Pete Seeger - Bring 'em Home
Country Joe and the Fish -Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag
Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth
We Shall Over Come - At Pete Seeger's 90th, its fun to figure out who is in this huge chorus.
Steve Earle - Condi, Condi, not exactly a protest but hey. Oh, Condi, Condi
I Shall Be Released - The Band
Draft Dodger Rag - Pete Seeger
cool! we revisit the times of protest, in anticipation of another time of revolution. pete seeger goes all the way back to the union rallies. and boy do i love country joe and the fish.
ReplyDeletethanks, mike.
i wonder who, if anyone, is writing protest songs now.
Great old songs!
ReplyDeleteWhile I do not believe killing the draft was some military-industrial complex conspiracy this all volunteer force is picture perfect to defuse any real peace movement from getting started.
Working class suckers like me join up to defend democracy from the current evil horde about to bring about the fall of the Republic, the majority of the middle class slap magnetic yellow ribbons to the back of their SUV's and go tisk-tisk when some local poor boy or girl comes home in a body bag.
Nice system and we will not see any movement these old song sprung from until American imperial adventures effect the vast majority who have no stake in what is going on.
@rraine, These songs were harder to find than I would have thought. You're suggestion was good and I meant to give you credit in the post but it escaped me So thank You. Most of the artists you mentioned while associated with protest music were sadly missing in action on youtube.
ReplyDelete@Beach You make an excellent point. The problem is we won't see because were not paying attention. The multiple deployments that today's kids are making into harm's way have gone a little way to reducing troop strength and an increase in the use of remote drones that kill indiscriminately. But only a few in America will care about that because of the mindset that one dead Muslim is as good as another.
ReplyDelete"Roll the Union On", my friend. Oh, hell yeah, I protest other things. But the union stuff is high up on my ladder. War? It's ALL, ALWAYS wrong. Don't try to tell me anything. It's WRONG. And those who don't/won't resist are WRONG. I am, frankly, disgusted with the younger people of today. What the hell did "we" (boomers) do wrong that our kids don't get resistance as an imperative? One lovely 33-year-old college graduate I adore won't even vote! Why? Everyone she talks to has a different point of view. What's hers? She doesn't know. I give up.
ReplyDelete@LesWe didn't change anything with all our dissent and sit-ins. The majority of us sold out to the "Man" for a steady paycheck and yupped up lifestyles with 3 cars and a McMansions. No the kids today are living the life they inherited. We are to blame, we quit.
ReplyDeletemike-i think we did evince some change, it just didn't last, only partially because we quit. almost everyone i know became more conservative when they thought they had something to lose-house, job, kids. the spirit of protest, making voices heard is critical, especially now. and i just don't hear any voices.
ReplyDeletehere's where the buddhist philosophy comes into play. when you realize that "the cup is already broken" there is nothing to lose. it's already gone. permanence is an illusion.
there's a saying in the woo-woo circles, what you resist, persists. so-not anti-war, pro-peace. not fighting poverty, creating equal distribution of wealth.
you get the picture.