Steelers 5K Run Walk to support the Art Rooney Scholarship Fund and the Chuck Noll Foundation for Brain Injury Research. Done virtually in North Domingo Baca Park.
Renegade – Styx
Chariots of Fire – Vangelis
Apple Cider Re-Constitution – Al Stewart
The Weight – Aretha Franklin
Running On Empty – Jackson Browne
Edge of America – Annie Humphrey
All Along The Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix
Long May You Run – Neil Young
Let The Circle Be Wide – Tommy Sands
Grapefruit Moon – Tom Waits
Nantucket Sleighride – Mountain
Last Lonely Eagle – New Riders of the Purple Sage
Mr. Bojangles – Nina Simone
A Whiter Shade Of Pale – Procol Harum
Tell Me Why – Archie Roach
Victor Jara – Arlo Guthrie
Carry On Till Tomorrow – Badfinger
Magical Mystery Tour – The Beatles
Will It Go Round in Circles – Billy Preston
Fire Of Freedom – Black 47
Three Little Birds – Bob Marley & The Wailers
Calling All The Children Home – John McCutcheon
No Surrender – Bruce Springsteen
Crowded Table – The Highwomen
The Rocky Road To Dublin – The Chieftains & The Rolling Stones
Stairway to Heaven – Dolly Parton
Piper to the End – Mark Knopfler
Gone To Shiloh – Elton John & Leon Russell
Blackbird – Emma Stevens
Boulder to Birmingham – Emmylou Harris
Someday We’ll All Be Free 40 Keb’ Mo’
Category Archives: Current Events
Steelers 5K Run Walk
Filed under Albuquerque, Current Events, Exercise, Football, Music, New Mexico, Pittsburgh Steelers, playlist
1 September 2025
Labor Day.
9 To 5 – Dolly Parton
Workin’ At The Carwash Blues – Jim Croce
The Hands That Built America – U2
Bracero – Phil Ochs
She Works Hard For the Money – Donna Summer
Worker’s Song – Dropkick Murphys
Livin’ On a Prayer – Bon Jovi
Mr. President – Randy Newman
Working Class Hero – Green Day
Working Man – Imagine Dragons
Working On The Highway – Bruce Springsteen
Joe Hill – Paul Robeson
There Is Power in a Union – John McCutcheon
Las Madres Cansadas – Joan Baez
We’Re Still Here – Si Kahn
Which Side Are You On – Natalie Merchant
Bread and Roses – Judy Collins
Three Miles Down – Gil Scott-Heron
More Than a Paycheck – Sweet Honey In the Rock
Ship In The Sky – Woody Guthrie
Solidarity Forever – Pete Seeger
Filed under Albuquerque, Current Events, Exercise, Human Rights, Music, New Mexico, playlist
14 August 2025
Morning stretching. Floor stretching. Arm stretching. Hip flexor stretching. Walking. North Domingo Baca Multigenerational Center.
Navajo Code Talkers Day.
Navajo Code Talkers – Jack Gladstone
The Navajo Code Talkers – US Air Force Academy Band
Navajo Code Talkers – Bennie Shay
Navajo Code Talkers – Jay Begaye
John McCutcheon birthday. All songs by John McCutcheon unless otherwise noted.
Welcome The Traveler Home – John Mccutcheon & Tom Chapin
We Shall Rise
Christmas In The Trenches-Song
Greatest Story Never Told
Children Of Abraham
All God’s Critters
Somos El Barco
Cross That Line
Streets Of Sarajevo
Crazy Or Courageous
Immigrant
Hope Dies Last
Te Recuerdo
SuAnne Big Crow
Sara Tucholsky
The Great Storm Is Over
Water From Another Time
Stone By Stone
No Mas!
When I Grow Up
How Can I Keep From Singing?
Hobo’s Lullaby
Wish You Goodnight
Calling All The Children Home
One Strong Arm
Le Chambon-Sur-Lignon
In America – Tom Paxton & John McCutcheon
Loggerman’s Breakdown/Dulcimer Reel
This Road
Picture Of Jesus
The Rebel Girl
Shadowland
Reasons To Believe
Kindergarten Wall
Here On The Islands
Doing My Job – John Mccutcheon & Tom Chapin
We Are Not Alone
Step By Step
Turn, Turn, Turn – John McCutcheon, feat. The Steel Wheels
Well May the World Go – John McCutcheon feat. Hot Rize
Filed under Albuquerque, Antiracism, Current Events, Exercise, Human Rights, Music, playlist
9 August 2025
International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.
Tuva Kazhangnar – Tuva Folk Ensemble
He Toa Takitini / Ka Tohia Atu Koe / Ki Okoiki – Maori People Of New Zealand
Ayoro Kotan – Matsuko
Busigan (Shame) – Las Golondrinas Viajeras
Kantus De Apacheta – K’antu Ensemble
Máhte Lemet Elle – Ole Larsen Gaino
Sote Tulifurahia Kama Siku Ya Arusi – Hukwe Ubi Zawose With Ensemble
Stick Game Song – Bad Canyon Wellpinit Singers
Untitled (Iran) – Indigenous Turkmen People
Batara Guru – Gondang Sabangunan Ensemble
Lelore – Wodaabe Of Dakoro
Mbumbusa (Warrior’s Cry) – Honiata Musicians Of Guadalcanal Island
Vinango (Voyage By Canoe) – Villagers From Panueli, Island Of Savo
Ejengi Ceremony – Ba-Benjellé Pygmies Of The Central African Republic
Nazirkhom – Raman Sawut & Osman Oskur
No’ôk-‘amor – Central Mekrâgnoti Of Brazil
Akuka (Tubuan Dance) – Tolai Musicians
Gending Sekar Gabund (Excerpt) – Gamelan Salunding
Màrsi Màlasri – Jyàpu musicians of Guita Tol
Imìna Imìna – Indigenous Inuit People
Navssâpaluk Sadorana – Indigenous Inuit People
Son Sventa N’ahual San Lorenzo – Lol Gomez, Xun Perez, and Mariano Santis Hernandez
Koroghlu – Ashiq Hasan
Rashaida Dance – Indigenous Rashaida People
Gyütò Tantra (Excerpt) – Monks Of Gyütò Tantric College
Ghungsgot Thonpo (The High Sky) – Tashi Palkit & Isewang Namgyal Kidar
Bisitaita (Song Of Consolation) – Bunun People of Taiwan
Danse Des Toka Nod (Tiga)- Kanak People of New Caledonia
Dalubun (Love Song) – Tjoli Laiwongka & Tom Yorkdjanki
Apu Peikussian – Florent Vollant
The Unforgotten – iskwē, feat. Tanya Tagaq
Shine – Sihasin
J-ilol – VAYIJEL
starlight – nêhiyawak
Cauyaqa Nauwa – Pamyua
Sikumiut – Sikumiut
A Tribe Called Red – Angel Haze
Pashtu Ghazal- Musa Jan & Zahir Jan
Filed under Albuquerque, Antiracism, Current Events, Music, New Mexico, playlist
6 August 2025 – 2
Jamaican Independence Day
Jamaica, Land We Love – The One World Ensemble (The Jamaican National Anthem)
Throne – Koffee Rapture
We Shall Overcome – Toots & The Maytals
History of Jamaica – Early B
The Song My Mother Used to Sing – Dennis Brown
Jump Independently – Count Lasher
Teach the Children – Dennis Alcapone
Rivers of Babylon – The Melodians
Rebuild Jamaica – Lee “Scratch” Perry
I Shall Be Free – Toots & The Maytals
Independence Ska – The Baba Brooks Band
Jamaican Spirit – Stacious
I Am Jamaican – DahNiel-Jae
Sweet Jamaica – Casey Donaldson
Jamaica Jamaica – Tricia Cunningham
One Jamaica – Kimiela Candy Isaacs
Fi Mi Island Home – Sister Novelette
Jah Love This Land – Lex M.D
Jamaica Is A Big Brand – TrishMaq
Waa Back Jamaica – Renzzah
Proud Jamaican – Auraiya Hope
Better Jamaica – Reggae Maxx
We Are Jamaicans – Pepita
Filed under Albuquerque, Antiracism, Current Events, Music, New Mexico, playlist
6 August 2025
Hiroshima Day
Thousand Cranes – Hiroshima
Hiroshima-Nagasaki Russian Roulette – Jim Page
A Thousand Paper Cranes – MONO
I Come And Stand At Every Door – Anne Hills
No Nuclear War – Peter Tosh
Nuclear War – Yo La Tengo
Hiroshima-Nagasaki – Ozymandias
Enola Gay – Utah Phillips
Sadako – The Sands Family
Nagasaki no Kane – Meisterbrass Quartet & Yumi Aikawa Yuuji Koseki
When the Wind Blows – Eric Bogle
Ippon No Enpitsu – HIbari Misori
Filed under Albuquerque, Current Events, Music, New York, playlist
There’s a lot in a name
Isn’t it odd that the same person who removed the Indigenous name Denali from the mountain in Alaska now wants to return the name of the Washington football team to a racist slur because “Our great Indian people … their heritage and prestige is systematically being taken away from them.”???
Spoiler:
This is a rhetorical question.
There is nothing odd about it.
It is the same old white supremacist bs that undergirds the dominant society and is being expressed in so many ways by the current administration.
Here endeth the lesson.
Here begineth and continueth the advocacy.
Advocacy opportunities related to the use of Indigenous names and imagery include
National Congress of American Indians
Committee of 500 Years of Dignity and Resistance
Not Your Mascot
National Museum of the American Indian Webinar: Changing the Narrative About Native Americans
Twin Cities PBS: Not Your Mascot: Native Americans and Team Mascots
The Lakota Law Project provides many opportunities for advocacy around issues facing Indigenous peoples
In Whose Honor? – video from more than 20 years ago that, sadly, remains relevant in the current atmosphere
For information about the naming of Denali and the suggestion to change back the names of the Washington football team and the Cleveland base ball see:
Denali name change
Proposed sports name changes
Filed under Antiracism, Baseball, Current Events, Football, Human Rights, Sports
A prayer for Yeonsoo Go (and others)
20-year-old Yeonsoo Go, the daughter of Episcopal priest, the Rev. Kyrie Kim, and a graduate of Scarsdale High School in Westchester County was detained by ICE on July 31 after appearing in court, as ordered by the court, for a procedural hearing on her visa application. The South Korean native moved to New York in 2021 with her mother.
Yeonsoo’s situation is one of many. Add other people’s names as you pray. If appropriate, send me those names and I will share them.
An active prayer: Contact your elected representatives demanding that they work to end detention of people seeking to follow the legal processes for immigration.
A prayer for Yeonsoo Go (and others)
God of justice,
we pray for your beloved child
Yeonsoo Go
who was detained by ICE
after appearing in court
for a routine visa hearing.
Watch over Yeonsoo
and keep her safe.
Grant her strength and courage.
Stand with her mother,
the Rev. Kim Kyrie
and her family and friends.
Guide those who protest
this injustice.
Bless their efforts.
We pray for Yeonsoo,
knowing that she is
but one of too, too many
taken by ICE –
often when they were doing
as Yeonsoo and following the rules
to obtain legal status in this country.
Inspire elected representatives
to join the protest and call
for the release of Yeonsoo
and all your beloved children
detained without due process.
Touch the hearts of those
who implement such polices,
transform their views from
cruelty and fear
to compassion and welcome.
We pray for Yeonsoo and
all our immigrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking siblings
in the name of Jesus, the refugee.
Amen.
Filed under Antiracism, Current Events, Human Rights, New York, Prayer
1 August 2025
Emancipation Day celebrated in many Caribbean countries and Canada to mark the abolition of enslavement in the British Empire.
Black My Story (Not History) – Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers
African – Peter Tosh
Justice – Sevana
For the People By the People – Dezarie
Is It Because I’m Black – Syl Johnson
Hello Mama Africa – Garnett Silk
Slave Queen – I Threes
‘Til I’m Laid to Rest – Buju Banton
Slavery Days – Burning Spear
Redemption Song – Bob Marley & The Wailers
Too Long In Slavery – Culture
Ain’t Gonna See Us Fall – Sizzla
That Day Will Come – Capleton
What Ah Day – Tanya Stephens
Free Up – Tarrus Riley & Zagga
Steppin’ Out of Babylon – Marcia Griffiths
Freedom Train – Toots & The Maytals
Black Woman – Judy Mowatt
Train to Zion – Linval Thompson, feat. Sizzla & Bounty Killer
Unchained – Bob Andy
Equal Rights – The Heptones
Born Free – Queen Ifrica
Rivers of Babylon – Sublime
African Message – U-Roy
African Unity – Majek Fashek
Filed under Albuquerque, Current Events, Human Rights, Music, New Mexico, playlist
24 July 2025
Sitting on my butt. Chuck Mangione remembrance.
Baba O’Riley – The Who
Kiss It Better – Rihanna
Kathleen’s Song – The Byrds
同類 – Yanzi Sun
Girl You Don’t Know – Deidre McCalla
100 Years Ago – The Rolling Stones
Lover’s Heart – Silly Wizard
Trio for Violin, Cello & Piano – 1937: I. Adagio non troppo – Allegro vivace – Ahn Trio
Everything In Its Own Time – Indigo Girls
Somewhere In Texas (Part II) – Willie Nelson
Another Girl – The Beatles
Ezekiel Saw the Wheel – Bayard Rustin
Can’t Sleep – Gary Clark Jr.
What Are They Doing – Sister Rosetta Tharpe
One Country – Midnight Oil
Freedom Song – Chuck Mangione
Mountain Flight – Chuck Mangione
Song of the New Moon – Chuck Mangione
Journey to a Rainbow – Chuck Mangione
Seoul Sister – Chuck Mangione
Filed under Albuquerque, Current Events, Music, New Mexico, playlist
Along the Graybeard Trail 