Abolish Ice (mp3 link) to the tune of When the Saints Go Marching In
Abolish Ice, abolish ice, abolish ice right now right now
We’re gonna love and protect all our neighbors
Abolish ice right now, right now
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Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around (link to mp3 audio of song)
Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around, turn me around, turn me around
Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around
Keep on walkin', keep on talkin'
Gonna build a brand new world
Ain't gonna let no administration turn me around...
Ain't gonna let no bullies turn me around....
Ain't gonna let no authoritarians turn me around...
Bread and Roses performed above by Lucy Dacus (poem by James Oppenheim)
As we go marching, marching, in the beauty of the day,
A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill-lofts gray
Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses,
For the people hear us singing, "Bread and Roses, Bread and Roses."
As we come marching, marching, we battle, too, for men—
For they are women's children and we mother them again.
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes—
Hearts starve as well as bodies: Give us Bread, but give us Roses.
As we go marching, marching, unnumbered women dead
Go crying through our singing their ancient call for Bread;
Small art and love and beauty their trudging spirits knew—
Yes, it is Bread we fight for—but we fight for Roses, too.
As we go marching, marching, we bring the Greater Days—
The rising of the women means the rising of the race.
No more the drudge and idler—ten that toil where one reposes—
But a sharing of life's glories: Bread and Roses, Bread and Roses.
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes—
Hearts starve as well as bodies: Bread and Roses, Bread and Roses.
Courage, My Friend (mp3 link) South African apartheid song
Courage, courage
My friend, my friend
You do not walk alone
We will, we will
Walk with you, walk with you
And sing your spirit home
Hold On by Heidi Wilson
Hold on, hold on
My dear ones
Here comes the dawn
The Dark Times by Alexandra "Ahlay" Blakely
Will there be singing
still in the dark times?
Yes there will still be singing
Yes there will still be singing
Yes there will still be singing
about the dark times
Filled With Love (link to mp3 audio of song)
lyrics by Joyce Andersen
Men of anger, men of war
My heart is filled with love
Tell me what are we fighting for
My heart is filled with love
This death I see won't make me numb
My heart is filled with love
Sons and daughters, everyone
My heart is filled with love
Raise your voices, spread the news...
Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, Muslim Jew...
They all teach the golden rule…
Do unto others as you'd have them do...
I will not fear these foreign tongues...
There is a place for everyone...
I cannot make my will their own...
But fear can turn a heart to stone...
I do not know my neighbor's name...
I love that stranger just the same...
Hope is rising from this place...
Divine wisdom, amazing grace...
Men of anger, men of war...
Tell me what you are fighting for…
My heart is filled with love
My heart is filled with love
My heart is filled with love
I Am Not Afraid (mp3 link)by The Peace Poets for the Poor People’s Campaign
I am not afraid
I am not afraid
I will live for liberation
I know why I was made
I Am Willing (link to mp3 audio of song)
by Holly Near
I am open and I am willing
To be hopeless would seem so strange
It dishonors those who go before us
So lift me up to the light of change.
There is hurting in my family
There is sorrow in my town
There is panic in the nation
There is wailing the whole world round.
May the children see more clearly
May the elders be more wise
May the winds of change caress us
Even though it burns our eyes.
Give me a mighty oak to hold my confusion
Give me a desert to hold my fears
Give me a sunset to hold my wonder
Give me an ocean to hold my tears
Ice Out (YouTube link) by Andrea Groft
Ice out, ice out, ice out, ice out
We will not be silent
We won’t comply
With your acts of violence
We’ll hold the line
We will not be silent
We won’t comply
With your acts of violence
We’ll hold the line
Ice out, ice out, ice out
We stand with our neighbors
We will stand together
We stand with our neighbors
We will stand together
We stand with our neighbors
We will stand together
We stand with our neighbors
We will stand together
Ice out, ice out, ice out, ice out
Power to the People (mp3 link)
by Airika Cross and Malu Brooks of Dream Defenders
||: Power to the people
Power to the people now (sing power!)
Power to the people
Power to the people now (sing power!) :||
People people
Power power
People people
Power power
People people
Power power
Power to the people now!
Power to the people now!
Power to the people now!
Power to the people now!
Say No by Black Lives Matter movement
performed by Jonny 5 from Flobots
Say no, we won't be silent while
our friends are gunned down
I'm a sleeping giant
There is a riot in my bones
We will not be silent
Til all our friends are home
Step by Step (mp3 link) by Pete Seeger
Step by step, the longest march
Can be won, can be won
Many stones can form an arch
Singly none, singly none
And by union what we will
Can be accomplished still
Drops of water turn a mill
Singly none, singly none
They Tried to Bury Us tune by JP Villanueva
lyrics attributed to Dinos Christianopolous, contemporary Greek queer poet
They tried, they tried
They tried to bury us
They tried, they tried
They tried to bury us
They didn’t know, they didn’t know
They didn’t know, they didn’t know
That we were seeds
Wade In The Water lyrics adapted by Joan Baez, 2026
Wade in the water
Wade in the water, people
Wade in the water
God’s gonna trouble the water
Gods gonna trouble the water
Who’s that yonder dressed in red
God’s gonna trouble the water
Just some people from my neighborhood
God’s gonna trouble the water
Who’s that yonder dressed in blue...
Looks like me, looks like you..
Who’s that yonder dressed in white...
They put down the sword and they picked up the fight...
Who’s that yonder dressed in black...
Get back, get back, get back, get back...
We Are Here by Sabrina Partridge
We are here (echo)
With our voices (echo)
Our love for each other
will carry us through
*Variation: city, neighbors, courage, grief, families, children, hope, demands
We Get There Together (mp3 link) by Joshua H. Blaine
No one is getting left behind this time
No one is getting left behind
No one is getting left behind this time
We get there together or never get there at all
We get there together or never get there at all
We get there together or never get there at all
We get there together or never get there at all
We Keep Us Safe by Lua Aya and Peace Poets
Who keeps us safe? Who keeps us safe?
We keep us safe! We keep us safe
Our love for our people Our love for our people
Will conquer hate! Will conquer hate
We Shall Not Be Moved (link to mp3 audio of song)
We shall not, we shall not be moved
We shall not, we shall not be moved
Like a tree planted by the water
We shall not, we shall not be moved
We're fighting for our children
We shall not, we shall not be moved
We're fighting for our children
We shall not, we shall not be moved
Like a tree planted by the water
We shall not be moved
In the face of sorrow...
On the way to justice...
Sanctified and holy...
Love is our resistance...
Standing up for freedom...
We Shall Overcome adapted (from Rev. Charles Albert Tindley's 1901 Hymn "I'll Overcome Someday")
by Lucille Simmons, Zilphia Horton, Pete Seeger, and Guy Carawan and lyrics here inspired by 2018 The Poor People's Campaign arts gathering
We shall overcome
We shall overcome
We shall overcome someday
Oh deep in my heart I do believe
We shall overcome someday
We are not afraid…
We’ll walk hand in hand…
Love will set us free…
in Spanish...
Nosotros venceremos, nosotros venceremos
Nosotros venceremos ahora
O en mi corazón, yo creo
Nosotros venceremos
Who Makes the Future We Do (mp3 link) by Abigail Bergson
Who makes the future? We do, we do
Who makes the future? We do, we do
Look around! Look around! Who’s with you?
Who makes the future? You know we do
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