[2010]
Album: Survival Story
(featuring Tim McIlrath of Rise Against)

[2005]
Lyrics & Music by Jamie Laurie

Jamie Laurie stated that the song "is about the idea that we have so much incredible potential as human beings to be destructive or to be creative." "And it's tragic to me that the appetite for military innovation is endless, but when it comes to taking on a project like ending world hunger, it's seen as outlandish. It's not treated with the same seriousness. [...] at the same time, I knew there were people at that moment who were being bombed by our own country. And I thought that was incredibly powerful." It is the contrast between these "little moments of creativity, these bursts of innovation," and the way these ideas are put to use "to oppress and destroy people" that the singer feels is both "beautiful and tragic at the same time".

Anne Braden (1924-2006) è stata una giornalista e attivista antisegregazionista e antirazzista. Bianca, proveniente da una famiglia della classe media di Louisville, Kentucky, fu fortemente impegnata nel movimento per i diritti civili fin dai primi anni '50.

Testo preso da Lyricwiki, privo degli inserti in cui è la stessa Anne Braden a raccontare la sua vita.

Da Wikipedia:

Anne McCarty Braden (July 28, 1924-March 6, 2006) was an American advocate of racial equality. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, and raised in rigidly-segregated Anniston, Alabama, Braden grew up in a middle class family that accepted southern racial mores whole-heartedly. A devout Episcopalian, Braden was bothered by racial segregation, but never questioned it until her college years at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Virginia. After working on newspapers in Anniston and Birmingham, she returned to Kentucky as a young... (continua)

Dall'album "Fight With Tools"(2007)

Dall'album "Fight With Tools" (2007)