Download the JaGoFF album, "SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP" for FREE here: jagoff.bandcamp.com SIT DOWN & SHUT UP (named after a Chicago anti-protest ordinance bit.ly/IrAXOS ) is an audio documentary from the front lines, simply put FROM THE STREET AND FOR THE STREET. This is our humble attempt of following in the great Folkways tradition to speak to a 2012 audience. An unwilling participant surrounded by a failing educational system, crumbling infrastructure, privatization, SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, CISPA, free speech zones, tear gas, flashbangs, rubber bullets, tear gas & pepper spray (not to mention sound cannons and an arsenal of other tax funded, crowd control toys). In late September of 2011, Chicago filmmakers/artist/musicians JaGoFF headed out to document the few dozen folks that had gathered to echo what a few days earlier had begun as a small ripple on Wall Street. We engaged in conversations across the board, from students saddled with massive debt to single mothers holding down multiple jobs, teachers, social workers, unemployed construction workers and nurses. Political affiliation did NOT matter. People were finding common ground - pointing to the growing disconnect that Washington and Wall Street had with the rest of the country. It certainly felt like a tipping point. Within a few weeks, the dozens of folks grew to thousands marching in the streets. Thousands marched and thousands were arrested. Absent in all of this was the "mainstream media", filling the void were citizen ...