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Young Shoots
05:23
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We’re young shoots
growing out of ancient roots
Born out of the ashes,
the ashes of our mother’s bones
Tempered in fire
Baptized in pepper spray
Cleansed by smokey tear gas
What will our children say?
We’re fresh young shoots
growing out of ancient roots
Nurtured in the ashes,
the ashes of ancestral bones
Forged from resistance
Bathed in pepper spray
Singed and scorched by flash grenades
Will our kids be proud of us?
We’re fresh young shoots
growing out of ancient roots
Throwing off the shackles
of our father’s white supremacy
Dismantling the prison walls
of slavery and gender fallacy
Stomping out fascists
Can we leave a better world behind?
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Three Dead In Kenosha
04:14
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There’s three dead in Kenosha
One killed by a cop, two by fascist militia
Now there’s riots in the streets but don’t be mistaken
no amount of looting can replace what you’ve taken.
They want a civil war
They’ve started a war
I may have to kill my father I fear
But one way or another this ends right here
There’s three dead in Kenosha
One killed by a cop, two by fascist militia
Now cities are burning but don’t be mistaken
No amount of looting can replace what you’ve taken.
They want a civil war
They’ve started a war
I may have to fight my sibling I fear
one way or another fascism ends here
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All Cops Are Bastards
04:21
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We’re gonna beat you says the man up in the ice cream truck,
if you don’t get up on the sidewalk.
They just start shooting bangs and bullets this is nothing new,
no it happens every day.
We are not doing nothing wrong we scream in agony.
Why did you kill that man you knew he could not breathe?
Why did you kill her as she lay there sleeping in her bed?
You pigs are all so fucked up in the head.
All cops are bastards, no gods no masters.
All cops are bastards, no gods no masters.
Get out with your gas and guns and white supremacy.
We do not recognize your authority.
Your only job is terrorizing our communities,
and now we’ve had it up to here.
That’s why we are not going home our numbers grow each day.
There is no way that we can fail.
So we’re fighting back your time is done let’s empty all the jails.
We no longer live in fear.
All cops are bastards, no gods no masters
All cops are bastards, no gods no masters, anarchy.
All cops are bastards, no gods no masters
All cops are bastards, no gods no masters, anarchy.
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4. |
The Battle of Portland
03:29
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Consequences
04:50
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I didn’t mean to leave a bad impression.
Consequences matter more than my charm.
Why do I always feel I have to be strong?
Why can’t I be sad and cry that you’re gone?
How do we undo systems of oppression?
How do we fix so much trauma and harm?
How do we make right the things that we’ve done wrong?
How do we harvest uprisings with song?
We have to Fight and disrupt their repression.
We have to listen with wide open arms.
We have to admit that we’ve always been wrong.
We’ve been singing out of tune for so long.
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6. |
Rob the Rich
03:12
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It’s okay to rob the rich, it’s okay to rob the rich.
It’s okay to rob the rich, it’s okay to rob the rich.
It’s okay to rob the rich, it’s okay to rob the rich.
It’s okay to rob the rich, it’s okay to rob the rich.
It’s okay to rob the rich, it’s okay to rob the rich.
It’s okay to rob the rich, it’s okay to rob the rich.
It’s okay to rob the rich, it’s okay to rob the rich.
It’s okay to rob the rich, it’s okay to rob the rich.
It’s okay to rob the rich, it’s okay to rob the rich.
It’s okay to rob the rich, it’s okay to rob the rich.
It’s okay to rob the rich, it’s okay to rob the rich.
It’s okay to rob the rich, it’s okay to rob the rich.
It’s okay to rob the rich, it’s okay to rob the rich.
It’s okay to rob the rich, it’s okay to rob the rich.
It’s okay to rob the rich, it’s okay to rob the rich.
It’s okay to rob the rich, it’s okay to rob the rich.
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7. |
Eat Your Landlord
05:38
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An endless chain of evictions stretches from
inner city tenements back into antiquity.
(everybody eat your landlord)
We are the Berber peoples
revolting against the dying Roman Empire.
(everybody eat your landlord)
The cost of rising rent is the life of a houseless
woman, frozen to death, clutching her baby.
(everybody eat your landlord)
We are the Estonian peasants of St George’s Nightly uprising,
throwing off the yoke of landlords and christian imperialism.
(everybody eat your landlord)
Rent is feudal theft, an old injustice,
but the peasants revolted and fought back.
(everybody eat your landlord)
We are Robin Hood,
re-appropriating the wealth that landlords have stolen.
(everybody eat your landlord)
We are the October Revolution
bringing kingdoms of landed gentry to their knees.
Everybody eat your landlord.
Everybody eat your landlord.
Everybody eat your landlord.
Everybody eat your landlord.
Landlords shut off water while police beat
tenants with clubs. The children were thirsty.
(everybody eat your landlord)
But the Jewish women on the Lower Eastside fought back.
They organized rent strikes.
(everybody eat your landlord)
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory murdered our
mothers for the profit of bosses and landlords.
(everybody eat your landlord)
We are Joan of Arc freeing her people.
We are Pauline Newman building power on the factory floor.
(everybody eat your landlord)
We are Friuli, rising up against
Venetian colonizers, clergy, nobility.
(everybody eat your landlord)
We are the Spanish Revolution.
We are Occupy Wall Street.
(everybody eat your landlord)
We are Ferguson. We are Minneapolis.
We are Portland.
Everybody eat your landlord.
Everybody eat your landlord.
Everybody eat your landlord.
Everybody eat your landlord.
Everybody eat your landlord.
Everybody eat your landlord.
Everybody eat your landlord.
Everybody eat your landlord.
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8. |
Betray Whiteness
05:01
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When a room you walk in, does everyone share your skin?
Do you get harassed and more, when you walk through a store?
When you’re in a bank do they run, or is there a hand on a gun?
When you walk home at night, do people see a criminal in flight?
Can you see what’s happening?
Is that just skin on your bones?
Do you see what’s happening?
Is that just skin on your bones?
When sirens you hear, does your skin make you fear?
If a cop cruises by, do you expect to die?
If you look at a cop, does it mean you’ll get stopped?
If you get stopped is there bail, or do you expect to go to jail?
Can you see what’s happening?
Is that just skin on your bones?
Do you see what’s happening?
Is that just skin on your bones?
Heed the call for reparations, topple kings from their thrones,
and betray the white skin on your bones.
The Queen of Diamonds is screaming "off with their heads
give me cake and they can have bread.
Give me cake and maybe they can have some bread."
Can you see what’s happening?
Is that just skin on your bones?
Don’t you see what’s happening?
Is that white skin on your bones?
Betray your whiteness
Betray your whiteness
Betray your whiteness
Betray your whiteness
Betray your whiteness
Betray your whiteness
Betray your whiteness
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Who Will Be Next
05:23
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One day they came for the immigrants,
They came for the immigrants,
and you did nothing at all.
Then they came for the anarchists,
they came for the anarchists,
and you did nothing at all.
They came for the Jews,
for the Muslims too,
and we did nothing at all.
Who will be next?
Will it be me,
Or will it be you?
Then they came for the socialists,
they came for the socialists,
and you did nothing at all.
Then they came for the queers,
they came for the queers,
and you did nothing at all.
They came for the indigenous,
for the black folks too,
we turned our heads and did nothing at all.
Who will be next?
Will it be me?
Will it be you?
Who will be next?
Are you ashamed?
Do you feel guilty?
Who will be next?
Are you complicit?
Will you fight back?
Who will be next?
Will it be me?
Will it be you?
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Ashera Portland, Oregon
Ashera creates antifascist lullabies, post-American left/folk music with a focus on radical anti-fascist culture. They are
from Oregon.
"they make war music for the battle against the right."
-A Blaze Ansuz: Antifascist Neofolk
... more
Ashera recommends:
IN SOLIDARITY: Songs Of Struggle and Liberation
by LEFT/FOLK
Great compilation of left/folk artists
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Hauntingly beautiful. All Cinder Well's music is worth listening to.
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beautiful and creative compositions
go to albumIf you like Ashera, you may also like:
supported by 8 fans who also own “Rob the Rich”
Ultimate ending. This kind of *shite* brings me to tears...
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Left/Folk II: Resilience As Praxis
by LEFT/FOLK
supported by 8 fans who also own “Rob the Rich”
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LEFT/FOLK VI: The World As It Is
by LEFT/FOLK
Proceeds from this excellent new darkambient/neofolk comp from LEFT/FOLK goes to benefit American Near East Refugee Aid.
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