We boycott all the unjust companies we can find, but why do we occasionally balk?
When I was with Gandhi I didn’t buy British goods
Nor during our own revolution wouldn’t wanta support those hoods
Boycotted buses in Montgomery
For freedom I would walk or even hitch
And when they made sexist t-shirts
I boycotted Abercrappie and Bitch
Nestles replacing breast milk,
mothers being bilked
Our health being pushed aside
They fill us up with pesticide
And GE is so into nukes, I ask you
When they contaminate you
Do you think boycotting is for kooks?
But yet you say it’s no crime
You’re not joinin’ in this time
I tell you
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It’s the same as serving Gallo wine
It’s the same as playing Sun City,
Cross the apartheid line
Like buying Exxon after Valdez
Or BP after the Deep Horizon – please!
Chilean grapes under Pinochet
Monsanto, Agent Orange – nyet
It would turn me Tourette – Tourette!
So…I won’t bloody buy it
So why even try it?
I’m not for it, I won’t ignore it
You shouldn’t sell it
And I won’t buy it
Even if it’s half price, no dice
It’s too bloody bloody, and it’s not nice
And that’s why I don’t buy Ahava
Because in Palestine they kill the dream
OK I don’t buy beauty cream especially
if it’s Ahava, don’t you see
Because it comes from the Dead Sea, made in an illegal colony
I’ve also cut way back on buying bulldozers from Caterpillar yeah
Due to their demolitions, that’s how their dozers are applied
And also when I buy hummus
I make sure I’m not funding apartheid
Supporting colonizing felons
If it is that’s why I’m yellin’
As I child I ate no grapes
From social conscience there is no escape
So I decline to buy the fruit of the vine
From stores that ignore Immokalee
It’s the least that I can do, can’t you see
But yet you say it’s no crime
You’re not joinin’ in this time
I tell ya
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No of course I’d never boycott Hindus or Jews
But justice I always choose
I boycott states that seize another’s land
Till there’s nothing left to lose
Especially if the farm workers ask me to
I can do without whatever’s dripping blood – wouldn’t you?
Small suffering, won’t you join me in sitting on our bucks, this situation sucks
But we’ve got one shot, so why not boycott
And while we’re at it won’t you sign my petition, send off a letter, make a call
Show up in a downpour, or at the Corporate hall, sit at the factory gate
Otherwise –
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Look around, take stock of yourself
And take that chazerei off your shelf!