Jubilee Year
This is our year of Jubilee
This year we issue our decree
That now from sea to shining sea
All vacant bank-owned homes are free
This is our year of Jubilee
This year the wealth that usually
is kept and hoarded brutally
is shared for all communally
This is the year we all agree
Our only healthcare policy
is make it free and quality
that life is no commodity
This year we heed our memory
And hear the Anishinabe
And honor every broken treaty
Right down to Mni Wiconi
This is our year of Jubilee
The land at last is now redeemed
and We the People will be free
This is our year of Jubilee
This is the year that poetry
breaks through the chains of legalese
and flows in waves throughout the streets
in song and chants and prophecy
This is our year of Jubilee
All debts are now hereby relieved
And prisoners are hereby free
From sea to shining fucking sea
This is our year of Jubilee
and rights of “private property”
are no defense for profiteering
off of death and poverty
This is our year of Jubilee
The deaf will hear / the blind will see
This is the year eternity is born again into the seed
from which it sprouted / up and outward
This is our world / This is We
The people / land and life itself
taking back the deed that rightfully was always ours
whether with arms or open arms
the Revolution is now born
and must arrive as surely
as the sky that sings the dawn
My friends,
the end of night is now upon us
Here / and near
Feel it: Power
This / is ours
This is Our Year
This Hour
Now
