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Abolish Ice (mp3 link) (tune of When the Saints Go Marching In)
Abolish Ice, abolish ice, abolish ice right now right now
We’re gonna love and protect all our neighbors
Abolish ice right now, right now
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Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around (mp3 link)
1960s anthem adapted from African American Spiritual
Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around, turn me around, turn me around
Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around
Keep on walkin', keep on talkin'
Gonna build a brand new world
Ain't gonna let no administration turn me around...
Ain't gonna let no bullies turn me around....
Ain't gonna let no authoritarians turn me around...
Bread and Roses performed by Lucy Dacus (poem by James Oppenheim)
As we go marching, marching, in the beauty of the day,
A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill-lofts gray
Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses,
For the people hear us singing, "Bread and Roses, Bread and Roses."
As we come marching, marching, we battle, too, for men—
For they are women's children and we mother them again.
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes—
Hearts starve as well as bodies: Give us Bread, but give us Roses.
As we go marching, marching, unnumbered women dead
Go crying through our singing their ancient call for Bread;
Small art and love and beauty their trudging spirits knew—
Yes, it is Bread we fight for—but we fight for Roses, too.
As we go marching, marching, we bring the Greater Days—
The rising of the women means the rising of the race.
No more the drudge and idler—ten that toil where one reposes—
But a sharing of life's glories: Bread and Roses, Bread and Roses.
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes—
Hearts starve as well as bodies: Bread and Roses, Bread and Roses.
Courage, My Friend (mp3 link) South African apartheid song
Courage, courage
My friend, my friend
You do not walk alone
We will, we will
Walk with you, walk with you
And sing your spirit home
The Dark Times (mp3 link) by Alexandra "Ahlay" Blakely
Will there be singing
still in the dark times?
Yes there will still be singing
Yes there will still be singing
Yes there will still be singing
about the dark times
Filled With Love (mp3 link)
lyrics by Joyce Andersen
Men of anger, men of war
My heart is filled with love
Tell me what are you fighting for
My heart is filled with love
This death I see won't make me numb
My heart is filled with love
Sons and daughters, everyone
My heart is filled with love
Raise your voices, spread the news...
Buddhist, Christian, Muslim Jew...
They all teach the golden rule…
Do unto others as you'd have them do...
I will not fear these foreign tongues...
There is a place for everyone...
I cannot make their will my own...
But fear can turn a heart to stone...
I do not know my neighbor's name...
I love that stranger just the same...
Hope is rising from this place...
Divine wisdom, amazing grace...
Men of anger, men of war...
Tell me what you are fighting for…
My heart is filled with love
My heart is filled with love
My heart is filled with love
Hold On (video link) by Heidi Wilson
Hold on, hold on
My dear ones
Here comes the dawn
I Am Not Afraid (mp3 link) by The Peace Poets for the Poor People’s Campaign
I am not afraid
I am not afraid
I will live for liberation
I know why I was made
I Am Willing (mp3 link)
by Holly Near
I am open and I am willing
To be hopeless would seem so strange
It dishonors those who go before us
So lift me up to the light of change.
There is hurting in my family
There is sorrow in my town
There is panic in the nation
There is wailing the whole world round.
May the children see more clearly
May the elders be more wise
May the winds of change caress us
Even though it burns our eyes.
Give me a mighty oak to hold my confusion
Give me a desert to hold my fears
Give me a sunset to hold my wonder
Give me an ocean to hold my tears
Ice Out (YouTube link) by Friend Andrea Szirbik Groft
Ice out (x4)
We will not be silent
We won’t comply
With your acts of violence
We’ll hold the line
We will not be silent
We won’t comply
With your acts of violence
We’ll hold the line
Ice out (x3)
We stand with our neighbors
We will stand together
We stand with our neighbors
We will stand together
We stand with our neighbors
We will stand together
We stand with our neighbors
We will stand together
Ice out (x4)
Power to the People (mp3 link)
by Airika Cross and Malu Brooks of Dream Defenders
Power to the people
Power to the people now (x4)
People! People!
Power! Power! (x3)
Power to the people now! (x4)
River of Love, Freedom & Justice (mp3 link)
by The Love Revolution Street Singers
River of love
Freedom and justice
It flows, it flows
Away we ride
Wise old river
Why resist?
It flo-o-ows
It guides
River of Love (shortened) (mp3 link)
River of love
Away we ride
It flo-o-ows
It guides
Say No (mp3 link) by Black Lives Matter movement
performed by Jonny 5 from Flobots
Say no, we can't be silent while
our friends are gunned down (x2)
I am sleeping giant
There is a riot in my bones (x2)
Step by Step (mp3 link) by Pete Seeger
Step by step, the longest march
Can be won, can be won
Many stones can form an arch
Singly none, singly none
And by union what we will
Can be accomplished still
Drops of water turn a mill
Singly none, singly none
They Tried to Bury Us (mp3 link) tune by JP Villanueva
lyrics attributed to Dinos Christianopolous, contemporary Greek queer poet
They tried, they tried
They tried to bury us
They tried, they tried
They tried to bury us
They didn’t know, they didn’t know
They didn’t know, they didn’t know
That we were seeds
Wade In The Water (mp3 link) lyrics adapted by Joan Baez, 2026
Wade in the water
Wade in the water, people
Wade in the water
God’s gonna trouble the water
Gods gonna trouble the water
Who’s that yonder dressed in red
God’s gonna trouble the water
Just some people from my neighborhood
God’s gonna trouble the water
Who’s that yonder dressed in blue...
Looks like me, looks like you..
Who’s that yonder dressed in white...
They put down the sword and they picked up the fight...
Who’s that yonder dressed in black...
Get back, get back, get back, get back...
We Are Here (mp3 link) by Sabrina Partridge
We are here (echo)
With our voices (echo)
Our love for each other
will carry us through
*Variation: city, neighbors, courage, grief, families, children, hope, demands
We Get There Together (mp3 link) by Joshua H. Blaine
No one is getting left behind this time
No one is getting left behind
No one is getting left behind this time
We get there together or never get there at all
We get there together or never get there at all
We get there together or never get there at all
We get there together or never get there at all
We Keep Us Safe (mp3 link) by Lua Aya and Peace Poets
Who keeps us safe? Who keeps us safe?
We keep us safe! We keep us safe
Our love for our people Our love for our people
Will conquer hate! Will conquer hate
We Shall Not Be Moved (mp3 link)
African American Spiritual
We shall not, we shall not be moved
We shall not, we shall not be moved
Like a tree planted by the water
We shall not, we shall not be moved
We're fighting for our children
We shall not, we shall not be moved
We're fighting for our children
We shall not, we shall not be moved
Like a tree planted by the water
We shall not be moved
In the face of sorrow...
On the way to justice...
Sanctified and holy...
Love is our resistance...
Standing up for freedom...
We Shall Overcome (mp3 link) Adapted from Rev. Tindley's 1901 Hymn "I'll Overcome Someday"
by Lucille Simmons, Zilphia Horton, Pete Seeger, and Guy Carawan and lyrics here inspired by 2018 The Poor People's Campaign arts gathering
We shall overcome
We shall overcome
We shall overcome someday
Oh deep in my heart I do believe
We shall overcome someday
We are not afraid…
We’ll walk hand in hand…
Love will set us free…
in Spanish...
Nosotros venceremos, nosotros venceremos
Nosotros venceremos ahora
O en mi corazón, yo creo
Nosotros venceremos
Who Makes the Future We Do (mp3 link) by Abigail Bergson
Who makes the future? We do, we do
Who makes the future? We do, we do
Look around! Look around! Who’s with you?
Who makes the future? You know we do
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