Song of the Month

  • Get The Frack Outa Here
    WOOL&GRANT (Ina May Wool and Bev Grant)
    May 1 2012 - 1:44pm

    Gas man came calling just the other day. / Said you lease me your land and I promise we will pay / For what you got underground; we’ll bring it to the top. / But first we gotta drill a hole, make those bubbles pop....

  • The Union Made Me Strong
    George Mann
    Apr 1 2012 - 12:01am

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    When members of Chicago UE Local 1110 were confronted in 2008 with news that their employer Republic Windows was going to close the plant without paying accrued benefits, they occupied their workplace for six days. Their union made them strong.

  • Which Side Are You On?
    Ani DiFranco
    Mar 1 2012 - 12:01am

    are you part of the solution / or are you part of the con? / tell me which side are you on now / which side are you on?

  • Gonna Take Us All
    Jon Fromer
    Feb 1 2012 - 12:01am

    "But the people here at this festival, we're the keepers of the culture of struggle.... This is something really precious that we have to really build and spread.... It's gonna take us all.... And I think cultural workers and singers and artists are able to do that in a way that no one else is."

  • Our Problems Stem From Our Acceptance Of This Filthy Rotten System
    Charlie King, Karen Brandow
    Jan 1 2012 - 12:01am

    Eight years we bravely battled Bush,
    That smug, self-righteous frat boy on a bender.
    We marched against his endless war
    We rallied every race and class and gender....

  • The Whole Wide World Around
    Seattle Labor Chorus
    Dec 1 2011 - 12:01am

    Tom Glazer: "I wrote the ... song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity...."

  • Eight Hour Song
    Bucky Halker
    Nov 1 2011 - 12:01am

    Charles Haynes, a blind musician, wrote the first of many songs that voiced support for the eight-hour day in 1865.

  • I Am An Immigrant
    Jesse Palidofsky
    Oct 1 2011 - 12:01am

    I grew up in a working family, but they didn't talk about it. My grandfather from Poland was a coal miner and then an early UAW member.

  • Can You Hear?
    Terry Sherven
    Sep 1 2011 - 2:25pm

    Seeing the greed of the wealthy, and the demise of the middle class, while destroying right after right of labor, inspired this song.

  • A. Philip Randolph
    David Winters
    Aug 1 2011 - 12:01am

    Penetrating insights on Randolph's character and work.