"Global Economy," Ryan Harvey
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www.riotfolk.org ----- One cup of coffee, $1.50 Guy who picked the coffee Didn't get three He's stuck in the belly Of an industry That doesn't care about people Working on the hills On stolen land Picking at the earth Through the scuff bare hands Sweating for the profit of some rich man Who doesn't care about people Buy a piece of fruit at the grocery store Shipped from Guatemala, Chile or El Salvador Grown by orphan children in the civil war That was funded by fruit corporations A global trade system Riding on the backs Of families packed in wall-less shacks Living in the fear of death squad attacks That are funded by fruit corporations One pack of t-shirts, $4.50 Girl who sewed the t-shirts Didn't get three She's trying to survive in an industry That doesn't care about people Bangladesh factories 16-hour shifts No over-time breaks or benefits And they'll fire her if she gets pregnant Because they don't care about people New York banks watched the Thai Baht grow Then they took high ammounts in Thai Baht loans Converted them to dollars when they got back home And it put millions into poverty They paid off their debts with U.S. cash Pocketed the profits In U.S. banks And the south east asian market crashed And it pull millions into poverty One diamond ring, a few grand Kid who mined the diamonds lost his hand As a message from the soldiers who run the land That are funded by diamond corporations Wealth arrived through poverty From the lingering cuts of slavery In the form of an export economy Controlled by diamond corporations Imperialism in its modern form Debt locked, free market, economic reform Blowing through the global south like a tropical storm Tearing at the scenes of culture From the cluster bomb To the rifle butt From the gold mine To the clear cut Capitalism's got the world locked up And it's tearing at the scenes of culture
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i listin to this everyday when i get home. c:
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I'm gonna play this song on the air tonight!
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His Lyrics are so... so beautiful strong and true
Love folk punk and Ryan Harvey(Riot Folk) -
anybody know the chords to this song? :)
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It's impossible to use homophobic language in a 'progressive' way.
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GREAT military? Mate, NO military is great. If you have to kill people with no second thoughts, you're a terrible person. If you're in a group that kills innocent people and creates orphans, you're just that much more sick. You say we have a "change of power". Take a look around, does anything in our government really change? It's just a change of make-up. Also, you just shouldn't start shit on how "great" america is in these videos; you're going to go down.
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god bless capitalism, thanks chiquita, for bringing peace and stability to the region
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@anarchismandpunk socialism is no better/worse than capitalism, i want to live on a commune farm, but not cause i'm a socialist, its my preference, i combine the best of anarcho-capitalism and anarcho communism in my critique of modern state corporatism
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As long as you realize that the only way these bad actor corporations can act badly is through access to the levers of power through payoffs to the government. A true free market punishes bad actors.
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Tearing at the SEAMS of culture..not "scenes" ^_^
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This song is awesome what cd is it on?
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@Libertarian333 if you do that occupying "unused" land, that's called squatting, or at the worst criminal trespassing, both of which are misdemeanors... almost every scrap of land in the US is either privately owned or government owned and if you don't have permission to live there then you're fucked so get off your high horse or get permission or be prepared to pay a shit ton in fines so where do you live? you show us a pic of a selfsufficient log cabin with you outside of it, i might listen
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@Libertarian333 you'll still pay taxes on that little plot you own,,, that's how they get community gardens evicted in NYC,,, you don't own the land you're gonna get evicted... and even if you do own it, you gotta pay taxes so get off your hihgh horse or go live in the mountains
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Modern slavery transcends race and creed and is now a mental state of depravity that allows the taskmaster control over the serfdom.
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Can anyone please recommend to me some books or documentaries about the fruit corporations funding civil wars and the banks speculating on the Thai Baht that he mentions? This is a great song. Solidarity from Ireland, currently deep in the claws of an IMF structiral adjustment programme!
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Well yes you said it all more or less I kinda missed oil, did I?
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@SirAwsomness If it was gay learn to respect and shut the fuck up you little cunt. If you don't like the genre don't listen.
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@valkyrie1777 (cont'd) their living standards as corporations will be allowed to take their resources and after long enough periods of unemployment under a dismantaled social safety net, people in currently rich countires will work for low wages. But their is no austerity forces on banks - these nations still bail them out - no austerity amoung the leaders. We need to educate white people about what is happening so we can fight together - you have experience fighting, we can still afford guns.
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@u2hubbard You are right that for many years primarily white nations have sucked wealth and resources from the rest of the world. Many individuals is rich and poor countries fought against this, but not enough to stop it. However over the past couple decades the suction of wealth and resources has been shifting from poor-nations>rich-nations to most-of-the-world>a-few-heads-of-global-corporations-and-banks. When the financiers get nations into debt, they will force the population to reduce..
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@u2hubbard You are right that for many years primarily white nations have sucked wealth and resources from the rest of the world. Many individuals is rich and poor countries fought against this, but not enough to stop it. However over the past couple decades the suction of wealth and resources has been shifting from poor-nations>rich-nations to most-of-the-world>a-few-heads-of-global-corporations-and-banks. When the financiers get nations into debt, they will force the population to reduce..
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