Category Archives: Human Rights

April 4, 2025 · 9:38 pm

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

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April 1, 2025 · 4:20 pm

Sensitive Locations, Sacred Places

Join faith communities in an interfaith prayer vigil on the eve of the first hearing of the lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security’s rescission of the sensitive locations memo. The vigil will take place on Thursday, April 3rd, at 6:30pm ET at National City Christian Church in Washington, DC and will be livestreamed at 7:00pm ET. Together, we will gather lifting prayers for justice, compassion, and the protection of immigrant communities. All are welcome to stand with us in this moment of faith and resolve.

RSVP to attend here and invite others to join! https://tinyurl.com/mr3xdv58

#PCUSA#prayervigil

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April 1, 2025 · 12:15 am

31 March 2025

Hiking. Mesa View Trail, Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge. Quarai Ruins, Salinas Pueblos Missions National Monument.
International Transgender Day of Visibility
Transgender Dysphoria Blues – Against Me!
I’d Love to Change the World – Shea Diamond
iT – Christine and the Queens
Warrior Heart – Shawnee
Thorn In Your Side – namoli brennet
Body Was Made – Ezra Furman
Girls and Boys – Blur
King for a Day – Green Day
Androgynous – The Replacements
For Marsha P. Johnson – Bryce Dessner
Rebel Rebel – David Bowie
We Exist – Arcade Fire
Eudaemonia – Them Are Us Too
What Is This Thing Called Love – Billy Tipton
Sometimes I Cry – Jason Kwan
Heartbreaker – Ah-Mer-Ah-Su
Girl In Blue – Animal Sun
Stand Up – Tom Morello, Shea Diamond & Dan Reynolds, feat. The Bloody Beetroots0
This Is Home – Cavetown
Forever in Sunset – Ezra Furman
To be honest – Christine and the Queens
Gospel For a New Century – Yves Tumor
Feel the Power – Glovibes, Luciana & Sasha Colby
Overthinking out Loud – Moore Kismet
want – Dua Saleh
Born 2 Live – Dreamer Isioma

And a couple for Bill
Spanish Inquisition (Part 1) – Monty Python
Spanish Inquisition (Part 2) – Monty Python
Spanish Inquisition (Part 3) – Monty Python
Spanish Inquisition Revisited – Monty Python
Drop Kick Me Jesus – Ray Stevens

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March 24, 2025 · 7:55 pm

24 March 2025

Walking. La Cueva neighborhood. Morning movement. Chair stretching.
Anniversary of assassination of Saint Oscar Romero.
Cherokee Nation Remembrance Day. “186 years ago today, one of the final groups of Cherokees arrived in Indian Territory after being forcibly removed from our homelands and enduring a perilous journey across the Trail of Tears.”
El Padre Antonio Y Su Monaguillo Andrés – Rubén Blades
Homenaje a Rutilio Grande – SON
Oscar Romero – Dafydd Iwan
Romero – The Project Martyrs
El Salvador – Peter, Paul & Mary
Oscar Romero – Brotes de Olivo
Eulogy to Oscar Romero –
Oscar Romero – Garth Hewitt
Oscar Romero – Richard Gilpin
Archbishop Oscar Romero Memorial – Fran Schultz
Cherokee Stomp – Litefoot, feat. Tommy Wildcat
Cherokee Morning Song – Walela
Orphan Child – Cherokee National Children’s Choir
Cherokee Tears – Jobel Star Cherokee Tears
On the Road Where They Cried – Cherokee National Children’s Choir
Cherokee Trail of Tears – Native American Indians
Amazing Grace – Cherokee National Children’s Choir
Trail of Tears Song, We Will Go Together -6 Joy Harjo
Trail of a Thousand Tears – Shannon Thunderbird & Sandy Horne
Trail of Tears – Clannad
Cherokee Bend – Gordon Lightfoot
Cherokee Morning Song – Robbie Robertson & The Red Road Ensemble
Prayer for My People – Jay Red Eagle
For Those Who Cried (Cherokee Removal) – Jack Gladstone
Trail Of Freedom – Bill Miller

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March 12, 2025 · 1:57 pm

Stand for Compassion – Praying for our refugee and immigrant neighbors

Join Church World Service this Lent as we unite in prayer as an ecumenical community. Every other Friday at 2 PM ET / 11 AM PT, beginning this Friday, March 14, we will Stand for Compassion—lifting up prayers for our refugee and immigrant neighbors.

Register for the series here: https://bit.ly/3DBA5eR

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March 9, 2025 · 10:47 pm

9 March 2025

Bobby Sands birthday.
Bobby Sands MP – Black 47
Ballad of Bobby Sands – The Irish Brigade
Bobby Sands – Claymore
Bobby Sands – Gerard MacCuinneagain
Song for Marcella – Eimhear Ni Ghlacain
Four Green Fields – The Molly Maguires
The Hills of Ireland – Celtic Woman
Stór Mo Chroí – The Chieftains with Bonnie Raitt
Dear Irish Boy – Eileen Ivers Crossing the Bridge Irish; Rock 0 1
Long Journey Home – Elvis Costello with Anuna
Irish Soldier Boy – Paddy Reilly
Back Home in Derry – Helena Ward
Song For Ireland – Mary Black
Daughters And Sons – Tommy Sands
The Sign – Eric Bogle
The Parting Glass – Shaun Davey

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March 9, 2025 · 5:59 pm

Remembering Emily Pike

8 March 2025
This playlist is in honor of Emily Pike and all the Missing and Murdered

Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People and all who grieve for them.
Emily Pike, a member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, left a group home in Mesa, Arizona in late January. Her remains were found on February 14. Her disappearance and death is an example of the violence endured by Native women, girls and Two Spirit people. Frequently in such cases, law enforcement and the larger community are slow to respond. This has given rise to MMIWG2S+ campaigns. The PC(USA) Day of Action No More Stolen Relatives: Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit People lifted up this issue and provides resources.


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, Kitsumkalum First Nation, BC
Break the Silence – N’we Jinan Artists, Wauzhushk Onigum First Nation
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]

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March 7, 2025 · 6:29 pm

7 March 2025

Walking. Albuquerque.
60th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma.
Freedom Songs: Selma. Alabama provided a primary resource for the first part of the playlist.
Remembering courage and grace and faith.
Woke up This Morning – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Freedom Highway – Rhiannon Giddens
We Shall Not Be Moved – Marchers
This Little Light of Mine – Workers in Selma at Mass for Jimmie Lee Jackson
God Will Take Care of You – Hosea Williams and Marchers
Steal Away/Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen – Hosea Williams and Marchers
Come by Here – Marchers
Berlin Wall – Marchers
Oh, Freedom – Congregation of Brown Chapel
If You Miss Me from the Back of the Bus – Congregation of Brown Chapel
Which Side Are You On? – James Orange and Protestors
Everybody Wants Freedom – Demonstrators a March
Freedom Now – Demonstrators at March
Go Tell It on the Mountain – Demonstrators at March
Oh, Wallace – Band 1
Get on Board – Band 2
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round – Two Little Girls at March
We Shall Overcome – Workers in Selma at March
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round – James Orange and Youth
Which Side Are You On? – James Orange and Youth
Lonesome Valley – Bayard Rustin & James Farmer
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen – Mahalia Jackson
I Want Jesus to Walk with Me -Fisk Jubilee Singers & Ruby Amanfu
Let Freedom Ring (The Ballad of John Lewis) – Dee Daniels
Still on the Bridge – Claudia Schmidt & Sally Rogers

Remembering D’Wayne Wiggins and Roy Ayers
The Blues – Tony! Toni! Toné!
Little Walter – Tony! Toni! Toné!
Feels Good – Tony! Toni! Toné!
It Never Rains (In Southern California) – Tony! Toni! Toné!
Whatever You Want – Tony! Toni! Toné!
Everybody Loves the Sunshine – Roy Ayers Ubiquity
Heat of the Beat – Roy Ayers & Wayne Henderson
Running Away – Roy Ayers Ubiquity
Mystic Voyage – Roy Ayers Ubiquity
You’ve Got the Power -Roy Ayers
Black Family – Roy Ayers
And Then We Were One – Roy Ayers

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March 7, 2025 · 1:49 pm

Trevor Project’s 45 mile challenge

Walking for LGBTQIA+ young people!

I am participating in the 45 Mile Outdoor Challenge in March to support The Trevor Project’s mission of ending suicide among LGBTQIA+ young people ages 13-24. (I’ve walked 9.61 miles; 35.39 to go.)

You can participate by donating to my fundraiser (or by signing up to walk yourself). Every dollar you give and every step will go toward affirming the worth of our LGBTQIA+ friends, family and colleagues. The Trevor Project does incredible work to end suicide among gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning young people.

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March 1, 2025 · 9:54 am

1 March 2025

Shche ne Vmerly v Ukrainy i slava, i volia (instrumental) – Glocal Orchestra
Shche ne Vmerly v Ukrainy i slava, i volia (vocal) – Glocal Orchestra
Let’s Sing about Ukraine – Brothers Ivan
O Ukraine, Our Beloved Mother – Brothers Ivan
Prayer for Ukraine – Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus
Various Songs – Made in Ukraine
The Water Flows into the Sea – Brothers Ivan
Why, Oh, Why, My Native Land – Brothers Ivan

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