Battle of the Greasy Grass
Wash Your Spirit Clean – Walela
Sitting Bull’s Medicine Song – Kevin Locke
It Is A Good Day To Die – Robbie Robertson & The Red Road
Lakota Forever – Brulé
The Little Bighorn March – Bill Miller
A Man Named Crazy Horse – Shannon Thunderbird
Tatanka – Luis Cachiguango
Garryowne & Valley Of Little Big Horn – Jack Gladstone
Crazy Horse Prayer – Peter Kater
Buffalo Prayer Song – Robert Tree Cody & Hovia Edwards
Little Big Horn Battle Song – Porcupine Singers
In The Spirit Of Crazy Horse – Thunder Bird Sisters
The Legend of Crazy Horse – Jim Young
Battle of Little Bighorn – Sencheng Zhang
Battle of Little Bighorn – RedCloud, feat. Def Shepard
Category Archives: Human Rights
25 June 2025
Filed under Antiracism, Human Rights, Music, New Mexico, playlist
A prayer to the Creative Spirit of diversity
Creative Spirit,
you make all that is,
you make the human family,
in rich, wild diversity,
each one in your own image,
everyone beloved by you.
The diversity you create
enlarges the sphere of possibilities
for all of us.
Help us
acknowledge the diversity you create
as your gift to us;
understand the diversity you create
as enhancing your world;
and celebrate the diversity you create
as enriching our lives.
Inspire us to reject and dismantle
all systems and ideologies
that erroneously and sinfully
maintain that some of us have greater value.
Guide us to welcome all people
as your beloved children
and to love one another
as taught and lived by Jesus
in whose name we pray.
Amen.
inspired by When God Became White by the Rev. Dr. Grace Ji-Sun Kim (subscribe to her Substack account)
Filed under Antiracism, Books, Current Events, Human Rights
22 June 2025 – Songs for peace
Work began on this playlist last night as reports of the United States bombing Iran began to appear. It was “completed” this morning. Note that this list deviates from the rules (well, guidelines really) of playlists in two ways. Some artists appear more than once. Some songs do as well. Although not every song with the same title is the same song.
Heaven Help Us All – Stevie Wonder
Heaven Help Us All – Ray Charles & Gladys Knight
Heaven Help Us All – The Blind Boys of Alabama
Heaven Help Us All – Joan Baez
Give Peace a Chance – John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Give Peace A Chance – Aerosmith Feat. Sierra Leone’s Refugee All-Stars
Peace Train – Yusuf Islam (recorded as Cat Stevens)
A Song of Peace – Abraham Jam
Where Have All The Flowers Gone – Dolores Keane, Tommy Sands & Vedran Smailovic
Imagine – Willie Nelson
Imagine – Keb’ Mo’
(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding – Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Pipes of Peace – Paul McCartney
The Great Peace March – Holly Near
War No More – Wyclef Jean
Peace Train/Isitimela Sokuthula – Dolly Parton, feat. Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Peace in the Valley – Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Peace on Earth – U2
Peace. Salaam, Shalom – emma’s revolution
War – The Temptations
War – Edwin Starr
War – Bob Marley & The Wailers
When the Wind Blows – Eric Bogle with John Munro & Brent Miller
Peace Has Broken Out – Eric Bogle
Study War No More – Pete Seeger
Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream – Simon & Garfunkel
Military Madness – Graham Nash
Masters of War – Bob Dylan
What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye
Give Me Love – Billy Preston
Peter – David LaMotte
No Nuclear War – Peter Tosh
Christmas In The Trenches – John McCutcheon
Land of Hope and Dreams (Introduction) [Live in Manchester, May 14, 2025] – Bruce Springsteen
Land of Hope and Dreams (Live in Manchester, May 14, 2025) – Bruce Springsteen
A Song of Peace – Denver Brass
A Song of Peace – Gandharvas
A Song of Peace – Kim Young-Im
How Can I Keep From Singing – Eva Cassidy
Filed under Current Events, Human Rights, Music, playlist
20 June 2025 World Refugee Day
World Refugee Day Playlist
Refugee – Eric Bogle
Gourma – Etran Fintawa
Song To A Refugee – Diana Jones
Running – Keyon Harrold, Andrea Pizziconi & Jasson Harrold Running, feat. Common & Gregory Porter
Take Me to Cleveland – Robert Neustadt
Look in Their Eyes – David Crosby
The Refugee – U2
Follow Me – Moxie Raia, feat. Wyclef Jean
In Harm’s Way – Amanda Palmer
Is This Called Home – Lucy Rose
Prayer of the Refugee – Rise Against
Coming to America – K’naan
Refugee – Skip Marley
Lady of the Harbor – Si Kahn
Refugee – emma’s revolution
We Won’t Lose Count – TRISHES
Refugee – Bring Water
Refugees – Jimmy Cliff, feat, Wyclef Jean
A Safe Place to Land – Sara Bareilles, feat. John Legend
Émigré – Alela Diane
Living Like a Refugee – Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars
World Refugee Day – The Lyrical Lanterns
No Human Is Illegal – The Wakes
Filed under Albuquerque, Current Events, Human Rights, Music, New Mexico, playlist
Juneteenth 19 June 2025
Juneteenth.
Juneteenth – Suav
People Get Ready – The Impressions
Oh Freedom – Mary D. Williams
Freedom Road – The Blind Boys of Alabama
People Gotta Be Free – Keb’ Mo’
Free – Prince
Free – Deniece Williams
Is My Living in Vain – Mattie Moss Clark & The Clark Sisters
This Little Light of Mine – Fannie Lou Hamer
Freedom Now – Tracy Chapman
I’m Just a Slave – The Roots
Not a Slave – Dre’ Sr
Freedom – Richie Havens
Woke up This Morning with My Mind Stayed on Freedom – Congregation of Brown Chapel
Harriet Tubman/Steal Away – Kim & Reggie Harris
Juneteenth – Cast of Black-ish
Say It Loud – I ‘m Black and I’m Proud – James Brown
Alright – Kendrick Lamar
A Brand New Day – The Wiz
Fantasy – Earth, Wind & Fire
Yes We Can, Can – The Pointer Sisters
Ella’s Song – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Get Up Stand Up – Bob Marley & The Wailers
Mississippi Goddam – Nina Simone
Someday We’ll All Be Free – Donny Hathaway
9th Wonder (Blackitolism) – Digibale Planets
Soul Sista – Bilal
Freedom – Joi
O-O-H Child – The Five Stairsteps
Free – Destiny’s Child
I’ll Take You There – The Staple Singers
Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now – McFadden & Whitehead
I Am the Black Gold of the Sun – Rotary Connection & Minnie Riperton
One Nation under a Groove – Funkadelic
Build a House – Rhiannon Giddons & Yo-Yo Ma
Juneteenth Song – Gracie’s Corner
Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing – Beyonce
Filed under Albuquerque, Antiracism, Human Rights, Music, New Mexico, playlist
Habeas Corpus
With thanks to the Southern Poverty Law Center:
Filed under Current Events, Human Rights
Palestinian Nakba Remembrance Day
“May God extend his arm and stop the unhuman atrocities in Gaza that are committed in the name of God who does not kill.”
In honor of Palestinian Nakba Remembrance Day, take some time to read a letter from Abuna Elias Chacour, Greek Catholic Archbishop of Galilee, that was written to Douglas Dicks, Global Ecumenical Liaison for the Interim Unified Agency of the PC(USA).
Take action: Call or write your elected officials and tell them: The war on Gaza must end—and so must U.S. support for Israel’s inhumane treatment of Palestinians. Demand a real humanitarian response that isn’t controlled by the military or outside contractors and that gets food, water, and medical supplies to people quickly and without delays. The U.S. has the power to act—and lives depend on it.
The Office of the Public Witness of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) provides two advocacy actions:
Send Aid to Gaza
Stop U.S. Aid to Israel and Demand a Ceasefire Now
15 May 2025
Walking. La Cueva neighborhood.
Palestinian Nakba Remembrance 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 – Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra & Peter Breiner
Ibn el Balad (instr.) – Ensemble musical de Palestine
May 15 is designated as Palestinian Nakba Remembrance Day, a day of “lifting prayer for peace, giving solidarity for those suffering under occupation.” The Nakba which means “catastrophe” in Arabic, refers to the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians in 1948 by Jewish armed groups and as a result of the Arab-Israeli war. Many view this experience as ethnic cleansing. The dispossession and displacement of Palestinians continues to this day as seen in ongoing events in Gaza and on the West Bank which include the continuing Israeli assault and blockade upon the people of Gaza, starvation in Gaza, and violence on the West Bank.
5 May 2025
Walking. La Cueva neighborhood. Morning movement.
National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives.
Red Dress – Amanda Rheaume, feat. Chantal Kreviazuk
You Got to Run (Spirit of the Wind) – Buffy Sainte-Marie & Tanya Tagaq
Run Sister Run- Cass McCombs
Through The Flood – Indian City
Say Her Name – Bear Fox
To All MMIW – Northern Cree
Highway of Tears – Layla Zoe
The Highway – N’we Jinan Artists
Break the Silence – N’we Jinan Artists
Blackbird – Emma Stevens
Pray Sister Pray – Crystal Shawanda
Missing You – Joanne Shenandoah
Little Star – iskwē acākosīk
M.M.I.W. (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) – Jahkota, feat. LB, Drezus & Cleo Big Eagle
We Won’t Forget You – N’we Jinan
Filed under Albuquerque, Exercise, Human Rights, Music, New Mexico, playlist
4 April 2025
Walking. La Cueva Neighborhood.
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
Letter To Dr. Martin Luther King – Sweet Honey In The Rock
Blues for Martin Luther King – Otis Spann
March! For Martin Luther King – John Fahey
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 Albuquerque, Antiracism, Current Events, Exercise, Human Rights, New Mexico
Along the Graybeard Trail 