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
Category Archives: Current Events
6 August 2025
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
23 July 2025
Hosting Lucy.
Ozzy Osbourne remembrance.
Hello, Dolly! – Louis Armstrong
Take Me Away – Roger McGuinn
Symphony No. 13 in B Flat Minor, Op. 113, “Babi Yar”: II. Yumor – Ayik Martyrosyan, Russian State Symphonic Cappella, Russian State Symphony Orchestra & Valeri Polyansky
Freedom’s Sons – The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
Qingauiit – Tûdjaat
I’m Going Down to the River of Jordan – Fannie Lou Hamer
Guess Who I Saw In Paris – Buffy Sainte-Marie
Always Be Here – Archie Roach
Grass Roots – Abraham Jam
The Rolling of the Stones – Jean Ritchie, Oscar Brand & David Sear
Pirates – Rickie Lee Jones
This May Be the Last Time – Sweet Honey In the Rock
altar – Kehlani
Not All Angels – David M. Bailey
Satin Doll – Duke Ellington
Hell Nos and Headphones -Hailee Steinfeld
The Blue Hour: No. 15, Her hair – Shara Nova & A Far Cry
Paranoid – Black Sabbath
War Pigs – Black Sabbath
Changes – Black Sabbath 1
Laguna Sunrise – Black Sabbath
The Wizard – Black Sabbath
Filed under Albuquerque, Current Events, Family, Music, New Mexico, playlist
A fat man prays in world where starvation stalks
Forgive me, God,
for eating too much.
Forgive me, God,
for eating too much
when too many
have too little.
Forgive me, God,
for eating too much
while your beloved children
die from lack of food
caused by political decisions
and a lack of will.
Forgive me, God.
I know better.
Help me do better.
Amen..
Filed under Antiracism, Current Events, Food, Human Rights, United Nations
18 July 2025
Nelson Mandela Day.- Hugh Masekela
Nelson Mandela – Special AKA
The following songs are by Wouler Kellerman & Soweto Gospel Choir & KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic
A Madiba Wish
Mandela Medley
Asimbonanga / Biko – feat. Angelique Kidjo
Rainbow Nation
Jikele Maweni – feat. Angelique Kidjo
Thula Baba – feat. Buskaid Soweto String Project
Lizalis’indinga Iakho/Senzeni Na/Thina Sizwe
Soweto Travels
Black President – feat. Zonke
Wasiqoqela Ndawonya/Koloi Ena/Sizongena
Voice of Hope
Nomalanga
Different Colours, One People – feat. Rocky Dawuni
Mathebethebeni
Asimbonanga – Johnny Clegg & Savuka
Nkosi Sikelel ‘IAfrica – Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Give Us a Flag – Richie Havens
The Old Flag Never Touched the Ground – Melinda Doolittle
Filed under Albuquerque, Antiracism, Current Events, Music, New Mexico, playlist
A prayer of confession while children hunger and starve
How cruel have we become, God,
that we could even consider
burning food while
children hunger and starve?
Kyrie eleison.
Forgive us.
How stunted is our creativity, God
that we cannot conceive
of ways to use food while
children hunger and starve?
Kyrie eleison.
Forgive us.
What has happened to our values, God,
when we dismantle programs
that distribute food to
children who hunger and starve?
Kyrie eleison.
Forgive us.
We confess our shortsightedness and cruelty;
we confess our stunted imagination and warped values.
Kyrie eleison.
Forgive us.
Pour your Holy Spirit afresh
upon those who make decisions
that they might repent and choose life
and seek ways to share the abundance you create.
Pour your Holy Spirit afresh
upon us all that we might repent
and continue to advocate and work
for a world in which everyone has enough.
We pray in Jesus’ name.
Amen.
Perhaps the food in question has expired and can no longer be used. If so, that is another human failure and represents additional actions of which we need to repent.
Filed under Antiracism, Current Events, Human Rights
A prayer in a time of floods
We thank you, God,
for individuals and organizations
that respond to disasters.
Particularly we thank you for
those involved in response and rescue
after the flooding in the Hill Country of Texas
and in central North Carolina
and in southern New Mexico.
We are grateful for each person who is at work.
And we are especially grateful for
firefighters from Mexico who have come help in Texas.
Remind us that, in times of crisis, times of ease, and all times
we are all your beloved children called to love one another.
Protect all the rescuers and responders in Texas, New Mexico, North Carolina
and places that do not make the news.
Strengthen them in every way for this challenging work.
Guide and bless their efforts.
Keep them safe.
We pray in Jesus’ name.
Amen.
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance has designated an account for contributions to support their efforts in response to this and other floods in the United States.
Filed under Current Events, New Mexico, Prayer, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Along the Graybeard Trail 