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Song written by Luke Nephew, Peace Poets Video edited by Frank Lopez, Peace Poets Lyrics: I STILL HEAR MY BROTHER CRYING: "I CAN'T BREATHE" NOW I'M IN THE STRUGGLE SINGING: "I CAN'T LEAVE!"

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Vor en haut à droite les chansons contre M. Thatcher

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The first song in the Musical of Billy Elliot. (Liam Mower and Company)

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Sting Performs Live: "Shipyard" from The Last Ship | Great Performances | PBS

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Watch the full-length program at http://video.pbs.org/video/2365183664/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=pbsofficial&utm_campaign=gper_covefullprogram (US Only) Sting and his band and Jimmy Nail perform "Shipyard" from his album and upcoming musical, "The Last Ship," live at the Public Theater in New York City. The song introduces various characters in a shipbuilding community.

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Sting and his band perform songs from his new album, The Last Ship, at The Public Theatre, New York. The songs, inspired by the shipbuilding community of Wallsend where Sting was born and raised, will form part of his forthcoming Broadway play.He and the band are joined onstage by the actor and singer Jimmy Nail.

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BBC & the Thatcher Hate song Ding Dong the Witch is Dead
  

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http://www.facebook.com/NSOTD The BBC is coming under increasing pressure to say whether it will play a song pushed into the charts by people celebrating the death of Margaret Thatcher. Corporation bosses say they have not yet decided whether to play Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead if anti-Thatcher protesters manage to get the song into Sunday's singles chart.

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Margaret Thatcher has died and Britain is celebrating.

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Pete Wylie [ The Day That Margaret Thatcher Dies! ]
  

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Pete Wylie [ The Day That Margaret Thatcher Dies! ]

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Brand NEW 1st OFFERING from the legend [ PETE WYLIE ] from his forthcoming new album set for release in 2010 ;] Mixed by YORKIE http://www.petewylie.com http://www.myspace.com/petewylie http://soundcloud.com/radio-wah http://www.last.fm/music/Pete+Wylie

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Jarvis Cocker / Running the World / Great performance at French TV

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Manu Chao - La Radiolina - http://itun.es/i6v7fm Amazon CD: http://amzn.to/l26UDL

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2005

ConorOberst, aka Bright Eyes, campaigned for John Kerry on 2004’s Vote for Change tour, although his records made sure his political persuasions were never in doubt. This B-side, which he chose to play on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno rather than promote an album, was as furious an attack on George Bush as any. Riffing on Dubya’s imagined relationship with God, Oberst lists (and it’s a long list) all the president’s failings with a brooding intensity and anger.

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When the President Talks to God - Bright Eyes

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When the President talks to God, Are the conversations brief or long? Does he ask to to rape our women's rights? And send poor farm kids off to die? Does God suggest an oil hike? When the President talks to God? When the President talks to God, Are the consonants all hard or soft?

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Another World - Antony and the Johnsons
  

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2008
There’sperhaps no other current artist who could pull off an apocalyptic lament that sounds like a gentle hymn. This lead track from last year’s EP and highlight ofnew album The Crying Light is a plea for escape from a world “nearly gone” through war and ecological disaster. That unique, soulful voice sounds utterly bereft, as it waves us a resigned goodbye: “I’ll miss the things that grow/ I’mgonna miss you all.”

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from the Album: The Crying Light Lyrics: I need another place Will there be peace I need another world This one's nearly gone Still have to many dreams Never seen the light I need another world A place where I can go I'm gonna miss the sea I'm gonna miss

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Me and Giuliani Down By the Schoolyard. 2003

Rudolph Giuliani’s tenure as mayor saw New York nightlife all but stamped out ; his taskforce would close down venues without a dance licence if people so much as tapped their foot. When the bar Nic Offer was working at fell victim to Giuliani’s clampdown, the !!! frontman was driven to write this nine-minute punk-funk epic, which attempts to start a dancefloor insurrection.

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!!! - Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard (A True Story)

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WW1:  I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

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WW1:  I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

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I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier - the first anti-war hit record

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Grade 7 & 8 classes are studying the Protest Song. We started with listening to various protest songs and then each student searched for a protest song to add to their class' Padlet wall.

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Lien vers un padlet "musiques contestataires"

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Lien vers un padlet "musiques contestataires"

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Voici quelques chansons contestataires et autres protest songs des années 1970. 
Bonne écoute !

(page créée par Mme Lhomond, professeur-documentaliste)

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The Cranberries - Zombie (Official Music Video)

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Buffy Sainte-Marie - Now That the Buffalo's Gone

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Lyrics : Can you remember the times That you have held your head high and told all your friends of your Indian claim Proud good lady and proud good man Some great great grandfather from Indian blood came and you feel in your heart for these ones Oh it's written

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Pete Seeger

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Pete Seeger - What Did You Learn In School?

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Curtis Mayfield

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Almost a preacher as Curtis Mayfield imo was. Good choice this moment...

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Voici mes  notes pour commenter Masters of War

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Voici mes  notes pour commenter Masters of War

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STING/CHILDREN'S CRUSADE

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Children's Crusade from the album " The Dream of the Blue Turtles " by Sting. 1985 Enjoy! :)

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Elizabeth Rose sings this beautiful song, written by Helen Hooke and Pamela Brandt. it is based on the words of Sojourner Truth, the African-American feminist and freed slave of mid 19th century. Band: Helen Hooke and the Honeyspots (with Bernice Brooks, Dori Evans and Gail Storm)

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This story was first published in 2013, but it's bubbling up in the most read on our website as Labour Day approaches. We've posted it again for you to enjoy.
Unionists are often many things - steadfast, political ... and really decent musicians. Union songs have been a part of the movement since the very beginning.

So in that spirit, here are 10 of the best songs written about workers or the union movement, in no particular order.

Factory: Bruce Springsteen

You'd be hard pressed to find a rock musician with more of a symbolic connection to blue collar workers than Bruce Springsteen. Though his catalogue is full of stories of the working class, Factory from 1978's Darkness on the Edge of Town is one of the most poignant.

The song was supposedly written about Springsteen's father. The two didn't get on very well, and Factory is a somber representation of the struggles of the average worker.

Florence Reece: Which Side Are You On?

Reece never claimed to be a singer, but this song is one of the most important accounts of the union movement. Her father was a coal miner who was killed in the mines, and her husband, a union organizer in Kentucky, died slowly of the Black Lung.

Reece wrote the song after she and her children were accosted by a group of men said to be working for the owners of a mine during a strike in the '30s. Like a lot of folk songs, its melody came from a hymn - Lay the Lily Low.

Working Class Hero: John Lennon

Working Class Hero was featured on John Lennon's first post-Beatles solo album, 1970's John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, and it's one of his best.

Backed by an acoustic guitar and three chords, Lennon venomously plumes the difference between social classes. "A working class hero is something to be" remains one of his most memorable lines.

Billy Bragg: Power in a Union

There is Power in a Union was written by Joe Hill in 1913, but was popularized by Billy Bragg on his 1986 album Talking With the Taxman about Poetry. The song was first published in The Little Red Songbook in 1913.

Tom Morello: Union Town

You can't have a list of songs celebrating rights and dissent without mentioning a member of Rage Against the Machine. Morello is an avowed unionist, and often shows up at rallies and events like the Occupy Movement with a guitar to celebrate worker's rights.

This version of the song comes from 2011's World Wide Rebel Songs, and was also featured on an EP of the same name that year. The Union Town EP also features covers of important union songs, like Solidarity Forever and Whose Side Are You On?

Johnny Paycheck: Take This Job and Shove It

Take This Job and Shove It was Ohio-born country singer Johnny Paycheck's only number one hit.

Paycheck sings about the trials and tribulations of 15 years working in a factory - but in true classic country music fashion, his "woman done left" him, too. No word on if his dog or his trucks are okay.

Judy Collins: Bread and Roses

Bread and Roses originated in a speech by U.S. labour leader Rose Schneiderman back in the early 20th century. The speech inspired a poem of the same name by James Oppenheim, which eventually lead to the song by Judy Collins, which is one of the more popular musical versions.

It's often associated with a textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts from 1912, now referred to as the "Bread and Roses strike."

Pete Seeger: Solidarity Forever

Ralph Chaplin wrote the original version of Solidarity Forever back in 1915 but Pete Seeger's version is one of the more popular modern versions.

The song often pops up at union events in Canada, the U.S. and Australia, and has been sung at NDP conferences over the years.

Woody Guthrie: Union Burying Ground

This tune was featured on Guthrie's 1941 album Struggle, and was written to commemorate everyone who died in labour actions in the early 20th century.

According to The Patriot Ledger, the album was full of "raw, gut wrenching protest songs ... His charismatic style gets back to the roots of folk and the voice of the people."

Greg MacPherson: Company Store

Winnipeg's Greg MacPherson's songs are full of stories about how the common man deals with oppression. Company Store, a longtime fan favourite, is no exception.

The song re-imagines a story his father told him about his own father. A coal miner in Glace Bay, N.S., MacPherson's grandfather participated in the burning down of the town's company store after the workers went weeks without pay.

Though the song is propelled by rage and places its sympathies in the miner's camp, it also shines a critical light on the history of violence in Canadian labour struggles.

MacPherson once told his record label the song, "is my way of pointing out that we have a colourful and acrimonious history that should be remembered and learned from."

Honourable Mention - The Power Plant Strike Song: The Simpsons

Okay, okay, this might not carry the weight of some of the other songs listed here - but The Power Plant Strike Song remains one of the most memorable tunes about a union ever written. And who could forget Homer's adventures as a bumbling union leader?

"Lisa needs braces!"
This story originally appeared as a part in a series of stories about unions in the 21st century from CBC Hamilton.

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This story was first published in 2013, but it's bubbling up in the most read on our website as Labour Day approaches. We've posted it again for you to enjoy. Unionists are often many things - steadfast, political ... and really decent musicians. Union songs have been a part of the movement since the very beginning.

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R-Kive is available to order now Digital: smarturl.it/RKivedigital Physical: smarturl.it/RkiveCD Music video by Genesis performing Illegal Alien (2004 Digital Remaster).

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Women/poverty. "Broken American dream

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Gary San Angel Featuring the Asian Arts Initiative

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Taiyo Na - Lovely to Me (Immigrant Mother) - Music Video - Chinatown / Love Park Philadelphia

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To commemorate this Thanksgiving weekend. I thought it would be appropriate to send this beautiful music video out to the world called Lovely to Me (Immigrant Mother) by New York based artist Taiyo Na from his debut album Love is Growth.

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Suffragette (UK) Trailer song - TRILLS ‘Oh Freedom’

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BAD ROMANCE/ Lady Gaga : Women's suffrage (watch the clip!)

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BAD ROMANCE/ Lady Gaga : Women's suffrage (watch the clip!)

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ATTENTION SOOMO VIDEO FANS: WE NEED YOUR HELP! Sony/ATV is requiring Soomo to take down our educational parody video Bad Romance: Women's Suffrage on Nov 25, 2015 unless Sony can monetize it with an advertisement.

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Bruce Springsteen - American land (Live Glastonbury 2009)

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El 27 de junio de 2009, Bruce Springsteen encabezó el cartel del Festival de Glastonbury. The Boss presentó, acompañado de su fiel E Street Band, su disco "Working On A Dream" ante más de 175.000 personas, e hizo un repaso a los clásicos de su repertorio.

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LE MUR DE M.H FASQUEL/ LET'S PROTEST: LYCEE

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LE MUR DE M.H FASQUEL/ LET'S PROTEST: LYCEE

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Protest songs and music - 2nde TMD - Lycée Nelson Mandela. Nantes.

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ONE's agit8 campaign launched in 2013 during the run up to the G8 summit in the UK, to encourage world leaders to take decisive action towards ending extreme poverty by 2030.

Historically, protest songs have proven to be powerful tools in uniting people together to support a common cause. From civil rights and women's suffrage to anti-apartheid and Live 8, protest songs have helped shape history. When people come together and raise their voices, extraordinary things can happen. The agit8 campaign used these songs to send a message that we will not be passive in the fight against extreme poverty.

To kick off the campaign, ONE hosted a two-day pop up concert in London which featured over two dozen artists at the Tate Modern on the bank of the river Thames. Concert attendees enjoyed performances by featured artists, including Paloma Faith, KT Turnstall, Jamie Cullim, and David Gray, who covered some of our favourite protest songs, like Harrowdown Hill by Radiohead and Killing in the Name Of by Rage Against the Machine. ONE volunteers also collected signatures on our petition to the G8, which asked leaders to make commitments to improving food security and increased transparency to help alleviate poverty for millions of people around the world.

ONE also teamed up with some of YouTube's most popular artists to form Come Together: The YouTube Project. ONE supporters could watch a video recorded by each musician and vote for their favourite artist. Artists who received 1,000 or more votes on their videos were featured on ONE's Ultimate Protest Song playlist alongside Mumford & Sons, Jessie J, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, U2, will.i.am, and Sting. ONE supporters voted in 6 YouTube artists - Connie Talbot, Jordan Jansen, Vázquez Sounds, Christina Grimmie, Ryan Van Sickle and Heather Fay - whose songs were included on ONE's agit8 album.

As a result of the agit8 campaign, ONE collected over 350,000 signatures on its G8 petition, which was handed in to the White House in Washington DC, to Prime Minister David Cameron in the UK and President Hollande in France. ONE Champions from Africa and Asia were even able to speak directly to PM Cameron about the impact corruption and secrecy have on daily life in their home countries.

To see more ONE videos check out our YouTube channel!

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ONE's agit8 campaign launched in 2013 during the run up to the G8 summit in the UK, to encourage world leaders to take decisive action towards ending extreme poverty by 2030. Historically, protest songs have proven to be powerful tools in uniting people together to support a common cause.

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JOEY /Dylan (poverty, injustice, prison)

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JOEY /Dylan (poverty, injustice, prison)

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Oh Freedom! - The Golden Gospel Singers (Lyrics in Description)

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Roll Jordan Roll

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12 years a slave - choir song - ''roll jordan roll'' 2013

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This is Dick Gaughan's rendition of a great working class rebel song, which appeared on his 1981 album Handful of Earth. Originally written by the north-east of England singer and songwriter Ed Pickford (who has his own page here on YouTube), the Dropkick Murphys version of this song is, IMVHO, the tune of the century so far.

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Rest in Peace to Michael Brown and to every young black man murdered in America, whether by the hands of white or black. I pray that one day the world will be filled with peace and rid of injustice. Only then will we all Be Free - Cole

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STING: We work the Black Seam Toghether (Closing mines/antiThatcher)

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STING: We work the Black Seam Toghether (Closing mines/antiThatcher)

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Young musicians are finding their role in this modern civil rights movement through the protest song tradition

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Across the Lines - Tracy Chapman 1988 (live)

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Across the Lines - Tracy Chapman 1988 (live)

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Environment: Activities to print - Animations - Videos - Cartoons - Conversation questions - Encyclopedia - Facts - Games to print - Interactive activities - Interactive games - Lesson plans - Listening - Movies - Pictures - Poems - Posters - Adverts - Songs - Stories - THEMES - Vocabulary - Webquests - ESL Resources

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REFUGEES / Crowded House / Help Is Coming

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What does a 21st century protest song sound like?

If you're folk musician Ezra Furman, it has echoes of Bob Dylan. If you're legendary songwriter Lauryn Hill, it borrows from Rodgers and Hammerstein. If you're hip-hop artist J. Cole, it's an elegy with a beat.

Though these artist span the musical spectrum, the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown and the subsequent protests in Ferguson, Missouri, have inspired them all to release singles independently on Soundcloud.
Read the lyrics from the third verse of Ezra Furman's song "Ferguson's Burning" below. The full lyrics can be found on his blog.
Ezra Furman's Ferguson's Burning
When the fires burn out
And the tear gas disperses
When the work is all done
For the doctors and the nurses
The cops may stop shooting
And the street get less wild
But Michael Brown's mother
Will never get back her child
And the hatred and fear
That America harbors
Will only grow bigger
Beneath big body armor
So keep a close eye on our laws and our leaders
No justice for Mike Brown
There's none for you either
Ferguson's burning
And the world's turning away
Turning away Read the lyrics from the first verse of Lauryn Hill's song "Black Rage" below. The full lyrics can be found on her website. Lauryn Hill's "Black Rage" Black rage is founded on two-thirds a person,
Rapings and beatings and suffering that worsens,
Black human packages tied up in strings,
Black rage can come from all these kinds of things.
Black rage is founded on blatant denial
Squeezed economics, subsistence survival,
Deafening silence and social control.
Black rage is founded on wounds in the soul! When the dogs bites
When the beatings
When I'm feeling sad,
I simply remember all these kinds of things and then I don't fear so bad! Read the lyrics from the second verse of J.Cole's song "Be Free" below. You can also read the full lyrics. J.Cole's "Be Free" Can you tell me why every time I step outside
I see my n***** down,
Ooh, I'm letting you know
That it ain't no gun they can make that could kill my soul
Oh, no All we want to do is take these chains off
All we want to do is break the chains off
All we want to do is be free
All we want to do is be free
For generations, Americans have relied on music to criticize everything from the Depression to the Vietnam War. These anthems have become landmarks for public thought, indicating the highs and lows of civil discourse.

In 1940, renowned Depression-era songwriter Woody Guthrie, now best known for "This Land Is Your Land," saw the film adaption of John Steinbeck's novel "The Grapes of Wrath." Struck by the plight of Steinbeck's protagonist, Guthrie reportedly sat down with a half-gallon jug of wine and spent an entire night writing "The Ballad of Tom Joad" on a typewriter. Guthrie later took to "People's World" to explain his work: it "...shows the damn bankers men that broke us and the dust that choked us, and comes right out in plain old English and says what to do about it."
Men walkin' `long the railroad tracks
Goin' someplace there's no goin' back
Highway patrol choppers comin' up
over the ridge
Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge
Shelter line stretchin' round the corner
Welcome to the new world order
Families sleepin' in their cars in the
southwest
No home no job no peace no rest.
Between 1962 and 1963, when the U.S. was embroiled in the Cold War and the beginning of the Vietnam War, Bob Dylan recorded "Masters of War" as a blunt denunciation of nuclear armament between America and the U.S.S.R.

"Some people say this one song I wrote is very naive," Dylan said at a live performance of the song in 1963. "Well, I got to stand here and really not care because I do actually hope that the masters of war die tomorrow."

Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks

A year after Dylan recorded "Masters of War," Nina Simone sat down at her piano and wrote an uptempo response to the assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi, and the deaths of four black children from a bombing at a church in Birmingham, Alabama. "Mississippi Goddam" was released as a single and became a protest anthem even though several Southern states banned it. Simone went on to perform the song during the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches.
Alabama's gotten me so upset
Tennessee made me lose my rest
And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam ...Hound dogs on my trail
School children sitting in jail
Black cat cross my path
I think every day's gonna be my last Lord have mercy on this land of mine
We all gonna get it in due time
I don't belong here
I don't belong there
I've even stopped believing in prayer
Now, with the immediacy of protest hashtags, observers of current events do not necessarily need public figures to lead cultural protests. But modern musicians are nonetheless composing.

"I think it's a perfect time for protest songs," musician Ezra Furman told Art Beat.

"The day I wrote this, I was able to put it on YouTube and share it really quickly with a ton of people. It's not on a record so people might not hear it as many times. But I think it's better that I don't have to wait for it to be pressed to wax before people hear it. Things are still happening and people have more energy and urgency."

Furman received criticism from fans for posting the song before the investigation of Michael Brown's death concluded, but the musician believes the story is bigger than the case.

"I'm not trying to convict [the officer who shot Brown]," said Furman. "I'm calling for his arrest and trial. Even if Michael Brown wasn't murdered for racist reasons, this song is worth it regardless because it's true of other cases."

Furman, Hill and Cole's songs were all released around the events in Ferguson but speak largely to the experience of being marginalized in America. Centuries after the first protest songs, it appears the themes are still the same.

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What does a 21st century protest song sound like? If you're folk musician Ezra Furman, it echoes of Bob Dylan. If you're legendary songwriter Lauryn Hill, it borrows from Rodgers and Hammerstein. If you're hip hop artist J. Cole, it's an elegy with a beat.

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AFTER FERGUSON/"The killer cops" under attack

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It was a grotesque and vastly unpleasant year for the United States, especially as a singular whole that is digested globally via damning headlines. You couldn't even go to a Turkish soccer game as an American without facing global judgment for how we treat our citizens of color.

Domestically, the best music punted on the news and stuck to short-term solutions (go to the club on a Tuesday and just party, man). But the cable news violence did forge an important soundtrack. Here it is, presented as the 10 best protest songs of the year.

10) Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Sweet Home Alabama"

Asshole members of America's police force need protest songs, too. And so, a Chicago Police Department good ol' boy in blue decided to blare "Sweet Home Alabama"-a timeless Southern pride anthem-out of his cruiser's loudspeaker during an Eric Garner protest in Chicago attended by mostly African-Americans this month. Two Americas and whatnot.

9) Sole & DJ Pain 1 - "Fire the Police"

I appreciate it when white, bearded rappers get indignant about the police and do good. It can be useless in scope and audience because the work lands at reaffirming, Fair Trade coffee shops, but that doesn't make the exercise any less earnest and pointed.

8) The Orwells -"Who Needs You"

The loogie-hocking Chicago punks began the year with a rowdy performance that left the host in awe. When the band returned in the fall, David Letterman insisted "Who Needs You" likewise come back for an encore. The song itself is this expertly constructed Cheap Trick knockoff about futile futures and beer-shotgunning nihilism: "You better toss your bullets, you better hide your guns, you better help the children, let 'em have some fun."

7) The Peace Poets - "I Can't Breathe"

I don't think this song is any good. It's written by four slam poetry nerds and is tinged with white-guy reggae. It's the worst, really. Except that its brevity and simplicity works outdoors in the cold, and it's a helpful instrument to meaningful protests. It's been performed by hundreds of good Samaritans at once, and that's nothing to poke fun at.

6) Stick to Your Guns -"What Choice Did You Give Us?"

It's fun when hardcore bands with a youthful fan base release songs that spell out every literal-to-a-fault lyric. On Sept. 11, 2001, I distinctly remember listening to " Boom " by nu-metal bros P.O.D. for solace. For teenagers, loud noises can be optimally cathartic.

5) The Game - "Don't Shoot (Mike Brown)"

Everyone is on this thing, and the beat is understated and hollow but reverberating like a deep well. Game uses his children on the hook, and it's downright hair-raising. Best of all, none of the distinct, lending voices-Rick Ross, 2 Chainz, etc.-compromises their individual style, so it's this overloaded sundae bar monstrosity that works as a unified memo from the mainstream.

4) Migos -"Struggle"

"Everybody been through it, everybody used to it" goes the hook from hip-hop's materialistic maestros. This one punts on the timeliness of Eric Garner and Michael Brown in favor of generalities, yet its clunky cobblestone performances from three high-volume, flashy voices is a distinctly 2014 occasion. The headlines were impossible to ignore, even if you're an Atlanta trio that raps chiefly about selling drugs and buying designer retail with drug money. But zone out and you miss Quavo's biting warning: "RIP to Mike Brown-I heard my n***a fuck with us / middle finger to the police, dare them n***as fuck with us."

3) Hozier - "Take Me to Church"

This massive and sudden pop hit-the Irish singer-songwriter bailed on a small-stage Austin City Limits engagement to instead perform on Saturday Night Live in October-is an anthem penned about homophobia. Talking to Pink News this month, Hozier was clear about its targets and points: "The song is about loving somebody, and the video is about people who undermine what it is to love somebody."

2) Yakki Divioshi - "Hands Up"

OK, we've checked off the all-star gathering 'round the microphone and the buttoned-up turn toward somberness from an otherwise loud crew. Here, 808 Mafia and Atlanta rapper Yakki Divioshi produce a post-Future banger that shopping carts the community urgency and unrest. It's an all-in, abrasive gamble that pays off beautifully.

1) D'Angelo - "1000 Deaths"

The year's fuming apex, in just under six minutes. D'Angelo baked in samples from New Black Panther Party's Khalid Abdul Muhammad; disses at the "cracker Christ"; lyrics like "I won't nut up when we up thick in the crunch, because a coward dies a thousand times, but a soldier dies only once"; timeless musicianship; and this crescendo of purposeful, golf club-swinging destruction because it wasn't a good year.

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It was a grotesque and vastly unpleasant year for the United States, especially as a singular whole that is digested globally via damning headlines. You couldn't even go to a Turkish soccer game as an American without facing global judgment for how we treat our citizens of color.

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