Chase Bank and their ilk are busy funding fossil fools. Enough/genug!
I added a song.
(All Along the Watchtower)
There must be some way out of here
Said the broker to the thief (same guy)
My profit comes from climate change
Destruction of barrier reefs
Droughts and floods and fires
Our greed destroys the earth
None of us who ruin it
Know what any of it is worth
No reason to get excited
The skeptic slyly spoke
It’s just a hoax from socialists
Or maybe some kind of joke
But you and I must shout it out
Or this will be our fate
So let us not talk falsely now
The hour is getting late
All along renewable power
Has been clearly in view
While all the oilmen plundered us
Coal and nuclear too
Outside all the people
Marched for sanity
Moment of truth approaching
To save humanity
Friend of the Fetus
Carole Rose Livingston (d. 2003) wrote this. Lots of people have performed and recorded it. Few men, though, and she was happy to hear it voiced by that alleged gender. Now she’s rolling over in her grave at the current wave of regression and suppression.
And I am no friend to the sisters and brothers
And I am no friend to the weak and distressed
And I am no friend to the poor and oppressed, but
Chorus:
I’m a friend of the fetus
A friend of incomparable worth
I’m a friend of the fetus
Right up to the moment of birth
Once it’s a baby I will not go near it
I will not feed it and I will not rear it
And when it is crying I won’t even hear it
For I have no room in my heart for a human, but
Chorus
I will not care for it, I won’t be there for it
I will not weep for it, I won’t lose sleep for it
I’ll back away from it, I won’t go gray from it
I will not pray for it, and I won’t pay for it, but
Chorus
Game’s Over
Now or Never Climate Coalition demonstrated at the Congressional Baseball game to demand, well, climate action now. As in, emergency. Several arrests.
Song by Meg Starr and DL.
Ciao, Hierarchy
Ciao, Hierarchy: A Zapatista-Rojava-Ukraine rally. With song. Wait for it.
Imagine Healthcare
Re-imagined Lennonism in service of a widely flouted human right.
it’s easy if you try
Freedom to choose your doctor,
no extra stuff to buy
Imagine 1st class treatment
when you’re unemployed
Imagine care for everyone,
no greedy middleman
No premium, no co-pay,
a single payer plan
Imagine long-term illness
but you don’t lose your home
You may say I’m a dreamer,
but we have a common wealth
I hope someday we’ll join up
And the world can live in health
Can you say “Universal”?
I wonder if you can?
Now try “Comprehensive”,
does that sound like a plan??
It’s worked for years in Europe,
Canada & Japan
You may say I’m a dreamer,
but we have a common wealth
I hope someday we’ll join them
And the world can live in health
BDS Mock Debate
OK OK It’s not a song. It’s a skit/play/dramedy. Performed in Chapel Hill, 2017.
The 1st 12 Days of Biden
The possibly incoming President hasn’t specifically told me he doesn’t want my input on what to do in his first twelve days, so here he goes. Memo sent.
Vocals by Dave Lippman and Ellen Davidson
Close the camps, set the families free
On his second day in the White House, the voters said to Joe
Get brokers to sell groceries
And fully fund recovery
On his third day in the White House, the voters said to Joe
Rejoin Paris climate
Outlaw all fracking
Come on, act like you love the earth
On his fourth day in the White House, the voters said to Joe
Pass the Green New Deal
I know you oppose it
But the people want it
Do you want to save the planet or not?
On his fifth day in the White House, the voters said to Joe
Medicare for all
Even though you hate it, cause it’s, ugh, socialism
69% have said do it now
On his sixth day in the White House, the voters said to Joe
End the endless wars
Why not start with Yemen
Cut your ties to Saudi royal
Petro-dollar fascist bums
Fuck their oil, buy yourself a windmill
On his seventh day in the White House, the voters said to Joe
Fire all the cops who kill with guns and knees
End white supremacy (long day!)
Teach whites to appreciate the neighbors they’ve oppressed
De-segregate and pay what Black folks are owed
On his eighth day in the White House, the voters said to Joe
Rejoin the Iran nuclear deal
Everyone’s in, only we are out
They are not the prob
No BS-ing, stop aggressing
Empire is done
Put your hawkish right wing self behind you…and us
On his ninth day in the White House, the voters said to Joe
End support for Israel’s
Settler colonial
Racist apartheid
Ethnic cleansing practice
Of genocide
Which is pretty much exactly what was done right here
By our founding fathers and their kids
On his tenth day in the White House, the voters said to Joe
Kill the electoral college
It was racist then, not much better now
Don’t gerrymander
Fund the post office
Abolish states rights
If you really truly want to see democracy
Then abolish the Senate as well
On his eleventh day in the White House, the voters said to Joe
Rescind travel bans
Nationalize Facebook, Amazon and Google
Bankers go to prison, not into the cabinet
It’s time to issue
An Executive order
for those who don’t like science
and would rather kill us all
Take a walk off the edge of the Earth
On his twelfth day in the White House, the voters said to Joe
Federalize elections with rank choice voting
Split the Democrats so people have a party
Let the people in
From countries we’ve destroyed
and Mr Biden
Tear down this wall
Triple the Supreme Court so that Roe v Wade is safe
And stop smelling women’s hair
We Demand Democracy
At Uptown Manhattan victory demo, a freshly-minted song (with moldy oldy tune). Part of the song is here, and the rest is here:
We are sick and tired of being sick and tired of this mess
Two party oligopoly that blocks out all the rest
Let’s end this system now
Cho:
Let’s democratize elections
We need voting right protections
Stop Suppression hate and greed
Choose rank choice voting, yes indeed
We demand democracy
We have fought to get the vote for blacks and women and ex-cons
They have tried to block us out, those white supremist devil’s spawns
They will fight to their last breath of their demographic death
But the people now are woke
Cho:
It is past time to acknowledge
We’re so over the electoral college
Supreme Court overhaul
And shut the Senate down y’all
We demand democracy
We will fight for rights of immigrants, for sure most of us are
To the killing of black youth by cops we must say au revoir
And a woman’s right to choose is not a thing you can refuse
We will go marching on
You have tried to kill the postal service, lied about the mail
You have deputized your brown shirts but it’s all to no avail
Even with Fox news your coup attempts and threats cannot prevail
Cause we are in the streets
Cho:
Solidarity forever
Forward ever, backward never
It’s the people who decide
It is time to turn the tide
We demand democracy