[2006]
Lyrics and Music by Leela Gilday
On the album 'Sedzé'
(The title of the album means "my heart" in the North Slavey language, a group of Athabaskan languages spoken amongst the Dene peoples of Canada in the Northwest Territories)

Empowerment through the sound of drumming, as people "standing in the shelter of ancients / ... are marching to the beat / of one drum, one drum".
This song is about a person’s ability and freedom to make decisions in life, being proud of herself and her roots, being connected to other people to create changes for a better life.

[2017]
Testo e musica: Katherine Paul (alias Black Belt Eagle Scout)
Seconda traccia dell'album 'Mother Of My Children' e terzo single estratto di qual album
Video dal regista Diné e queer Evan James Atwood
Girato sulle terre ancestrali delle tribu Chinook, Chinnuk Wawa, e Tillamook

Gli indiani non muoiono mai! Il titolo di questa poesia-canzone non riprende nessuno dei suoi versi, né letteralmente né come parafrasi. Ha un carattere proverbiale che risponde indirettamente alle domande poste dal testo, ovvero se percepiamo ciò che ci circonda, ciò che ci costituisce, ciò che la vita ci regala, ciò che era lì molto prima di noi e che rimarrà anche dopo. Oppure siamo tra coloro che sprecano e dilapidano questa eredità, separandone? Queste domande sulla percezione del mondo ci chiedono di prendere posizione nella nostra relazione, nella nostra presenza al mondo. Le risposte che diamo sono... (Continues)

Castles Made of Sand -Jimi Hendrix - 1967
Album: Axis: Bold as Love (1967)

"Castles Made of Sand" di Jimi Hendrix non è, nel suo complesso, una canzone esplicitamente contro la guerra. Tuttavia, la sua seconda strofa, che narra del coraggioso giovane nativo americano trucidato nel sonno la notte prima della sua prima battaglia in difesa dei diritti della sua gente, sottolinea la tragica futilità e l’assurdità di ogni guerra.


The Poetry of Jimi Hendrix – “Castles Made of Sand” (2010)
Richard Warren Field's Blog

The song presents three little stories, each followed with the refrain: “And so Castles Made of Sand fall/melts/slips into the sea, eventually.”

The stories might seem to be unrelated — a man crying not to end a relationship with a lady, an Indian brave killed in a surprise attack the night before his first battle, and a crippled young girl wishing to die.

But there is a unifying... (Continues)

(1982)
Album: Harambe (Working Together For Freedom)

‘Harambee’ è un concetto in lingua kiswaili che richiama il senso di comunità ed evoca lo sforzo compiuto insieme ad altre persone, la ‘collaborazione della comunità per una causa comune’. Harambee è una tradizione keniota di eventi di mutua assistenza all’interno delle comunità, che si esprime spesso in eventi di raccolta fondi volti ad attività di sviluppo: viene utilizzato quando è necessario intraprendere un lavoro di utilità comune, come aiutare una famiglia in difficoltà, o costruire una scuola o un edificio di culto.

Ciascuno offre quello che può, contributi in denaro o in natura, ma ‘tutti insieme’, tutti danno e tutti ricevono. Gli eventi di Harambee possono variare da eventi informali della durata di poche ore, in cui gli inviti vengono diffusi tramite passaparola, a eventi formali di più giorni pubblicizzati sui giornali.... (Continues)

[2020]
Song written by Keith Secola
Video produced & directed by Suez Taylor, additional footage by Lance Lindahl,
with Winona Laduke, Tara Houska, Pua Case, Tania Aubid, James Northrup III, Lorna Hanes & other resistors.
'Book of Life' from the 2021 record 'Room, Enough, Time Enough' by David Huckfelt (The Pines)



Dedicated to Indigenous land & water protectors standing up & speaking out for Mother Earth all across Turtle Island.

For information on the StopLine3 resistance in Minnesota opposing the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline bringing dirty tar sands oil across Indigenous lands & the delicate Great Lakes ecosystem, please visit Giniw Collective
And see also the song 'No More Pipeline Blues' in this same section of AWS

2014
Me ne vaje

Death of The Blue Eagle - George Davis - 1966


Death of the Blue Eagle concerns the ending of the short-lived NRA (National Recovery Act 1933- 1935). Apparently this U. S. Government act was vitally important to the mine workers although it was drawn up with all industries in mind. The NRA was based on the principle of industrial self-regulation under government supervision through a system of fair competition codes. It established guidelines for fair prices and wages, and invited employees and employers to sign up under the slogan "We do our part." When the NRA was declared unconstitutional due to monopolistic practices by unscrupulous members, the entire act was repealed. This song presents a popular interpretation: "the eagle (symbol of the NRA) went down shouting 'Hurray for one and all,' but most folks couldn't take it, they had to let it fall.'' The implication is strongly suggested... (Continues)

2011
"Arrivederci Italia".

da "Fandango" (2025)

2025

The song Easter was written in mid-2024, and we first rehearsed it by the beach in Wye River, on the southern coast of Australia, where we spent the weekend together playing new songs and hanging out at the Wye River pub. Easter is a narrative song that tells the story of the Easter Uprising in Dublin in 1916. The lyrics encompasses the memories of those actually involved. The background is that Ireland was tired of British rule, brutal oppression and broken promises of home-rule, and while England were engaged with the First World War, Ireland took its chance at becoming sovereign. The uprising was defeated after a week with the leaders being executed and many others imprisoned, but these brave Irish women and men pathed the way for the republic of Ireland a number of years later. This song continues to tell their stories, and pays respect to their bravery that has impacted the generations after them. May they never be forgotten.

NEW SINGLE: MADIGAN’S WAKE – Easter Uprising (2025)

(2019)
feat. A.R. Rahman

Intro: Khatija and Raheema

La rock band irlandese U2, alla vigilia del primo tour in India, ha pubblicato un nuovo brano: “Ahimsa”, in collaborazione con il compositore A.R. Rahman.

Ahimsa, che in sanscrito significa nonviolenza, celebra la diversità spirituale dell’India e mette insieme l’ethos degli U2 con la bravura del premio Oscar A.R. Rahman, compositore indiano di colonne sonore cinematografiche (The Millionaire e Bombay Dreams) e produttore noto per la sua integrazione di musica classica orientale con musica elettronica, world music e arrangiamenti orchestrali tradizionali.

“Ahimsa richiede coraggio e forza – ha spiegato A.R. Rahman – anche una qualità impermeabile alle armi o al potere. È una missione necessaria per curare il mondo moderno. Ed è incredibile collaborare proprio ora con gli U2, con la loro stupefacente eredità, per rilanciare questo movimento”.

“Lavorare... (Continues)

[2019]
Song By: Okema
Released as a Music Video
Instrumental By: Boogey The Beat
Mixed, Mastered & Directed By: Blu Barry
Elder Speaking: Floyd Red Crow Westerman

A song about both the history the white American colonial state prepared for the natives and the role natives attribute themselves.

"Through our chiefs and our elders we are guided
Divided we fall but together stand united
For our earth and our water we will fight it
Our mother earth is crying and now you cant deny it
We are not the enemy that we're said to be
We're thinking of the generation that's ahead of me
So we'll continue to take the earth back for all of us
White Black or Brown well together we should stand up!"

On his Facebook page Okema writes:

'When I wrote Life of a Native I did a lot of research because I knew that in order to connect with my people I had to go to the darkness that has plagued my... (Continues)