"Disorderly Conduct" by Sidhe, a message to US Oil Sands and other killers
Channel: Utah Tar Sands Resistance
Date: 2014-09-07

Utah Tar Sands Resistance interrupted the 2014 Uintah Basin Energy Summit where tar sands and oil shale speculators were exalted and anyone defending the planet is shut out. 

Land defender Sidhe had planned to share her entire poem with the 700 conference goers, but police--already aware of the conference organizers' insecurities and impatience--would not cede a moment to their dissenters. Sidhe was booked into the Uintah County Jail on suspicion of "disorderly conduct," an exceedingly fitting charge police could level against the tar sands speculators destroying the planet who were in the room, but alas, the police work for the capitalists, not the people. 

To learn more about tar sands and oil shale mining in Utah and our pursuit of climate justice, go to: 

http://TarSandsResist.org




"Disorderly Conduct" by Sidhe

  A message to all of you short-sighted killers
  What kind of world will you leave behind for your children
  When you've squeezed every last drop of life from the land
  With your greed and your murder you've wrought with your plans

  I'd like to remind you your money means nothing
  When the water's been blackened and the creatures are starving
  You toy with a force you do not understand
  Your chemicals won't wash all that blood off your hands

  First Nations fight cancer up in Athabasca
  Your oil trains are time bombs impending disaster
  Your pipelines will leak and your cesspools will sprawl
  And your babies are left with the brunt of it all

  What of the animals caught in the tar?
  What of the forests left clear cut and scarred?
  What of those atrocities I didn't witness?
  Like Serafino in Columbia sending assassins
  To murder union organizers who stood up and spoke out
  In the back of my mind I can still hear them shout
  I am made of this land you are made of the same
  The planet is dying and you are to blame

  Are you proud of yourselves? Look at what you've become
  Heartless machines, so frigid and numb
  So reluctant to think that you may just be wrong
  That you hear the dissent and you send in the guns. 

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