NO TO THE DAPL, a poem by Scott F

                                           




                                                        No to the DAPL.


                                                             by Scott F

They invaded Turtle Island

and stole your land

infected you with smallpox

Manifest destiny the guiding hand.

Broke the treaties, murdered anna mae,

put Leonard in a cage and keep him

there to this day.

now they come with the DAPL

trying to turn the water to waste

and the air to hell.

Backed by the big banks

National guard on alert,

almost ready to send in the tanks.
Robbed the Black Hills

and call these protests trespass,

They came here for Gold

now they push for Oil and gas

bureaucratic unions writin' letters

talking about job security,

covering their ass.

Made you mine Uranium

till people got sick

poorest county in the US

they just don't give a shit.

At standing rock,

Attack dogs and Pepper spray, security hired by G4S

from the job centres of Britain

to the prisons of Palestine

there's no one they wouldn't oppress.

But The tribes united , Native power

Idle no more and the A.I.M.

defying the colonialists

defying the bankers and the profits that rule them.

Inspired by memories of

the occupation of alcatraz

Red cloud's wars

and the Oka cr-isis.

Protectors not protesters

defending the earth

from fracking and oil spills

BP, Shell, Chevron

and other corporate ills

ignoring Obama

and his well paid shills.

O THE DPL