Morning movement. Apartment.
Pacing. Apartment.
Chair stretching. Apartment.
Navajo Code Talkers Day.
Navajo Code Talkers – Jack Gladstone
The Navajo Code Talkers – US Air Force Academy Band
Navajo Code Talkers – Bennie Shay
Navajo Code Talkers – Jay Begaye
John McCutcheon birthday. All songs by John McCutcheon unless otherwise noted.
Welcome The Traveler Home – John Mccutcheon & Tom Chapin
We Shall Rise
Christmas In The Trenches-Song
Greatest Story Never Told
Children Of Abraham
All God’s Critters
Somos El Barco
Cross That Line
Streets Of Sarajevo
Crazy Or Courageous
Immigrant
Hope Dies Last
Te Recuerdo
SuAnne Big Crow
Sara Tucholsky
The Great Storm Is Over
Water From Another Time
Stone By Stone
No Mas!
When I Grow Up
How Can I Keep From Singing?
Hobo’s Lullaby
Wish You Goodnight
Calling All The Children Home
One Strong Arm
Le Chambon-Sur-Lignon
In America – Tom Paxton & John McCutcheon
Loggerman’s Breakdown/Dulcimer Reel
This Road
Picture Of Jesus
The Rebel Girl
Shadowland
Reasons To Believe
Kindergarten Wall
Here On The Islands
Doing My Job – John Mccutcheon & Tom Chapin
We Are Not Alone
Step By Step
Turn, Turn, Turn – John McCutcheon, feat. The Steel Wheels
Well May the World Go – John McCutcheon feat. Hot Rize
Category Archives: Human Rights
14 August 2024
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6 August 2024
Walking. Treadmill. Flex Appeal.
Stretching. Apartment.
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
Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream – Simon & Garfunkel
Jamaican Independence Day
Jamaica, Land We Love – The One World Ensemble (The Jamaican National Anthem)
Throne 2:38 Koffee Rapture EP Reggae 0 2
We Shall Overcome – Toots & The Maytals
History of Jamaica – Early B
The Song My Mother Used to Sing – Dennis Brown
Jump Independently – Count Lasher
Teach the Children – Dennis Alcapone
Rivers of Babylon – The Melodians
Rebuild Jamaica – Lee “Scratch” Perry
I Shall Be Free – Toots & The Maytals
Independence Ska – The Baba Brooks Band
Jamaican Spirit – Stacious
I Am Jamaican – DahNiel-Jae
Sweet Jamaica – Casey Donaldson
Jamaica Jamaica – Tricia Cunningham
One Jamaica – Kimiela Candy Isaacs
Fi Mi Island Home – Sister Novelette
Jah Love This Land – Lex M.D
Jamaica Is A Big Brand – TrishMaq
Waa Back Jamaica – Renzzah
Proud Jamaican – Auraiya Hope
Better Jamaica – Reggae Maxx
We Are Jamaicans – Pepita
Filed under Antiracism, Current Events, Exercise, Human Rights, Louisville, Music, playlist
1 August 2024
Emancipation Day celebrated in many Caribbean countries and Canada to mark the abolition of enslavement in the British Empire.
Walking. Germantown. Stretching. Apartment.
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
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11 July 2024
Walking. Apartment.
American Indian Movement founded.
Opening Song for the Maker – Joy Harjo
Evolution Revolution – Indigenous
Witnesses: Dreaming a Life – R. Carlos Nakai
The Prayer – Supaman
American Indian Movement Song – Blackfire
In the River: A Protest Song – Raye Zaragoza
I Pity the Country – Willie Dunn
We Are the Halluci Nation – A Tribe Called Red, feat. John Trudell & Northern Voices
A.I.M. Song/B.I.A. Song – American Indian Movement Singers
A.I.M. – Ode’min Kwe Singers
Sacrifice – Robbie Robertson
Freedom – Ras Kass & Dj Free Leonard
Antipatriarca – Ana Tijoux
Indigena – Aztlan Underground
Red Winter – Drezus
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1 July 2024 First Nations
Canada Day. First Nations.
Akua Tuta – Kashtin
Ancestor Song – Robbie Robertson
Blackbird – Emma Stevens
We Shall Remain – Kalolin Johnson
Nasa’l Mawiesp-Pite’wk Kmusnk – Bernie Francis
Family and Friends – Shift from the 902
Stay Strong – Kelly Fraser
Broken – Bear Fox
Residential School Song (Indian Boarding School Song) – Cheryl Bear
Little Star – iskwē
We Won’t Forget You – N’we Jinan Artists
Nin Kesatm L’nu’isi – The Relatives
Apija’li Essisoqnik – 2nd Generation
Ke’ Mawita’nej – Hubert Francis
Unama’ki – Richard Poulette
First Flight – Morgan Tomey
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20 June 2024
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 Called 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
19 May 2024
Walk. Louisville. Gym in the apartment.
Happy Birthday el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz.
All songs from The Malcom X Jazz Suite by Terence Blanchard unless noted otherwise.
The Opening
Melody for Laura
Theme for Elijah
Blues for Malcolm
The Nation
Malcolm’s Theme
Betty’s Theme
Malcolm Makes Hajj
Malcolm At Peace
Perpetuit
Malcolm’s Theme
Someday We’ll All Be Free – Aretha Franklin
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5 May 2024
Walking. Stretching. Gym in the Apartment.
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]
Lost Souls – Tom Jackson
We Won’t Forget You – N’we Jinan Artists, Sk’elep School of Excellence, B.C.
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Purple flowers, guest collection #248
24 April 2024
Mexico-US Border
Essie Koenig-Reinke
We held a ceremony and cross planting for Otilio Juarez Perez,
a migrant who died in 2005 while crossing the border in the Pinaleño Mountains.
Many of our students from Menaul gave purple flowers as an ofrenda.
Filed under Current Events, Family, Human Rights, Photo
4 April 2024
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
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Along the Graybeard Trail 