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Labor & Peace: Music & Resources
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Excellent sites focusing on labor and social issues that all folkies should be familiar with.

Labor & Politics - Artists' Homepages
Links to websites of musicians whose emphasis is on labor issues - from Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Utah Phillips, to contemporary artists like John McCutcheon, Billy Bragg and Anne Feeney.

Clearwater Hudson River Revival
This June festival is known for being long on politics and environmental issues, with local and national activist groups participating in addition to the music and many educational activities.

Detroit LaborFest
Labor festival has featured Steve Earle, Billy Bragg and others.

Liberator - Peace and Politics
This British site for "radical liberals" has a few dozen songs - some classics, many parodies set to familiar tunes. National and world events from a uniquely English perspective.

National Labor Committee
Organization promotes human and workers' rights, fair labor practices and a living wage in the U.S. and abroad.

National Museum of Women's History
Songs, documents, memorabilia of the suffragist movement, 1848-1921. RealAudio versions of "I Will Speak My Mind If I Die For It," "Taxation Tyranny," ""Giving the Ballot to the Mothers," "Yellow Ribbon," and "Suffrage Flag."

Union Songs Best of the Net
Lyrics and MIDI versions of tunes for nearly 100 labor classics - including The Internationale, Solidarity Forever. From traditional ballads to contemporary songwriters. The site also has an impressive array of other labor resources. Created by Mark Gregory.

Union Webring
This webring includes nearly 700 labor related websites. Not much music, but an inexhaustible resource for organizers and musicians in the digital age.

Guthrie, Woody
Lyrics to many of Guthrie's greatest classics including "This Land Is Your Land," "Pastures of Plenty" and "Deportee."

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