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bring down the casino

from disobey giants by SLIVER

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BRING DOWN THE CASINO – THE FORTRESS GIANT
Ricardo, Bogdan, Ignace, Moshen… those names correspond to a tiny fraction of the 14,000 refugees who died trying to penetrate the walls of Fortress Europe. They died in the last 20 years trying to get here or in camps all across the fortress. Because Europe is far from being a welcoming land, a land of freedom… it is indeed a FORTRESS, and the doors are closed to those we should help. And what’s inside the fortress, you may ask. Well, nothing but a CASINO. Neoliberalism, capitalism, tax heavens, today’s economy is nothing but a “casino economy.” And the first step to change that is probably the taxation of transactions : a Tobin tax, a Robin Hood tax. But a real one! Not a tax like French president Sarkozy / Dark-ozy wanted to create, not one that would help western countries. But a tax that would help the poorest countries abroad and the countries from where refugees are coming, only to die at our doorsteps while we do nothing about it, inside the fortress. First, we erase the so-called debt of Third World countries ; this “odious debt” as Noam Chomsky calls it: it was contracted by dictators, often backed by the very same countries that are now reclaiming their money back, and though the dictators are long gone or dead, we are asking the people of those countries to pay this nonsense debt. Would you pay for a car that someone else bought and then destroyed and then parked in front of our house? I doubt that. Then, we create a Robin Hood tax. Then, we start sharing our resources. And then we break the walls of the fortress.

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WE GOT TO CLOSE IT DOWN
WE GOT TO CLOSE (DOWN) THIS CASINO ECONOMY,
MY FRIENDS, ONCE AND FOR ALL, WE GOT TO CLOSE IT DOWN

DISARM THE MARKETS NOW,
ANOTHER WORLD, ANOTHER EUROPE ARE POSSIBLE,
MY FRIENDS, LET’S BRING FORTRESS EUROPE DOWN

WE GOT TO CLOSE IT DOWN
WE GOT TO BRING IT DOWN
WE GOT TO SHUT IT DOWN
WE GOT TO BREAK IT DOWN

WE GOT TO BREAK IT DOWN

ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE
ANOTHER EUROPE: POSSIBLE
ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE

ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE

THIS IS NO PARADISE
THIS AIN’T NO OASIS OF ANY KIND, MY FRIENDS,
AND WE ALL KNOW THAT TAX HEAVENS DON’T COUNT

(THIS IS) NO FREE LAND OF MINE
THERE’S NOTHING FREE ABOUT THE MARKET,
AND THOSE FREE CRUTCHES FOR BROKEN KNEES DON’T COUNT

FREE CRUTCHES FOR BROKEN KNEES DON’T COUNT

WE GOT TO CLOSE IT DOWN
WE GOT TO BRING IT DOWN
DOWN, DOWN, DOWN,
DOWN, DOWN, DOWN

WE GOT TO BREAK IT DOWN

ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE
ANOTHER EUROPE: POSSIBLE
ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE

ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE

BRING IT DOWN


INSPIRED BY THE ACTIONS AND CAMPAIGNS OF THE
ASSOCIATION FOR THE TAXATION OF FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS AND AID TO CITIZENS (ATTAC)

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from disobey giants, released September 28, 2012

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SLIVER Metz, France

SLIVER were a rocking hardcore band from Belgium/France/Luxembourg.
They've played more than 200 shows in 12 countries (France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Poland, Czech Republic, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, the United Kingdom).

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