 | Son of a Bush (Bonus DVD) by Public Enemy
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $2.43 |
 | Not in My Name by Saul Williams
Buy used from: $12.05 This is the Pledge of Resistance authored by a collective of artists in the Not in Our Name movement. Remixes are included and encouraged.. . my homemade fave is atop Bob Marley's "No More Trouble".
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 | Pangaea by Visionaries
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $3.80 |
 | Rock Against Bush, Vol. 1 by Various Artists
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $0.01 A hard-hitting collection from the Punk Voter movement founded by NoFX. Good cover art, but hit and miss musically. Bargain price and free DVD makes up for it! Vol. 2 out this September!
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 | Street Signs by Ozomatli
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $0.29 The embodiment of what is great about America. From Los Angeles a mix of ethnicities and musical styles on the hiphop tip with a latin beat. Always rallying the resistance.
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 | Revolutionary, Vol. 2 by Immortal Technique
Buy used from: $12.65 |
 | Handbook for the Apocalypse by Variable Unit
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $0.49 |
 | Peace...Back by Popular Demand by Keb' Mo'
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $3.91 Keb Mo offers a requisite blues collection of peace songs spurned by the continue militarism of the Bush regime. Includes covers such as Times They are a Changin' and Imagine.
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 | The Richest Man In Babylon by Thievery Corporation
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $5.85 Thievery Corporation helped to organize the first licensed protest of the State of the Union address in 2003 with a concert in front of the capitol that very night. Electronica/lounge/world beats.
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 | Yanqui U.X.O. by Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $5.95 The soundtrack for modern times. Instrumental album that builds from trembles to thunder. Again great cover art. Great band name. Grand music.
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 | Bomb the World by Spearhead
This CD is comprised of Farrar's alt-country standards and a couple new gems. "When corporate blitzes and payola ion point at the mainstream level, it spawns a reaction of good music."
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 | Everyone Deserves Music by Michael Franti & Spearhead
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $7.89 The latest album by Franti including "Bomb the World." Generally I like the live versions of these songs better, "Bomb the World" was meant to be acoustic. Check archive.org for legal bootlegs.
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 | Stay Human by Michael Franti & Spearhead
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $4.90 Here's the Spearhead album to buy and support this wonderful humanist's work. A great concept album that plays like a radio program, a good listen. Later add the best jams to mix tapes and cds.
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 | Spirit in Stone by Lifesavas
Buy used from: $1.72 "A funny thing happened to me on the wave to grave y'all.. . I started celebrating my life." Lifesavas find hope amidst the turmoil. Rebel music transmit like this!
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 | Emergency Rations by Mr Lif
Buy new: $10.98 / Used from: $3.24 Awesome (awe inspiring) hip-hop on the political tip. What hip-hop was invented for. Real issues, real people, real life, real thinking.
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 | Revolverlution by Public Enemy
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $2.32 One of the godfathers of political hip-hop, Chuck D. continues the fight.. . still as Public Enemy and also with the Fine Arts Militia. Rise up!
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 | Terror State by Anti-Flag
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $2.98 Raw punk rawck from a band that not only dedicates albums to protest, but their entire being. I don't have this in my collection, but these guys are worth looking into. They live it.
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 | Turn off the Radio: The Mixtape, Vol. 1 by DPZ
Buy used from: $5.53 Amazon doesn't seem to be selling this new anymore. I'm just getting familiar with this hip-hop group, but from what I hear the commentary is very biting and hard hitting. No beating around the bush.
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 | Sonic Jihad by Paris
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $6.00 I haven't heard this album either, but like some singles off of it. Another great title. Hard hitting hip-hop again, straight from the streets. Another perspective.
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| Searching for a Brighter Future by Chinkees
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $0.69 Mike Park is about the nicest, most compassionate man you could ever meet. He organizes the Plea for Peace tour and offers the track "Another Angry Man Goes to War".
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 | Proxima Estación: Esperanza by Manu Chao
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $3.85 Manu Chao speaks of the world's infinita tristeza (infinite sadness), sings along the merry blues, and offers as the next stop: HOPE. Global music for global times.
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 | Peace Songs by Various Artists
Buy new: $49.99 / Used from: $8.64 A compilation of mainstream musicians reacting to hardtimes home and abroad. Shows how many are concerned and continue to contribute to the modern political song movement.
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 | Peace Not War by Various Artists
Buy used from: $0.51 A British compilation of mostly mainstream musicians. Many of these tracks were offered free by the artists on their websites. Some good stuff, but not as cutting a social commentary as it could be.
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 | Not In Our Name
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $1.99 A collection of songs, some unreleased, from quality musicians. Michael Franti & Spearhead offer hip-hop, r&b, and good vibes, Ani DiFranco's poem is chilling and Ozomatli gets things grooving.
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 | How to Write Songs on Guitar: A Guitar-Playing and Songwriting Course by Rikky Rooksby
Buy used from: $2.75 YOUR SONG HERE! Make a mix. Act politically. Educate yourself. Join with others. Speak. Protest. Vote! "The powers of being shall overcome the powers that be." http://www.findlars.com/radio.html
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