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Song Of The Day: I Believe We Will Win By Valerie Orth (Video)

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Images of protests from literally around the whole world fill the screen in the new lyric video for I Believe We Will Win by Valerie Orth. People can be seen protesting the murder of Marielle Franco in Brazil, protesting Chinese authoritarian government officials in Hong Kong and teachers protesting the lack of empathy from law makers in the Unites States.

Besides the music, Valerie is an educator and an activist who co-leads Beats By Girlz as well as producing the League Of Badass Women podcast. According to an article from 2010 Valerie’s background was in activism before music: “She campaigned for a women’s studies department at Tufts, organized singer-songwriter benefits, and attended rallies for fair trade and environmental justice. After graduating, Orth took a job with Green Core, then moved to San Francisco and became a labor organizer for Global Exchange. She challenged corporate behemoths like Proctor & Gamble, joined the fight for fair-trade coffee, and traveled to China to consolidate worker support. She led the effort to pass San Francisco’s anti-sweatshop law in 2005.”

For this song Valerie gathered 30 artists and activists to help chant the words “I belive we will win” in 15 languages. I Believe We Will Win is part of Valerie’s upcoming album Rabbit Hole which will be released on December 4th, 2020.

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This Week’s Online Events: Female Vocalists In Iran And Music And Protest

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This Thursday, 12th of November, there are two online events that possibly can interest Shouts’ readers. The first event is a talk given by Nahid Siamdoust, as part of her fellowship at Harvard’s Women’s Studies in Religion Program. She will talk about “the ban on women’s solo vocals in Iran.”

“Her research project, “Women Singing: The Regulation of Solo Female Vocals in Iran’s Hypermediated Public Sphere,” investigates whether processes occurring in Iran’s hypermediated public sphere can drive the Islamic Republic to redefine its rulings.”

This event starts at 3:00 pm EST (8:00 pm GMT). This event is supposed to last 1 hour.

Register here: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_i0Iurp5WQJmv9PUIhQaP_w

Musicians On The Frontlines is a series of panel discussions, community events and concerts and this Thursday the organisers will be joined by interesting musicians from different parts of the globe:

“Allan Ballinger and Kenneth Long will be joined by Aaron Jaffaris and Byron Au Yong, creators of the Activist Songbook, and Ameen Mokdad, musician activist in Baghdad, Iraq. Together they will discuss music and protest. ​Read about the Activist Songbook here. Read about the work of Ameen Mokdad here.“

This event starts at 4:00 pm EST (9:00 pm GMT).

Register here: https://www.cuatropuntos.org/musicpolitics2020panel.html

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Music Video Of The Day: 45 By The Last Kiss Goodnight

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The alt rock band Last Kiss Goodnight have released a new single called ’45’. With this new release the band tries to highlight how things have changed politically in the U.S. since Trump came into power.

According to their press release ’45’ is not just about the incumbent U.S. president: “At a time when the climate in the United States is overcast by division, we feel that a song and video depicting the direction of our country is appropriate,” said lead singer Ray Patrick. “It’s about much more than our current President. It is about how deeply divided America feels in its current state of the relentless propaganda machine that is social media. We Americans are continuously spoon-fed visual chaos by the media and have developed an addiction to the binary methods in which we have grown accustomed.”

The video can also be seen on the band’s Vimeo page: https://bit.ly/35QCpK0

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