Haida Raid 2: A message to Stephen Harper

The land of Haida Gwaii is threatened by the building of a giant pipeline and the arrival of oil tankers. Two brothers take matters into their own hands to find a solution, and end up getting some supernatural help from Raven. See: http://haidagwaiicoast.ca/ for more details

Pipe Dreams Lyrics:

Verse 1

I met a Native man that did a span in Afghanistan/ He even toked hash with a clan of the Taliban/ Sittin in the sand looking like a razor clam/ Got an order from his Major Then.... Damn! His rifle jammed /

Right there in his mutherf@#kin hands/Fate changed his plans escaped as far as he can/That's when he walked until he couldn't even f@%#kin stand/Came across a man with the exact same tan/

Who took him in his hut and introduced him to his fam/Fed him good and even brought him back to health again/We're trying to save our land. You too huh?/Man to Man said, I don't wanna shoot ya!/

Passed him a Hose, take a Hoot from my Hookah/ High grade Hash that we ship to Vancouver/Even trade it with the Monks, you know the Buddah?/Do ya? I do it for my Tribe like Booya!

Verse 2

My people of the Beach and my people of the Pines/And my people of the Peaks and my people of the Vines/People of the Grass time to speak, time to Rise/People of the past are rollin deep bout our lives/

Searching thru my soul trying to find the right flow/to tell the truth, I can feel it now the fights close/Sorry kids it's not enuff to just recycle/have to go psycho about where the pipe go/

Got the Ocean asking me, where the f@#k did life go?/I'm like we did the right thing, we wrote to all them white folk./What the f@#k you didn't pick up a rifle?/What? Ain't I worth something to Fight For?/

Been keeping you fed since before Raven let the light go/You can't go back and just fix this s%#t I ain't a Typo/ Life ain't the same with a feast full of jelly fish/ Standing on the shore with a salmon in your belly wish/

Verse 3

For all of my relations so patiently waitin/I've been waking and baking up the Mic Situation/Hibernating hiding in my cave painting/working with the ancients searching for the spaceships/

Surfing thru the stations all I hear is the masons/Controlled by these racists, man we're raiding that slave ship/Now my First Nations, camp in concentrations/Why can't we eat? We got our own reservations?/

Cuz we never made'em, got served an ultimatum/ try to change'em whole agenda assimilate'em alter-natives/Main motivation of these motherf@#kers rapin/and they don't want Nathan but the penetration/ Petroleum controlling'em these devils dating satan/rebels with a cause time to end the occupation/Came and stole our homes and f@*#ing locked us in the basement/so f@#k the pigs I got my Zigs I'm bringing home the bacon.


Message to Stephen Harper:

"Right Honourable Prime Minister Stephen Harper,

Please remember: you work for the people of Canada. Not for the International Oil Companies.

The people of Haida Gwaii don't want the Enbridge Pipeline.

The seas here support a bounty of natural life. We don't want oil tankers in these precious waters.

Oil tankers bring oil spills and oil spills would damage this ecosystem, and the fish, shellfish, and seaweed upon which the people depend.

We don't want to move to Alberta and work in the tar sands. We want to live here as we have done for thousands of years."

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[haidawood]

Hi all,

I've just posted the Pipe Dream Lyrics on this page. Click on "show more" to see the lyrics, as well as the message to Stephen Harper.

[haidawood]

Hi all,

The YouTube counter seems to be stuck, even though the number of views is increasing. Apparently this happens a lot, and it will get updated in a few days. Please click "like" when you watch it, so we can better track the number of hits. Haaw'a.

[5WindsOfVenus]

Very awesome and well done! I keep praying everyday for some kind of divine intervention, I can't wrap my head around this madness that has people systematically destroying all things natural, it breaks my heart... I am posting your video on facebook & my blog. I made a body painting stop-motion animation protest video against the pipeline a few months ago, I have another one I still need to edit & post...

[1500hp0525]

This is one of the greatest videos ever on youtube, 10 out of 10, Peace out !

[Michele Rodger]

well done -Hopefully the powers that be listen



[Robert von Eschen]

What a great short video! I love ravens and the one in the video is no exception. :)

[Jim Brebner]

amazing! Great song and I love the animation! Spread this people!

[NoExcuses4Math]

yep still 16, 414

[thomasjamess]

You wrote that 6 months ago. What was it stuck at? 16,414?

[UNBROKENTHREAD]

pretty awesome but fuck the state it goal is to assimilate, No government of Canada will ever be for the people just a tool of supremacy pandering to Capitalists and holding us down through Racism Colonialism Patriarchy etc etc...

[Gemind Luna]

This is one of the best music videos ever! Great job!!!!!



[Jason Latremoille]

Great job!! : )

[MtnTow]

Very well done. The irony of fate may be outstanding.