Songs that provoke and persuade – a new collection in
Hebrew, Arabic, and English, released on CD by SHATIL, the NIF Empowerment and Training Center for Social Change Organizations in Israel.
To mark its 25th anniversary, Shatil is releasing a unique, multi-language CD collection of social protest/social change songs in featuring top-ranked Israeli artists.
Each song takes on a different aspect of Israeli’s current social situation and rouses listeners out of apathy. They protest the link between politics and big money; ambivalent attitudes toward new immigrants, migrant workers, and other “strangers;” indifference about environmental destruction; the rise of the consumer culture; the effects of occupation and war; women’s inequality, and more.
All the featured artists contributed their songs gratis to this collection. All proceeds from sales of the CD will go directly to the New Israel Fund for its support of Israel’s social change organizations.
Tracklist:
- Dan Toren Yahasit Beseder (Relatively Okay)
- Mook E. Medabrim al Shalom (Talking about Peace)
- Devek Beshem HaDemocratia (In the Name of Democracy)
- Vulkan (feat. Chuck and Black Russian) The Aliyah
- BrinkX: Messer (Message)
- Albert Amar: Shakuf (Transparent)
- Chava Alberstein: Vera MeBucharest (Vera from Bucharest)
- Yankele Rotblit: Arba’im Shana (Forty Years)
- Sagol 59: Nikui Rosh (Mankush Remix) (Head Cleaning)
- Teapacks: Hora Nadlanim (Real Estate Hora)
- Ze’ev Tene: Hey, Buba (Hey, Babe)
- DAM: Kan Noldati (Born Here)
- Hadag Nachash: L’hithalek Ba’ir (Share the City)
- Adamai Ensemble: Absurd
- Amal Murkus: La Ahada Yalam (No One Knows)
- Aviv Geffen: Holech Kadima (Keep Walking)
- David Broza: Al Titnu Lahem Rovim (Don’t Give them Guns)
- Peter, Paul and Mary: If I Had a Hammer
- Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune
The album can be purchased here
I would really like to hear some sisters singing about violence against women, cuz y’all got a lot of that going in the ‘free style’ – and it is only one step from ridicule to rape – and the stats on that are going up too.
Seriously, like Linton Kwesi Johnson said, “It not funny.”
Seeing you are all in contact with Michael Franti maybe you need to take another listen to the track, “Language of Violence” from the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy CD.