Live 8 must also transform high-energy outrage into an enduring legacy of change.
Sporadic demonstrations have rippled through the country over the last few weeks, as oil workers and nightclub owners, communications workers and communists try to yoke the energy and outrage that toppled President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and galvanized much of the Middle East.
Rustin sang in nightclubs to earn money, and once appeared with Paul Robeson in the Broadway musical John Henry, but he found other ways to channel his prodigious energy, his outrage against racism and his growing talent as an organizer.
For anyone remotely interested in how great art is made, this is the equivalent of an audio master class as Dylan works, reworks and reworks again the song until it sonically captures the energy, defiance, outrage, empathy, celebration and liberation embedded in the lyrics.
Nor can you funnel the energy and outrage of a popular movement into a single race, behind a single well-worn candidate, at a time when all the money in the world from corporate "individuals" and right-wing billionaires is pouring into races like the Walker recall.
In short, we need the same energy and outrage that's focused on bots to be focused on the creation of new policies that demand arts be a central part of our local students' educational development, no matter the political or fiscal climate.
Le Carre enthuses about Meirelles's 'controlled energy and organised outrage'.
Though the manifesto's call for investment in nuclear energy excited predictable outrage, most of the criticism of it was more about tone than content.
No energy left for outrage.
We call upon them to believe in us, and not to squander this new energy dominated by outrage and dread.
Channeling this collective outrage, energy, and demand for change, four ambitious organizers came together to plan a gathering of folk singers, world leaders, activists, and thousands of fired-up youth demanding change.
