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See and hear the band perform at VIDEOS and at our video channel on You Tube at www.youtube.com/raykorona.

New Music for Peace

    Bridges of Peace is a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness for peace & love through music and the arts & helping children of war and poverty. Pete Seeger joined with me to write and record a song inspired by the Building Bridges of Peace Toy Drive (now featured on our newest CD, The Safe Thing To Do). In this drive, hundreds of US children donated toys to children in war-torn Iraq. You can now read the lyrics to the song, stream it to hear it through your computer and learn more about this unique organization by visiting its website:

Read Lyrics and Listen to - "Toys for Peace"

Build a Bridge to Peace - One Life at a Time
Visit Bridges of Peace www.bridgepeace.org

Emergency Music! Visit URGENT SONGS for free AUDIO downloads!

    Get our latest emergency political music. You'll find audio versions of songs there ready for you to play or download. Consider it shareware and spread it around. For free videos, go to Videos or visit our video channel at www.youtube.com/raykorona.

COST OF FREEDOM - the Great Book of Peace Activism

   Novelist Mike Palecek, independent publisher Michael Annis and honors student Whitney Trettien have gathered empowering stories from activists and peace groups across the US to create an amazing new book, Cost of Freedom. It’s an anthology of grassroots activism that documents the everyday revolutionary acts of over 75 courageous men and women.

   Cost of Freedom contains the inspiring story of how an organization led by young mothers in Sayreville, NJ, created a peace drive where local children donated toys to children in war torn Iraq and Afghanistan. As you may know, Pete Seeger and I wrote a ballad about their efforts and the lyrics are included in it, too.

   Cost of Freedom is very impressive in its appearance as well as its scope. Taken together, the photos, artwork and writing are truly inspiring.

Get More Info or Order "Cost of Freedom" (scroll down to item on lower left of page)

Matt Jones (Sept 17, 1936 - Mar 30, 2011) was a wonderful singer, songwriter and song leader and a SNCC Field Secretary during the turbulent years of the Civil Rights Movement. He lent his prolific skills to the struggle and put his body on the line during that era and beyond. I interviewed Matt in Dec 1982 for the Pinewoods Newsletter. Read the interview or print it here.
 

Photos of the Peoples’ Voice Café’s 25th Anniversary Celebration:

      With a big thank you to photographers Robert Corwin, Carol Levasseur and Joel Landy, lots of photos of Pete Seeger and many other performers taken at the 25th Anniversary Celebration of Peoples’ Voice Café are now online. Just click here to see them!

2 Special Peace Songs 

Hear Ivice sing Vision of Peace; hear me sing The Power of Love and Light & download peace songs by a number of other performers as well. Visit:  Go to: Bridges of Peace and New Songs for Peace.

    Trade Unions & Child Labor is an outstanding boxed set of seven booklets designed to help combat child labor, recently published in multiple languages by the International Labor Office (ILO). The opening volume features my song, "We Will Have Dignity" from the Working People's Music Tape & CD and a song by Pete Seeger.  The series includes ILO standards, action plans, techniques that work and more.  (Info: Bureau of Workers' Activities-ILO, 4 route des Morillons, CH-1211, Geneva 22, Switzerland; actrav@ilo.org; ILO Child Labor site)

    Links  Let me know if you have a web site with the kinds of musical or activist items you think would be of interest here.  I'd like to see the links section really work as a communications resource.

    Radio Talk (No, not talk radio.)  Several people have asked me what stations they can hear our music on and if it's cool to ask the dj's to play it.  A list of stations we know about is pasted below.  I'm also interested in your ideas of any particular radio people you think might like what we do.  Seems to me it's great to ask dj's that you actually listen to to give our songs a spin.  They usually want to know what their listeners like and it helps get our music out to the world.  It's not cool, however, in a frenetic state of enthusiasm for the music, to play tricks on the radio stations.  For example, if you're in Hawaii, don't call or email a dj in Nashville and request a song (unless, of course, you listen to the show on the internet).   

    Radio Report  Some stations which have or are playing our music include. This is a sampling; sorry if your station isn't on the list, we try to keep it updated:

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