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WALL STREET IS WAR STREET
The traders in stocks and bones shriek for New Frontiers—but the  coffins return to the Bronx and Harlem. Bull markets of murder deal in a  stock exchange of death. Profits rise to the ticker tape of your dead  sons. Poison gas RAINS on Vietnam. You cannot plead “WE DID NOT KNOW.” Television brings the flaming villages into the safety of your home. You commit genocide in the name of freedom.
BUT YOU TOO ARE THE VICTIMS!
If unemployment rises, you are given work, murderous work. If  education is inferior, you are taught to kill. If the blacks get  restless, they are sent to die. This is Wall Street’s formula for the  great society!

February 10, 1967
WALL STREET IS WAR STREET

The traders in stocks and bones shriek for New Frontiers—but the coffins return to the Bronx and Harlem. Bull markets of murder deal in a stock exchange of death. Profits rise to the ticker tape of your dead sons. Poison gas RAINS on Vietnam. You cannot plead “WE DID NOT KNOW.” Television brings the flaming villages into the safety of your home. You commit genocide in the name of freedom.

BUT YOU TOO ARE THE VICTIMS!

If unemployment rises, you are given work, murderous work. If education is inferior, you are taught to kill. If the blacks get restless, they are sent to die. This is Wall Street’s formula for the great society!


February 10, 1967