Nine Nine

(This admttedly needs work,  The idea though is to record this or something like it and use it as a public service announcement for the September 9 Incarcerated Work Stoppage and Outside Solidarity.  The idea of a song also is if we get a good enough recording we can possibly get some prison oriented radio programs and local stations to put it on the radio and if we get the word out inside to tune in at the right time and station - it can be used as a means to spread the word inside which is one thing that the incarcerated organizations have asked us on the outside - to help them spread the word from state to state and facility to facility.  If you have some music skill and want to take a crack at recording this or something like it (change anything that needs to be changed) - please write to Decarc@DecarcerateNJ.org )

The following are two audio clips - vocal only - that might provide a starting point.

Permission granted to use the clips and the lyrics in audio or video rendition.  Permission granted to change the lyrics and and expand it or retract it.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7QtByV9XZAHTE14SkU0MUxSZ00/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7QtByV9XZAHanJTLUVUaTIwZzQ/view?usp=sharing

(I think the second one is a better starting point.)

Nine Nine 
copyright 2016 Decarcerate the Garden State

Nine Nine
Attica State
September Nine

Was Attica State

Nine Nine
Now Enslaved
September Nine
When We Break the Chains

When we put down the tools
And we give it a rest
Non Violent
Enslavement Protest

13^th Amendment
Supposed to set us free
Read it again
Was never meant to be

punishment for crime
duly convicted
your labor is now 

forcefully conscripted

Nine Nine
Attica State
September Nine
Was Attica State

Nine Nine
Now Enslaved
September Nine
When We Break the Chains

Corporations
Standing in line
Your free labor
Pumps their bottom line

Government saving
On those pension jobs
It got millions of free workers
Whose labor gets robbed

On September 9
We gonna make a change
Gonna take a stand
Gonna turn the page

No matter how we’re treated
Our lives have worth
We’ll say “Not today”
When they Call us to work

We're exposing the system
Prison for profit
Money off enslavement
We’re gonna stop it

We’re gonna free the enslaved
By freeing  ourselves
Laying down our tools
Leave them on the shelf

No more work for pennies
Or even less
The system is wicked
We’re Giving it a rest

Nine Nine
Attica State
September Nine
Was Attica State

Nine Nine
Decarcerate
September Nine
The Garden State