Newton Falls activist pens protest song

Staff report

“Let’s Rally at the Fed.”

That’s the musical invitation and call to action in “We the People Anthem USA,” a patriotic protest song by grass-roots activist and U.S. Air Force veteran Daniel E. Moore of Newton Falls.

His song can be heard on Youtube.com and standunited.weebly.com.

“Protest music has a long history associated with peace, labor, anti-slavery, civil rights and social movements,” said Moore. “Song lyrics help unify people and make difficult times more bearable. They include a message of hope that long-lasting social change is possible with perseverance and unity.”

Moore, a member of the United Steelworkers Union, is sympathetic to the anger, frustration and sense of powerlessness of the Tea Party movement. But, he said, they lack a clear, positive plan of citizen-based economic empowerment that would bring about limited government. The underlying message in his song advocates the passage of a Capital Homesteading Act (named after Abraham Lincoln’s Homestead Act of 1862), which would turn every citizen into an independent co-owner of productive capital assets.

“Capital homesteading would expand citizen access to private-property rights, encourage just and freely competitive markets, and democratize the economic power today monopolized by politicians, bureaucrats and Wall Street controllers of money,” said Moore.

Moore plans to release a CD called “Out of Control,” which he sees as a means for promoting the CHA, monetary reforms and widespread citizen and worker ownership. For more information, go to ownthefed.org.

Norm Kurland is the co-founder of the Coalition for Capital Homesteading, based in Arlington, Va. Kurland is a Korean War veteran, lawyer and post-Keynesian economist who is organizing the coalition’s seventh annual rally in front of the Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C., in April.

The coalition’s goal is to get Congress to pass the Capital Homestead Act by 2012, the 150th anniversary of Lincoln’s law granting frontier land to pioneers.