“Living With War” by Neil Young is the Peace Song of the Day for April 2nd. You can find the album Living With War at Alibris: here
Continue reading Living with war everyday: Peace Song for 4/2/2012
Love Can Build A Bridge: Peace Song for 3/29/2012
“Love Can Build A Bridge” is the Peace Song of the Day for 3/29/2012. The song was written by John Barlow Jarvis, Naomi Judd, and Paul Overstreet. It was released first by the Judds, and then covered by various artists. It’s a simple, beautiful song about the power of love, and the ability of an individual to heal and to create peace.
Continue reading Love Can Build A Bridge: Peace Song for 3/29/2012
Military Madness: Peace Song for 3/28/2012
“Military Madness” by Graham Nash is the Peace Song of the Day for 3/28/2012. It is on his album Songs for Beginners.
Continue reading Military Madness: Peace Song for 3/28/2012
Don’t be a hero: Peace Song for 3/27/2012
“Billy Don’t Be A Hero” (1974) is the Peace Song of the Day for 3/27/2012. It was written by Mitch Murray and Peter Callander, and performed by Paper Lace, as well as Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods.
This song was picked in keeping with the subject of counter-military recruiting, that we mentioned with yesterday’s song. How do we teach young people that war is not a place of glory?
“Billy don’t be a hero don’t be a fool with your life…”
Nonviolence: Muste’s Getting Rid of War
The twelfth chapter of The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace contains A.J. Muste‘s 1959 essay Getting Rid of War. The essay leads off the third section of the book: The Cold War and Vietnam. Muste’s life was a journey toward pacifism and through politics and religion. He was a labor organizer, anti-war leader and civil rights mentor.
Muste seeks a path to “abolish war and the benumbing threat of nuclear destruction.” He defines the problem as having two “characteristics”: 1) the cancerous growth of weapons of mass destruction, and 2) the political intransigence between the Western and Eastern blocs. The first problem has not been resolved. The second has only changed players, but the fight over resources has not. Continue reading Nonviolence: Muste’s Getting Rid of War
I’ve Got Soul, But I’m Not A Soldier: Peace Song for 3/26
The Peace Song of the Day for 3/26/2012 is “All These Things That I’ve Done“, by the alternative rock band, The Killers (2004).
The song includes a great line for young people trying to resist the temptation of choosing the military as a career. There is a mantra in the song that goes, “I got soul, but I’m not a soldier”. For more ways to resist war, and resist military recruitment at school, you can see the Counter Recruitment page at War Resisters League: here.
More about this song… Continue reading I’ve Got Soul, But I’m Not A Soldier: Peace Song for 3/26
When the war is over: Peace Song for 3/25/2102
Steve Earle‘s song, “Steve’s Hammer (for Pete)“, is the Peace Song of the Day for March 25th. As the title hints at, this song is dedicated to Pete Seeger. The song is from Earle’s album, Washington Square Serenade.
“Steve’s Hammer” tells about the day when the war is over, and there isn’t any hunger and pain, so all of us peace and justice activists can finally take a bring and sing a silvery tune. In other words, the song embodies why it is called “The Struggle”.
Continue reading When the war is over: Peace Song for 3/25/2102