Category Archives: Human Rights

12 February 2025

Walking. Huning Highland neighborhood. Walking. North Domingo Baca Multigenerational Center. Morning movement. Chair stretching.
Black History Month,
Late Hours At Midnight – Elmore James
We Won’t Cry – Archie Roach, feat.Paul Kelly
Pieces of a Man -Gil Scott-Heron
Bag Lady – Erykah Badu
Miami – Nicki Minaj
Girl – Destiny’s Child
That’s How Strong My Love Is – Otis Redding
Music is in Everything – Ziggy Marley, feat. Lisa Loeb
Don’t Lie – The Black Eyed Peas
Intro – Mary J. Blige
Hell No, We Aint Alright – Public Enemy, feat. Paris
I’m On Your Side – Keb’ Mo’
Colors – Yuna
That’s One To Grow On – Dobie Gray
Water Boy – Paul Robeson
Go Ahead John (part two B) – Miles Davis

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11 February 2025

Walking in Downtown Albuquerque. Morning movement. Hand work. Core Work.
Anniversary of Mandela’s release.
Black History Month.
Mandela – Hugh Masekela
Nelson Mandela – Special AKA
A Madiba Wish – Wouter Kellerman & Soweto Gospel Choir (feat. KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic & Angélique Kidjo)
Mandela Medley – Wouter Kellerman & Soweto Gospel Choir (feat. KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic & Angélique Kidjo)
Rainbow Nation – Wouter Kellerman & Soweto Gospel Choir S(feat. KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic & Angélique Kidjo)
Jikele Maweni – Wouter Kellerman & Soweto Gospel Choir (feat. KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic & Angélique Kidjo)
Thula Baba – Wouter Kellerman & Soweto Gospel Choir (feat. KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic & Angélique Kidjo & Buskaid Soweto String Project)
Lizalis’idinga lakho / Senzeni Na / Thina Sizwe – Wouter Kellerman & Soweto Gospel Choir (feat. KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic & Angélique Kidjo)
Soweto Travels – Wouter Kellerman & Soweto Gospel Choir S (feat. KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic & Angélique Kidjo)
Black President – Wouter Kellerman & Soweto Gospel Choir (feat. KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic & Angélique Kidjo & Zonke)
Wasiqoqela Ndawonya / Koloi Ena / Sizongena – Wouter Kellerman & Soweto Gospel Choir (feat. KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic & Angélique Kidjo)
Voice Of Hope – Wouter Kellerman & Soweto Gospel Choir (feat. KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic & Angélique Kidjo)
Nomalanga – Wouter Kellerman & Soweto Gospel Choir (feat. KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic & Angélique Kidjo)
Different Colours, One People – Wouter Kellerman & Soweto Gospel Choir – (feat. KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic & Angélique Kidjo & Rocky Dawuni)
Mathebethebeni – Wouter Kellerman & Soweto Gospel Choir (feat. KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic & Angélique Kidjo)
Asimbonanga- Johnny Clegg & Savuka
Nkosi Sikelel ‘IAfrica – Ladysmith Black Mambazo

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30 January 2025

Morning movement. Walking to Cherry Hills library and some other places.
Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland in 1972.
Sunday Bloody Sunday – John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Domhnach Na Fola – T With The Maggies
Minds Locked Shut – Christy Moore
Bloody Sunday – Cruachan
Sunday Bloody Sunday – The Wolfe Tones
Sunday Bloody Sunday – U2
Sweetheart Like You – Bob Dylan
All My Loving – Paul McCartney
Rabbit Jim – Si Kahn
Wide Open Spaces – The Chicks
Everything You Need 5:43 Indigenous, feat. Mato Nanji
This Little Light – Mavis Staples
Don’t Stop Lovin’ Me – Eliza Gilkyson
Goodbye Goodnight – Andra Day
Mr. Bojangles – Nina Simone

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15 January 2025

Walking. South on Wyoming to see the Sandias. Around the Larry H. Miller Toyota dealership. Morning Movement. Chair stretching.
Happy Birthday Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Happy Birthday – Stevie Wonder
By the Time I Get to Arizona – Public Enemy
One Vision – Queen
Proud to Be Black – Run-DMC
One – India.Arie
Wake Up – Rage Against the Machine
Ballad of Martin Luther King – Pete Seeger, Brother Kirk & The Sesame Street Kids
Letter to the King – The Game, feat. Nas
Pride (In The Name Of Love) – U2
Letter To Dr. Martin Luther King – Sweet Honey In The Rock
Abraham, Martin and John – Harry Belafonte
King Holiday – Dream Chorus & The Holiday Crew
Up to the Mountain (MLK Song) – Patty Griffin
MLK Song – Mavis Staples
A Change Is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke
We Shall Not Be Moved – Marchers from Selma
We Shall Overcome – Toots & The Maytals
What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye
Let It Be – Bill Withers
Glory – Common & John Legend

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Pardon Ravi Ragbir

✍🏽 I just signed the petition for a Presidential #Pardon for Ravi Ragbir!
Ravi has spent decades fighting for justice and keeping families together—now he needs our support.
Join me in urging President Biden to do the right thing. Sign the petition today! 🖊️✨
👉🏽 Sign here: https://bit.ly/raviragbir

#istandwithravi

#keepravihome

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A prayer about seeking Christ

(nspired by the Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac; words in quotations are his.

Great Spirit, Immanuel,
in this Advent season,
we prepare to celebrate anew
the birth of Christ.
As we sing the songs
that tell us Christ will be bornin a manager,
remind us that again this year,
we will find “Christ in the rubble” of Gaza.
For Christ comes to the margins of life.
Not to the imperial palace
but to the humble people
Christ comes.
Not to the seat of powerbut to Bethlehem, little and insignificant
Christ comes.
Not to those enthroned
but to the disinherited and dispossesed
Christ comes.
For Christmas is your act of solidarity
with your beloved children who are oppressed.
Christmas provides a ray of hope
amid the “heart of pain and suffering.”
“Christmas is the radiance of life
from the heart of destruction and death.”
Inspire us, God, to seek Christ under the rubble.
Inspire us, God, to see Christ on the margins.
Inspire us, God, to follow Christ by working for
liberation and justice.
Amen.

Last year, the Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac and the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem introduced the concept of Christ in the Rubble in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Their advent creche showed the Christ child surrounded by broken stones and concreate and other representations of destruction.

This prayer, built on that image, focuses on the rubble of Gaza. Rubble, in many forms—physical, psychological, social, and more, exists around. May we seek Christ in all the rubble of the world and respond.

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19 October 2024

5K walk. Louisville.
Supporting Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women.
And We Can Love – Mary Youngblood
Blackbird – Emma Stevens
Calling All Warriors – Leela Gilday
I Am the Beginning and the End – Dorothy Tsatoke
The Unforgotten – Iskwē acākosīk, feat. Tanya Tagaq
Mother’s Rain Annie Humphrey
Some How – Nizhóní Girls
Through the Eyes of a Woman – Jana
Gentle Warrior – Kalolin Johnson
Indigenous – J25
Honor Song for an Older Sister – Poldine Carlo
Sinnatuumait – Elisapie
Resisto y Ya – Lido Pimienta
Fear – Joy Harjo
Strong Women’s Song – Ode’min Kwe Singers
Broken – Bear Fox
Roots And Wings – Joanne Shenandoah
For Me – Shawnee Kish
One Woman – Teagan Littlechief
Fight for the Rights – Kelly Fraser
God Created Woman – Martha Redbone
No More – Fawn Wood
Tongues – Tanya Tagaq
Grandmother’s Ways – Sharon Burch
The Warrior – Walela
Women’s Fancy Shawl – Shannon Thunderbird & Sandy Horne
One Woman: A Song for UN Women – Ana Bacalhau, Angélique Kidjo, Anoushka Shankar, Bassekou Kouyate, Bebel Gilberto, Beth Blatt, Brian Finnegan, Buika, Charice, Cherine Amr, Debi Nova, Emeline Michel, Fahan Hassan, Jane Zhang, Jim Diamond, Keith Murrell, Lance Ellington, Marta Gómez, Mari
Eagle When She Flies – Thunder Bird Sisters

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15 September 2024

16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, AL, bombed 1963.
Roberto Clemente Day in Major League Baseball.
4 Little Girls – Wendell Morrison
Birmingham Sunday – Tom Paxton & Anne Hills
Two Black Churches: No. 1, Ballad of Birmingham – Will Liverman & Paul Sánchez
Birmingham Sunday – Rhiannon Giddens
Alabama – John Coltrane Quartet
Roberto – Ismael Miranda
Te Recuerdo – John McCutcheon
Sueño De Un Niño – Tito Allen
Somos La Fuerza Latina – Varios artistas
Roberto Y Tirabala 6:32 Andy Montañez
Orgullo De Borinquen – Lefty Pérez
Clemente (Estrella 21) – Edel Borrero
Jugando La Pelota – Jesús “Chocolate” Coombs
Jardinero Del Amor – Wichi Camacho
Lo Mejor Que Dios Ha Hecho – Ángel Ramírez
Roberto Clemente – Bill Tiberio Band
Roberto Clemente – Nelson Feliciano and His Orchestra, feat. Junior Cordova
Roberto Clemente – Phil Coley
Roberto Clemente – Franck Junior Flores
Roberto Clemente – Moe D

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2 September 2024 – Labor Day

Labor Day. Check out a mini concert for Labor Day by my friend Eric Law.
Walking. Albuquerque.
9 To 5 – Dolly Parton
Workin’ At The Carwash Blues – Jim Croce
The Hands That Built America (Theme from “Gangs of New York”) – U2
She Works Hard For the Money – Donna Summer
Worker’s Song – Dropkick Murphys
Livin’ On a Prayer – Bon Jovi
Mr. President (Have Pity On The Working Man) – 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

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30 August 2024

Anniversary of killing of Fred Hampton.
Walking. Albuquerque. ABQ BioPark Aquarium.
Dear Daddy – Chairman Fred Hampton, Jr.
Panther – The Last Poets
Mississippi Goddam – Nina Simone
Fight For You – H.E.R.
Oakland Stroke – Tower Of Power
Everyday People – Sly & The Family Stone
Say It Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud, Pt. 1 – James Brown
Oakland – Too $hort
Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair – Lauryn Hill
Black Enough – Steel Pulse
Better Off Dead – Bill Withers
Home Is Where the Hatred Is – Gil Scott-Heron
Be Thankful for What You Got – William DeVaughn
Fight the Power – Public Enemy
Attica Blues – Archie Shepp & Romulus Franceschini
Am I Black Enough for You? – Billy Paul
2000 Blacks Got to Be Free – Fela Kuti, feat. Roy Ayers
Panther Power – Paris
Black Man – Stevie Wonder
Panther Power – 2Pac
Be Real Black for Me – Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) – Marvin Gaye

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