Pas de deux or arabesque
The occupation is grotesque
They got bailed out, we got sold out!
(12/8 time, syncopated rhythm, call and response)
Hi-dee hi-dee hi-dee ho
These racist cops have got to go
If we don’t get no justice now
We’re gonna burn it all down
Trafficked workers demand our rights
We will stand and we will fight!
Through our people's demonstration
We will win our liberation!
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
¡La renta sube, sube!
¡El pueblo sufre, sufre!
What’s disgusting?
Union busting!
What’s outrageous?
Stolen wages! or: (Sweatshop wages) (Poverty wages)
Once you frack, you can't go back!
Stop! Stop! Funding war
Go! Go! Support the poor
1234 open up the prison doors
5678 we don't want a prison state
Every job a union job!
¡El pueblo, unido, jamás será vencido!
¡Carwasheros, unidos, jamás será vencidos!
¡Inquilinos, unidos, jamás será vencidos!
¡Trabajadores, unidos, jamás será vencidos!
Hey Cuomo we're no fools
You can't privatize our schools
From Palestine to the Philippines, stop the U.S. war machine!
When Immigrants' rights are under attack, What do we do?
Stand up, Fight Back!!
When Refugees rights are under attack, What do we do?
Stand up, Fight Back!!
Keep it in the soil!
You can't drink oil!
Wall Street, Wall Street: it's a con!
We won't stop until it's gone!
Dismiss, disarm, disband the police!
The whole damn system is guilty as hell!
It's our history-- don't deny it!
Stonewall was a TRANS riot!
No justice, no peace!
No racist police!
No justice no peace
No racist police
No justice no peace
Fuck these racist-ass police
CUNY, escucha, estudiantes en la lucha!
Pueblo, escucha, estamos en la lucha!
B-o-T, escucha, trabajadores en la lucha!
For Decepticon, or can work on its own?
Here’s to the man, and his bombs, his bombs, his bombs,
Here’s to the man and his mother fucking war games
[Down with the man]
Back alleys, no more,
Abortion rights for rich and poor!
Not the church, not the state,
[People/patients] must decide their fate!
Hey hey! Ho ho! Transphobia has got to go!
No borders! No nations!
Stop the deportations!
Resistance is justified, when people are occupied!
They say, "tuition hikes,"
We say, "Tuition STRIKES!"
New York wa-tah
Keep it like you oughta!
(repeat line by line, call and response)
From Iraq to Palestine
Occupation is a crime!
In Korea and the Philippines
We will stop the war machine!
In the Latin American nations
We will end globalization!
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Hey Hey, Ho Ho, Detention Camps have to go!!
La tierra esta temblando, nosotras marchando!
La tierra esta temblando, nosotras marchando!
Vivas nos queremos, Vivas nos queremos,
ni una menos ni una menos!
No more war, no more oil
Keep the carbon in the soil
No more wars for oil
No more wars on [Ukraine, etc.] soil
Defund Line 3
The people and the water will flow free
War Machine, Hey fuck you!
We deserve a future too!
The Boss is sure an SOB
But he's nobody's clown
He'll hire me and fire you
to keep our wages down
We are the earth
We are the sea
We won’t stop fighting til
We are free
(sung to the tune of "na na na na na na na na hey hey hey goodbye")
Free abortion, safe abortion, my body, my choice
Say it loud, Say it clear, Immigrants are welcome here!
Say it loud, Say it clear, Refugees are welcome here!
Sexist, racist, anti-gay! NYPD, GO AWAY
Cut tuition! Cut fees!
Education should be free.
1, 2, 3, 4, occupation no more!
5, 6, 7, 8, smash the settler zionist state!
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
Too many brothers and sisters in jail;
Barred from education and set up to fail.
It's time to fight for a free CUNY
It's time to pick up the unity!
El que no brinque, es Tranfobico
El que no brinque, es Tranfobico
El que no brinque, es Tranfobico
Free abortion on demand,
Can we do it?
Yes we can!
Old Jim Crow, New Jim Crow
The whole damn system's got to go
(This racist system’s got to go.)
Your burgers may be square,
But your food ain't fair!
¡Trans, presentes!
¡Contra el patriarcado!
¡Trans, presentes!
¡Luchando por la vida!
Remember when you take your stand
You’re standing on stolen land