Hurricane Katrina.
Walking. Albuquerque.
Thanks to Tricia and Kim for suggestions.
Walking to New Orleans – Fats Domino
Shelter in the Rain – Irma Thomas]
Cry for New Orleans – Jude Johnstone, Susan Cowsill, John Cowsill, Rodney Crowell, Maxayn Lewis, Vicki Peterson & David Mansfield
All Hands Together – Mika Nakashima
All These People – Harry Connick, Jr.
The River In Reverse – Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint
Where Were You? – Jackson Browne
Hell No, We Aint Alright (Krush Groove Remix) – Public Enemy Remix of a Nation (feat. Paris)
City That Care Forgot – Dr. John
Wading Through – Terence Blanchard
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? – Louis Armstrong
In New Orleans (House Of The Rising Sun) – Lead Belly
Going Back To New Orleans – Deacon John
I Hope – The Chicks
Pontchartrain – Vienna Teng
The Saints Are Coming – U2 & Green Day
When The Saints Go Marching In – Louis Armstrong K
They All Ask’d For You – The Meters
New Orleans Ladies – Le Roux
Halftime (Stand Up and Get Crunk!) – Ying Yang Twins & Homebwoi
Way Down Yonder in New Orleans – Freddy Cannon
What A Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
Just a Closer Walk With Thee – Pete Fountain
Category Archives: Human Rights
29 August 2024
Filed under Antiracism, Exercise, Human Rights, Music, New Mexico, playlist
28 August 2024
Emmett Till.
March for Jobs and Freedom.
Walking Albuquerque.
The Death of Emmett Till – Bob Dylan
My Name Is Emmett Till – Emmylou Harris
Emmett’s Ghost – Eric Bibb feat. Ron Carter
The Ballad of Emmett Till – Red River Dave McEnery
The Death of Emmett Till, Pt. 1 – The Ramparts
The Death of Emmett Till, Pt. 2 – The Ramparts
The Death of Emmett Till – Ben Williams
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen – Bayard Rustin
God Will Take Care of You – Aretha Franklin
Many Rivers To Cross – The Blind Boys Of Alabama
You’ll Never Walk Alone – Brittany Howard
Someday We’ll All Be Free – Donny Hathaway
(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding – Keb’ Mo’
Too Many Martyrs – Kim & Reggie Harris
Freedom Time – Lauryn Hill
Keep Your Hand On the Plow – Mahalia Jackson
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody – Mary D Williams
We’ll Never Turn Back – Mavis Staples
Com’ By H’Yere Good Lord – Nina Simone
Hold On – Odetta
Been in the Storm – Ranky Tanky
We Shall Overcome – The Staple Singers
We Shall Overcome – Joan Baez
We Shall Overcome – Toots & The Maytals C
We Shall Overcome – Workers in Selma
Filed under Antiracism, Exercise, Human Rights, Music, New Mexico, playlist
Vigil
Caressed by the wind,
the flames dance
above the candles,
each flame to its own rhythm:
each flame representing
God’s beloved children,
gone too soon,
taken too suddenly
by hot metal speeding from a metal tube,
after a trigger was pulled.
Back pressed into the wall,
I sat vigil,
watching the dancing flames
in horror,
in pain,
in remembrance,
in silent witness.
No more could I do.
More is needed.
24 August 2024
Ghost Ranch
Abiquiu, New Mexico
Filed under Gun Violence, Human Rights, New Mexico, Poem
19 August 2024
In memory of the Rev. Dr. Otis Turner
Pacing. Hotel in Albany.
Pacing. Hotel in Atlanta.
You Don’t Have to Ride Jim Crow! – Bayard Rustin
Oh Freedom – Mary D Williams
Freedom – Richie Havens
What a Friend – Aretha Franklin
Harriet Tubman/Steal Away – Kim&Reggie Harris
Glory – Common & John Legend
Woke Up This Morning – Fannie Lou Hamer
If You Miss Me from the Back of the Bus – Bettie Mae Fikes
Lord Hold My Hand While I Run This Race – Various Artists
Leaning On the Everlasting Arms – Various Artists
Come Bah Ya (Kumbaya) – Willie Peacock
Don’t You Think It’s About Time That We All Be Free – Mabel Hillary
We’re Marching On to Freedom Land – Carlton Reese
We Shall Overcome – Various Artists
Get Your Rights, Jack – The CORE Freedom Singers
Which Side Are You On? – The Freedom Singers
Been In the Storm So Long – Bernice Johnson Reagon
I’m On My Way – The Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights Choir
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round – The Freedom Singers
Wade In the Water – The Fisk Jubilee Singers
Deep River – The Howard University Chamber Choir
Everytime I Feel the Spirit – The Florida A&M University Concert Choir
Precious Memories – Sister Rosetta Tharpe
My Lord, What a Morning Marian Anderson, feat. Franz Rupp
Stand by Me – Mavis Staples
Freedom Train – Sweet Honey In The Rock
Take My Hand, Precious Lord – Mahalia Jackson
Mississippi Goddam – Nina Simone
What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye
Say It Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud, Pt. 1 – james Brown
A Change Is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke
Filed under Antiracism, Exercise, Friends, Human Rights, Music, playlist
14 August 2024
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
Filed under Current Events, Human Rights, Louisville, Music, playlist
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
Filed under Antiracism, Current Events, Human Rights, Louisville, Music, playlist
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
Filed under Antiracism, Human Rights, Louisville, Music, playlist
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
Filed under Antiracism, Human Rights, Music, playlist
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
Along the Graybeard Trail 