Flames Not Flowers

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Har nari ki yahi ladai
Jhadoo maro Dow ko
Phool nahi Chingari hain hum
Jhadoo maro Dow ko

It is the struggle of all women
Beat Dow with a broom
We are flames not flowers
Beat Dow with a broom

Ither se maro, Uther se maro
Beat from this side, beat from that side
Jhadoo maro Dow ko

Hum bhi marey tum bhi maro
I beat and you also beat
Jhadoo maro Dow ko

Josh se maro, Host se maro
Beat with pasión, beat fully conscious
Jhadoo maro Dow ko

Mil ke maro Takat se maro
Beat together, beat with power
Jhadoo maro Dow ko

We are women of Bhopal, we are flames not flowers
We will not wilt before your corporate power
With brooms in hand we're gonna sweep you away
'Cause we'll fight for justice till our dyin' day

You're Union carbide, you cannot hide
Behind your deadly clouds of cyanide
You gassed our city with your poison factory
Cutting costs on safety making MIC
Using double standards, untried technology
And you said it's good for the economy
You ruined our lives, killed our sons and our mothers
And before we could mourn our dead sisters and brothers
You'd already denied responsibility
For the worst disaster in history.

You made a bargain, with our government
To drop the charges and take the settlement
The compensation, you said you thought was fair
"500 dollars goes pretty far over there"
Your champagne glasses you raised in the air
'Cause it only cost you 43 cents per share
Your paltry settlement sent the prices of your stock up
But we won't give up until your ass is in the lock-up

The blood we cough up
Because you screwed up
You're gonna fess up
And clean the mess up

Nineteen years later we're still suffering and dying
And you're still claiming trade secrets and lying
20,000 dead and counting is much more than a statistic
We remember every loved one's smile, our heartbreak's realistic
More than a hundred thousand still living in pain
How can you sit there and tell us that our cries are in vain
The toxic waste dumps around your factory
Are adding insult, to injury
The poisoned water that we have to drink
Ask any daughter, she knows how much it stinks.
You thought the merger with Dow Chemical
Would absolve you of liability
But for your crimes against humanity
We're gonna bring Dow Chemical to its knees.

Dow has a history, several claims to fame
It was their Napalm set Vietnam aflame.
Agent Orange causes birth defects
And using Dursban has nasty side-effects
Dioxin squirts from every mother's breast
Worldwide from north to south, east to west.
But you corporate men in your ties of silk
Can't know the horror of mothers feeding toxic breast milk
To our beautiful babies, our newborn innocents
This ain't no way to start their life experience.
You invade our bodies knowingly
Thanks to Dow, we're living poisoned daily.

If the truth be told we would rather die
Than have to live like you where every breath is a lie
Your corporate culture, for what it's worth
Has done more to ruin our planet earth
By turning humans into hollow shells
Addicted consumers in their homogenous hells.
But in your quest for profit we refuse to take part
Against all odds we'll live our lives with joy and heart
We believe in the power of the human spirit
We raise our voices together so everyone can hear it.

We are women of the world, we are flames, not flowers
We will not wilt before your corporate power
Hand in hand and heart to heart, side by side
We will fight for justice 'til the day we die.

by Terry Allen.




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