Thursday, April 7, 2011

Social Justice Songs: Imagining Peace & The Great Leap Forward

Performing at the Nobel Peace Prize awards ceremony for Muhammed Yunis (Founder of The Grameen Bank and so much of the micro-finance movement) makes this Cat Stevens / Yusuf performance especially poignant:


And in a similar vein - imagining future possibilities - is Billy Bragg's classic Waiting for the Great Leap Forward (from the Henry Rollins show, no less):  

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