Name: SUNday Side of the Street by jerusha
Duration: 1 min 14 s
Description: This is a solar-powered take-off on SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET released just in time for SUNday.earth events on September 21, 2025

[Lyrics ©2021, Purly Gates / Music Woody Guthrie]
Diane Wilson sustained a 36-day hunger strike in April 2021 to stop the dredging in Matagorda Ship Channel on the Texas Gulf coast and to STOP EXPORTING GAS & OIL. In order to alleviate air pollution in local communities, protect the environment and avoid the worst, irreversible outcomes of the climate emergency— WE MUST STOP using fossil fuels for transportation and generating electricity by 2030. Let's begin a swift and just transition to renewable energy. Time for talk is done. WE NEED ACTION NOW.

Defend the Gulf

Parody of an old cowboy song with new lyrics about fossil fuel barons' choices ©2021, Purly Gates
As early as the 1970's, major oil & gas corporations knew that burning fossil fuels would pump dangerous levels of CO2 into the atmosphere—which would cause climate change. Yet they ignored their own scientists' warnings, and have continued to spend millions of dollars to spread dis-information the public and lobby in Congress against renewable energy. This is unconscionable and immoral.

On a Street Downtown Houston

Trio for Piano, Viola, Violoncello & Antique Cymbals

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths." — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross 

"Hear the beautiful people. 
We dance these moments
with them in our hearts
hands to our hands
leading us out in step
across this common land."
— Kaeel Skeirik 

3.  Shimmer Dance

2.  Masquerade

The Railroad Commission of Texas oversees all things oil & gas in the state. However, they are not doing their job—preferring to rubber stamp permits and look the other way re: infractions. So methane leaks go unfixed and continue to pollute the air locally while exacerbating the global climate crisis. Support Commission Shift, which draws attention to the corruption at the RRC.

The Fox is Guarding the Henhouse

change of fuels

Crooked River Rascals - "White Dudes For Kamala"

01 I Can Read

Hey, don't ya think it's time we kicked the carbon habit? Here's my nudge.  
Call your state and federal reps and tell them to get off their asses and help us save the planet.
Musical Credits:
Mark Rubin added the bass line. I did the rest. ENJOY, and have your own Fossil Fuel Funeral celebration!!

FossilFuelUndertakers_excerpt

This is a solar-powered take-off on SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET released just in time for SUNday.earth events on September 21, 2025

SUNday Side of the Street

Recorded back in the early 90's  by #thebeatgreens before the beat greens existed. Music, lyrics and lead vocals by Jerusha Korim; arrangement, harmony vocal & all other tracks by Rick Arnoldi. 
We know we can't stop USING plastic, but we can stop buying it, accepting plastic packaging, tossing it and choking ourselves to death with it! (photo from #CapeCool  2014 Climate Pilgrimage in solidarity with Yeb Saño's journey across the Alps to the Paris Climate Conference.)

Stop Using Plastic

artist-activist, singer-songwriter,  barefoot rabbi 



SUNday Side of the Street

jerusha

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