Rebuilding The Union Movement

Artist:
Lynn Marie Smith

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Breaking news! Millions and millions of union members have descended upon Washington DC. They have surrounded the White House. The city has been shut down!

In the days of Mother Jones and Ghandi and Bernie Firestone, civil disobedience has been a way of protest in this country. I can still hear Martin Luther king saying "I have a dream!"

We shall, we shall not be moved.
We shall, we shall not be moved.

Photo: Jim West. Click for pop-up.

If you think the union movement is over,
Brothers, sisters, I've got news for you.
Everybody here must give 100% now
This requires more than paying dues.

Get on up, come on let's go
We got to march on Washington in
numbers like never seen before.
Marching's too big to ignore.
Marching on the White House.

There's no time to waste, politics out
of control
Build a union city, pitch our tents to the White House door
Shut the city down so nothing around us will move
We'll demand respect, and show them that the people will rule.

Get on up, come on let's go,
We got to march on Washington in numbers like never seen before.
Marching's too big to ignore.
Marching on the White House.

No justice, no peace; we're voting with our feet.
No justice, no peace; we're taking it to the street.
No justice, no peace; we're voting with our feet.
No justice, no peace; we're taking it to the street.

Let's march, rebuild the union movement.
Let's march, rebuild the union movement.
Let's march, rebuild the union movement.
Rebuild it.
Let's march, rebuild the union movement.
Let's march, rebuild the union movement.
Let's march, rebuild the union movement.
Let's march.

Well you have my plan to make positive change. I believe that we can re-energize and re-mobilize the labor movement. And it's in that day that when we lock arms together in an act of solidarity, and in one voice sing:

We shall not be moved.
We shall not be moved.
We shall not be moved.
We shall not be moved.
We shall not be moved.
We shall not be moved.
We shall not be moved.

Personnel: Lynn Marie Smith, lead, background vocals; Denise Dotson, background Vocals; Jon Pettiford, musician; Bruce Wimbley, engineer.

Lynn Marie Smith is an organizer for the Michigan Federation of Teachers. To order her CD Building The Union Local:

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