Rally at
Sample Gates
Noon October 11
Day of Action
Against Militarism
in Latin America
Close the School of the Americas
(WHINSEC)
Close US bases in Colombia
Cease Military exercises in Costa Rica.
Deliver on Aid to Haiti
Allow free exchanges with Cuba
Reform Immigration policy
Honor Indigenous People’s Day
WorldPeace is Marching On
(Tune)BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC
My ears can hear it coming-
It’s the rising cry for peace.
It is growing, swelling, spreading.
Let the talk of warfare cease.
In the place of hate and violence
Let the way of love increase.
The truth is marching on.
Glory,glory,hallelujah!(3times)
Word peace is marching on.
We have tried the way of violence-
Let us try the way of love.
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked,
Tame the hawk and send the dove.
With our sisters and our brothers
Join to overcome with love.
Worldpeace is marching on.
Study War No More
Gonna lay down my sword and shield
Down by the riverside
Down by the riverside
Down by the riverside
Gonna lay down my sword and shield
Down by the riverside
Ain’t gonna study war no more.
chorus
Ain’t gonna study war no more( x 6)
…..
Gonna bring all our soldiers back
Back from Colombia, back from Colombia, back from Colombia.
Gonna bring all our soldiers back. Back from Colombia.
Gonna study war no more.
Repeat chorus
Gonna join hands around the world
Down by the riverside
Down by the riverside
Down by the riverside
Gonna join hands around the world
Down by the riverside
Gonna study war no more
(thanks to San Jose Raging Grannies for these next two)
Please Tell America (tune: God Bless America)
Please tell America
War can’t succeed
Stand beside her and guide her
From this fight with the wisdom she needs
Stop the bombing, stop the missiles
Tell the soldiers not to roam
Please tell America
Bring our troops home
Please tell America
Bring our troops home
America We Weep for Thee (tune:America the Beautiful)
O beautiful for bomb free skies
For amber waves of grain
How can we on defenseless lands
Our bombs and terror rain (reign?)
America,America oh how we weep for thee
For once you stood for sisterhood,
Across both land and sea.
Oh beautiful for immigrants
Who gave here of their best
Who built our future
Found our homes
Across the wilderness
America,America oh how we weep for thee.
For once you stood for principles
For justice and for peace.
Military spending
(Frere Jacques tune)Sung as a round
Military spending, taxes unending
What a waste, what a waste
Reinstate some sanity, turn it to humanity
No more war, No more war
Alternate lyrics (frère Jacques tune)
Are you sleeping, are you sleeping
Uncle Sam, Uncle Sam
Anti war bells ringing,
Hear the people singing
Work for peace, Work for peace
Peace 2 Peace
From Seattle Raging Grannies website
Peace, peace, peace, peace.
Wars must end and wars must cease.
We must learn to live together.
Peace, peace, peace.
Peace, peace, peace, peace.
Make homelessness and hunger cease.
We must learn to live together.
Peace, peace, peace.
Hoosier Raging Grannies will appear at the Sample Gates at noon on October 11 to support the following action. Please join us and support this effort.
Growing a Movement to Combat U.S. Militarism in Latin America
National Day of Action: October 11
Objectives:
1. Cancel the threatening and unneccessary U.S. military exercises in Costa Rica.
2. Close the School of Americas (now Western Hemispherre Institute for Security Cooperation.)
3. End U.S. military presence on bases in Colombia, Honduras, Guantanamo, and elsewhere in hemisphere.
4. End the Mirida Initiative and the increase militarization of the U.S. border with Mexico.
5. Support Rep. Barney Frank’s proposal to reduce the social debt by cutting the U.S. military budget immediately by 25%.
Slogans & Chants
(from www.lasolidarity.org )
No a la militarizacion, si a la educacion
If War Is The Answer We’re Asking The Wrong Question
Killing Innocent People Is The Problem, Not The Solution
From Colombia to the Middle East, We demand justice, we demand peace
“Africa, Latino, Arab, Asian and white…no more no more of this racist war, defend our human rights”
The people united will never be defeated…El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido
What do we want? U.S. Out! When do we want it? Now!
The people of the world are under attack, Out of Colombia! Hands off Iraq!
There ain’t no power like the of the people, ‘Cause the power of the people don’t stop.
NAFTA/CAFTA/FREE TRADE
NAFTA, CAFTA, Why do we HAFTA?
CAFTA means hunger, CAFTA means violence
We know the truth and we won’t be silenced!
Stop the War, Stop the War Against the Poor! (say what?)
Stop the War, Stop the War Against the Poor!
Call and response:
Call:
Creating more poverty, Do we HAFTA?
Response:
No, no, no! We don’t want your CAFTA!
Other Calls:
Privatizing water, Do we HAFTA…….. Destroying small farmers……
Destroying small businesses…….. Even more sweatshops……..
More union busting……. Less biodiversity……..
More expensive medicines…. More corporate welfare…..
No more sovereignty……. Loss of local control……
More migration….. More rural poverty…….
Corporate domination….. Poorer women……
Privatizing healthcare…… Privatizing education……
Privatizing telephones……. More deaths on the border…….
TLC es exactamente como yo sabía
Solo beneficia la oligarquía
TLC es exactamente como yo sabía
Nos va a joder la mayoría
No queremos y no nos da la gana, ser una colonia norteamerica
Pero si queremos, y si nos la da gana ser Centroamerica libre y soberana!
Doo dah for the trees by cyndi roberts
Tune: Camptown Races
We’re the raging grannies singin’ our song
Doo dah doo dah
The clearcut in Yellowwood is all wrong
Oh, doo dah day.
Chorus:
Let the trees stand tall
Don’t ya make them fall (or please don’t make….)
Mother Earth will pay you well
If you just don’t sell.
Let’s tell Seifert where we stand
Doo dah doo dah
We stand with the trees that grow on this land
All The doo dah day.
Repeat chorus
TAKE ME OUT TO THE CLEARCUT
Author: Victoria Grannies Adapted by Hoosier Grannies
Tune: Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Where have all the trees gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the trees gone?
Long time ago?
Where have all the trees gone?
Killed by clearcuts everywhere
When will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?
Where are all the living things?
Long time passing
Where are all the living things?
Long time ago?
Where are all the living things?
Cooked by global warming
When will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?
How will planet earth survive
This destruction?
How will planet earth survive
Such callous greed?
How will planet earth survive?
Profits matter more than lives
When will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?
To the tune of Side by Side
By Grannies Cyndi and Glenda
Oh, we’re just a gaggle of– grannies
Urging you off of your– fannies.
So give up some dough
For your radio show
WFHB.
No need for corporate –donors
When we ourselves are the –owners.
Give money now.
They’ll love you and how
Community radio
Bridge:
They won’t need to follow
That darned ole corporate sham
If you out there don’t dawdle—
Just reach into your savings …
Put ‘em in your budget …
Rattle, rattle, thank you ma’am
So make it part of your ration
To ‘pony up for this station’
Give them some money
We’re tellin’ you sonny.
91 point 3
They will take credit
You can even use debit
WFHB!
Tomorrow, Friday, August 27, at the intersection of Fee and the
Bypass, from 4-6 p.m., the new Bypass Us Not group (see our new fb
page) will host its fourth and final peaceful protest re: the
overexpansion of the SR 45/46 Bypass. We will continue to create
public events in the future that call attention to the need to revise
the bypass plan so that it will be slower, safer, quieter, have less
impact on the community and the environment, and be much more friendly
to bikes and peds. All this could be accomplished with one simple
change: narrow each lane on the road. See other wonderful small
changes that could be made to this road at www.g-top.org’s site, its
incredibly well-researched document, “Bypassing Good Judgment.”
Our first peaceful protest drew 3 people, the second one drew 6;
thirty people turned up for last week’s protest. For tomorrow’s final
protest, we are inviting dancers and singers to stand with us, help
lift our spirits even higher, and celebrate our collective awakening
from the deep sleep of silent despair as we continue to witness the
wanton destruction of over 500 trees.
From Ann Kreilkamp
Friggin’ Drillin’ Rigs
The USA’s addicted now to fossil fuel and oil,
So BP’s drillin’ off our shore and makes our blood just boil.
We warned them that the oil could spill and wash up on our soil…
Halliburton and BP – you suck!
CHORUS:
Take your friggin’ drillin’ rigs and move ‘em from our shore!
Take your friggin’ drillin’ rigs and don’t come back no more!
Take your friggin’ drillin’ rigs ‘cause we don’t want your oil!
Halliburton and BP – you suck!
You bypass the inspections and ignore the warning signs;
You bribe your way to drilling rights and profit from your crimes.
Eleven workers now are dead and fish all swim in slime…
Halliburton and BP – you suck!
CHORUS
You suck the oil from the sea and poison all the soil;
You suck the profits from the work while others sweat and toil;
You suck the lifeblood from us while you plunder and destroy…
Halliburton and BP – you suck!
CHORUS
SPILL, BABY, SPILL
(Tune: “Marine Corps Hymn”
Lyrics: Marcy Matasick, Albuquerque Raging Grannies)
From the lovely Gulf of Mexico
To the wild Alaskan seas,
We will trash the earth to drill the oil,
Just to fuel our SUV’s
Gasoline is our addiction
We will never get our fill
We’ll pollute the world environment,
As we chant “Drill, baby, drill!”
Let our clear blue oceans turn to black
Let the shore birds all get killed
For whenever there are accidents
We’ll just chant “Spill, baby, spill!”
We will kill the whales and porpoises
and the fishes in the seas
Oh, give us a beach
Where oil spills can’t reach,
And there’s no sticky goo on the sand,
Where children can play,
And the birds and fish stay
Free from harm… that’s our simple demand.
CHORUS:
Save our seas and our sand!
We’re here and we’re taking a stand.
We say NO to those rigs
And those comp’nies so big!
Mother Earth still comes first in our land.
We Grannies are blue.
Our predictions came true,
And their oil leaked onto our shore.
It’s gooey and black
And we can’t put it back.
So we don’t want them drillin’ no more!
CHORUS
“Drill, baby, drill”
Was a license to kill
For Halliburton, TransOcean, BP.
So boycott BP
And then maybe they’ll see
What we think of their crude oil spill.
CHORUS
But who cares as long as we have gas
Just to drive our SUV’s
