Drink of the Death Squads - David Rovics
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True story first told to me by Katie Knight from the Colombia Support Network in Montana. Something like half of the union organizers that are killed in the world each year are Colombian. Colombia is also the biggest recipient of military aid in the hemisphere. This, of course, is a coincidence.
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Coca-Cola came to Colombia
Seeking lower wages
They got just what they came for
But as we turn the pages
We find the workers didn't like the sound
Of their children's hungry cries
So they said we'll join the union
And they began to organize
So Coke called up a terrorist group
Called the AUC
They said "we've got some problems
At the factory"
So these thugs went to the plant
Killed two union men
Told the rest, "you leave the union
Or we'll be back again"
Now Coke did not complain
About this dirty deed
Why give workers higher wages
When Coke is all they really need
They phoned the AUC
Said "thanks, without you we'd go broke
And to show our appreciation
Here's one hundred cases of Coke"
(Chorus)
The baby drinks it in his bottle
When the water ain't no good
The dog drinks it
But he don't know if he should
Some folks say
It's the nectar of the Gods
But Coke is the drink of the Death Squads
Well the workers wouldn't take
This situation lying down
Some went up to Georgia
Said "look what's happened to our town
You American workers got downsized
And as for us we just get shot
And those of us who survive
Our teeth begin to rot"
(Chorus)
Well now that's the situation
What are you gonna do
'Cause death squads run Colombia
And they're paid by me and you
We can let Coke run the world
And see what future that will bring
Or we can drink juice and smash the state
Now that's the real thing
(Chorus)
Created March, 2002
Copyright David Rovics 2002, all rights reserved
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Arriba el pueblo!
Is that how you justify FARC's indiscriminate car bombings, growing drugs and use of child soldiers?
The Lancet- 655,000
Opinion Business Research- 1,220,000
Those are estimated most probable figures, of course. Might be lower. But then again might be higher as well.
Do you want to play the fucking numbers GAME?
Even if the numbers were much lower that would in no way justify these illegal, evil & murderous wars in Afghanistan & Iraq.
Or the long history that precedes the actual invasions.
When have they used car bombs?
As for drugs, they TAX cocaine production. They don't actually produce it themselves.
Other organisations involved in the drugs trade in Columbia include the government, the army, para-military groups like AUC& of course the good old CIA, no strangers to drug dealing & terrorism, not to mention orchestrating coups & setting up proxy armies.
"Even if the numbers were much lower that would in no way justify these illegal, evil & murderous wars in Afghanistan & Iraq."
What is illegal about the War in Afganistan? So far this is the easiest invasion of Afganistan in the nation's history-THEY WANT US THERE!
Feb 7 2003 El Nogal nightclub bombing which killed 36 people and injured 200.
"As for drugs, they TAX cocaine production. They don't actually produce it themselves."
They actually fight troops and police that come to burn coca crops.
"of course the good old CIA, no strangers to drug dealing & terrorism"
And I would love to see you prove that.
Even if the numbers are much lower that would hardly justify the deaths that have been caused by these wars.& this is without even mentioning the refugees, the destitute, the wounded, maimed & disabled, the people contaminated with depleted uranium, or those who have been imprisoned, raped, tortured, or have lost family & friends.
The Afghans "want" the occupation there? Not according to RAWA, the main democracy & woman's/human rights organisation in the country. Or Malalai Joya. Or the Afghans interviewed by journalists & writers such as Robert Fisk or Sonali Kolhatkar & James Ingalls.
The US/NATO occupation is no more popular than the Soviet 1 was.
The FARC may well be guilty of terrorism (I don't know) & they certainly profit from drugs, but no more so than the Columbian state.