Not In Our Name Pledge
by saul williams

We believe that as people living
in the United States it is our
responsibility to resist the injustices
done by our government,
in our names

Not in our name
will you wage endless war
there can be no more deaths
no more transfusions
of blood for oil

Not in our name
will you invade countries
bomb civilians, kill more children
letting history take its course
over the graves of the nameless

Not in our name
will you erode the very freedoms
you have claimed to fight for

Not by our hands
will we supply weapons and funding
for the annihilation of families
on foreign soil

Not by our mouths
will we let fear silence us

Not by our hearts
will we allow whole peoples
or countries to be deemed evil

Not by our will
and Not in our name

We pledge resistance

We pledge alliance with those
who have come under attack
for voicing opposition to the war
or for their religion or ethnicity

We pledge to make common cause
with the people of the world
to bring about justice,
freedom and peace

Another world is possible
and we pledge to make it real.

Here it comes the sound of terror from above
He flex his Texas twisted tongue
The poor lined up to kill in desert slums
For oil that burn beneath the desert sun
Now we spit flame to flip this game
We are his targets taking aim
We're the targets taking aim
All his targets are taking aim . . . "

Ñ Zack de la Rocha
"March of Death"

on saturday, while driving from BK to the BX, I tuned into Jeanni Hopper's Liquid Sound Lounge on WBAI http://www.liquidsoundlounge.com/radio/index.html

Sarah Jones was a guest and she reported on what was happening at the protest that day. The thing that struck me as most interesting is that they were playing a police voice looped saying "the protest is over" or something to that effect. The protest was in a public space - a park. But they wanted everyone to go home after it was over. Since when can't folks hang out in a park, especially when they are being peaceful?

Anyway, Sarah's protest song was also the last song on Jeannie's playlist that night, I can't find the lyrics for it, but it's called Whose War is This. It is just as dope as Sara's Your Revolution.

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