spoken word
HRC said in a speech to labor unions that I and others who work to protect the environment from such practices as fracking should "get a life." This is insulting in itself, but considering that I am a member of AFM Local 1000 and in the past started our chapter of SEIU 509, I find her comment particularly lacking in environmental understanding and respect.
Dear Hillary, I heard you say
To the unions just the other day
That our devotion to planet gets in your way
So we should get a life, but you take ours away.
Fracking’s the end, you don’t comprehend
It’s our water our planet, and we will defend it
From your drillin and spillin, exploding in flames
Before annihilation is all that remains
The life you are living for personal gain
For power & wealth, all you can obtain
Is climate destructing the air with methane
And blowing up towns with your oil shale train.
And down in Honduras the murders began
Of activists protecting Honduran land
Berta said it was you who put in their hands
The guns for assassins awaiting command
So get a life Berta Caceres murdered at home
Get a life Jose Angel Flores resisting a free trade zone
Get a life Nelson Garcia killed in front of his family
Get a life Silmer Dionisio George says HRC
Berta won the Goldman Environmental prize
Fighting for indigenous rights and confronting your lies
The mining, fracking and clear cuts, corruption and organized crime
Assassins are killing the workers since your coup in 2009.
So Berta Caceres would get a life if you hadn’t taken it away
Jose Angel Flores would have lived another day
For protecting the flor and fauna, you make all of us pay
And the bullets in our bodies all say USA