Words and music by Sara Thomsen

Sara Thomsen's song, "Is It For Freedom," won a top ten finalist award in the 2001 national Bringing Music to Life Songwriting Contest created by Noel Paul Stookey (of Peter, Paul & Mary) to recognize songs of sociopolitical concern. The song was written in protest of the sanctions against the people of Iraq imposed throughout the 1990s and that continued into the current decade. More recently it has regularily been played on the Democracy Now radio program with host Amy Goodman in light of the current war waged against Iraq.