Here is a poster I made to argue against the newspaper assumption that environmentalists are in some way in favour of emissions trading. I have uploaded a full-size pdf to climate indymedia that you can download and print out. It's A3 at 300 dpi.

For the pdf, go to http://www.climateimc.org/en/image/copenhagen/nothing-green

(Can you guess the tune?)

1. Almost Nike, Cancer Council,
Heart Foundation, Amnesty or Greenpeace,
Work is cold there, colder than you'd think,
But warmer than in politics, or at Centrelink.

Chorus
NGOs, take our funds,
From the place they belong,
Cut campaigning, work on branding,
Take our funds, NGOs.

Disaster Relief



Chorus:

D - A D
A D
D - A D
D - - -AD -

Gonna a be such a great relief,
When disaster comes,
Gonna be such a great relief,
When we look out the window and the world's been struck with disaster.

Here is It's Really Bad, with Mitra on the drums. It's our rockest song.

Here should be an mp3 of A Word for Freedom. It's 192 Kbps, which is big for an mp3. The next one will be 128. I hope you can download it on your computer.

Please Do What You Can

words by Paul Spencer, 2006
to the tune of The Ham-Fat Man

Now come on all you workers and listen to my song,
I'm very rich and busy so I won't detain you long,
We're trying to oppress you without a lot of fuss,
And we're asking for your help to do the job for us.

The Brisk Young Worker

to the tune of The Brisk Young Tailor (trad)

It's of a brisk young worker, whose story I'll relate,
He lived beneath the government of Howard and his mate,
Oh Howard was in charge and the other was Costell,
And taking workers' rights away they loved exceeding well,
Oh well, oh well, oh well my boys oh well,
And taking workers' rights away they loved exceeding well.

The Economic God Song

words by Paul Spencer
traditional Australian tune The Lachalan Tigers

G - - - / G - - - / Am - - - / Am - - - /
Am - - - /Em - - - /Am - - - / E - - - /
Am - - - / F - - - /C - - - / G - - - /
C - (B) - /Am - - - / E - - - /Am - - -/

1. A frantic, zealous guru with a mighty, mystic mind,
Beseeches us to leave our unenlightened ways behind,
“Feel the power of the mighty Stock Exchange!”,
Arms wide open and his eyes are very strange

words and music by Paul Spencer, 2005

Verse:
G - - /Bm - - /Em - - /D - - /D - - /
G - - /G - - /Em - - /D - - /D - - /
G - - /Bm - - /Em - - /D - - /D - - /
G - /G - /D - /G - /

Chorus:
G - /G - /C - /Am - /
D - /Em - /D - /D - /
C- /G - /D - /C - /
G C /G D /G - /G - /

Poor people starve from the moment they're born,
Working all day growing soya and corn,
At the end of the year they're still broke and forlorn,
And the food gets eaten by cows and pigs.

Fear
words and music by Paul Spencer, 2000

D - - - / C#dim7 - - - / D - - - / D - - - /
D - - - / Bm - - - / Bm - - - /
Em - - - / Cmaj7 - - - / F#m - - - / F#m - - - /
Adim7 - - - / B7 - - - / B7 - - - /
Em - - - / A - G - / D - - - / D - - - /

Fear comes down up on me in the dark,
Though not quite unexpected,
My impulse is to run, hide away,
Hope I’m not detected,
I can’t escape, the fear is in my heart.

Scampering I leave my friends behind,
The fear I carry with me,
Now it has me totally entranced,
My resistance fails swiftly,