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Pages in category "Trade union songs" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 1913 Massacre; A.
The 1990s also saw a sizable movement of pro-women's rights protest songs from many musical genres as part of the Third-wave feminism movement. Ani DiFranco was at the forefront of this movement, protesting sexism, sexual abuse, homophobia, reproductive rights as well as racism, poverty, and war.
Pages in category "Songs about labor" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Ralph Chaplin began writing "Solidarity Forever" in 1913, while he was working as a journalist covering the Paint Creek–Cabin Creek strike of 1912 in Kanawha County, West Virginia, having been inspired by the resolve and high spirits of the striking miners and their families who had endured the violent strike (which killed around 50 people on both sides) and had been living for a year in tents.
Sarah Lee Guthrie, daughter of Arlo Guthrie and granddaughter of Woody Guthrie, performed a version of the song with new lyrics at a Bernie Sanders rally in 2020. [9] The words and melody of the refrain were the basis of the song, "Sag mir wo du stehst," one of the most well-known songs of the GDR's song movement of the late 1960s. It was ...
The Little Red Songbook (1909), also known as I.W.W. Songs or Songs of the Industrial Workers of the World, subtitled (in some editions) Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent, is a compilation of tunes, hymns, and songs used by the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) to help build morale, promote solidarity, and lift the spirits of the working-class during the Labor Movement.
But after last summer’s SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, and with video game artists on strike now, artists are suddenly the vanguard of the U.S. labor movement, marching in parades alongside ...
Originally sung by farm workers to protest harsh working conditions, it was adapted by Italian partisans as an anti-fascist song, and is widely used by anti-fascists today. Bandiera Rossa: Carlo Tuzzi 1908 Italy: Uses a traditional folk melody. Primarily known as a song of the Italian labor movement. Fischia il vento: Matvei Blanter and Felice ...