Pearl Jam and Jackson Browne

And Rage Against the Machine
They put the F.O.I.A. request together

They’re the writers

And they are pissed . . . because . . .

Enhanced interrogators played their songs
At painful volume all day and night long
For information whether truth or lie
Who paid the bills
Who paid the bills
We’re the taxpayers, and WE paid the bills

Patrick Dorismond, killed for refusing
An undercover cop’s request for drugs
Shawn Bell, never got to his wedding
The cops’ 50 gunshots got to him first

Remember Diallo, armed with a wallet
Clifford Glover, only 10 years old
Timothy Stansbury, on his way to a party
So many more whose names we don’t know

Abner Louima was raped in a precinct
He’s still alive so the criminal’s in jail
Because Louima was able to counter
The slanders and smears that came his way

If you are white, please take a moment
A brief speculation, and then you may know
Imagine your children, their skin a bit darker
What will you tell them, when outside, they go

Will you tell them, police are their friends
With a mission to serve and protect
Or will you beg them to give cops a wide berth
Because the black and the brown never know who’ll be next

Marcelo Lucero
To your murder we say no
No to the racism, hatred and fear
That took away your life so dear
We must remember your name
We will remember your name

Immigrants and native-born
To one race we all belong
All entitled to human rights
To work and live by our own lights
We must learn to live in peace
On earth in heavenly peace

Over there on Guantanamo
A hunger strike is proceeding
The guards’ll show them a thing or two
If they refuse to be eating

Forced feeding is not
Ethical, moral or legal
On the conscience a blot
To all civilized people

If inmates go on a hunger strike
There’s got to be a good reason
Obama, why don’t you find out why
And stop this barbaric feedin

Of food, horrible food, sickening food, torturous food!

Enhanced interrogation
Cheney told the nation
But it’s torture under
Real adjudication
It’s a crime in every land
So here is our demand
We must prosecute war crimes
Investigate, prosecute Bush war crimes!!!

Mean lots of money in the bank

For KBR and Boeing too

Who foots the bill?

It’s me and you

Even if they replace tanks

Those for peace cannot give thanks

A company called ITT

Makes unmanned drones for you and me.

Every drone costs thirteen mil

A “safer way” they say, to kill!

Americans, not in harm’s way

But Pakistanis die each day.

Drones over Afghanistan

Kill many women, kids, and men

Controlled from half a world away

They stalk people at work and play.

Thirteen million dollars, wow!

We could use that dough right now

 For teachers here and nurses there

And for green jobs everywhere.

I’d hammer for Mumi – ee -ah

I’d hammer for a new trial,

That follows the rules.

A proud black journalist,

Framed in a sham trial.

Let’s all tell, the state of Pennsylvania,

They must re-try, this innocent ma-a-an. (hoo-oo-oo)

If I had a bell,

I’d ring it for Mumi-ee-ah

I’d ring it for a new trial,

That follows the rules.

Blacks in the jury pool,

No racist ju-u-dges

Let’s all tell, the state of Pennsylvania

They must release, this innocent ma-a-an. (hoo-oo-oo)

If I had a song,

I’d sing it for Mumi –ee-ah

I’d sing it for a new trial,

That follows the rules.

Hear all the evidence,

He’s got a good lawyer now.

Let’s all tell, the state of Pennsylvania

They must set free, an innocent ma-a-an. (hoo-oo-oo)

Well, I’ve got a hammer, a bell & a song to sing

About Mumia, and justice denied.

Is this a police state?

Where is the Billll, of Rights?

We must petition, the state of Pennsylvania

Demand justice, for this innocent ma-a-an! (hoo-oo–oo)

(oo-oo-oo), This innocent man!

2) When Canada’s crime stats are growing quite low
And a bill comes along that says this isn’t so
Then we’re full of suspicion, it’s throwing us back
To where the U.S. has abandoned that track
Tra la la, tweedle dee dee
We know more about crime
Than we did in the days of our grandparent’s time
We can help some and keep some
from offending again
Not just dump them all into one big prison den

3) So let’s take some out and study this thing
Which is why we’ve come out here to talk and to sing
We’re wary of bills that are switfly passed through
Without contributiions from me and from you
Tra la la, tweedle dee dee
Let’s look at expense
This will cost our province
It doesn’t make sense
Let’s tell Stephen Harper
C-10 is a NO!
And have an election where Tories will Go!
Rose DeShaw