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Started by Jim Cotter. Last reply by Martin Cahill Oct 6, 2010.
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Comment by Viola Wilkins on January 6, 2011 at 14:43 -
This may not be a "union song" as usual but is great anti-Corporate tune and history lesson
MONSANTOSeize The DayThose Polar Bears now, who really cares now?- They're breedin gender bendin babies who won't be breedin noneCos PCBs, yeah! are in the seas, yeah!We like to think that there's a little piece of us in everyoneCos we're Monsanto! - That's right, Monsanto!We're turning Satan into Santa by givin kiddies cancerComin thru now - we're changin YOU now,The mother- nature terminators of Food 'n Health 'n HopeThat DDT ban - don't lay it on me man!Cos we had all these creepie-crawlies fallin on the food we grewWas a revolution-ary solution,It's just a shame that what we sprayed on made the turnips toxic too!Let me remind ya 'bout Indo-china- Them commie dominos were fallin, so they sprayed 'em into Hell!Gave peasant farmers Orange pajamasWe made their jungle-cover wither, then we withered them as well!Cos we're Monsanto! - That's right, Monsanto!We're turning Satan into Santa by givin kiddies cancerComin thru now - we're changin YOU now,The mother- nature terminators of Food 'n Health 'n HopeIt's not our fault there's Chemical warfare,But if there's dollars in dioxin it's our duty to supplyThat rain of poisin they washed our boys in,A Cancer Agent from the C.I---Hey! - I cannot tell a lie!From Pentagon came that drug Aspartame,Our Pepsi-Cola with no calories was every kiddies' treat!When there were rumours it gave 'em tumoursSomebody falsified the data - and we called it NutraSweet!And you get more juice now from a Dairy Moo-Cow,Monsanta's daily dose of hormones, them udders gonna swell!Don't blame the cream though, if you're in chemo- There may be B.S.T masectomies, but nobody can tell!Cos we're Monsanto! - That's right, Monsanto!We're turning Satan into Santa by givin kiddies cancerComin thru now - we're changin YOU now,The mother- nature terminators of Food 'n Health 'n HopeRobert Shapiro! Well he's our hero!He's on a mission with a vision of Sustain-abilityWhich means we're goin to keep on growin-till we're the biggest corporation in the 21st CenturySeein no future for the big pollutersHe spun an eco-friendly line in re-designin DNAGenetic eyes on that far horizonWhere every thing alive is privatised and every seed'll pay!We've got the Soya, we've got the Lawyers,The politicians in our pockets all the way to President!The press and TV, to guarantee theCo-operation of your nation in our new experiment!You did not choose it, but you'll have to use it,We'll get our Round-up Ready fingerprint in every pie you eat,With every patent, be a bit more blatant,Till our Corporation's domination of your Globe'll be complete!Mister Monsanto! Monster Mutanto!We're turning Satan into Santa - Give Everybody cancer!Comin thru now, we're changin YOU now,The Mother-Nature Terminators,Hell-on-earth creators,Gene- manipulators,Biotech dictators,The future's gonna hate usFood 'n' Health 'n' Hope!
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Comment by Viola Wilkins on January 6, 2011 at 14:41
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No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression. If such a movement has caught hold of the imagination of the masses, they will seek a vent in song for the aspirations, the fears and hopes, the loves and hatreds engendered by the struggle. Until the movement is marked by joyous, defiant singing of revolutionary songs, it lacks one of the distinctive marks of a popular revolutionary movement; it is a dogma of a few, and not the faith of the multitude. - JAMES CONNOLLYhttp://comeheretome.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/jamesposter.jpg
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Comment by Brian Ross Ashley on January 3, 2011 at 7:53 -
Thanks, Viola, that's a great album!
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Comment by Viola Wilkins on January 3, 2011 at 5:15
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Friend from farcebook pointed this out on archive.org
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Comment by Jamie West on January 3, 2011 at 5:11 -
I also like these two songs:
"Your's in solidarity" by Jason Penney - President USW Local 6285 Wabush, Labrador (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eMRIMHyKdI)
"CONSTANT MOVEMENT" by Kill the Autocrat (fronted by USW Local 6500 member Mike "OB" O'Brien) from Copper Cliff Ontario (http://www.youtube.com/user/KILLTHEAUTOCRAT682)
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Comment by Gordon Glick on January 3, 2011 at 5:08 -
Thanks, Viola, for posting this. I got to see David sing at the Labor Day rally in Tacoma, and he's the real deal. A true bard of the working class, and a nice guy, too.
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Comment by Viola Wilkins on January 3, 2011 at 4:57
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David Rovics has a new song about Private Bradley Manning the 23 year old alleged "source" for Wikileaks here's the lyrics
Song for Bradley Manning
Private Manning was an analyst if what they say is true
He was paid to read reports and find the patterns sifting through
As he read the data the patterns did emerge
Patterns that were clear both before and since the Surge
Patterns of abuse of the most horrific kind
Gunning down civilians out of view and out of mind
Gunning down the opposition in the middle of the night
Sending off the scholars to be tortured out of sight
Killing journalists and then maintaining the pretense
That these helicopter gunships were just acting in defense
Sometimes you need desperate measures when you live in desperate times
And Private Manning saw he was looking at war crimes
He wondered what to do to allow the dead to speak
He finally decided to contact Wikileaks
Now it's all out on the table and everybody knows
The emperor is naked, he's not wearing any clothes
Now Adrian Lamo has to live within his skin
He stabbed Bradley in the back, called the cops and turned him in
But not before the soldier took half a million files
If you printed all the pages they'd stretch on for miles
Evidence against the state right from the horse's mouth
Machinations in the west, bombings in the south
A treasure trove of details for all the globe to see
How much they need to lie and kill for democracy
How many drone strikes have hit villages leaving everyone to die
They blamed on someone else – the official line, “Not I”
How many coups have been plotted by ambassadors who say
That free and fair elections be the order of the day
How many governments they've bought, how many people they have sold
To keep themselves warm by the fire, while we're out in the cold
Now it's all out on the table and everybody knows
The emperor is naked, he's not wearing any clothes
Now the Genie's out of the bottle and they're trying to stuff it back
And stop it from illuminating everything we lack
Such as the rule of law or playing by the book
Look you can read it, it's right here, the ship of state is run by crooks
And they vilify the messengers, call them every name
For daring to blow the whistle on the nature of their game
The game of taking lives and endangering the rest
In order for the wealthy few to do what they do best
Dominate the world for the corporate elite
But now their cover's blown from their head down to their feet
And now the stars and stripes is looking much more like a rag
The lid is off the box, the cat's out of the bag
Bradley Manning is in prison in a solitary cell
Now that he's revealed what so many knew too well
Now it's all out on the table and everybody knows
The emperor is naked, he's not wearing any clothes
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Comment by Gordon Glick on January 3, 2011 at 4:51
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Way to break it down for our younger Fellow Workers. Solidarity with the USW from a Wobbly in Washington State. Keep walking the line.
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Comment by Jamie West on January 3, 2011 at 4:40
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One of our members used his love of Rap to bring an anthem to our recent strike. Have a listen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU8kvvuP6Jk
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Comment by John Pietaro on December 14, 2010 at 5:27 -
ust posted on 'The Cultural Worker' is my piece on the Modernist trend in protest music during the early 1930s, OUT OF THE RED MEGAPHONE.....
http://theculturalworker.blogspot.com/2010/12/out-of-red-megaphone-modernist-protest.html
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