“Time” by Pink Floyd, is the Peace Song of the Day for March 11th. Duchess Susanna suggested a song about time for daylight savings time. Duke Augustus immediately went to this classic song from Pink Floyd’s monumental Dark Side of the Moon album
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“We Take Care of Own“, by Bruce Springsteen, is the Peace Song of the Day for March 8th. On his live triple album, Springsteen introduces his cover of his hero Woody Guthrie‘s “This Land Is Your Land” on his triple live album as an “angry response to Irving Berlin‘s “America the Beautiful“. Springsteen has finally written his own response.
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Continue reading We Take Care of our Own: Peace Song for 3/8/2012
Bring The Boys Home, by Freda Payne, is the Peace Song of the Day for March 7th.
Continue reading Bring The Boys Home: Peace Song for 3/7/2012
“Young“, by the rap rock group Hollywood Undead, is the Peace Song of the Day for March 6th. This song is a little louder than many that have been on the daily list. Though, the lyrics are great. And, sometimes its good to get angry against war.
Continue reading We are young and we have heart: Peace Song for 3/6/12
The eleventh chapter of The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace contains Albert Camus‘ 1946 essay Neither Victims nor Executioners. This week we discuss the seventh part of the essay, A New Social Contract. Camus wrote this 16-page essay as World War II had just ended, and it seemed as if the Soviet Union and the United States were dragging the planet into the horrors of a third world war. Eleven years later, he would win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The social contract that Camus is referring to was most famously discussed by Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau. The social contract is thought to be the terms on which the people consent to be governed. This discussion profoundly influenced the US Declaration of Independence. Continue reading Camus’ Neither Victims nor Executioners: A New Social Contract
“Love Train”, written by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, and performed by The O’Jays, is the Peace Song of the Day for March 5th.
More about this song: Continue reading Don’t you wanna ride this Love Train?: Peace Song for 3/5/2012
“The Fiddle and The Drum” by Joni Mitchell is the Peace Song of the Day for March 3rd.
Continue reading Can I help you find the peace and the star?: Peace Song for 3/4/2012