In This Corner – Kinky Boots
Boys Keep Swinging – David Bowie
True Colours – Eva Cassidy
The Last Song – Elton John
What I Need – Hayley Kiyako, feat. Kehlani
Wash Me Clean – k.d. lang
Wishes on the Wind – Allegiance
Rodeo – Lil Nas X & Cardi B
Stronger Than Me – Melissa Etheridge
Somebody to Love – Queen
Take Your Mama – Scissors Sisters
Keisha Complexion – Shea Diamond
It Can Only Get Better – Charice Pempengco
Make Me Feel – Janelle Monae
Knife Going In – Tegan & Sara
Category Archives: Human Rights
24 June 2023
Filed under Exercise, Human Rights, Louisville, Music, playlist
25 June 2023
Walking. Germantown. Shelby Park.
Battle of the Greasy Grass.
Wash Your Spirit Clean – Walela
Sitting Bull’s Medicine Song – Kevin Locke
It’s a Good Day to Die – Robbie Robertson & The Red Road Ensemble
Lakota Forever – Brule
The Little Bighorn March – Bill Miller
Tatanka – Luis Cachiguango
Garryowen & Valley of the Little Big Horn – Jack Gladstone
Buffalo Prayer Song – Robert Tree Coy & Hovia Edwards
Crazy Horse Prayer – Peter Kater, feat. R. Carlos Nakai
Little Big Horn Battle Song – Porcupine Singers
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse – Thunder Bird Sisters
Sitting Bull’s Sundance – Dan McGrath
Battle of Little Big Horn – Sencheng Zhang
Battle of Little Bighorn – RedCloud
Filed under Exercise, Human Rights, Louisville, Music, playlist
23 June 2023
Walking. Germantown. Shelby Park.
Front Porch – Holy Near
Bicycle Race – Queen
I’m Never Gonna Say Goodbye – Billy Preston
Pushing the Needle Too Far – Indigo Girls
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – Elton John
Pretty Girl Lie – Baby Queen
Expectatios/Overture – Hayley Kiyoko
Americans – Janelle Monae
Hands Up – Blood Orange
Save Me – Joan Armatrading
Season of Hollow Soul – k.d. lang
Buttons – The Pussycat Dolls
Warrior Heart – Shawnee
Promiscuous – Nelly Furtado
Te Do Una Cancion – Holly Near & Inti Illimani
Wet – Bibi Bourelly
Northshore – Tegan & Sara
Filed under Exercise, Human Rights, Louisville, Music, playlist
18 June 2023
Waterfront Park. Waterfront Botanical Gardens. Louisville.
What Better Said – k.d. lang
Latitude – Elton John
The Boy Feels Strange – Melissa Etheridge
Look Long – Indigo Girls
Water with the Wine – Joan Armatrading
In for the Kill – La Roux
I Am Only Borrowed – Holly Near
I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor
All the Things She Said – t.A.T.u.
Space Race – Billy Preston
Not My Father’s Son – Kinky Boots
Maybe I Was – namoli brennet
By Ourselves – Blood Orange
Filed under Exercise, Human Rights, Louisville, Music, playlist
20 June 2023
World Refugee Day.
Refugee – Eric Bogle
Gourma – Etran Fintawa
Running – Keyon Harrold, Andrea Pizziconi & Jasson Harrold, feat. Common
Take Me to Cleveland – Robert Neustadt
Song to a Refugee – Dana Jones
Look in Their Eyes – David Crosby
A Safe Place to Land – Sara Bareilles, feat. John Legend
The Refugee – War
Follow Me – Moxie Raia, feat. Wyclef Jean
In Harm’s Way – Amanda Palmer
Prayer of the Refugee – Rise Against
Coming to America – K’naan
Is This Call Home – Lucy Rose
Refugee – Skip Marley
Lady of the Harbor – Si Kahn
Refugee – Emma’s Revolution
No Human Is Illegal – The Wakes
Filed under Exercise, Human Rights, Louisville, Music, playlist, United Nations
15 May 2023
Nakba Day.
Yalli El Qumar – Mohammed Assaf
Sabs Adresse – Ramzi Azoredwan
Daughters of the desert – Rim Banna feat. Bugge Wesseltoft & Checkpoint 503
Wanabani – Kamilya Jubran & Werner Hasler
Song for Palestine – Nora Roman & The Border Busters
Passport – Marcel Khalife
Desert – Rasha Nahas
Palestine – DJ Bruno Cruz
Palestinian Resistance – PR
Suffocated Electronics – Muqataa
The Dice Man – Michael Sajrawy
To Change Tomorrow – DAM
The Third Generation – Dmar
Beast – Jowan Safadi
Oh Kufye Man – Wala’ Sbeit
No Longer Mine – Zaman
Palestine: Fida’i (Revolutionary), “My country, the land of my grandfathers…” – Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra & Peter Breiner
Ibn el Balad (instr.) – Ensemble musical de Palestine
Filed under Current Events, Human Rights, Louisville, Music, playlist
A prayer to bear one another’s burdens
God who bears the hurt of the world,
we pray for the grace, courage, and wisdom
to bear one another’s burdens,
to sit in silence with your children
who are in pain,
who grieve,
who endure heartbreak beyond our imagining;
to sit in silence
until a place of love is reached.
Amen.
inspired by a sermon preached by Elder Madison McKinney (Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota Oyate and a descendent of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) for National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two Spirit People (May 5), a part of the May 1-7 National Week of Action for MMIWG2S
Filed under Current Events, Friends, Human Rights, Prayer
#MMIWG2S #NoMoreStolenRelatives
A playlist of songs for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People and those who love them.
Nikki Shawana – Sister Round Dance Song (MMIW Honour Song)
Song for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women – Jayda Gadwa
Performance for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women – music by A Tribe Called Red
Women’s Fancy Shawl Dance – Red Pheasant Powwow
Qiksaaktuq – Tanya Tagaq andToronto Symphony Orchestra
The Highway – N’we Jinan Artists, Kitsumkalum First Nation, BC.
Break the Silence – N’we Jinan Artists – Wauzhushk Onigum First Nation, ONT
Song for Murdered and Mission Indigenous Women – West Shore Canoe Family
Run Sister Run – Cass McCombs
Inspired by the run of Métis activist and athlete Tracie Leost to raise awareness about Canada’s missing and murdered indigenous women
Red Dress – Amanda Rheaume, feat. Chantal Kreviazuk
Through the Flood – Indian City
Blackbird – Emma Stevens (in Mi’kmaq)
You Got to Run (Spirit of the Wind) – Buffy Sainte-Marie and Tanya Tagaq
Pray Sister Pray – Crystal Shawanda
Filed under Antiracism, Current Events, Human Rights
And yet
Much like any morning
garbage dumped
coffee made
coffee consumed
dishwasher runs
dryer spins
and yet
with the dawn
comes anew the awareness that
grace abides
hope abounds
love lives
mercy multiplies
justice beckons
for Christ is risen,
risen indeed,
making this day,
and every day,
holy.
Alleluia.
8:45 AM, 9 April 2023
There is poetic license at work here. The closest I came to seeing dawn this Easter day is in some photos of the sunrise service at Second Presbyterian Church in Baltimore that my son Eric took. One of those photos appears in this post.
Filed under Easter, Family, Human Rights, Photo
4 April 2023
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated.
Now’s the Time – Charlie Parker & Miles Davis
Motel in Memphis – Life, Explicit
Martin, Martin – Denise Erwin
Wake Up – Rage Against the Machine
They Killed Him – Kate Campbell
Just a Little More Love – David Guetta (feat. Chris Willis)
Ballad of Martin Luther King – Pete Seeger, Brother Kirk & The Sesame Street Kids
Like a King – Ben Harper
God Rest His Soul – Gregg Allman
MLK – U2
Mlk Song – Mavis Staples
So Beautiful or So What – Paul Simon
Why? (The King of Love Is Dead) – Nina Simone
Heaven Will Welcome You Dr. King – Big Maybelle
We March – Prince
Abraham, Martin and John – Harry Belafonte
Take My Hand, Precious Lord – Mahalia Jackson
Filed under Antiracism, Gun Violence, Human Rights, Music, playlist
Along the Graybeard Trail 