This is a public service announcement, with guitar:
Know your rights, all three of them.
1). You have the right not to be killed. Murder is a crime–unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat.
Know your rights.
2). You have the right to food money, providing of course you don’t mind a little investigation, humiliation, and–if you cross your fingers–rehabilitation.
Know your rights; these are your rights. Know these rights.
3). You have the right to free speech as long as you’re not dumb enough to actually try it.
Know your rights; these are your rights–all three of them.
It has been suggested in some quarters that this is not enough. Well, get off the streets.
The Clash, 1982.
On this day, 7 June 1971, New York bridge workers completely snarled the city’s traffic by leaving drawbridges open, the result of a rejection by New York State of their pension demands. This is a history of the strike: https://libcom.org/history/new-york-city-municipal-workers-strike-1971-steven-johns https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1733892023462607/?type=3
