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We Have Fed You All For A Thousand Years

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4 be the price of all your wealth, Good God! We have paid in

We have fed you all for a thousand years,

And you hail us still unfed,

Though there's never a dollar of all your wealth,

But marks the workers’ dead.

We have yielded our best to give you rest

And you lie on crimson wool.

And if blood be the price of all your wealth,

Good God! We have paid in full!

There is never a mine blown skyward now,

But we're buried alive for you.

There's never a wreck drifts shoreward now,

But we arc its ghastly crew.

Go reckon our dead by the forges red

And the factories where we spin.

If blood be the price of your cursed wealth,

Good God! We have paid it in!

For that was our doom, you know;

From the days when you chained us in your fields

To the strike a week ago.

You have taken our lives, our husbands and wives,

And we're told it's your legal share.

But if blood be the price of your lawful wealth,

Good God! We have bought it fair!

I know you're out there still.

Have you seen her broken body,

Or the spirit you can't kill?

Now Judi Bari's a feminist organizer.

Ain't no man gonna keep that woman down.

She defended the abortion clinic

In fascist Ukiah town.

Calvary Baptist Church called for its masses,

Camo buddies lined up in the pews.

Now you can see all of their faces

In the Ukiah Daily News.

So they spew'd out their hatred

And they laid out their scam.

Bill Staley called for violence

Was no secret what they planned.

Now Judi Bari is the mother of two children,

A pipe bomb went rippin’ through her womb.

She cries in pain at night time

In a Willits cabin room.

FB.I. is back again with COINTELPRO,

Richard Held is the man they know they trust.

With Lieutenant Simms hench-man,

It's a world of boom or bust

We'll answer with non-violence,

For seeking justice is our plan.

And we'll avenge our wounded comrade,

As we defend the ravaged land.

Now Judi Bari is an Earthist organizer

The California Redwoods are her home.

She called for Redwood summer

Where the owl and the blackbear roam.

Charlie Hurwitz, he runs Maxxam out of Houston,

Harry Merlo mns L.P. from Portland town.

They're the men they call King Timber

They know how to cut you down.

So Don Nolan spew'd their hatred,

As Candy Boak laid out their scam.

John Campbell called for violence,

Was no secret what they planned.

On May 24, 1990, a bomb exploded under FW Judi Bari's car seat as she and FW Darryl

Cherncy drove through Oakland, California, to a "Redwood Summer” organizing event.

Two years later, Bari sill suffered from a shattered pelvis and a paralyzed leg. Rather than

conducting an investigation, the police and the FBI (under Special Agent Richard Held)

engaged ina coverup. named Bani and Chermey as the only suspects and made sure the real

bomber wasn't found. “Redwood Summer” was a non-violent campaign to stop the cutting

of redwood forests near Ukiah by the Georgia Pacific, Louisiana-Pacific and

MAXX.AM lumber companies. The union is a local of the United Woodworkers of

America, headed by Don Nelson, that did not take action when PCB was spilled in a saw

mill and the workers turned to the WW. The FBI's COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence

Program) was formed to “disrupt, misdirect, discredit o¢ otherwise neutralize” the anti-war

and civil nights movements in the 1960's. In 1971 COINTELPRO was officially

discontinued, however, the same techniques and operations continue to be used against any

US group deemed threatening to the current power structure. Held is an FBI agent who in

the 1970's was involved in COINTELPRO-style actions against the Black Panther ,

the American Indian Movement and the Puerto Rican Independentista Movement. Willits,

CA, was where Bari was living.