Climate Justice Chants

Give us climate targets
Not dirty tar sand markets
 
Keep that temperature down
Keep carbon underground
 
Governments grant permits
People grant permission

The planet!  The planet!  The planet’s on fire!  
We don’t need no oil let the corporations burn! 

Frack Wall Street, not our water! 

Climate devastation will not be solved by corporations. 
That’s bullshit, get off it.  The enemy is profit!
Variation:
The enemy is profit.  Together, we’ll stop it.  
Climate devastation will not be solved by corporations!

Exxon-Mobil, BP, Shell take your filth and go to hell! 

When the air we breath is under attack, What do we do? – Stand up, fight back!
When the water we drink is under attack, What do we do?– Stand up, fight back!
When the earth need is under attack, What do we do? – Stand up, fight back!
What do we do? – Stand up, fight back! – What do we do? – Stand up, fight back! – What do we do? – Stand up, fight back!

No more coal, no more oil
Keep your carbon in the soil! 

U-G-L-Y
Corporate scum you cheat you lie
You UGLY, uh, uh, you UGLY 

Your pipeline dreams
Just make me scream! 

Hey hey Ho Ho
The XL pipeline’s got to go! 

We will choose, we will decide
We will fight to turn the tide 

Pollution and exploitation
Will not be solved by corporations.

That’s bulls*t! Get off it!
This land is not for profit!  

Jobs at the Keystone? No, let’s can it!
There are no jobs on a dead planet! 

Corporate Greed
We must fight
Polluting earth is not a right!
What you see is what you get
And you ain’t seen nothing yet

Wall Street, Wall Street, hey ---- you
We deserve a future too

Occupy! Shut ‘em down!
Oakland is a clean air town!
Hurricanes, storms and quakes.
How much more can we take?
Let’s fight back for our  kids’ sake!
Take the system, shake shake shake!

Waters rise
Hear our cries
No more lies
Its action time! 

Get up, get down
Leave fossil fuels in the ground!
(To the tune of “I Love Rock N’ Roll”)
Stop that climate change,
Not another dime for destruction baby
We love renewables
Power from the wind and sunshine baby
We love planet Earth
Keep the tops on the mountains baby
We love mother earth
Not another dime to the tar sands baby

(To the tune of “We Will Rock You”)
We will we will BLOCK YOU, BLOCK YOU
We will we will STOP YOU! STOP YOU!

No more (clap clap) corporate greed
Renewables are what we need!

We increase our planet’s peril
Every time we pump a barrel.
Switch to LEAN, switch to GREEN
We want all our sources CLEAN 

We who smelt it dealt it
Pass on the gas before we melt it 

Once you frack, 
you can’t go back!

When our planet’s under attack,
What do we do?
Stand Up Fight Back! 

(To the tune of “OH-E-OH NO-OHH”, the ﬂying monkey song from Wizard of Oz)
No Keystone, no-oh
No more coal, no-oh
Block Keystone oh-oh
BP Oil, no-oh
Go solar, go-oh
Organic go-oh
Frack our homes, no-oh
(To the tune of “It’s Getting Hot In Here”)
It’s getting hot in here
More than four hundred parts
I am getting so hot
I wanna turn my car off
[stop fossil fuels/demand real change]

It is time to turn the tide
And criminalize ecocide

No more subsidies
For fossil fuel companies

No more (clap clap) corporate greed
Renewables are what we need! 

1234 kick pipelines out the door
5678 renewable power in every state! 

Mix and match these as you please to make new forms. If a chant is making you fatigued, you might try adding claps, so you have a breathing space between chants. 

Bring maracas, drums, or whatever instruments get you excited. 

And if the cops are being belligerent, remind them that they are our potential allies by singing a chant like “strike for police pay!” or “we are not a riot!”