Protest Song Of The Week: ‘John Wayne Was a Nazi’ By Fucked Up & The Halluci Nation
The song challenged the celebrated actor for his bigotry and role in helping to prop up an oppressive colonial system. It refers to his movies that often portrayed Wayne as a heroic cowboy fighting against the villainous Native Americans.
Protest Song Of The Week: ‘Indignation’ By Divide and Dissolve
Divide and Dissolve is an Australian-based instrumental doom metal duo that features saxophonist and guitarist Takiaya Reed and percussionist Sylvie Nehill. For the female duo, the act of simply inhabiting a prominently white male genre space is political.
Protest Song Of The Week: ‘La Banda Más Chingón en Wyoming’ By No-No Boy Featuring Mariachi Los Broncos
No-No Boy is a multimedia project formed by Julian Saporiti & Erin Aoyama while pursuing their doctorates at Brown University.
Protest Song Of The Week: ‘I Know How It Feels’ By Dropkick Murphys
Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys recorded this song based on unused lyrics from Woody Guthrie for their forthcoming album, “Okemah Rising.”
Protest Song Of The Week: ‘We Are All Prostitutes’ By The Pop Group
Mark Stewart made several contributions to the canon of protest music as part of the pioneering UK
post-punk band The Pop Group, his solo work, and various other projects. He died on
April 19, 2023, at the age of 62, and no cause of death was immediately shared.
Protest Song Of The Week: ‘Mount Meigs’ By Lonnie Holley
Among those who endured the horrors of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children was 73-year-old acclaimed visual artist and avant-garde musician Lonnie Holley, who was arrested when he was 11.
Protest Song Of The Week: ‘We Were Here’ By Aysanabee
The song is about reclamation in the face of “fading memories,” “fleeting stories,” and “disappearing words.” Even though there may be efforts to whitewash history, Aysanabee defiantly declares that “it’s in my blood.”
Protest Song Of The Week: ‘Cop Killer’ By Macy Gray and The California Jet Club
R&B singer Macy Gray and her backing group covered Ice T’s protest song, “Cop Killer,” which was boycotted in 1992 after it was released.
Protest Song Of The Week: ‘Found’ By Fucked Up
Fucked Up’s “Found” chronicles how Indigenous people have been displaced and murdered to build “temples of police and landlords.”
Protest Song(s) Of The Week: Black Belt Eagle Scout
Black Belt Eagle Scout is the alias of Katherine Paul, an indigenous multi-instrumentalist andsinger-songwriter. Her third studio album, “The Land, the Water, the Sky,” will be released onFebruary 10. In a press statement, she declared “I created The Land, the Water, the Sky to record and reflect upon my journey back to my homelands