Cecil Rajendra's came from Don Borrie's paper to the Anti-privatisation conference - privatisation by NZ local authorities The second is from a Sustainable America workshop - not sourced. Ian Until they Right the Wrong, I shall sing no Celebratory Song So long as car parks take precedence over hospitals. Multi-story hotels over homes for people, Irrelevant factories over fields of our daily sustenance I shall sing no celebratory song no matter how many suns go down This tongue will be of thistle and thorn until they right the wrong! So long as law comes before justice The edifice before service The payment before treatment and appearance before essence I shall sing no celebratory song no matter how many suns go down This tongue will be of thistle and thorn until they right the wrong! So long as the poet is debased and the businessman praised The realist rewarded and the idealist degenerated I shall sing no celebratory song no matter how many suns go down This tongue will be of thistle and thorn until they right the wrong! So long as foreign investors devastate our estate and the voice of capital speaks louder than the pleas of fisher folk I shall sing no celebratory song no matter how many suns go down This tongue will be of thistle and thorn until they right the wrong! So long as blind bulldozers are allowed unchecked to guard our landscape and multi-nationals licensed to run amuck across this land I shall sing no celebratory song no matter how many suns go down This tongue will be of thistle and thorn until they right the wrong! So long as the rivers and streams, our beaches, our air, our oceans, Our trees, our birds, our fish, our butterflies, our bees Are strangled, stifled, polluted, poisoned, crushed, condemned by lopsided development I shall sing no celebratory song no matter how many suns go down This tongue will be of thistle and thorn until they right the wrong! Cecil Rajendra UNITED FOR A FAIR ECONOMY Because CEOs make more in a day than many of us make in a year and Sweatshops are here again and We're being downsized and out-sourced and off-loaded and Where corporations get most of the welfare and We're working longer hours with fewer benefits and We don't have time for our children and The American dream is slipping away and Inequality hurts all of us, even the wealthy, and A woman gets 72 cents on a man's $1 and More black men have been to prison than to college and The rich get tax breaks while our teachers get pay cuts and The top one percent has more wealth than the bottom 90 percent and We're still waiting for the "trickle down" and The problem is not politicians, but the corporations that buy them and Two million of us have seen our wealth double, while 200 million of us become more insecure and People make the system and people can change it and Labour's on the move again and What we do is more important than what we own and The minimum wage should be a living wage and Every child should have their chance and Because when we all come together, there is nothing we can't do, we are UNITED FOR A FAIR ECONOMY
