Protest Songs

OccupyThisAlbum - 99 Artists on 99 Tracks for the 99%

Jerry Ashton | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Protest Songs, Wall Street Bailout, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street Movement, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Wall Street, Michael Moore, Occupy Wall Street Protests, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy, #Occupywallstreet, Wisconsin Protests, Ows, Culture News
Jerry Ashton

Where are the songs for Occupy's time in history? Who will write the words and music and poetry? Will we find our voice? These questions have been answered in full and emphatically with OccupyThisAlbum.

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Holler If You Hear Stewart Francke

Doug Bradley | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Detroit, Protest Songs, Bone Marrow Transplant, Uw Madison, Rock and Roll, Bruce Springsteen, Detroit News
Doug Bradley

Stewart Francke believes that music, at its finest, should move those of us who hear it to take some sort of action -- to learn more, to right a wrong, or even just to dance and have fun.

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WATCH: The Day The LOLcats Died

Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: The Cheezburger Network, Protest Songs, Video, Pipa, Funny Videos, Funny Songs, The Day the Lolcats Died, Sopa Blackout, Urlesque, Sopa Protest Song, Sopa Pipa Blackout, Lolcats, Sopa, Cheezburger Network, Comedy News

Thousands of websites are participating in a content blackout today in protest of SOPA and PIPA, two controversial bills that would place an unprecede...

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First Listen: Hear All Of Ani DiFranco's New Album 'Which Side Are You On?'

Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Political Music, Politics, Protest Songs, Ani Difranco Protest Songs, Women, Protest, Which Side Are You On, Ani Difranco Political Music, Folk Music, Ani DiFranco, Ani Difranco Which Side Are You On, Gay Voices News

Ani DiFranco is back with her first studio album in more than three years. "Which Side Are You On?" tackles issues on both the macro and micro leve...

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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

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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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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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Pete Seeger, Mark Ruffalo Protest Hydrofracking (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Protest Songs, Hydro Fracking, Mark Ruffalo, This Land Is Your Land, Pete Seeger Protest Songs, Pete Seeger, Hydrofracking, New York News, Video, New York News

Pete Seeger and actor Mark Ruffalo traveled to Albany Tuesday to push for a moratorium on hydrofracking. The two celebrities were flanked by environ...

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