(samples from the documentary East of Liberty // Dear Liberals by Lee Reed)

consensus, concessions, 
new contexts, same lessons
big tents and repression, 
from sellout progressives

keep wasting all our fucking time
jagoffs tow their party-line
“Dont write ACAB on that sign
Never ever speak your mind!”

radicals are burning out ,
from pushing for event turnout,
to build the org, to win reform,
to hardly change the social norm

talking heads wont ever stop,
working hard to be a cop,
but just because you pay their rent,
doesn't meann you won't be dead!

they’ll promise you a good career
swear that they won’t interfere
You joined up, or so I hear
Young and dumb and so sincere

now they control your agenda
escalate n’ they’ll just fire ya
protest marshal motherfucker
you ain’t no one’s compañera

Here in Pittsburgh, so called radicals are collaborating
with the Bloomfield development corporation
.
The BDC wants to bulldoze a grocery store
to build a yuppie condo in order to attract the tech industry.

and by legitimizing a ~ “dialogue” ~ thru events
that the BDC controls, these sellouts are deliberately
channeling community anger into a dead end
just so they can boost their NGO organizing careers.

From the Hill District to East Liberty, we’ve seen this before.

radicals are burning out ,
from pushing for event turnout,
to build the org, to win reform,
young and dumb and so sincere

now they control your agenda
escalate n’ they’ll just fire ya
protest marshal motherfucker
you ain’t no one’s compañera