The year is 2015

(samples from Amy Goodman's podcast entitled Imagine Something Different):

The eighty richest people in the world
are wealthier than the bottom half of the world's population
you got it! and this bears repeating
the eighty wealthiest people,
a group that could fit on a bus,
control more wealth than three and a half billion people

Imagine Something Different

welcome to this Indigenous Isle
no this ain't kanada! 'cause every mile
has been colonized the land's been defiled
occupied but AY! don't sweat it child
resistance powerful 'cause we be getting riled up
by First Nation warriors protecting the wild
from pillaging fat cats sitting on money piles
doing dirty deeds of the 1st percentile
here the body you in determines the style
of social conditions you receive
and how dialed up prejudice is
details about your life compiled
put away in your government file
your race and gender still define your worth
the type of access you receive on this earth
state sanctioned murder is a part of this curse
but none of us free like Solomon Burke

imagine something different
if only for an instant

imagine something different for a moment
who's world is this? and whats your place on it?
whats a small victory against a faceless opponent?
faceless and blame free like a drone is
what's fair when our fight's for atonement
and we got mad strength inside like a Patronus
cant afford to lose with stakes this high
and nothing can stop us with the truth on our side
still money got us confused mind fruits been bruised
misinformed about happiness like men in suits
the school teacher taught us, get rich get freedom
if you poor, fuck you then
that's how we living in these open air prisons
that's why prisons make some men millions
to the pigs listen if you got a gun in our face pointed
when we point ones back don't act so disappointed

imagine something different
if only for an instance

AYO we told to savour the moment we've come so far
but this far is only enough when low be the bar
focus your attention on this like a lead guitar
racial tension still exists 'cause racists are
heads of state trusted with gates
and demonstrate the blatant type of hate
that POCs (people of colour) face everyday!
still they resist fighting for basic human rights
just 'cause it's legal don't mean that it's right
tactics diverse 'cause the struggle we aim to win
Malcolm X and MLK (Martin Luther King Jr.)
were both considered militant
i for one don't give a damn 'bout your skin
or what bits your packing, just what fight you in!
which side of this wealth divide you hold?
'cause we must organize to reach common goals
organize anarchic, no hierarchy
standing with freedom fighters is where i'ma be

naw! we ain't afraid to be wylin!
our rage is nothing but love for Turtle Island
standing with the land and the marginalized
while the cops profiling and the state be violent