Robert Cray’s music video cameos the American Friends Service
Committee’s Eyes Wide Open campaign. Eyes Wide Open exhibits feature the
boots of U.S. soldiers alongside a memorial to Iraqi civilian
casualties. To read more about this and other peace-in-Iraq campaigns,
go to: http://www.afsc.org/eyes/index.php
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State Radio - "Camilo"
~ warning: contains graphic images of war ~
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Pink - "Dear Mr. President"
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"What Did You Learn In School Today?"--sung here by Pete Seeger in 1964-
-was written by politically astute folksinger Tom Paxton.
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"Bring Them Home (If You Love Your Uncle Sam)" --Pete Seeger
In 1966 Pete Seeger wrote this song about bringing the troops home from Vietnam. He wrote: "A woman told me, 'I'm praying every night, please bring my son home safe.' I told her, 'Haven't you learned the lesson of the song WE SHALL OVERCOME? There's no solution for you or your son or me and my son unless it's a solution for all of us. It's got to be 'WE' or there's no solving the problem.' Now I don't claim this song is as good as it should be. But I was hoping for a song which would be good for a group of people to sing over and over again, and a frame in which new verses could be improvised, and the melody and harmony developed as the singers got with it." This is a 1969 performance.
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Bring Them Home (If You Love Your Uncle Sam)
In 2006 Bruce Springsteen did indeed add lyrics to Seeger's song.
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"If I Had a Hammer" -- Peter Paul and Mary
Written by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays in 1949, in support of progressive political movements, and was first recorded by the folk group The Weavers. Peter, Paul, and Mary recorded it far more successfully in 1962. The song became a Civil Rights anthem in the United States. (Excerpted from the Wikipedia )
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Steve Earle - "Rich Man's War"
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Dixie Chicks - "Not Ready To Make Nice"
This 2006 release was the band's response to several years of criticism,
controversy, and threats. Singer Natalie Maines had remarked to an
audience on March 10, 2003, as pre-war hype was building: "We do not
want this war, this violence, and we’re ashamed that the President of
the United States is from Texas."
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Neil Young - "The Restless Consumer"
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Joan Baez - "Joe Hill"
A 1930 poem titled "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night" was turned into
this song in 1936. Hill was an itinerant laborer who became involved in
the Industrial Workers of the World or "Wobblies." He was also a poet
and songwriter for the cause. He was executed by firing squad in 1915
for a dubious murder conviction. He had written an IWW friend: "Don't
waste any time in mourning. Organize."
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