Haiku: Savings Bank
To save the rivers
To pay for their survival
We must burst the banks
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To save the rivers
To pay for their survival
We must burst the banks
Companies have suspended polluting the air
Governments have suspended cutting our care
Energy firms have suspended price rises
Landlords have suspended nasty surprises
Employers have suspended exploiting our labours
Lobbyists have suspended cashing in favours
Bosses have suspended giving the sack
Oh, they haven't? So, why have we suspended fighting back?
Our public sewage industry
was sold to private bidders
Who don't dispose of putrid waste
but dump it in the rivers
They take responsibility
and flush it down the loo
For building up the affluent
builds effluence up too
The Tories' excremental sale
saw treatment work neglected
As income goes to bonuses
so beaches are infected
Janine speaks on why and how we should fight anti-strike and anti-union laws, as part of the launch week for Empower the Unions, a new initiative from Earth Strike UK, a group of anti-capitalist activists in the climate movement. The campaign aims to unite environmental activists and trade unionists to resist laws that prevent unions from fighting for the climate.
Just a dusting's not enough
There's barely ample white to fight
It's floating free like frozen fluff
Just a dusting's not enough
No handful for a snowball - tough!
This winter's snowfall's far too light
Just a dusting not enough
There's barely ample white to fight
After Earth Beat by Paul Weller
Her banner has a planet on, she’s
carrying resistance and insisting that the
government takes action for a new
start for a cleaner, greener future from today.
We're hiding from Storm Bella,
me and my lockdown crew
The kid, our pets, my fella,
we're hiding from Storm Bella
while listening to Paul Weller
and watching Doctor Who
We're hiding from Storm Bella,
me and my lockdown crew
Tony Abbott
jumps like a rabbit
from homophobic bile
to climate change denial
Tiger, tiger, dying out
Shrinking forests no redoubt
Tell the world to stop and see
Its game, its dismal tyranny
In what cruel economy
Agriculture cuts the tree?
Starving our elusive cat
Bulldozing its habitat?
In what fell society
Rising warmness swells the sea?
Drowns the mangroves, floods the land
Whose the profit, whose the hand?
Janine speaks as part of a panel on Covid-19, democratic ownership and the future of the economy in May 2020. - organised by Another Europe Is Possible. Video plus text of speech below.