Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden
Evansville, Indiana
1 June 2025
Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden
Evansville, Indiana
1 June 2025
Walk. From Eric & Essie’s house to our apartment.
No matter what the current administration does. we will remember. The first four songs remember Harvey Milk. The remainder of the playlist remembers the Stonewall Uprising which began on 28 June. According to the Stonewall Veteran’s Association, the songs on this playlist were among the most popular songs in the Stonewall jukebox during the week of the Stonewall Rebellion.
Tired of the Silence – Andrew Lippa, Bay Area Rainbow Symphony, Dr. Timothy Seelig & San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus
The Times of Harvey Milk – Mark Isham
Wave a Flag for Harvey Milk – Mr. Greg & Cass McCombs
Give ‘Em Hope – Boys’ Entrance
Crystal Blue Persuasion – Tommy James & The Shondells
Grazing In the Grass – The Friends of Distinction
Romeo and Juliet – Henry Mancini
(We’ve Got) Honey Love – Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
The More I See You – Chris Montez
Don’t Let the Joneses Get You Down – The Temptations
Before the Parade Passes By – Barbra Streisand
More Today Than Yesterday – The Spiral Starecase
The Young Folks p Diana Ross & The Supremes
Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In – The 5th Dimension
It’s Your Thing – The Isley Brothers
While You’re Out Looking for Sugar – Honey Cone
Don’t Bring Back Memories – Four Tops
The Windmills of Your Mind – Dusty Springfield
My Way – Frank Sinatra
This Is My Life (La Vita) – Shirley Bassey
What Does It Take – Junior Walker & The All Stars
My Cherie Amour – Stevie Wonder
Get Back – The Beatles
Filed under Albuquerque, Current Events, Exercise, Human Rights, Music, New Mexico, playlist
When we find ourselves
in times of trouble;
when challenges appear,
difficulties arise,
and life threatens to overwhelm us,
come to us Holy Spirit.
Come with grace.
Come with patience.
Come with courage.
Come with resilience.
Come with persistence.
Come with hope.
Come with faith.
Come with love.
When we find ourselves
in times of trouble,
come to us Holy Spirit.
Come to calm us.
Come to support us.
Come to sustain us.
Come to challenge us.
Come to comfort us.
Come to challenge us.
Come to encourage us.
Come to guide us.
When we find ourselves
in times of trouble,
come to us Holy Spirit.
Amen.
with thanks to a couple Liverpudlians, John Lennon and Sir Paul McCartney, for the recurring refrain
Filed under Prayer
International Workers of the World founded.
She Works Hard For the Money – Donna Summer
The Hands That Built America – U2
Bracero – Phil Ochs
The Rebel Girl – Hazel Dickens
Working Class Hero – Green Day
Mr. President (Have Pity On The Working Man) – Randy Newman
Fast Car – Tracy Chapman
Working On The Highway – Bruce Springsteen
Bread and Roses – Judy Collins
Which Side Are You On – Natalie Merchant
Three Miles Down – Gil Scott-Heron
9 To 5 – Dolly Parton
Joe Hill – Paul Robeson
Joe Hill’s Last Wil – John McCutcheon
Ship In The Sky – Woody Guthrie
There is Power in a Union – Entertainment Workers IU 630
We Will Sing One Song – Joe Glazer
The Internationale – Billy Bragg
Solidarity Forever – Pete Seeger
Filed under Albuquerque, Music, New Mexico, playlist
Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden
Evansville, Indiana
1 June 2025
Battle of the Greasy Grass
Wash Your Spirit Clean – Walela
Sitting Bull’s Medicine Song – Kevin Locke
It Is A Good Day To Die – Robbie Robertson & The Red Road
Lakota Forever – Brulé
The Little Bighorn March – Bill Miller
A Man Named Crazy Horse – Shannon Thunderbird
Tatanka – Luis Cachiguango
Garryowne & Valley Of Little Big Horn – Jack Gladstone
Crazy Horse Prayer – Peter Kater
Buffalo Prayer Song – Robert Tree Cody & Hovia Edwards
Little Big Horn Battle Song – Porcupine Singers
In The Spirit Of Crazy Horse – Thunder Bird Sisters
The Legend of Crazy Horse – Jim Young
Battle of Little Bighorn – Sencheng Zhang
Battle of Little Bighorn – RedCloud, feat. Def Shepard
Filed under Antiracism, Human Rights, Music, New Mexico, playlist
Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden
Evansville, Indiana
1 June 2025
Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden
Evansville, Indiana
1 June 2025
Creative Spirit,
you make all that is,
you make the human family,
in rich, wild diversity,
each one in your own image,
everyone beloved by you.
The diversity you create
enlarges the sphere of possibilities
for all of us.
Help us
acknowledge the diversity you create
as your gift to us;
understand the diversity you create
as enhancing your world;
and celebrate the diversity you create
as enriching our lives.
Inspire us to reject and dismantle
all systems and ideologies
that erroneously and sinfully
maintain that some of us have greater value.
Guide us to welcome all people
as your beloved children
and to love one another
as taught and lived by Jesus
in whose name we pray.
Amen.
inspired by When God Became White by the Rev. Dr. Grace Ji-Sun Kim (subscribe to her Substack account)
Filed under Antiracism, Books, Current Events, Human Rights
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