince Buster, the influential songwriter and producer who helped create Ska, recorded a version of Everything Crash. He called it... 
Fast forward over fifty years and again there are protests, demonstrations and violence. All over the earth, young people are protesting against genocide, demonstrating against ecocide and rising up against political corruption. The protest songs written by The Ethiopians and Prince Buster in the 1960s are just as relevant in the 2020s, because governments are still ineffectual, unrepresentative and corrupt. The protests of 1968 ended a war, and so will the protests of 2024.
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