http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...
by Saul Williams for NPR Music
NPR.org, April 3, 2009 - Political music is most commonly thought of in terms of lyricism: artists saying something. Yet in my mind, the most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it. These artists pay particular attention to the soundscapes they shape to suit their words, in some cases even creating new categories of genre to describe the sound and the political fervor within it.

These are five of my favorite "political" songs; those in which the music that houses the lyrics excites me the most.






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you can listen to the songs at the npr page linked above

Any other suggestions for the top five list? for me - Calinfornia, Uber Alles remix by the Dead Kennedys / War Pigs by Black Sabbath / all of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger's cannon.

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The Plum LineGreg Sargent's blog
Howard Dean To Announce Major New Campaign On Health Care Reform

Looks like Howard Dean is well on his way to finding a post-DNC niche, and he won’t be needing the Obama administration to find it for him.

On a conference call with supporters later today, Dean will make a surprise announcement, unveiling a major new health care campaign that will gear up his political operation to pressure the White House and Congress to preserve a public insurance option as part of health care reform, I’m told.

The campaign will be called “Stand With Dr. Dean,” and its immediate goal is to build up a membership of a quarter million in the next few months, relying on the million-strong email list of Democracy for America, Dean’s political operation. The eventual goal is to organize and door-knock to build support for the public insurance option in Congressional districts across the country, DFA executive director Arshad Hasan tells me.

Supporters of Dean — a former doctor who has been looking for a meaningful way of impacting the coming health care reform push — were furious with Obama aides for not giving Dean a health care-related spot in the administration. This new project to push Obama and Congress towards a public option is Dean’s post-DNC solution, and his political operation could have a real impact on the coming health care debate.
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He is the man!

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He knew fascism when he saw it.

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the gas tax holiday is a joke

sad, scary stuff
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/364800...
Good God!

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