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ultralite001

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Mon Jan 19, 2026, 07:14 PM Monday

Patti Smith -- "People Have The Power" -- Riverside Church -- 01/15/2012

On MLK's birthday, during Occupy Wall Street, video journalist Sandi Bachom filmed Patti Smith singing, "People Have The Power: at his church.

"The people have the power to redeem the work of fools"

"The great Patti Smith moved us all to tears with her beautiful poem in honor of Martin Luther King and in Occupy Wall Street Solidarity during the #J15 Candlelight Vigil at Riverside Church tonight, reminding us that it is the people who have the power."


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