Striking at Bourgeois Values with "Free Stuff" Why is it that in middle class neighborhoods no one would think anything of it if you are having a "yard sale" or a "moving sale", spending your entire day selling your possessions at pennies on the dollar, a tenth of what you could get on E-Bay, making less than the federal minimum wage for your efforts, but they would shrink in horror from a "free stuff pile". What is the world coming from that they place so little value on material possessions that they would give it away for nothing. Someone will surely complain that you are doing "illegal dumping", even if you tend the pile and fold things back up. Fortunately for me, I live in a neighborhood with a heavy student population, north of Seattle's University of Washington campus, and such a pile is welcome. Having purged the house of unneeded things that aren't worth my time trying to sell (unlike my art, which I will find
This song was written by a guy I was later privileged to know, John Handcox, who wrote it for the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, for which he was briefly and organizer. I knew John when I was an organizer in San Diego Lee Hays learned it from him at a labor school in Arkansas. I'm putting this here for the workers in Wisconsin to encourage them to roll right over Gov Walker. Here are John's lyrics to which I have added a verse.
ReplyDeleteWe’re gonna roll, we’re gonna roll
We’re gonna roll this union on
We’re gonna roll, we’re gonna roll,
We’re gonna roll this union on
And if the growers get in the way, we’re gonna roll right over them
We’re gonna roll right over them, we’re gonna roll right over them
And if the growers get in the way, we’re gonna roll right over them
We’re gonna roll this union on
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And if the cops get in the way, we’re gonna roll right over them
We’re gonna roll right over them, we’re gonna roll right over them
And if the cops get in the way, we’re gonna roll right over them
We’re gonna roll this union on
Chorus
And if Gov. Walker gets in the way, we're gonna to roll right over him
We're gonna roll right over him, we're gonna roll right over him
And if Gov. Walker gets in the way, we're gonna roll right over him
We're gonna roll this union on