Propagandhi — A Public Dis-Service Announcement From Shell lyrics

The page contains the lyrics of the song "A Public Dis-Service Announcement From Shell" by Propagandhi.

Lyrics

«people have the right to the truth. unvarnished. even uncomfortable. but never
subjugated to a cause, ho Noble or well-meaning. they have the right to clear thinking. slogans,
boycotts and
protests don’t offer answers… (i)t has been suggested that shell should pull
out
of developing nations alto
R. the oil would certainly continue flowing. the business would continue
operating.
the vast majority of the employees would remain in place. but the sound and
ethical
business practices synonym
Ith shell, the environmental investment, and the tens of millions of dollars
spent
on community programs would all be lost. again, it’s the people of developing
nations that you would hurt. it’s
Enough to sit in your comfortable homes in the west, calling for sanctions and
boycotts against a developing country. but you have to be sure that knee-jerk
reactions won’t do more harm than go Ome campaigning groups say that we should in Tervene in the political process in developing nations. but even if we could, we must never do so. politics is the business of governments and politicians.
the world
where companies use their ec C influence to prop up or bring down governments would be a frightening and
bleak
one indeed."(ha. ha.)