The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Your May Day Playlist
Here are five songs to get you pumped for May 1.
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Make Music? Tell Us About It
The group Occupy Musicians is working on an online action for May Day called "We Work In Sound".
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Anonymous Enters the Music Biz
The infamous, decentralized hacktivist collective Anonymous plans to change music online with its ambitious new open platform Anontune, which it describes as the “Facebook of social music.”
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Reclaim the Airwaves
Over the past 15 years, while our country (and the world) was sailing off a cliff, commercial radio’s Top 100 didn’t include a single anthem from the front lines of social change. But this generation’s Dylans and Marleys are out there - they’ve just been being silenced by an industry that places profit before responsibility.
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Raise Your Voice on May Day
This May Day, use your voice to change to inspire others with the May Day Convergence Choir.
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OWS May Day Concert Line-up
As if the events of May Day weren’t exciting enough already, New Yorkers now have another reason to start counting down to next Tuesday. Das Racist, Dan Deacon, Tom Morello, Immortal Technique, The New York Labor Chorus and Bobby Sanabria will perform at a rally in Union Square on May 1, starting at 4 p.m.
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Occupy Fort Lauderdale's Rock Star
Occupy Fort Lauderdale may not be as active now as it was before the holidays, but the music lives on, thanks to Dr. Bob, also known as Robert Mitchell.
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Ode to Occupy
"Occupied, we were all standing outside...our homes foreclosed and we cried..."
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An Occupy Folk Star is Born
Emerging folk artist Matt Pless is quickly becoming the quintessential Occupy folk hero, having traveled to Zuccotti Park from his native Baltimore with next to nothing but his guitar and his deceptively radical songcraft.
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Join the Guitarmy!
Liberty Square NY—Legions of guitarists, string players, singers, and DIY-shaker makers will converge on Bryant Park on May 1 for Occupy Guitarmy, part of the Occupy Wall Street May Day actions for social and economic justice.
