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Global A Go-Go presents the Emma Goldman Memorial Dance Party.  Click "Read More" to read all about it …

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Image credit: Ben Rubin (http://www.justseeds.org/celebrate_peoples_history/02emmag.html)

June 27th is the 141st anniversary of Emma Goldman's birth.  Goldman, probably America's best-known anarchist, is famous for a great quote that she never actually said: "If I can't dance, it's not my revolution."  (The actual quote, from her 1931 autbiography Living My Life, can be found near the end of this article: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman.  The one-liner is a lot catchier, but it is a pretty good synopsis of what she actually wrote.)

In Emma's honor, I've put together a two-hour show that I think she'd approve of — music that's both highly political and makes you want to get up and dance.  Here's the tracklist:

Artist (Country) | Song | Recording | Label | Year

Oliver Lake (USA) | Separation | Matador Of 1st & 1st | Passin' Thru | 1996
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros (UK) | Global A Go-Go | Global A Go-Go | Hellcat | 2001

Chumbawamba (UK) | Jacob's Ladder (Not In My Name) | Readymades And Then Some | Mutt | 2003
Ofra Haza (Israel) feat Iggy Pop (USA) | Daw Da Hiya | Kirya | Shanachie | 1992
Idir (Algeria) & Manu Chao (France-Spain) | A Tulawin (An Algerian Woman Standing) | Identites | Sony | 1999
Rachid Taha (Algeria-France) | Rock El Casbah | Tekitoi | Wrasse | 2004

Peyoti For President (UK) | We The People | Rising Tide Of Conformity | Sordid Soup | 2009
Hip Hop Hoodios (USA) | Viva La Guantanamera | Carne Masada | Jazzheads | 2009
K'Naan (Somalia-Canada) feat Chubb Rock (USA) | ABCs | Troubadour | A&M | 2009

Comrade Fatso & Chabvondoka (Zimbabwe) | Like A Riot Needs A Petrol Bomb | House Of Hunger | self-released | 2008
Johnny Clegg & Savuka (South Africa) | Tough Enough | Heat, Dust & Dreams | Capitol | 1993
Gogol Bordello (USA) | Immigraniada (We Comin' Rougher) | Trans-Continental Hustle | American | 2010 *NEW*

Peter Tosh (Jamaica) | Equal Rights | Equal Rights | Columbia | 1977
Burning Spear (Jamaica) | Slavery Days | Marcus Garvey | Island | 1975
Linton Kwesi Johnson (UK) | Forces Of Vicktry | Forces Of Victory | Island | 1979

The Clash (UK) | Know Your Rights | Combat Rock | Epic | 1982
Michael Franti & Spearhead (USA) | Soundsystem | All Rebel Rockers | Anti | 2008
Balkan Beat Box (USA) | War Again | Blue Eyed Black Boy | Nat Geo Music | 2010 *NEW*

Ikwunga (Nigeria) | Di Bombs | Calabash: Afrobeat Poems By Ikwunga | Ribisi Hut | 2004
Antibalas (USA) | Big Man | Who Is This America? | Ropeadope | 2004

Dead Prez (USA), Jorge Ben Jor (Brazil), Talib Kweli (USA), Bilal (USA) & Positive Force (Nigeria) | Shuffering And Shmiling | Red Hot + Riot | MCA | 2002