CODE RED!!
Calling all street heatâshoe leather legislatorsâ
Calling all pavement policymakers bored by the bigtop:
clean coal clowns; fossil fools; net zero acrobats; carbon
jugglersâŚBored by greasy-thumbed grifters and jingoist
gangsters; Bored by junk metal-chested generals disguised
as donkeys inside elephantsâTethered to tits on Wall Streetâs
bull⌠Blocking! Stalling! Gaslighting! Waging war by other namesâŚ
Calling all street heatâshoe leather legislatorsâ
Calling all pavement policymakers bored by the bigtop:
tired of 2/4 Dancers dancing the Limbo from bended knees;
Tired of them spinning spineless legislation swaddled in
rectangular ragsâreaching across their arid aisle and
Externalizing excrement. Leaving dung-splattered streets to
3 monkeys who See No Oil; Hear No Coal; Speak of No Gas as evilâŚ
Calling all street heatâshoe leather legislatorsâ
Calling all pavement policymakers⌠Whoâll stop
the circus from sullying our names with climate
crime? Whoâll say their namesâtheir Wall Street
gang namesâreconnecting them to climate crimes?
Whoâll say Superstorm Chevron?
Norâ easter Exxon; Tsunami Shell?
And whoâll say Blackened bird BP?
Calling all street heatâshoe leather legislatorsâ
Calling all pavement policymakers who mayâor
may notâremember the Arab Spring; Remember Occupy
lingo â1%â/â99%.â Remember knitted brows; Remember
putting forehead to problems
created by person Hoodsâaka corporate kings and queensâŚ
Calling all street heatâshoe leather legislatorsâ
Calling all pavement policymakers recall rubber
bullet, plastic cuff, bloody, broken bone, stolen eyeball-
tooth traumaâŚRecall draconian sentences required to
arrest killer cops; wrench slavers statues from pedestals;
Rechristen schools, streets, parks, plazas, teams; Retire
Unca Ben, Aunt Jemima with stars and bars at NASCAR
Calling all street heatâshoe leather legislatorsâ
and scholars
Calling all pavement policymakersâand professorsâŚ
Study resistance. Major in mass action. Your gait, your
postureâs perfectâlike ours once wereâ
Matriculate 2020-like. And defend dissertations entitled:
âFossil Fuels, Force and Deception of The Corporate Stateâ
University Of The StreetsâŚâ
Š 2021. Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier. All Rights Reserved.
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The Trump administration opens a new ICE detention center in New Jerseyâs biggest city and a hub for immigrant communities, earning a bold response from immigrant rights organizers.
In this weekâs segment, we discuss the modern history of Black politics in the city of Newark, New Jersey, after the death of a long-serving former mayor and the arrest and brief detention of theâŚ
Our guest is Craig Mokhiber. He is an international human rights lawyer and former director of the New York Office of the United Nationâs High Commissioner for Human Rights. He stepped down from thatâŚ
Lawrence Hamm, of the Peopleâs Organization for Progress (POP), joins us from Newark, New Jersey, to talk about Black politics in that city. The late Sharpe James was mayor for a record-setting 20âŚ
