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Occupy Holiday Gifts

Occupy This AlbumIt’s the eternal question for a gift-giving activist:

How do I give a good present and at the same time do good?

There is always fair trade, organic, vegan chocolates or non-toxic toys.

This year we added a musical choice.  Occupy This Album: a compilation of music by, for and inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement and the 99%.  Lots of good stuff here.  The album artists include: Ani DiFranco, Aeroplane Pageant, Crosby and Nash, Devo, Immortal Technique, Jackson Browne, Joseph Arthur, Lloyd Cole, Loudon Wainwright III, Lucinda Williams, Patti Smith, Stephan Said, Tao Rodriguez Seeger, The Guthrie Family, Third Eye Blind, Thievery Corporation, Tom Morello, Toots And The Maytals, Warren Haynes, Willie Nelson, Yoko Ono, Yo La Tengo & more.

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Teach your children well: Peace Song for 11/30/2011 (catch-up)

“Teach Your Children” by Crosby, Stills and Nash, is (or was) the Peace Song of the Day for November 30th. (We are playing catch-up again!). You can find the lyrics to this song in the Rise Up Singing songbook on page 113.

Video below is the song as performed by David Crosby and Graham Nash at Occupy Wall Street…

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