FROM WISCONSIN STRUGGLE: 'It's class warfare' in Hip Hop
The following new video from Jasiri X (American Workers Vs. Multi - Billionaires") was forwarded to us and is just one more example of the creativity that is growing as the struggle against the Oligarchy expands from Wisconsin across the USA. Hope you enjoy it and can respond to the people who created it. The original of this came to us from Portside (http://portside.org) and originated elsewhere and went through them. For those who can't access it through the hot link above, try the URL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwpSh66aEUw&feature=player_embedded
NEW Hip-Hop Video from Jasiri X: "American Workers Vs Multi-Billionaires" Shot on Location in Madison WI, By Jill Tubman, Jack & Jill Politics, February 25, 2011
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwpSh66aEUw&feature=player_embedded
http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2011/02/new-hip-hop-video-from-jasiri-x-shot-on-location-in-madison-wi/?utm
I think this might be one of Jasiri X's best videos yet and not just because it has a fresh hook. Fox News would have you believe that this is left vs right but that's not the case. It's the same fight we've been having that led to the Great Recession: it's Wall Street vs Main Street. Even as the nurses, teachers, firefighters and prison guards of Wisconsin say they are willing to take a pay and benefits cut just so they can retain the ability to negotiate in the future, their governor — whose campaign some of the unions actually supported(!) — speaks of using negotiations only as a ploy to trick them. Fortunately for them, Gov. Scott Walker got punked and revealed his manipulative strategy of bad faith. One of the drivers of the recession was the fleecing of the American public via their mortgages. How long will the American people be pushed down and stripped of our basic means to live & work as our tax dollars go to fund wars we don't support and prop up the wealthiest in our nation? How can we survive as a superpower if we fail to take care of those people whose work cares for our most urgent needs? How can we hope to grow our economy if
the middle class is broke and broken?
Anyway, I'm gettin' off my soap box. Here's what Jasiri has to say about his vid:
Our latest video "American Workers Vs Multi - Billionaires" was filmed on location in Madison, Wisconsin, where thousands of hard working Americans came together in unity to fight back against a Governor bought and paid for by Billionaires to break up Unions and deny workers collective bargaining and a living wage. "American Workers Vs Multi-Billionaires" was produced by Cynik Lethal and directed by Paradise Gray.
My favorite words Jasiri's spittin' are below. Full lyrics after the jump.
Can main street get a bailout
Tell the president our checks weren't mailed out
Tell the house of representatives and senate
And whatever business got the stimulus and spent it
Now they getting record profit that's tripling with no limits
But they cutting jobs and unemployment benefits have ended
How we gone live with no income coming in
And the little help we get is cut from the budget then
What's the role of government
Do workers stand a chance if multi billionaires are running it
Oh now you worried bout the deficit and cutting it
But when them banks needed billions you had enough for them.
Them car companies you had bucks for them
2 wars rebuilding 2 countries guess we stuck with them
the average citizen just ain't lucky then cause we be getting pimped so I guess we getting
f*cked again
LYRICS
Scott Walker works for multi billionaires
John Boehner works for multi billionaires while corporations get billions in welfare
and millions in this country been out of work for years
Sarah Palin works for multi billionaires
American workers vs multi billionaires
They wanna end social security and medicare while millions in this country don't have a dime to
spare
Can main street get a bailout
Tell the president our checks weren't mailed out
Tell the house of representatives and senate
And whatever business got the stimulus and spent it
Now they getting record profit that's tripling with no limits
But they cutting jobs and unemployment benefits have ended
How we gone live with no income coming in
And the little help we get is cut from the budget then
What's the role of government
Do workers stand a chance if multi billionaires are running it
Oh now you worried bout the deficit and cutting it
But when them banks needed billions you had enough for them.
Them car companies you had bucks for them
2 wars rebuilding 2 countries guess we stuck with them
the average citizen just ain't lucky then cause we be getting pimped so I guess we getting f*cked
again
Rush Limbaugh works for multi billionaires
Bill O'Reilly works for multi billionaires
while corporations get billions in welfare
and millions in this country been out of work for years
Sean Hannity works for multi billionaires
Crazy Glenn Beck works for multi billionaires
they wanna end social security and medicare
while millions in this country don't have a dime to spare
When did the American worker become the enemy
Why is wanting a living wage such a penalty
What happened to justice and liberty
These billionaire haters wanna crush us literally
On the box is Murdoch and his foxes
And if you watch it you might as well be an ostrich
They terrorists cause they hold facts hostage
24 hours straight of we hate what Barack did
If you want to unionize you're a communist
But if you buy a congressman they just call you a lobbyist
It's so obvious but here's where the problem is
they act like regular Americans but they sloppy rich Why you think they wanna
cut taxes cause every single one of them in the higher brackets
This ain't white or black it's class warfare time for action Just look at wide the gap is
American workers vs multi billionaires
The middle class vs multi billionaires while corporations get billions in welfare and millions in this country been out of work for years
Rupert Murdoch is multi billionaires
the Koch brothers are multi Billionaire
they wanna end social security and medicare
while millions in this country don't have
a dime to spare
