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RBC Is Killing Me

by Andrew Glencross

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This song's made to be a singalong! Props to my teenage and forever heroes Billy Bragg and Joe Strummer for the inspiration.

RBC is the #1 funder of fossil fuel projects in so-called Canada, #5 in the world. They are the main investor in the Coastal GasLink fracked gas pipeline being illegally and violently forced through Wet'suwet'en territory in "British Columbia," drilling under the sacred Wedzin Kwa river, which has been the source of clean water and edible salmon for the Wet'suwet'en nation since time immemorial. With the help of private security and Canada's national police force, RBC have been harassing Wet'suwet'en land defenders and evicting them from what is legally their own sovereign land, as recognized by the Supreme Court of Canada and the United Nations, for four years now.

The 2023 AGM for RBC will be held on April 5 in Saskatoon. To let them know their attempts at greenwashing their brand are not working, and to continue pressuring them to divest from the CGL pipeline, a group of Wet'suwet'en allies called Decolonial Solidarity will be holding rallies at Royal Bank branches across the country on Saturday, April 1. I'll be singing this song at the one in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia) on unceded Mi'kmaw territory.

To get involved, sign up to the Decolonial Solidarity mailing list: actionnetwork.org/forms/decolonial-solidarity/
or get in touch with me directly to join our local action.

For more information, follow @decolonialsolidarity and @yintah_access on Instagram, or @decolonialsol on Twitter, or visit www.yintahaccess.com to donate or help out on the front lines.

Please feel free to play this song anywhere it might aid the causes of Indigenous sovereignty, climate action, anticapitalism, or solidarity among people working for those ends. If you'd like to pay anything to download it, all funds will be forwarded along to Yintah Access. Wela'lin!

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RBC is a royal machine,
Stealing land in the name of the queen
Or the name of the king, it's all the same—
Colonizing's always been the game.

RBC is killing me, morally and physically.
They got the cops and government on their side.
RBC is killing me, they put the "con" in economy
And called it investment, but everybody died.

RBC is a banking machine,
Turning salmon into limousines
And public goods into private worth.
Look at that lion trying to eat the Earth!

RBC is killing me, morally and physically.
They got the cops and government on their side.
RBC is killing me, they put the "con" in economy
And called it investment, but everybody died.

RBC's a Canadian machine,
Always say the opposite of what they mean.
"Community" is their favourite term
For profiting while the planet burns.

RBC is killing me, with irony and literally.
They got the cops and government on their side.
RBC is killing me, they put the "con" in economy
And called it investment, but everybody died.
They call it investment, but I call it genocide.
They'll keep on investing till all of us have died.

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released March 8, 2023

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Andrew Glencross Halifax, Nova Scotia

I've been lucky enough to play with lots of inspiring Halifax musicians. This stuff is mostly just me.

My solo recordings were released under the name Pale Son up until 2021. Now I just feel like being myself. I am still very much a pale son, though.

Painting by Johanna Steffen.
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