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Global Intifada

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Fallujah

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Our Story

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A Revolutionary Pedagogy

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Tales from the Front Lines

By Ramallah Underground

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La Salaam (No Peace)

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Boom Boom

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In the Congo

By Maia Williams

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Slingshot

Ragtop of the Philistines - from the album - "N.O.M.A.D.S. vs Philistines"

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Imperial Crucifixion

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Love in Revolution

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Divide and Conquer

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Global Intifada

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We’ll have a global intifada

Min Gaza illa Irlanda

La hureya wa a9dle

Allumni intifada

 

We’ll have a lot of intifadas from our fathers and daughters

We won’t totter when they shot us like the martyrs that taught us

So don’t bother to tighten the noose or lose collar

The tighter it gets the fighter spit gets harder

 

And we’ll holler louder and be heard farther

We’ll raise one voice that joins across water

 

When a Palestinian in Bel'in throws a rock

It clanks off American tanks in Iraq

And it drops in chicago on a ghetto cop

And ends up through the window of a Nike shop

 

But don’t stop and it plops to my Chiapas ladies

Senorita Zapatista toss it over to Haiti

Through Bolivia Colombia a rumbling volley

Through Africa and Asia rage on US proxies

 

All colonies of robbery and poverty living

Each are one bar of the imperial prison

One might feel free cause treats they’re given

But the jail still stands if one man still is in

 

But listen, the winds of change are hissing past

Instead of bars of the cage we’ll become bars on the staff

Each community a note in the freedom song

One harmonious chord a chorus so strong

 

Every puppet government of the empire puzzle

Piece by piece will cease into rubble

 

One by one or maybe all at once

It comes tumbling down and crumble into the dust

Then stand up, shake it off and move on

And prepare a new era to finally dawn 

 

So think globally and act locally

Make the police see that our goal to be

To unfurl one world community

Beginning with resisting American hegemony

 

Shake off occupation

Shake off US domination

Shake off Western colonization

We’re ganna shake off the cops and wake up our nation

Shake off the cops and wake up our nation

 

We’ll have a global intifada

Min Basra  ill Nicaragua

La hureya wa a9dle

Allumni intifada

 

Min Alexandra ill Alabama

 

It's time for Americans to Join with the rest of the world

In resisting the oppression done in our name

 

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Fallujah
Inspired by solidarity visit to Fallujah in May 2005.

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Chorus:

You Can’t bomb a resistance out of existence

But you can bomb it into it (2X)

 

Fallujah

My eyes cry to drive through ya

You were hammered and clawed and sawed screwed ya

They shoot ya fulla holes like Swiss cheese or gouda

You insisted on resisting I raise my fist to ya

 

An unnatural disaster from the a master of pain

A hurricane of the tanks and planes

The big bombs rained, remains are blood stained

From the martyrs that watered the streets of slain

 

Fallujah

 

Strangled by checkpoints and buried in rubble

Kept in trouble

Confined and binned in Bush’s bubble

 

Occupation forces roll through the streets in tight groups

Shiite from the south, contractors, and US troops

Mob cowboy thugs raring blaring their guns

Boys in hummers and pickups having too much fun

 

Drive too close get blown away

Better pray and hope they’re not having a bad day

People look their way with despicable hate

Staring and glaring showing they’re irate

 

Well I aint surprised there’s hate in their eyes

When building supplies and food have tripled in price

And armed masked guys raiding houses at night

Shooting insulting and looting beating down rights

 

With sixty percent of homes crushed to the floor

It’s left them a shit load of stones to throw

Yeah it’s left them a shit load of stones to throw


CHORUS

 

Resistance

In self defense we’re relentless

Every action a reaction intense more each instance

So listen to the glistening fires and cats hissin

Its the war machine and people blow the piston

 

With pistils and rocks, AK Klashanokofs

They spanked the tanks as they clanked down the block

Sneaking round corners rocket launchers cocked

Sling shot stinging swinging like Ewoks

 

Tell me what choice to they got

When their boys have been shot

Do they have a voice or do they not

Should they be forced to let rot

What would you do if its your crew

Of course you would of fought

 

Just like they did

Native Fallujans in flaked grids

Blowing up hummers and clogging up tank treads

The only foreign fighters were American kids

Sent by politicians who are flipping their lids

 

We've got poor Arabs fighting back poor Latinos and blacks

While male fat rich whites sit back and laugh

And pray LA and chicago don’t copy cat

Imitate Fallujah launching counter-attacks

 

Just imagine if when the cops are rolling into the ghetto

They got showered by rocks and shot from the shadows

 

What will we do when there’re tanks in our streets with the cars?

Checkpoints and soldiers enforcing marshal law

Will we be like Fallujah will the people rise?

Or will we keep with our petitions and picket signs?

 

Pacifism is a privilege apathy is a crime

Wake up and smell oppression it's long passed time

That we join with poor people from the east and the south

And together we’ll bring this Empire down

Together we’ll bring the Empire down

 

CHORUS

 

From Fallujah to Jenin

Basra to Rafah

Kabul to Ochoa

Tehran to Uganda

Bolivia to Chiapas

DC to LA

Resistance is fertile it’s the empire’s grave

Resistance is fertile it’s the empire’s grave

 

CHORUS

 

You can’t bomb our resistance out of existence

But you can bomb us into it

 

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Our Story

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Palestine is the story of genocide

Ripped out by the roots and scattered like ashes

Erased and replaced by white settler fascists

Disgraced labeled “terrorist” or was it

"Savage"?

Palestine is the story of genocide

 

Iraq is the story of occupation

Colonial carnival, parasitical barnacle

Teeth sinking blood sucking conquering chronicle

Fallujah to Basra, or was it

Nicaragua?

Iraq is the story of occupation

 

America is the story of occupational genocide

Ancient villages clear-cut like old growth forests

See the massacres and slavery that be before us

From the rez to the ghetto

From the jail to the barrio

See how far we can go to grow and grow America

Or was it Rome?

 

America is the story of empire

And we now how that story ends

 

Iraq to Philistine

New York to New Orleans

You see we are the story of resistance

 

Indigenous existence

Autonomous persistence

As the distant sun glistens

We are rising

 

No more compromising with genocide

No more tolerating occupation

No more sign-holding, sidewalk-marching, letter-writing, petition-pushing passively pathetic pretense of protest

We are rising b

 

Is it

America or Algeria?

Iraq or Vietnam?

Philistine or Philippines?

We are rising

 

Refugees will be returning

Reparations will be churning

As the bourgeoisie is burning

 

We are the story of resistance

We are the story of resistance

 

So listen this is prince’s kiss wake up and raise your fist

Resist happily ever after

 

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A Revolutionary Pedagogy

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I’m a middle class white came up in the suburbs

KC, MO with well-stocked cupboards

Catholic mother and father loving service of others

Republicans but pullover for another

 

I first met oppression in primary school

I was hated alienated and the kids were cruel

As grooved to the tune of a different flute

I was insulted and assaulted but was seldomly mute

 

My schools were half black and I noticed the difference

In disciplining of the children and the tracking system

I hit on all the girls while spitting feminism 

Had the vision activism purpose for living

 

Evergreen State College nestled deep in the foliage

I found corporate fascism and knowledge of privilege

Eco villages, puppets and sustainable farms

My study groups - Earth First, Food not Bombs

 

But with white hippy punks, I got bored

And wished to challenge all the privileges with which I was born

So I decided I was ready for a heavier course

And enrolled in the school of revolt the third world

 

I’m a student in revolution

I’m a student in revolution

Came from the burbs gotta raise the curve

I am a student in revolution

 

I took a quick field trip to the Gaza Strip

Mission ISM begin flipping me tips

I gotta grip of occupation and colonial killers

Lessons in resistance popular and guerilla

 

I was filled with respect my instructors with guns

Never slept as they kept the tanks on the run

As we crept to the houses that were shot-at for fun

I faced fear as the rest of my test had begun

 

Mortality fatality pop quiz in reality

A fellow student stood and was brought down gallantly

I saw her go under in a thunder of her dignity

And learned death burns but its only the beginning 

 

One month later sniper took another schoolmate

And I checked C and turned in my test to be graded

Took leave to grieve and not become jaded

Concentrated making my heart educated

 

I’m a student in revolution

I’m a student in revolution

Gotta burst my zones, a lot hurt to grow

I am a student in revolution

 

I applied to Palestine for a second semester

Was accepted to Tuwani, taught me got me to question

 

How the East is being replaced by West

Settlements represent western conquest  

I’s blessed to chill in the villages still left 

Roots planted firm ancient protest

 

The shepards and their herds and kids go to learn

Farmers and their fields and the butter to churn

The sun burns in the dessert and the seasons turn

Indigenous existence is resistance this I discerned 

 

I’m a student in revolution

I am a student in revolution

Indigenous text from East to West

I am a student in revolution

 

Third Semester to Palestine I applied

Was denied, the lord of the border did decide

It was a lesson in fascism and border locks fastened

Imperial castles with moats so impassible

 

But no hassle, there’re other classes to be took

Other places to look and occupations of crooks

Booked to Iraq the dock in the colonial brook

So I studied abroad Babylon text book

 

It was a course in war and armed struggle that roars

Depression isolation and fear with locked doors

Division blurred vision what fight is for

Muppet puppet whores and mob, crime lords

 

It was more complex than I’d thought to expect

Resistance kids were mixing with the terrorist threat

I did get that despite the divisive climate

The fish are still fitter than the fisherman’s net

 

I’m a student in revolution

I’m a student in revolution

Despite division the fight still living

I’m a student in revolution

 

I got a new last name changed to pass

Got my ass back to Philistine fast

For another look at struggle with the knuckles of brass

And to stand with the masses being beaten and gassed

 

I found people united, excited and fighting

I found people divided, too tried and frightened

Gaza life’s brightened but the cage is tightened

And the PA’s paving the way for Apartheid

 

And it appeared so clear that my role is here

Spreading fever fervor in the emperor’s ear

I hold dear, the lessons I was blessed to adhere  

In the intifada Honda I was taught to steer

 

I’m a student in revolution

I am a student in revolution

I’ve passed some classes but I’m far from masters

I am a student in revolution

 

I’m a student in revolution

I am a student in revolution

I’ve got a lot to learn about what to burn

I am a student in revolution

 

I’ll be back in the US for awhile, my almamater

To apply some of the lessons I learned about resistance, insurgency, and struggle

I am anticipating my final upcoming final exam

 

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Tales from the front lines

See www.ramallahunderground.com

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La Salaam
(No Peace)

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La Salaam biddun A9dle

Binshuf Innasser Inshallah

Kul Echtilel ya mut be thawra

Ya Amriki wa Arabi yalla yalla

La Salaam biddun A9dle

 

 

English translation:

 

No peace without justice

We'll see victory if God wills us

All empires burn in revolution

Come on, everyone, come on

No peace without justice

 

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Boom Boom
Inspired by solidarity work in Palestine, Iraq, and the US

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The war on Palestine unwinded in 48

With western designs to make a Jewish state
Another proxy puppet for their empire plans

Keep the Arabs fighting Jews and land in white hands

 

Palestinians always resisted colonization

So Israel dolls out western domination

But Palestine’s patient firm determination

It’s a perpetual fight till they perfect liberation

 

Now the wheels of oppression go round and round

From colony to colony through settler towns

We’re bound to be complicit with government thieves

New York to London, Yerushaliem to Tel Aviv

 

Its time to push the casualties on the other side

Too many Palestinian women and men died

Ears burst from the words of the occupied

Its what you get when you settle petal genocide?

 

Now I keep in mind clear fear Jews are drinkin

They barely escaped the jaws of extinction

But do you think apartheid will brought right friends?

Or are Jews being used by an empire again

 

And Palestinians depend on continuing resisting  

Oppressors are oppressors Buddhist Jewish or Christian

So all you Israelis fussin, its time for justice

End the occupation or stay off of the busses

 

Chorus:

Boom Boom

The bus goes boom

Another freedom fighter igniting the monsoon

Boom Boom

The tank goes boom

Driving by a home-made mine it mushrooms

Boom Boom

The jeep goes boom

Pipe bombs Molotovs go zoom

Boom Boom

Cop car goes boom

Another imperial pawn dawns their doom

 

Iraqis are cocking

They’re tired of talking

Their loaded and locking

They’ll bite no more barking

 

They’ll fight like gorillas no cage too tight

Keep colonial forces in the crosshairs of their sites

They won’t be fooled constitutions and voting

Keep the guards on guard and cars exploding

 

No puppet president will stop their war

They’ve been fighting occupation 100 years or more

If Bush things he’ll win he’s got a lesson in store

He thought he’d kick a cat and found a lion that roars

 

Now I know US soldiers are just poor kids

Wanting school, job training and health benefits

 

It’s shit Bush pushes the babies in harms way

But it doesn’t change Iraqis’ right to blow them away

I don’t like death seen it with my eyes

But Iraqi freedom means Americans must die

 

And I say better us than them at this point in the struggle

Before we steal all the oil and leave them nothing but rubble

Lets fire the empire once and for all

And don't ball that those holding it up must all fall

 

I say to all you mommies

With kids in the army

Convince them to quit or start writing their eulogy

 

CHORUS

 

No one likes violence

No one likes gore

People want peace but they fight when they're forced

So lets look who started it to profit of war

And lets carve the imperial apple from its core

 

If you hate seeing Palestine being erased

Or Israelis dying daily from their medicine tastes

If you don’t like Iraqi life and liberty losses

Or America’s own flown home in boxes

 

Then its time to get busy and bring the fight west

The belly of the beast where oppression digests

Welcome to America occupied

Built on the backs of blacks and native genocide

 

We have our own freedom fighters right in front of our eyes

That’s why our prisons are full and cops militarized 

And they don’t appreciate the left’s passivity

Meetings and speakers and beaker inactivity

 

Cause sidewalk signs never stopped a war

Nor free the ghetto or native land restored

It's a fact nonviolence is a practical tactic

When compacted with militancy can be effective

 

But don't expect shit to change until there’s flames and gats

Riots, rebellion and economic collapse

 

If this song sounds wrong and you’re highly offended

Your probly powered by your privilege and you don’t want it ended

Or you say you do but don’t approve a violent clash

But I notice most you pacifists are white middle class

 

You'll change your tone fast when they’re tanks on your beat

You'll wake up and rise up or end up under our feet  

From the desert to the street the heat be meeting defeat

No retreat we don’t fear it and I can’t wait to hear it go

Boom

From the desert to the street the heat be meeting defeat

No retreat we don’t fear it and I can’t wait to hear it go

Boom

 

Boom Boom

 

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In the Congo

By Maia Williams

Inspired by solidarity visit to Eastern Congo Sep-Dec 05

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In the Congo
The black light shines
In the middle of the day
Women dance in layers
Of peacock colors
And the young men
In mismatched military
Take-those-offs
Carry their gun by the barrel
Over the shoulders
Whistling Dixie

The U.N. people
Stay in their trucks
Black insults
Thrown too much
To walk into
The blazing fires
Of their personal hell
The air is hollow outside

America is having nightmares
Bared
Shared with the world
I dare myself to cry
But the tear drops
Are frozen by the leer
Of another man
Thousands of women
Are telling stories
To thousands of women
Creating survivors
Out of the flesh and bone

Skeletons are buried
In mounds
Underneath flexible trees
And when they ask me
Where I am from
I reply
America

In America
It is red white and blue
American Pie the DVD series
And snow
The heart of darkness
Recedes into the night sky
Mythology
Of a Congo
In chains
And slave
Gangs with no name
In shame with no money

Can't destroy the game
So the game is forgotten
Can't name the life
That you've bought in
That's what its like to be dark
In light of the logic of economics
The trauma that is rotting
The trauma that is cutting
The necks of rape survivors
Pregnant and bartered
We've fallen into oblivion
Never reciting
The deaths of these martyrs

The innocent mothers
Street children quartered
In war
Every language knows
The difference between women
And whore

So what do these women
Call themselves
The same as they called me
Sister
Mama
Messenger
In the Congo

The U.S. buys men
And women
And plays war with itself

In America
We tune out the world
By turning on the news
We could choose to refuse
The good news
That somebody's war
Is our gain
Our reign on this earth

And the 4th world
Will emerge like herds
Of gazelles running
Through the hills
Of the u.s. dollar bill
Militias territorial hell
Who are gangbanging
Women to prove
They have something
To spill

In the 4th world
Tupac is born hundreds
Of times day
And he prays to his mama
Not the voice
Of the voiceless
But of the choices
To enjoy life even when
She's loaded with 50 kg
Of manoc and groceries
Women who
Look like the women who hold me
Through the tears
That I'm hiding

In my dreams
The Congo is wider
Than an equatorial
Bird's wings
Soaring over diamond
Petal flowers
And gold studded trees
Richer than mahogany
Feet stomping
Out a drum beat
and the women survivors
Are dancing with their children
Singing for amani
That leaves them breathless
Rather than helpless
With the bones of the deathless
They are building
A civil society

In my dreams
Blinded by
The cover of a war
That we created
But we still refuse
To see

In the Congo
In America
In the beauty
Of a rape survivor's
Dream
 

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SLINGSHOT

Ragtop of the Philistines - from the album "N.O.M.A.D.S. vs
Philistines" -
www.thenomads.biz - www.thephilistines.com

 

all I ever needed, man
was an olive tree with a branch in the shape of a Y
cut it off
shape that shit right
take the rubber from a soccer ball,
lash it on tight
place a rock against the rubber
pray
bless it with flight

I'm like children with stones
living a lone existence with no rest
or respite from the pressure to fight
listen:
call me Slingshot
Hip-Hop
sing for your freedom, shake it off
Intifada 'till they bring you your freedom
through Jerusalem's gates flown
over walls & gravestones
containing brave souls that should've stayed home

it's the same song:
days are long when your babies are gone
I hear you crying to the night mama try & be strong
You can lean against your Bible or your Holy Qur'an
or just place your faith in these poems & you
can never go wrong either way:

the way to heaven ain't with weapons
or bombs strapped to your chest an alarm
set to your death, blasting you off like thei
r
Kalashnikovs right there
is the issue:
you kill that makes you just like them, now is you?
and what about the family that'll miss you?
answer the question, yo
Salaam always follows a calm so stop stressing so
press your foe to the wall
leave an impression
meshing your hopes with aggression lessen
your anger and pain:

find the peace within yourself to bring the same to the plains
hills and valleys of death
bloody foam in the ocean
lines at checkpoints extending to gates
that won't open
your fate's been fore-chosen so you wait for the end

dangerous men playing pretend like masters
and slaves that shit it backwards
like the page to the pen
pen to the page and put it down properly:
Slingshot Hip-Hop Ragtop Philistines Philosophy

 

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IMPERIAL CRUCIFIXION

About the role of US Imperialism in the Palestine/Israel/US Conflict
(download lyrics in Word)

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That son of Mary, valiant revolutionary

So very scary

To those reliant on the compliance of the Weak, poor and weary

So Roman hammers, Roman nails, Roman shovels buried

While the Pharisees, there to see the people agreed for the moment

Puppet Hebrews who’s strings were used by The Ominous Romans

They crucified the messiah

As an insurgent against their Empire

And then excused the soldiers and blamed the Jews

For the entire

Now watch us

Hide our eyes and wash our hands

Like Paunches

Ignoring the Palestinian pain

And all the Israeli slain

Done in our name for our Imperial gains

Done with our money, our guns tanks and planes

Five billion a year, yes we hold the reins

So the black gold will flow

Drained from the land

And our Israel Sparta’s at the heart of our sensational plan of

Domination, occupation, annexation, exploitation of that ancient holy sand

So Emperor Sam and Prime Minister Pharisee

There to see our Arab family is nailed to a tree

So we can have three SUVs

And the TV blares a twist that they are terrorists

Because they dared to insist that they too should be free

Yes they too, must be free

We will see that no peace will stand until we understand

We cannot simply wash our hands

“Out, out damn spot!”

But go out it cannot

And though we don’t look, that blood’s in our check books

Spilled on our dollar bills

The third world’s filled with blood of green

The third world’s filled with blood of black

Oil, coffee, you name it we claim it

And arrange it to be shipped and flown to us

While we gypped and torn and pillaged indigenous villages

Our privilege to start our engines run on Arab blood

Driving over the Ingins while their trails of tears flood

While our Middle East contingent of Arabs and Jews

Bought off to shine our shoes while they’re people lose

While they’re people lose

And who’s cruise does it buy?

Do we refuse to see that log in our eye?

Oh my

I cry

And you buy

Their lies

While She dies

And he fries

Yes Kiss them goodbye

Missiles fly from Ballistic skies

And Semites left and right

Are Imperialistically

Crucified

 

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Love in Revolution

 

I first saw ya in the ISM office in Ramallah

Red black and green bracelet and your necklace Handalla

Our eyes met and you smiled and I melted to butter

I floated from the meeting in thunder struck wonder

 

That evening in Al Quds you slipped your hand into mine

All the mess of stress and busyness left behind

As we lied spying Mediterranean sky I

Realized I’m surviving with you by my side

 

We'll fight for eachother not with eachother

Alongside eachother, comrades and lovers

Solidarity in the struggle up under the covers

And a shoulder to cry on when we’re beholding the rubble

 

We’ll cuddle, behind the barricades and kissin

Take your aim at the system I pass you ammunition

We’re AK-OK, assistants in resistance

And we’ll watch it all fall as the sun sets in the distance

 

CHORUS:

Days of war and nights of love

I see you on the battle field and think only of

Being in your arms and seeing stars above

In the day we fight the struggle at night we’re snuggle bugs

 

I met you in Palestine, I met you in Iraq

I met you in Seattle battling with the cops

I met you in a tree-sit and at food not bombs

I met you and I had to get you into my arms

 

Organic farms, planting the seeds of revolution

You and me, feeling so free up on the cushion

But no pushing, or pressuring, shoving no stress

It’s all consensual loving I get off on verbal yes

 

I’m feminist, I protest manipulated sex

It aint gotta be serious but it mustn’t oppress

Best protected, with no gender discrimination

Polyamory is bomb with honest communication

 

I’m ordained to the struggle like a man of the cloth

A rebel soldier in my gear and when I take it off

Fuck “mackdivism”, “manarchism” macho dickheads

You can’t beat it in the street and then repeat it in bed

 

CHORUS

 

You’re my princess and shining armored knight

We fight imperial dragons while you smile so bright

Your so rough with the cops but soft with me

A lilac in the sack but like rock in the street

 

But you don’t take my shit

When I’m a patriarchal prick

You gently re-direct me and don’t let me forget

That respect, and love is what we’re fighting for

New world in store must start before

 

I see in you the hope that is keeping going

I let go of being anti and decide to be pro

And I am proud of the crowd standing in my row

And I know in revolt, I won’t be alone

In revolt, I won’t be alone

 

You and me baby, we’re like the who arms of a slingshot

And our love is the rock

The firmer we stand, the farther it goes

We’re like the two barrels of a shotgun

Blasting out truth

I just imagine marching arm in arm with you in the street, like walking down the isle

I see your smile and forget the cops

We’re two spots on the kafia

A9dle wa Hureya (Justice and Freedom)

Up in here

You and me

 

We’re peace and justice will kiss

We’re two fingers of a fist

Two names on the government hit list

Like two splifs swiftly twisted

 

So come give me a kiss

I can’t resist your resistance

So far from the prison they’ll be two bars missin

We’ll see two arms risen with fists 

 

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Divide and Conquer

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We once lived in tribes

In peace and unified

Surviving off of what abundant earth could provide

But some weren’t satisfied

They started conquering folks

Implemented governments to oppress and control

 

Built up empires based on power and greed

Now a few live in excess and the rest are in need

But they found bribing some and beating others couldn’t succeed

They  needed hate to separate and some fear to feed

 

See we’re inclined to be kind and act from the heart

So they devised new systems to keep us apart

They invented class, invented race, gender and religion

With precision, they conquer though division

 

Chorus:

Divide and Conquer

Separate and control

Keep us fighting each other

Every Empire’s goal

Don’t look behind the curtain

Don’t follow the strings

Keep us fighting the symptoms

While they spread the disease

 

Western colonists erased the tribal way of life

Invented states to separate by artificial lines

Warring tribes grouped together to destabilize

Pitt the natives on eachother keep enemy disguised

 

Now there’s genocide, and intertribal war

Postcolonial Rwanda, Uganda and Darfur

The west looks on in impotence like “what can we do?”

When it was us who painted hate between Tootsie and Hutu

 

It was us who persecuted Jews and made them insecure

And now our puppet state of Israel our dominance ensures

US occupation Middle East to make the oil flow

Keep the Arabs fighting Jews or other Arabs, PLO

 

Keep the Sunni fighting Shiite and the Christians and Kurds

An unstable Iraq, resistance cracked fractured

Meanwhile Europeans bicker over tariffs and cows

And progressive movements split "who’s more radical than thou?"

 

Green or democrat, liberal or anarchist

Vegetarian or vegan, militant or pacifist

Go down the list of shit that keeps us fractured and frail

While the cops watch and laugh as we our movement derail

 

Never fails to topple the struggle from within

We crumble because we couldn’t blend

 

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The peace movement’s racist

Anti-racist groups are sexist

Labor’s homophobic

Gay-rights groups are classist

 

Environmentalists fight natives

And the natives and blacks

Mexicans and Koreans, Asian Arab attacks

It's misplaced aggression, anger and rage

They misdirect our attention to fellow rats in our cage

 

And well-intentioned white liberals wanting to do something

Repeat cycles of oppression that are worse than doing nothing

It’s a tenuous role to try and join with the oppressed

We divide the revolution behaving imperialist

 

Lets build a movement that is based in liberation for all

One by one they pick us off, divided we fall

Let’s break the concrete from the walls and let’s build bridges

Pickup the pieces from all our shattered hopes and build wishes

Ingredients are bland but the dish is delicious

Let’s be swimming in schools of flanked fishes

 

Let’s unite and fight our enemy’s in sight

We share a common plight

Take my hand and hold it tight

In the street, our feet, will beat them to retreat

People united, we’ll never be defeated (5X)

 

Don’t let them divide and conquer separate and control

Lets band together and make the empire fall

Lets look behind the curtain

Lets follow the strings

No more fighting the symptoms lets kill the disease


Smash the system cause it’s the disease

 

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