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
Category Archives: Human Rights
19 May 2024
Filed under Exercise, Human Rights, Louisville, Music, playlist
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.
Filed under Current Events, Exercise, Human Rights, Louisville, Music, playlist
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
Filed under Antiracism, Exercise, Human Rights, Louisville, Music, playlist
31 March 2024 – Transgender Day of Visibility
Transgender Day of Visibility.
Still walking. Still in Albuquerque.
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
Rebel Rebel – David Bowie
We Exist – Arcade Fire
What Is This Thing Called Love – Billy Tipton
Eudaemonia – Them Are Us Too
Sometimes I Cry – Jason Kwan
Filed under Current Events, Exercise, Human Rights, Music, New Mexico, playlist
24 March 2024
Martyrdom of Saint Oscar Romero.
Cherokee Nation Remembrance Day, marking the arrival of the last of 17 detachments of the Cherokee people in Indian Territory following the Trail of Tears.
CheEl Padre Antonio Y Su Mongaguillo Andres – Ruben Blades
Homenaje a Rutillio Grande – SON Tres Cuartos
Oscar Romero – Dafydd Iwan
Romero – The Project
El Salvador – Peter, Paul, & Mary
Oscar Romero – Brotes de Olivo
Eulogy to Oscar Romero – Jean-Luc Ponty
Oscar Romero – Garth Hewitt
Oscar Romero – Richard Gilpin
Archbishop Oscar Romero Memorial – Fran Schultz
Cherokee Stomp – Litefoot, feat. Tommy Wildcat
Cherokee Morning Song – Walela
On the Road Where They Cried – Cherokee National Children’s Choir
Orphan Child – Cherokee National Children’s Choir
Filed under Antiracism, Exercise, Human Rights, New Mexico
St. Patrick’s Day 2024
My annual St. Patrick’s day statement seems more appropriate this year than ever.
I speak for no others,
only for myself.
For me, this day has
nothing to do with
green beer or
green rivers or
green clothing or
green anything,
this day has nothing to do with
pinching me or kissing me;
my bad jokes aside,
this day has nothing to do even with Jameson.
Today is a day
to remember oppression
to honor resistance
to recognize that, despite the efforts of
systems of race and racialization
to separate us,
struggles for dignity and justice,
freedom and equality,
human rights and humanity
are inseparably linked:
none of us are free until all of us are free.
for that reason, in that spirit, and in my own fashion,
I mark this day, and each 17th of March.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day.
Fitzgerald on my mother’s side
Filed under Antiracism, Current Events, Human Rights, Ireland
16 March 2024
Walking. Germantown and Schnitzelburg.
My Lai Massacre day.
Song for Hugh Thompson – David Rovics
For Hugh Thompson Who Stood His Ground – The Oaks
Pinkville Helicopter – Thom Parrott
Mỹ Lai, opera composed by Jonathan Berger (music) and Harriet Scott Chessman (libretto)
Kronos Quartet, Rinde Eckert, Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ
Lullaby
First Landing: Flight
First Landing: Descent
First Landing: The Ditch
Second Landing: Hovering
Second Landing: Bunker
Third Landing: Postcard
Third Landing: Fishing
Filed under Exercise, Human Rights, Louisville, Music, playlist
9 March 2024
Stretching. Gym in the Apartment.
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 – Emhear Ni Ghlacain
Four Green Fields – The Molly Maguires
The Hills of Ireland _ Celtic Woman
Stor Mo Chroi – Bonnie Raitt and the Chieftains
Bloody Sunday – Criachan
Fields of Athenry – Dropkick Murphys
Dear Irish Boy – Eileen Ivers
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 Parting Glass – Shaun Davey
Filed under Exercise, Human Rights, Ireland, Music, playlist
Follow the Solidarity with the Suffering Delegation to Palestine & Israel
My friend the Rev. Bruce Reyes-Chow is part of the Solidarity with the Suffering delegation to Palestine & Israel organized by the Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). He presents this list of ways to connect with the delegation and with Christian organizations in Israel & Palestine. .
CONNECT TO THE ISRAEL/PALESTINE MISSION NETWORK
- Website: https://www.theipmn.org
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ipmn_pcusa
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ipmnpcusa
- X: https://twitter.com/ipmn
CONNECT WITH THE REV. BRUCE REYES-CHOW
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breyeschow
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/breyeschow
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breyeschow
- Threads: https://www.threads.net/@breyeschow
CONNECT WITH SABEEL
- Website: https://sabeel.org
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/naimateek
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sabeelelquds
- X: https://twitter.com/SabeelJerusalem
- Wave of Prayers: https://sabeel.org/category/wave-of-prayers/
CONNECT WITH KAIROS PALESTINE
- Website: https://www.kairospalestine.ps
With gratitude to those who are participating in solidarity and a witness for justice and peace, here is a prayer.
Filed under Current Events, Friends, Human Rights, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Along the Graybeard Trail 