Ethnic cleansing and dispossession never happened in Palestine, right? And it’s not happening now, right?
We’ve got to wise up
We’ve got to boycott apartheid
Now now now
We’ve got to build a better future
To fight for freedom this we vow
You’re occupying and always lying
Apartheid is but a step
to your final goal
Ethnic cleansing and dispossession
You’re destroying Palestine
Uprooting orchards, displacing farmers
Yes you tore it all down
and you lied lied lied
Israeli conquest is what we protest
US enabling genocide
So let’s all wake up
The truth let’s take up
No more stealing of water
and land and rights
We’re gonna build a better future
And we’re gonna start right now
We Shall Not Be Moved—Gaza
And if we are, we will endure and persist and all that other stuff our conquerors hate.
We shall not be moved
And West Bank water pillages
We shall not be moved
Yes we’ll stand with Palestine
Until there’s justice
We shall not be moved
From homes they’re forced to relocate
They shall not be moved
They’re refugees from ‘48
They shall not be moved
So we’ll stand with Palestine
Until there’s justice
We shall not be moved
Stealing land’s their holy grail
We shall not be moved
Human rights must prevail
We shall not be moved
So we’ll stand with Palestine
Until there’s justice
We shall not be moved
They take the land of Bedouin
We shall not be moved
Destroying culture is a sin
We shall not be moved
So we’ll stand with Palestine
Until there’s justice
We shall not be moved
Chanukah-Gaza
What are the Jewish traditions? Is flattening neighborhoods near the top of the “Best Of” list?
Come light the menorah
Murdering the people
The fauna and flora
Sending in your bombers
The children to greet
No more toys to play with
Nothing to eat
And while you are killing
Your candles are burning so low
Think what you do
For it could be you
As it was in days long ago
Think what you do
For it could be you
As it was in days long ago
Flattening of neighborhoods is
Not in the Torah
When you kill a village
You’re opening Pandora
Firing up your bombers
You smash houses flat
Targeting civilians
Your safety you combat
And when you come calling
Only moments of warning you give
Their homes in your sights
You attack day and night
You remind us of blitzkriegs of old
Their homes in your sights
You attack day and night
You remind us of blitzkriegs of old
Songs for Gaza
A sampler of singalongs at recent Ceasefire Now rallies in NYC.
Welcome In — Servas 2023
Asylum seekers fleeing failing societies destroyed by international capitalism (U.S. = US, as P.T. Trumpum pointed out) are welcomed by people who, you know, get it. Camera by Celine Boute.
Do It Now
The urgency of climate activism to save the planet from the profiteers demands, among other things, a singalong from Servas, the peace travelers association, holding a national meeting in Claryville NY.
The 12 Days of PT Trumpum
Some Trump-boosters I’ve spoken with said they liked his policies—an end run around his essential nature—so I looked them up. Afraid I still have lots of character assassination here, even though it pretty well assassinates itself without help. But I did undertake to do a semi-scholarly dissection of his policy corpus. Sorry it took so long, and is so long. I hope we can soon say, So Long.
Then of course there are his boosters, who we have failed to anticipate, organize, mollify, or isolate. Apologies to the next generations.
Didn’t pay his workers, skirted regulation….claimed he was a builder,
mostly sold his name
And don’t we all wish
that instead of working,
we could do that and be just like him.
Started with a million
given to him by a crusty old cad.
His dad.
In the second chapter of narco/gnarly/narcissism he bought himself a gift:
a patriarchal pageant
And molested the contestants for fun
In the third phase of this travesty he played himself on TV
a bully firing losers, it’s all good clean fun
Oh my god it made me want to watch Friends.
On the fourth day of this evolving twisted plot, our hero gave to me
A demand to Fry
the Central Park 5
(later exonerated – by the deep city. No one’s ever seen that level of corruption. So corrupt.)
On the fifth day of this evolving strategy, he insistently gave to us
Obama birtherism, dude was born in Kenya – no one’s always right, especially when you lie.
In the 71st or 119th or 169th year of US global dominance (Bretton Woods, Conquest of Puerto Rico, War to Seize Mexico, take your pick) he finally built a wall
They’re sending rapists – and I should know
Anyway they’ve gone a-
stray from all those shithole
countries that we ruined through imperialism
and besides there’s razors in the Rio Grand—-e
Vowing to ban Muslims/ from entering/ the United States/ making nasty fun of marginalized people/splitting up their families – does that help somebody? Besides himself?
Yes it makes a lot of people feel good to be bad. That wasn’t invented by him. Just perfected.
In the first years of his trade wars, other countries imposed tariffs,
which hurt American farmers, so he directed/billions in aid/ especially to the ones
who supported him,
how very strange,
and of course there are only about-five farmers in the country, unless you count the so-called organics/and Blacks
Beefing up the budget
of the Pentagon,
to compete with China
not much different than what Biden has done.
Banned Chinese drones
which is why they switched to weather balloons.
On a dark day for the EPA he abrogated caps
On toxic chemicals, even though they’re mostly in his hair.
Tapped a group of industry experts to find a middle ground
between science and the god-given right
to profit from killing your kids.
Let oil and gas leak
ever more methane, we don’t have to do
what Soros-backed Europe says.
Stalling on corona which was a hoax, just a little flu,
one million died
but they were all old and sick
and had no immunity, because vax rhymes with tax so it’s bad
Boosted faith-based schooling people want religion
in their children’s schools
Except for the founders and well, the majority
Who have all been found to hate God
$1.5 trillion tax cut, mainly on the wealthy, which boosted the economy
for a week or two and also boosted deficits/which they blamed on Biden in advance.
Cut ¾ million from the SNAP program,
freeing billions to subsidize coal.
not food.
Most recipients are white, that’s sorta true,
but DNA will show they have Negro blood. One drop.
In the 40th year of climate silence, I mean, science, I mean silence,
he quietly quashed research
Fostering a culture
of bad agriculture,
denial of the power
of wind and solar, What can wind and sun do?
We can fix the global
warming
hoax with beautiful clean coal
In the 102nd year of car exhaust (look it up), he slashed efficiency
If you don’t like it, move to Planet B
In the 50th century of patriarchy, federal contractors were relieved
Of the need to tell
of sex harassment hell they put employees through, If you
want a Safe Workplace try Greenland. Or buy it.
On the road to popularity he put America first
Specially if you’re white
Hiding tax returns/Inventing voter fraud
Overtime pay is overrated, let’s cut out the fluff
Somebody tell me are we great again yet?
One little, way too little five or six indictments
Convince his followers he’s Mr. Excitement
Pretends to be religious, holds the bible upside down
He’s a messenger from god
In the fifth indictment in a series (collect all nine!), persecuted from on high/or deep
for sex harassment/or rape (don’t believe it?/ Ask Bergdorf or Goodman/
indicted for stealing/government documents
indicted for trying/ to overthrow/ the government/
which I would do/ but not for racist reasons…indicted for searching for 11,780 votes
Of course, to be fair, the Dem’s are pizza pedophiles
Which we know can be cured with hydroxychloroquine
For the umpteenth time in memorry some libtard said to me
He’s a narcissist, a liar and a cheat/ a master manipulator who duped you/ into believing/ that he is your savior;
golden-haired billionaire
Who lived on Fifth Avenue and
now a mansion in a Lago
and who really cares about the people? Really?
Race-baiting bully / tax-cheating swindler /worker-shafting /dictator-loving/
pathologically lying
raping serial con artist /who can’t read an intelligence briefing but can steal it and hide it in the bathroom
Climate change is natural
And it’s caused by Mexican windmills
Hanging Mike Pence is an act of love
And it’s all a witch-hunt by losers
And anyway they’re not my type
But when you’re a star they let you do it
Even if you’re just an angry little boy
Let’s Democratize Elections
From the July ’23 concert at Café Paloma, Seattle, this one an enumeration of all the ways democracy is a nice idea but doesn’t exist in these here benighted states.
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
Cho:
Solidarity forever
Forward ever, backward never
It’s the people who decide
It is time to turn the tide
We demand democracy