Music

"Yes We Can" Obama Music Video

Submitted by Aaron Pava on February 2, 2008 - 8:31pm.

Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am and director Jesse Dylan, Bob Dylan's son created this "song" - essentially written by Barack Obama. The lyrics are adapted from his "Yes We Can" speech after the New Hampshire primary. "Yes We Can" was inspired by Cesar Chavez's motto for a United Farm Workers hunger strike in 1972.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjXyqcx-mYY

(sorry, no embed link on the video)

American Pie's Poetic Symbolism

Submitted by Aaron Pava on August 22, 2007 - 7:10pm.

Don McLean's American Pie is a classic tune filled with poetic symbolism about turbulent times...

But I bet you never just how much poetry it contains...

(Starts slow... gets better. Hang on for it.)

DefectiveByDesign.org Scores a Big Victory with Apple EMI Announcement

Submitted by GregoryHeller on April 2, 2007 - 8:17am.

CivicActions has been working with the Free Software Foundation on the DefectiveByDesign campaign since last May. In that time we have seen a significant shift in the way DRM is talked about in the news media and an increasing awareness of DRM among music fans and the general public.