Protest Music

Draft Hillary for 2016 Bid

Brent Budowsky | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Crony Capitalism, Reform, Bruce Springsteen, Working Class, 2016 Election, 2012 Election, Heartland America, Protest, Robert Kennedy, Arab Spring, Populist Century, Israeli Protests, Populist Movement, Equal Pay, Female Century, Protest Music, Barack Obama, Syrian Freedom Fighters, Inequality, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton 2016, Politics News
Brent Budowsky

Re-elect Barack Obama in 2012 and draft Hillary Clinton for 2016 to achieve an era of reform and realignment that will powerfully change history.

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Rock Music's Political Thump Turns to Thud

Jason Schmitt | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Third Eye Blind, Occupy Wall Street, Stephan Jenkins, El General, Tom Morello, Wayne Kramer, Rock, Occupy Movement, Rock and Roll, Protest Music, mc5, John Sinclair, Culture News
Jason Schmitt

The apathy of the last decade seems to have lifted. And truth will emerge, the way it always has, through the murky waters of social critique. We need more leaders. We need more anthems.

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Under the Bridge You'll Find Us Waiting, Under the Bridge We'll Sing a Song (Audio)

Jill Sobule | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Protest Songs, Protest Song, Under the Bridge, #Occupywallstreet, Protest Music, Occupy Wall Street, Culture News
Jill Sobule

To all the good folks pitching tents at OWS, this song's for you. We support you, hope you keep warm this winter, and ask you to keep a spot open in your tent for us.

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Denver Hip-Hop Artist’s Song About Ben Bernanke

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Protest Songs, Anticon, Occupy Wall St, Sole, Protest Music, I Think I'm Ben Bernanke, Mc Sole, Video, #Occupydenver, Occupy Denver, Occupy Wall Street, Ows, Anticon Records, #Occupywallstreet, #Ows, Tim Holland, Denver News

Denver-based artist and indie hip-hop legend Sole, also known as Tim Holland from the famed Anticon collective, has been deeply involved in the Occupy...

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Tea Party Protest Music: Still Searching For Their Dylan

AP | By JIM DAVENPORT | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Video, Michele Bachmann, Tea Party Music, Billy Blaze, Pete Seeger, Edwinn Starr, Don Fortney, Bob Dylan, Tea Party, Protest Music, Fifty News

BLUFFTON, S.C. -- The tea party activists that packed the room picked up the refrain of a song as they waited for Republican presidential candidate Mi...

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Raging Against The Machine: Tom Morello's Nightwatchman Persona

Michael Gilmour | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Tom Morello, Rage Against the Machine, Sacred Sounds, Religion and Music, Guitarist, Protest Songs, Labor Unions, Civil Disobedience, Songwriter, Revolution, Rock and Roll, Protest Music, Tom Morello Nightwatchman, Woody Guthrie, Religion News
Michael Gilmour

With all the rhetorical force and righteous anger of the prophets, the Nightwatchman's biblically literate activism rails against the individuals and institutions responsible for the plight of the needy

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The Political Bob Dylan

Peter Dreier | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Pete Seeger, The Times They Are a-Changin, Folk Music, Phil Ochs, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Protest Music, Blowin in the Wind, Politics News
Peter Dreier

Bob Dylan's off-and-on engagement with politics is intriguing. But his peace and justice songs have had a life of their own.

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Will Charlie Ever Get Off That Train?

Peter Dreier and Jim Vrabel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kingston Trio 50th Anniversary, Folklore, Folk Music, Folk Songs, Mta, Protest Music, Kingston Trio, Oregon, Entertainment News
Peter Dreier and Jim Vrabel

Since the Kingston Trio's self-censored version became a hit fifty years ago, "M.T.A." has become a part of American folklore.

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Changing the World, One Note at a Time

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marc Kielburger, Music, Craig Kielburger, Protest Music, Michael Franti, HIV/AIDS, Dreadlocks, Barack Obama Song, Reggae, Arabic, Singing, Barack Obama, Entertainment News
Craig and Marc Kielburger

Michael Franti's music is meant to rally the public and raise awareness. But, he wanted to take the music further. To protest the world's injustices, he needed to experience them, so, he headed to Baghdad.

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Lollapalooza, Day One: When Push Comes to Shove

Karen Stabiner And Sarah Dietz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Relationships, Madonna, Gogol Bordello, Woodstock, Bloc Party, Mothers and Daughters, Neil Young, Radiohead, Protest Music, Lollapalooza, Entertainment News
Karen Stabiner And Sarah Dietz

We're at Chicago's Lollapalooza music festival, two of thousands of sweaty fans with but a single purpose on Day One: To be as near as possible to the huge AT&T stage for Radiohead's evening performance.

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Recreate 68, the DNC and the Urgent Need to Reinvent Our Political Language

Roberto Lovato | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Culture, Barbarianisms and Other Babel, History, DNC and Obama, Media, The Politics of Language, DNC and Denver, Elections, Activism, Denver Protests, Language and Politics, DNC Protest, Protest Music, Barack Obama, Politics News
Roberto Lovato

"Recreate 68" sounds more like something more appropriate for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young reunion concert than for a movement of our troubled times.

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