Athens, October 18, 2011

The World Federation of Trade Unions WFTU wholeheartedly welcomes Occupy Wall Street protestors against finance capital and the corporate powers that have overtaken your country and indeed the world.

The WFTU supports you in your condemnation of corporations that extract wealth from the people and the Earth, that place profit over people and that use their economic power to overturn democratic institutions.

The WFTU welcomes your mass demonstrations that focus on Wall Street and the corporations as the powers behind the foreclosures on homes, the massive unemployment, and the increasing enrichment of the top 1% to the detriment of the rest of the people. We join you in the fight against the degradation of the environment and against the attacks on education and health care. We applaud your efforts to protect the right of workers to form unions and bargain collectively. We, too, condemn the production of weapons of mass destruction for profit.

The WFTUs stands with you in your efforts to organize a fight back that challenges the corporate control of resources and institutions so that the people of your country can build a future that fulfills human needs and aspirations.

The Secretariat

Words; Mark Ross, Bruce Murdoch & Etan Ben-Ami
Music; Traditional

There’s a place in New York City
Where the money goes around
For the 99ers in the street
None of that will trickle down

Chorus;Which side are you on? (2X)

We came here for liberty
To change a damned disgrace
Walked across the Brooklyn Bridge
Got night sticks in our face

The politicos and the bankers
Are having too much fun
We’re out here on the street today
To put them on the run

Oh, people can you stand it,
Tell me if you can
Will we fight here on the street
Or beg with cap in hand?

Tell them up in Washington
Let them hear it ‘cross the land
We’ve been too long divided
United we’ll make our stand

It’s called the New York Stock Exchange
They all work out of sight
Money goes from their left hand
Directly to their right

We send our deepest thanks to you
We know you will not fall
They cops could take us one by one
But they sure can’t take us all

You say you love this country,
I hope to God that’s true,
But do you think those politicians,
Give a damn about you.

Come all you brave New Yorkers,
I’ve a truth that I must tell,
If you don’t fight for this country,
You’ll watch it go to hell.