Celery Farm July 15, 2020

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knee deep

Knee deep in the first wave

New records for the number of cases 

Rising ever faster spreading uncontrolled 

On its way to being up to our necks.

When the response to the crisis is denial

For sure it's going to get much worse 

Even if the information is kept from us

What we don't know will hurt us. 

The government suppression of facts escalates 

From blaming increased testing for the increasing spread 

To stopping the CDC from getting the hospitalization data

And attacking the messenger Fauci for speaking truth.

If the shutdown had been done right 

Kept in place until the incidence subsided 

Continued until widespread testing and tracing existed

This would not be happening of course. 

Instead we get the push to crowd the children together

Back into their classrooms with their teachers 

Compounding the disastrous premature business re-opening 

Dismissing the obvious impossibility to do it safely. 

But the stock market keeps going up increasing the holdings

Of people who have much more money than they need

Which is the point of the capitalist administration after all 

Sacrificing expendable people to preserve profits. 

In countries where science determines policy

And human lives are valued over protecting private wealth 

Where healthcare is one  of many universal rights

The contrast cries out against the criminals in control here. 

This dysfunctional government literally threatens our lives

Forcing into consciousness the need for complete system change

Driving ever more people to protest in mass demonstrations 

Opening the way to overturn the ruling class and transform society.

Kay Environmental Center July 14, 2020

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Skylands July 12, 2020

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