Zero
12th July 2006, 09:10
Originally posted by "Riotfolk"
What better time to rise than now?
The war is still raging there's no talk of pulling out
There's 10,000 dead civilians and that's just from the bombings
And when you mix that with the sanctions then the numbers get alarming...
But no one seems to hear it
Conquering has always been their intention this is clear
Shit! They've overthrown the governments of almost every country south of here!
Panama, Nicaragua, Cuba, Chile, Guatemala...
Not to mention Haiti
And if they didn't overthrow them then the World Bank surely did
With the trojan horse of "debt relief" of the poison of the pen
Or with helicopter gunships...
What better time to rise than now?
The factories are closing and the schools are shutting down
Both candidates for presidents are full of shit and not hesitant
To just admit their paupers for the corporate men in government!
The Pentagon, the CIA, the CEOs all find a way
To make their wealth and keep it
And poverty leaks through ghetto streets,
It's the papers just delete it!
Or people just don't read it...
What better time to rise than now?
Instead of asking questions let's just try to find out
Because if they're so brave and they're so mighty,
Then why were they so afraid of that protest in Miami?
They spent 20 million dollars just to keep it all contained
So the public wouldn't hear about this they call free trade
They built a fence around the meetings cuz the CEOs were scared
And they're recieving federal funding so the cops can be prepared
But what are they?
Who's providing them this right?
They put shackles on the masses, but there-in lies their might!
Their power is protected by the silence we convey
As we work like little robots on their projects everyday
We produce the cuffs that cuff us with the very same hands...
But if we stop that production, then we stop their plans,
It could be that easy!
Download it here (http://www.archive.org/download/ryanharvey_tomframpton_split/whatbettertimetorisethannow.mp3).
Spoken-word poem by Ryan Harvey of Riotfolk music collective that I listen to quite a lot these days.
What better time to rise than now?
The war is still raging there's no talk of pulling out
There's 10,000 dead civilians and that's just from the bombings
And when you mix that with the sanctions then the numbers get alarming...
But no one seems to hear it
Conquering has always been their intention this is clear
Shit! They've overthrown the governments of almost every country south of here!
Panama, Nicaragua, Cuba, Chile, Guatemala...
Not to mention Haiti
And if they didn't overthrow them then the World Bank surely did
With the trojan horse of "debt relief" of the poison of the pen
Or with helicopter gunships...
What better time to rise than now?
The factories are closing and the schools are shutting down
Both candidates for presidents are full of shit and not hesitant
To just admit their paupers for the corporate men in government!
The Pentagon, the CIA, the CEOs all find a way
To make their wealth and keep it
And poverty leaks through ghetto streets,
It's the papers just delete it!
Or people just don't read it...
What better time to rise than now?
Instead of asking questions let's just try to find out
Because if they're so brave and they're so mighty,
Then why were they so afraid of that protest in Miami?
They spent 20 million dollars just to keep it all contained
So the public wouldn't hear about this they call free trade
They built a fence around the meetings cuz the CEOs were scared
And they're recieving federal funding so the cops can be prepared
But what are they?
Who's providing them this right?
They put shackles on the masses, but there-in lies their might!
Their power is protected by the silence we convey
As we work like little robots on their projects everyday
We produce the cuffs that cuff us with the very same hands...
But if we stop that production, then we stop their plans,
It could be that easy!
Download it here (http://www.archive.org/download/ryanharvey_tomframpton_split/whatbettertimetorisethannow.mp3).
Spoken-word poem by Ryan Harvey of Riotfolk music collective that I listen to quite a lot these days.