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Don't Pay the Rent

from Notes from a Failed State by David Rovics

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Particularly if you live somewhere where there has been a suspension on evictions, it behooves us all to rent strike. Only through such tactics is there any chance that our kleptocratic government run by real estate interests might possibly do anything sensible, like mortgage and rent relief, or rent control laws.

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There's a suspension on evictions, stick to your convictions
Don't pay the rent
If at home we have to stay, then most of us can't pay, so
Don't...
Tell your landlord, sir, that mortgage can defer
And if they start rattling their sabers, say I need to feed my neighbors

It's time now to demand, One Big Union grand
Neoliberalism is dead, it's time to raise your head
Strike for the guarantee, a home for everybody
Running water, housing, health care – all across this Earth we share

Capitalism has failed, put the billionaires in jail
We need a new world now, let me tell you how
With mutual aid, a new world can be made
From the ashes of the old, if we stop doing what we're told

Solidarity with society
Our lives matter a lot, the landlord's profits do not
We can redefine what is theirs and ours and mine
There's a suspension on evictions, stick to your convictions

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from Notes from a Failed State, released June 4, 2020

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David Rovics Portland, Oregon

Singer/songwriter, writer, podcaster (on Spotify, Substack & Patreon), anarchist, dad, lover of life.

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