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Air bnb – Don’t Go There


Air bnb listed illegal settlement rentals in occupied territories as being in Israel. They wisely acceded to public pressure to remove them, then unwisely rescinded the removal and put them up again. They are disguised as legal – don’t be fooled and do cancel your membership, as have 20,000 others, and counting. #boycottairbnb

Young man, likes to travel around
Woman, finds herself outward bound
Buyer beware ‘cause you’re in a new town
That was built on stolen hillsides

Travelers, there’s a place you can go
If you don’t mind dispossessing some folks
You can pretend that you don’t even know
You are part of ethnic cleansing

It’s fun to stay at the Air BnB
It’s fun to stay at the Air BnB
You can help to displace
And erase every trace
Of indigenous families
It’s fun to stay at the Air BnB
It’s fun to stay at the Air BnB
Israel’s listings you see
Include the territories
So just don’t go there, traveler please

Traveler, are you listening to me
I said tourist who do you want to be
Sightseer don’t fall for their schemes
Yes you got to know this one thing
Israel can’t do it all by itself
They need suckers, so put your mind on the shelf
And just go there to the Air BnB
And demolish human rights there
Cho

It’s fun to stay at the Air BnB
It’s fun to stay at the Air BnB
You can hang out with all of the IDF troops
And be one of apartheid’s dupes
It’s fun to stay at the Air BnB
It’s fun to stay at the Air BnB
It’s the wild wild west
You’ll be an illegal guest
So just don’t go there, traveler please

Come Back Bezos

sung by Daddy Cloudbucks. March 2019
New York’s Finest (1%) sez: More Luxury Condos, More Billionaire Helipads! Amazon Come Back!
Protest by Billionaires And Developers Displacing & Evicting to Advance Luxury (BAD-DEAL).

Welcome In


We’re short of saints these days, but when refugee caravans go marchin’ in, they need our back.

When caravans approach our lands
when caravans approach our lands
Well I want to be in that number 
When we all can lend a hand 

When families are forced to flee 
To the land of the Not Quite Free 
Well I want to be in that number
When we welcome the refugee

Economies are broke and bent
By the 1/10th of 1% 
Dictatorships deployed 
Local industry destroyed 
We say enough, let the people be free

And when our friends must emigrate
Escaping terror from the state
Just like ref-u-gees 
Throughout history
They will make our country great 

Boss Tweet harangues 
He talks of gangs
They’re coming here to kill, he barks 
But we know it’s just a distraction
From the rule of oligarchs 

The USA has had its way 
The IMF and CIA
Honduras and El Salvador 
We’ve got to open up the door 
Welcome in strangers and kin 
Welcome in 

When there’s a coup
Rule by the few 
I know just what we’re gonna do 
We will welcome our sisters 
And brothers 
Including LGBTQ

So welcome in 
Strangers and kin
Let’s live together 
We all win 
You’ve got the freedom to be moving
Your life to be improving
Welcome in welcome in welcome in

Imperial Girl


As Princess Madonna prepared to sell out her alleged love for Palestinians by appearing ($1 million for 2 songs) at Israel’s captured festival “Eurovision,” I wrote this version and got the distinguished Israeli-American singer Danielle Alma Ravitsky to belt it out.

Eurovision, my decision
They are not ok
If they’re songwashing settler land grabs
I just walk away
To invite me guess they must be
Desperately seeking branding
To sing worldwide for apartheid
That’s not where I’m standing

Cause we are
Living in an imperial world
But I am no imperial girl
You know that we are
living in an imperial world
But I am no imperial girl

Roger Waters, Lorde and Lauren
Hill will not be singing
If I cross that picket line
More massacres they’re bringing
(I) instagrammed for cease-fi-er
We’ve got to save the children
I even posted years ago that
“I love Palestinians”

and we are
Living in an imperial world
But I am no imperial girl
(You know that we are)
living in an imperial world
But I am no imperial girl

A billionaire will pay one mill
For a two song intermission
And glory be I can’t conceive of that much narcissism
I won’t sing for a thing that really is
State terrorism
I won’t put a pretty face on their expansionism

cause we are
Living in an imperial world
But I am no imperial girl
You know that we are
living in an imperial world
But I am no imperial girl

Improved Medicare for All Medley

As the obvious solution to Profit-based Suffering gets more obvious, the obvious obstacles become more obnoxious. (Health Care Denial Industry, for those just getting here.)

Freight train:
Single payer is the deal
Guaranteed health care for real
Profiting from suffering
Is not the way to go

Somewhere over the rainbow:
Health care has been a no-show
Price too high
And the schemes of insurers
Have left us high and dry
Somewhere over the rainbow
We break through
When we fight for our right
To health care for me and you

Folsom Prison Blues:
I hear that train a-comin’
It’s Medicare for all
This health insurance profits game is bound to fall
Yes we’re stuck inside this prison
They’ve got us feelin’ small – it’s time for a brawl, y’all!
Cause were coming to our senses
It’s Medicare for all

The Ballad Of And By Smedley Butler

What with all the generals ascending to civilian offices they don’t belong in, here’s a general you could bring home to dinner. These are his own words.

Oh my name is Smedley Butler, Major General to you
Got a little story, kinda gory, you’ll be glad when I am through
I admit it was a sin, take only two minutes to vent
120 seconds, and I reckon it’ll be well-spent

I spent 33 years and 4 months in active military service
In this country’s most agile military force, the Marines
I served in all commissioned ranks from 2nd Lieutenant to Major-General
And all the while I spent most of my time in sordid scenes
Being a high-class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the Bankers
I don’t say this out of any kind of perverse egotism
But in short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914
I helped make Haiti, and Cuba, decent for the National City Bank boys to
collect revenues, I helped
purify Nicaragua for the banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909
I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916
In China I helped Standard Oil say hey, it’s all mine

During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room say, a swell racket
Looking back at it, I could have given Al Capone some hints how to attack it
The best he could do was operate in three districts, not so immense
I operated on three continents

We Are Marching: In Washington

For one another
We are marching
Sister and brother
We are marching
Father and mother
We are marching
For each other we are here

For the homeless
We are marching
For the jobless
We are marching
For the imprisoned
We are marching
For each other we are here

For the immigrants
We are marching
For the refugees
We are marching
For the indigenous
We are marching
For each other we are here

And for Ferguson
We are marching
And for Standing Rock
We are marching
And for Palestine
We are marching
For each other we are here