At the WEF with S11
(in 3 parts)


The Slogans Said
(1)


Globalise love
ride a bicycle
green extremist
eco-cide and genocide/demand enviro-justice
WEF criminals
clown casino
Richard Court red-handed
world exploitation forum
earth care / fair share / people care
our world is not for sale
worker's rights - human rights
capitalism killing the planet/killing people
private gain/public poverty
feed the poor/eat the rich
cancel the debt
the dollar need not be the bottom line
it is not inevitable we become like them

To the WTO (2)

And the people / smiling faces everywhere
savage drumming sessions / silent satircal theatre
eco ferals / black hand ferals / next-door-neighbour
ferals / love ferals / fluro green hair / pink hair
plumb hair / carrot hair

hordes of wind-blown scruffy demonstrators
invade South Bank Cafeteria, to drink coffee

at Trades Hall
the Irish are wearing Bobby Sands T shirts
marching with unionists down Swanston Street
wearing a great-coat - Ned Kelly in full armour
beside the Revolutionary People's Liberation
Party Front all the way from Turkey

surveillance helicopters hover 24 hours a day
watching people and bicycles with paniers
tumbling over with flowers

finally Senator Bob Brown on stage
points to the casino, "the tower of Babel" he said
"full of exploiters and plutocrats in their tower
of self interest - and we, the sea of humanity"

The Birthing (3)


I will haunt you until the end of your quick-time
my slow-time will meet your quick-time
and I will eat you
I will be everywhere at one time reminding you
the world is not for sale I am alive
and will fight you every second of my eternity
time is on my side, numbers are growing
yours is quick-time and you - burn yourself up
I am slow-time - all that has nature on it's side

I'll not eat at your tables of Frankenstein food
I'll not work in your child-slave-sweat-shops Nike
I'll not live in your mind-set of patenting nature
I'll not give credence to your audacity
shifting trillions in stock exchange gambles
where none trickles down to those in need
I'll not sit idly by while you steal
the sovereignty of small nations
I'll not let you steam-roll the ecology of this planet
and you'll not own it, I'll not let you

Where were you
when the birthing pulsed stars into the deep void
and we peopled the universe with magic matter
that will never look into eyes like yours ?

Where were you when the trees joined forces
and plotted to war forever on those
who know no respect for ancientness ?

Where were you when we shouted
'don't think it inevitable we'll become like you -
we'll never lay down with suits' ?

Where were you
when the dreamtime made the stories
and animals became, and rivers became
and mountains became, and the sky became
and the sun made us ?

Where were you
when steel towers pierced through the ozone
and tractor tyres ran crazy over deserts
and vapours poisoned the water ?

I'll not assist you, I'll not vote for you
nor spin-doctor with you
nor avoid answering questions like you
or ride in limos like you
or ignore your craven indifference
your power-crazy hyper ways
I'll not let your global economy
bottom line become mine
I'll not rape this earth with you

But I will haunt you 'til the end of your quick-time
my slow-time will meet your quick-time
and I will eat you
I will be everywhere at one time reminding you
the world is not for sale, I am alive
and will fight you every second of my eternity
time is on my side numbers are growing
yours is quick-time and you - burn yourself up
I am slow-time - all that has nature on its' side


Pamela Sidney 2000