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		<title>Mercedes Sosa dies</title>
		<link>http://politicalsongbook.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/mercedes-sosa-dies-at-74/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Argentinian political musician Mercedes Sosa died today in Buenos Aires. She was 74. more to come<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalsongbook.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3525425&amp;post=496&amp;subd=politicalsongbook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Concert for Reconciliation, Tolerance and Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>greybike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been waiting for Canada&#8217;s favorite poet/singer and my own second cousin, Leonard Cohen, to use his recent (and gargantuan) resurgence in fame for the political good. Last night, in front of an audience of 50,000 people in Tel Aviv, his Concert for Reconciliation, Tolerance and Peace served as a symbol of peace: its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalsongbook.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3525425&amp;post=450&amp;subd=politicalsongbook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Tao of Tao</title>
		<link>http://politicalsongbook.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/the-tao-of-tao/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>greybike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After meeting Tao Rodriguez-Seeger with his grandfather Pete in June, I thought it would be interesting to get inside the head of the offspring of such an influential musician. Below is the introduction to an interview I did with him in July which has since been published by the guys at musicfordemocracy.com. Musician Tao Rodriguez [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalsongbook.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3525425&amp;post=416&amp;subd=politicalsongbook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Etan Thomas Basketball Poet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An unusual combination of things, thirty-one year old Etan Thomas is both an NBA basketball star and a peace activist/poet. We are including him on the site because despite not being a musician but he is definitely a part of pop culture. Since 2005 Thomas has spoken twice at anti-war rallies in Washington, supported Obama&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalsongbook.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3525425&amp;post=341&amp;subd=politicalsongbook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pete Seeger at the Strawberry Festival</title>
		<link>http://politicalsongbook.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/pete-seeger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the pleasure of meeting Pete Seeger at a Strawberry Festival in New York state a few weeks ago while working as researcher and production assistant on a documentary about the late Cuban poet Jose Marti. Marti wrote a lot of the lyrics that ended up in the version of a song Pete Seeger [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalsongbook.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3525425&amp;post=345&amp;subd=politicalsongbook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bruce Cockburn Cuts a Slice O&#8217; Life</title>
		<link>http://politicalsongbook.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/new-release-for-bruce-cockburn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canadian political music icon Bruce Cockburn is releasing his first live solo album after a 39 year career that has seen him produce 34 albums of music, travel in Africa, Latin America and Asia with groups such as OXFAM and Amnesty International, and win a huge amount of national and global awards for his music and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalsongbook.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3525425&amp;post=301&amp;subd=politicalsongbook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tracy Chapman, Our Bright Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tracy Chapman&#8217;s new album, her first in 3 years, opens with an incredibly catchy song called Sing For You.  Lyrically it lacks a bit of substance. Even so I couldn&#8217;t help but listen to this song four times before moving on to the next song on the album.  Here she is playing it on Jay [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalsongbook.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3525425&amp;post=250&amp;subd=politicalsongbook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Images from The Bread and Puppet Theater</title>
		<link>http://politicalsongbook.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/bread-and-puppet-theater/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Other than the Dixie band that accompanies them, the largely volunteer-run Bread and Puppet Theater is not really about the music &#8211; but we&#8217;re giving them a mention here on the site because of their talent at expressing political ideas through art. In this case the art involves not music, but puppet-making and theater performance. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalsongbook.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3525425&amp;post=192&amp;subd=politicalsongbook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Album From Sheryl Crow</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sheryl Crow&#8217;s new album is a clever tour de force that deals with issues like the environment, gasoline/oil, war, diamonds, peace and love. The opening song, God Bless This Mess, is performed solo and paints Crow initially as an innocent, young, folky singer-songwriter. But don&#8217;t be fooled, the album quickly shows it&#8217;s true colors as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalsongbook.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3525425&amp;post=100&amp;subd=politicalsongbook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Billy Bragg Survey</title>
		<link>http://politicalsongbook.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/billy-bragg-survey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 18th (2008), we interviewed members of the audience as they came out of a Billy Bragg show at the Club Soda theatre in downtown Montreal. We got 55 respondents within about 15 minutes. In general the people were very open to talking to us about politics and music and we believe that we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalsongbook.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3525425&amp;post=170&amp;subd=politicalsongbook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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