{"id":3232,"date":"2024-07-15T19:00:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T02:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/?p=3232"},"modified":"2024-07-15T19:00:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T02:00:37","slug":"big-oil-vs-life-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/big-oil-vs-life-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Oil vs. Life on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Lyrics By: Laurie Rostholder<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Tune: Marine Corps Hymn<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the sand dunes down in south Iraq<br>To the wild Alaskan seas,<br>We have trashed the earth to pump the oil<br>Just to fuel our SUV\u2019s.<br>We have overthrown democracies<br>To exploit their oil reserves,<br>Intervened in sovereign nation-states<br>\u2018Cause it\u2019s Big Oil that we serve<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mega-profits go to Texaco,<br>To BP and Exxon, too.<br>Halliburton, Shell and Conoco,<br>But the cost is paid by you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many lives and many billions spent<br>Just so profits can be made<br>By extractive corporations:<br>Yes, it\u2019s blood for oil we trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Yes, it\u2019s blood for oil we trade.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We must turn things \u2018round immediately.<br>Exploitation has to cease.<br>Build a green and clean economy,<br>And it must be based on peace.<br>We reject extractive industries.<br>Let our planet start to heal!<br>Give our kids a world that\u2019s livable.<br>We demand a GREEN NEW DEAL!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyrics By: Laurie Rostholder Tune: Marine Corps Hymn From the sand dunes down in south IraqTo the wild Alaskan seas,We have trashed the earth to pump the oilJust to fuel our SUV\u2019s.We have overthrown democraciesTo exploit their oil reserves,Intervened in sovereign nation-states\u2018Cause it\u2019s Big Oil that we serve Mega-profits go to Texaco,To BP and Exxon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}