Western “liberal democracies” are just totalitarian regimes with more money and better narrative management. The US-centralized empire controls the global south with bombs, bullets and blockades and controls the rest of us with mass-scale psychological manipulation.

Sure it's more pleasant to be sitting where we are rather than at the barrel of the gun, but don't confuse pleasantness with freedom. It's nice that here they let you criticize your government and buy whatever you can afford at the store. It would be pleasant to live in a vat with your brain plugged into a virtual world of endless pleasure, too, but it wouldn't be freedom. Psychological tyranny is still tyranny.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Psychological Tyranny Is Still Tyranny

by Charlie Murphy

Recorded at Boston Passover Action Prep Meeting 4/17/16

lyrics: 
Light is returning
Even though this is the darkest hour
No one can hold back the dawn


Light Is Returning

Aish Tamid - melody by Shefa Gold (Remix with Which Side are you On)
Which side are you on - by Florence Reece- activist and organizer, a poet and songwriter- in 1931.  It was intended specifically as a song to be sung by the United Mine Workers in Harlan County, Kentucky.  It was revived during the Civil Rights movement, with verses changed and updated to fit the times. 

Aish tamid tukad al hamizbayach; lo tichbeh
Fire always shall be kept burning on the altar; it shall not go out. (Leviticus 6:6)

Which Side are you On? Which Side are you On my people?
Recorded by IfNotNow Boston Summer 2016

Aish Tamid

Went Down To The Courthouse

From the Leonard Cohen song “Anthem,” 1992. 

LYRICS
Forget your perfect offering 
(Forget your perfect offering)
There is a crack in everything
(There is a crack in everything)
Just ring the bells that still can ring
(Just ring the bells that still can ring)
That’s how (that’s how)
The light (the light)
Gets in (That’s how the light gets in)

If singing this song for performance or recording for profit, you must get permission from and pay royalties to the composer.

Heartiest thanks to Scot Brenton at 9 Below Productions for graciously donating his time & studio space to help us record!

Light Gets In

Written by KJ SongJune in 2019 on Maui and gifted to Sunrise Movement. See http://www.kjsong.com for more. 

LYRICS: 
Count me in I’m here to lend a hand 
Count me in I’m here to protect this land 
Count me in I’m here to help make it right 
Count me in I’m here to shine a light

If singing this song for performance or recording for profit, you must get permission from and pay royalties to the composer.

Heartiest thanks to Scot Brenton at 9 Below Productions for graciously donating his time & studio space to help us record!

Count Me In

Music: Unknown
Lyrics: Rabbi Shefa Gold (there is another verse in Aramaic from the Babylonian Talmud, same melody: brich rachamana, malkah d'alma, mar'ei d'hai pitah)
I learned at Adamah (Jewish Farming Fellowship) in 2014.

Sung at a (mini) song circle on January 22, 2019 on Chinook land/Portland, OR.

Lyrics:
You are the source of
Life for all that is
And your blessing
Flows through me

You Are The Source (Lyrics: Rabbi Shefa Gold, Music: Unknown)

Speak For Me

Ein Kitzvah – Gd is Infinite, indescribable, and immeasurable. Hashem, Your
imperceptible Name is worthy of You, and our name, Yisrael, contains Your Name.
“Sanctify Your Name through those who hallow Your Name.” This uplifting, joyous prayer takes us from the somber confrontation with our vulnerability and mortality to the exultant act of joining the Angels in praising and giving ourselves over to Gd in the Kedusha. [Melody – Modzitz Niggun]

Ein Kitzvah

From the Koydanover Chasidim, as transcribed in 1927 by AB Bernstein in "Musikalisher Pinkus" and sung by Joey Weisenberg. To explore this and many other nigunim in depth, and to learn how to sing and teach spiritual melodies, subscribe to the master class series The Art of the Nigun here: http://bit.ly/learn-nigunim

Koydanover Nigun - Joey Weisenberg

הַנֵּרוֹת הַלָּלוּ אָֽנוּ מַדְלִיקִין
Hanerot Halalu anu madlikim
These lights we kindle

Traditional folk melody
Arrangement by Ilene Safyan  

Deborah Sacks Mintz - lead vox
Yosef Goldman - lead vox
Chava Mirel - guitar, harmonies

The recording premiered on the Shir Bliss Radio Hour's Hanukkah Special, a new project from Rising Song Records. Listen to the program on Mixcloud: http://bit.ly/shir-bliss-hanukkah

Hear more music from Deborah, Yosef and Chava at https://risingsongrecords.bandcamp.com/

Hanerot Halalu - Deborah Sacks Mintz, Yosef Goldman & Chava Mirel

Sunrise is building an army of young people to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. We call ourselves Sunrise because we know this dark hour in America, when fossil fuel executives and climate deniers run our government, cannot last. The sun will rise again.
We have a 4-year plan to make climate action an urgent priority in every corner of the country, expose the fossil fuel executives who have purchased politicians and blocked progress, and lift up champions who will work for the people at every level of government.

Speak For Me

Sunrise Movement

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