Your efforts are greatly appreciated by many.  Keep up the good work.  It is
certainly urgent and timely to make the situation of the harassment and murder
of activists widely known.

Here's a song I wrote (it has music too, harder to send via email), for
whatever it's worth.

[PLEASE NOTE: David has now released a new CD, We Just Want the World, which has terrific recordings of this song and his tribute song to Judi Bari, an apt reworking of "Joe Hill." So check out this link to his web site to hear some samples from his CDs, and then order We Just Want the World. If you like Robert Hoyt or Dave Lippman, you'll like David Rovics. Funny, passionate, irreverant and smart. You won't be disappointed!]

The Death of David Chain

Tom Brokaw got on TV
And repeated the Big Lie
See the mill all boarded up
Hear the sympathetic sigh
He summed it up succinctly
With these vicious words
"It's your paycheck or your planet
The loggers or the birds"

Pete Wilson and his freddies
Were nowhere to be found
They said "Big Timber is our business
And to the dollar we are bound"
Their absence was a message
"We'll turn a blinded eye
Don't expect us to give a damn
If anyone should die"

Charles Hurwitz told the people
"The battle lines are drawn
These eco-terrorists won't stop
'Til all your jobs are gone"
The PR team worked overtime
To build up every wall
"These bomb-throwers and tree-spikers
Just want to kill you all"

A man stood with a chainsaw
Knowing only what he knew
Every lesson that he learned
Said it's either me or you
His saw lanced through the redwood
Many hateful words were said
And several seconds later
David Chain was lying dead

Some will call this man a killer
Some will call this man a thug
Some will cover it with lies
And sweep it 'neath the rug
But from Oakland to Fortuna
Sacramento to D.C.
There is murder in the air
And there are killers running free

All the best,
David Rovics

email:  DRovics@aol.com
website:  
http://members.aol.com/drovics/home.htm
voicemail:  (617) 747-4460
mailing address:
P.O. Box 995
Jamaica Plain, MA  02130

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