The Japanese have a word for it

The current global economic crisis? Here in America dissembling economists call it a "recession." Some Guy, uh... that would be me, calls the similar conditions that prevailed when FDR was president and millions of workers were demanding a New Deal from him The Lesser Depression of the 1930s. Either way, "depression / recession," the Japanese have a word for it (see below). By my lights there is none better, in any language. I would only add, "...and the neoliberal capitalists you rode in on!"

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Vive la révolution!

PORTE MENTAUX - Ah ça ira



Edith Piaf- Le ça ira (ca. 1953)

Ah, ça ira Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira les aristocrates à la lanterne! Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira les aristocrates on les pendra! Si on n’ les pend pas On les rompra Si on n’ les rompt pas On les brûlera Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira les aristocrates à la lanterne! Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira les aristocrates on les pendra! Nous n’avions plus ni nobles, ni prêtres Ah ! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira, L’égalité partout régnera. L’esclave autrichien le suivra, Ah ! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira, Et leur infernale clique Au diable s’envolera. Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira les aristocrates à la lanterne! Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira les aristocrates on les pendra! Et quand on les aura tous pendus On leur fichera la pelle au cul Ah! It'll be fine, It'll be fine, It'll be fine aristocrats to the lamp-post Ah! It'll be fine, It'll be fine, It'll be fine the aristocrats, we'll hang them! If we don't hang them We'll break them If we don't break them We'll burn them Ah! It'll be fine, It'll be fine, It'll be fine aristocrats to the lamp-post Ah! It'll be fine, It'll be fine, It'll be fine the aristocrats, we'll hang them! We have no more nobles nor priests Ah! It'll be fine, It'll be fine, It'll be fine Equality will reign everywhere The Austrian slave shall follow him Ah! It'll be fine, It'll be fine, It'll be fine And their infernal clique Shall go to hell Ah! It'll be fine, It'll be fine, It'll be fine aristocrats to the lamp-post Ah! It'll be fine, It'll be fine, It'll be fine the aristocrats, we'll hang them! And when we'll have hung them all We'll stuff a spade up their arse

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Cleveland MARCH FOR JOBS

There’s money for all the big bankers but no money when it comes to poor and working people. The big corporations took our jobs out of the community and left polluted, empty factories. We will no longer be invisible and silent!

A CALL TO JOIN TOGETHER

MARCH FOR JOBS

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12

1:00 pm

FIVE POINTS PLAZA IN COLLINWOOD

ST. CLAIR AND E. 152
in back of the McDonald’s parking lot

WE DEMAND:

• Jobs or Income NOW!
  
• A Moratorium on Layoffs, Foreclosures & Evictions!
  
• No Cutoffs for People on Public Assistance!
  
• Fund Peoples Needs, Not War and Greed!

For more information and to help build for the protest contact the Cleveland chapter of the Bail Out the People Movement

(216) 531-4004 or email pfcenter@gmail.com

Endorsers (Partial list)

Baldwin Wallace F.I.S.T. (Fight Imperialism, Stand Together); Black on Black Crime, Inc.; The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen Division 3 Local 436; Family Connection Center; Lucasville Uprising Freedom Network; Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility Shutoffs (Michigan); New Black Panther Party; Northeast Ohio Anti-War Coalition; Oppressed People’s Nation; Organize Ohio; Peoples Fightback Center; Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign; Stop Targeting Ohio’s Poor; Survivors/Victims of Tragedy, Inc; Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice; Don Bryant, (People’s Forum); Jean Kosmac (GCU Local 546M); Reginald Swift, (Executive Board, UAW Local 1005)

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