Time for Protest Songs?

A facebook friend asked for names of old-time classic protest songs.  I guess it's that time again, when the "Blowin' in the Wind" and "Joe Hill" and "Fixin' to Die Rag" (wait, I think that's not the right title but you get the idea) type of songs are appropriate for the cultural phenomenon that is occurring in our country.  Phil Ochs, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez.

"Occupy!"  and "We are the 99%" and even "It Gets Better" are hotter than ever these days.  I think facebook has some measure of credit for the broad coverage of these things- for the wide dissemination of massive amounts of emotionally charged messages, for the outrageous not-covered-by-corporate-mainstream-media material.

I know it's getting crazier out there.  The jobs bill is all but dead over ideology (and the Republicans aren't proposing alternatives, just saying NO to everything as usual).  The price of everything is going up and the prospect of future work for some types of self employed people (those of us who earned a good living at our own business in the past but are struggling just to find work these days) is depressing.  Do we really have to get into a full blown depression or a full blown revolution, to get things going again?

The Tea Party came into power because a Black Democrat was elected to the Presidency.  Their cause was never personal, it was always anti-Obama.  It is still going but it is not the majority (just a large faction of the bigoted wing of the Republican Party).

The 99%, however...now THERE is a populist movement.  And it's time to OCCUPY.