Following the significant showings of “uncommitted” voters in Democratic primaries in several states, anti-genocide campaigners in New York are urging voters to leave the Presidential line blank. Here’s why.
Gaza’s people come to me
Suffering starvation
Bombs and tanks
The White House sends the weapons
The White House must atone for this
First line of your ballot
Leave it blank
Let’s be frank, Biden sank
I’m not a crank, my vote you need
There will be a ballot
Leave it blank
And when the broken hearted people
living in the world agree
Biden’s sense of justice is absentee
And though the White House funds it
There is still a chance that they will see
If they’re isolated
Leave it blank
Let’s be frank, Biden sank
I’m not a crank, my vote you need
There will be a ballot
Leave it blank
So break ranks, say no thanks
No more tanks for genocide
There will be a ballot
Leave it blank
And in our hour of slaughter
food and water aren’t allowed to them
One thing we can offer
Leave it blank
And in our hour of voting
There is still a chance to say our piece
There will be a ballot
Leave it blank
Let’s be frank, your morals sank
I’m not a crank, my vote you need
There will be a ballot
Leave it blank
So break ranks, say no thanks
No more tanks for genocide
There will be a ballot
Leave it blank
Tone It Down
Tony Blinken actually asked Qatar to tell al Jazeera to tone down their coverage of genocide in Gaza.
Tony Blinken comes to me
Counseling more silence
Tone it down
And in our hour of bombing he is calming
As he comes to me
Speaking words of conquest
Tone it down
And when the broken hearted people
living in the world agree
There must be ceasefire, let it be
And though the Congress funds it
There is still a chance that they will see
If they’re isolated, Let it be
But tone it down, turn that frown,
Upside down, Let’s break it down
How can we kill Gazans
If people see?
And when William Lloyd Garrison
Reported news of slavery
Lincoln (not A. Blinken)
Said tone it down
He pleaded “be more mellow, dude”
You’re histrionic, now we’re screwed
Here’s my words of cowardice
Tone it down
Tone it down, please sit down,
nervous breakdown’s not what we need
Slaves will get their freedom
By degrees
And when the genocide of Cheney
In Iraq was videoed
Every President said
Tone it down
Assange will rot in prison
Cause he showed what Manning stole from me
Whisper words of murder, tone it down
Tone it down, turn that frown,
Upside down, Let’s break it down
How can we kill Gazans
If people see?
Apartheid, Ciao
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.