For the climate march this weekend, I made a printable list of climate chants that I’m sharing with you here. I noticed that most of the marches recently (the Women’s March, the Science March) were very quiet. People brought terrific signs, but didn’t come prepared with chants. But I want those in power to quake in fear at the power of our voice!
These are my favorite climate justice chants, in two pages (perfect for printing front and back). I designed this list of climate justice chants specifically for passing out at rallies and marches:
- It’s one color, no fancy photos
- Every other chant is in italic, so it’s easier to see where you are on the page
- Nice big font and lots of space between chants, but concisely presented in two columns
- Not a PDF, instead using a .rtf so you can open it and quickly make your own modifications in any word processor
- No breaks in songs, each chant fits in its column without flowing into the next column or page
There’s really way more than you’ll need for one rally, since most people stick with a few favorites they read over and over, so you may prefer to reduce it to one page of your very favorites.
My plan is not only to take this to the rally, but to print out extra copies and hand them out to people who chant along with me. Let’s make some noise for climate justice!
Download Printable Document of Climate Justice Chants
(right-click, “save as” to download)
Climate Justice Chants Included in the Printable Download
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If you don’t have my printable list of chants, make one out of the signs you see. This one would work great as a chant.
Image via Michael Fleshman
Give us climate targets
Not dirty tar sand markets - Keep that temperature down
Keep carbon underground - Governments grant permits
People grant permission - The planet! The planet! The planet’s on fire!
We don’t need no oil let the corporations burn! - Frack Wall Street, not our water!
- Climate devastation will not be solved by corporations.
That’s bullshit, get off it. The enemy is profit! - Variation:
The enemy is profit. Together, we’ll stop it.
Climate devastation will not be solved by corporations!
Exxon-Mobil, BP, Shell take your filth and go to hell! - When the air we breath is under attack, What do we do? – Stand up, fight back!
When the water we drink is under attack, What do we do?– Stand up, fight back!
When the earth need is under attack, What do we do? – Stand up, fight back!
What do we do? – Stand up, fight back! – What do we do? – Stand up, fight back! – What do we do? – Stand up, fight back! - No more coal, no more oil
Keep your carbon in the soil! - U-G-L-YCorporate scum you cheat you lie
You UGLY, uh, uh, you UGLY
via Takver - Your pipeline dreams
Just make me scream! - Hey hey Ho Ho
The XL pipeline’s got to go! - We will choose, we will decide
We will fight to turn the tide - Pollution and exploitation
Will not be solved by corporations. - That’s bulls*t! Get off it!
This land is not for profit! - Jobs at the Keystone? No, let’s can it!
There are no jobs on a dead planet! - Corporate greed
We must fight
Polluting earth is not a right! - What you see is what you get
And you ain’t seen nothing yet - Wall Street, Wall Street, hey —- you
We deserve a future too - Occupy! Shut ‘em down!
Oakland is a clean air town!
Hurricanes, storms and quakes.
How much more can we take?
Let’s fight back for our kids’ sake!
Take the system, shake shake shake! -
This truth via Garry Knight
Waters rise
Hear our cries
No more lies
It’s action time! - Get up, get down
Leave fossil fuels in the ground! - (To the tune of “I Love Rock N’ Roll”)
Stop that climate change,
Not another dime for destruction baby
We love renewables
Power from the wind and sunshine baby
We love planet Earth
Keep the tops on the mountains baby
We love mother earth
Not another dime to the tar sands baby - (To the tune of “We Will Rock You”)
We will we will BLOCK YOU, BLOCK YOU
We will we will STOP YOU! STOP YOU! - No more (clap clap) corporate greed
Renewables are what we need! - We increase our planet’s peril
Every time we pump a barrel. - Switch to LEAN, switch to GREEN
We want all our sources CLEAN - We who smelt it dealt it
Pass on the gas before we melt it - (To the tune of “OH-E-OH NO-OHH”, the flying monkey song from Wizard of Oz)
No Keystone, no-oh
No more coal, no-oh
Block Keystone oh-oh
BP Oil, no-oh
Go solar, go-oh
Organic go-oh
Frack our homes, no-oh - (To the tune of “It’s Getting Hot In Here”)
It’s getting hot in here - More than four hundred parts
I am getting so hot
I wanna turn my car off
[stop fossil fuels/demand real change] 
It is time to turn the tide
And criminalize ecocide- No more subsidies
For fossil fuel companies - Once you frack,
you can’t go back! - When our planet’s under attack,
What do we do?
Stand Up Fight Back! - No more (clap clap) corporate greed
Renewables are what we need!
1234 kick pipelines out the door - 5678 renewable power in every state!
Mix and match these as you please to make new forms. If a chant is making you fatigued, you might try adding claps, so you have a breathing space between chants. Bring maracas, drums, or whatever instruments get you excited.
Download Printable List of Climate Chants
Karma has a degree in writing and sociology. She’s an Americorps grad and a board member of the California Writers Club. Her first foray into human rights work was with the Westcott 12 activists who launched a 100+ day camp out in protest of sweatshop labor. Since then she’s organized with IndyMedia, Occupy Oakland, and most recently with Solidaridad Con Los Ninos, a group that organizes caravans to visit detainment centers. She loves street art, poetry, and dancing with wild abandon.
