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Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?
Alfred McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in
the Global Drug Trade
Peter Dale Scott, Cocaine Politics and American War
Machine
Gary Webb: Dark Alliance
Wendell Potter: Deadly Spin
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lyrics
It’s good to be in office
Let’s take a look and see
How me and my friends
Can loot the treasury
It’s written on a golf course
Or in a private jet
The authorship is hidden
But you know you can bet
That laws about insurance
Laws about guns and drugs
Were written by Wall Street
As white collar thugs
Stock up all the prisons.
lock hospital doors
Stock up lots of guns,
so we’ll need them more
Stock up all the prisons,
close a public school
We who have the gold,
get to break the rules
We made friends with drug kingpins
They helped us score a Cold War win
So up and up went the supply
Down came the price to get high
Are politics in poor folks heads?
Tell cops let ’em have drugs instead
Then we’ll really have ’em seeing red
They’ll be sleeping in a prison bed
Does all this make you sad?
Are you rich & white & scared?
Take all the drugs you like
You’ll be too high to care
Stock up all the prisons,
lock hospital doors
Stock up lots of guns,
so we’ll need them more
Stock up all the prisons,
fuck with public schools
We who have the gold,
get to make the fools
Are you sick and poor?
We’ve got emergency rooms
But a new disaster
Will be in your mailbox soon
If you can’t seem to pay the bill
Hey, that’s really just too bad
Cuz HMOs have bottom lines
That we just need to pad
They wouldn’t be too thrilled
No not too overjoyed
If Medicare for all made sure
That they were all destroyed,
That they were all destroyed…
Stock up all the prisons,
lock hospital doors
Stock up lots of guns,
so we’ll need them more
Stock up all the prisons,
close a public school
We who have the gold,
get to take the jewels
So now you’ve toured the office
You had a chance to see
How me and my friends
Oh, how we loot the treasury!
Here out on the golf course
Up in our private jet
All up and down the lobbies
We take what we can get
We take what we can get...that’s right
credits
from El Pulpo,
released October 20, 2017
Drums: Andrew Levi-Hiller
Bass, Keyboards, Bulbul Tarang: John Davis
Marimba, Carillon: Louis Landry
Backing Vocals: Wendy Allen, Fiona Galinsky,
Bella Lambert
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