Gavin Brown’s enterprise presents…
“MAY DAY” by LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER

This playlist is dedicated to all the essential workers, healthcare workers, the poor, working-class people of this nation and all around the world, to the uninsured, disabled, detained, to the prisoners, to the sick who can’t get their medication because politicians and pharmaceutical companies would rather line their pockets, to the elderly abandoned in nursing homes, to all the teachers who have died, to the unclaimed bodies being buried in mass graves, to all those who mourn loved ones taken out by this virus, to the farmworkers that fascist capitalists proclaim that this is not your land when history tells us it rightfully is your land — thank you for feeding this nation during this pandemic and ensuing famine, to the homeless and people in the nation who have no clean water access, or access to water in order to wash your hands, to the climate activists, first nations and indigenous people that continue to take a stand with their bodies on the line against fossil fuel companies that keep polluting and contaminating the earth and water thank you. To the 26.5 million U.S. workers that have filed for unemployment, It is never too late for the people to unite and fight for a more equal, just, humane, and sustainable life.

With unwavering Solidarity and Love,
LaToya Ruby Frazier

Click to listen to LaToya Ruby Frazier’s MAY DAY playlist on YouTube…

1. Elizabeth Cotten – Freight Train
2. Pete Seeger – Solidarity Forever
3. Rhiannon Giddens – Shake Sugaree
4. Elizabeth Cotten – Shake Sugaree
5. Paul Robeson – I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night
6. Branford Marsalis – Berta, Berta
7. Skip James – Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues
8. Sam Cooke – Chain Gang
9. Nina Simone – Work Song
10. C.B. And Ten Others with Axes – Rosie (Recorded at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman work camp in 1947)
11. Ed Lewis – I Be So Glad When the Sun Goes Down
12. Gary Clark Jr. – This Land
13. Billy Bragg – Which Side Are You On?
14. Billy Bragg – There is Power in a Union
15. GmacCash – On Strike
16. Jimmy Joe Lee – The Coal Miner Song
17. Gil Scott-Heron – Three Miles Down
18. Sweet Honey in the Rock – More Than a Pay Check
19. Big Bill Broonzy – Black, Brown and White
20. Lightnin’ Hopkins – It’s A Sin to Be Rich, It’s A Low-Down Shame to Be Poor
21. Almanac Singers – I Don’t Want Your Millions, Mister
22. Almanac Singers – Roll the Union On
23. Joe Glazer – Union Buster
24. Dorsey Dixon – Babies in the Mill
25. Pete Seeger – Eight Hour Day
26. Ross Altman – Haymarket Square
27. Bobbie McGee – Ballad of a Working Mother
28. Pete Seeger – Homestead Strike Song
29. Billy Bragg, Mike & Ruthy Merenda, Dar Williams and New York City Labor Chorus – Union Maid
30. Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard – Working Girl Blues
31. Ben Grosscup – Union Nurse
32. Jasiri X – People Over Profits
33. Barbara Dane – Unemployment Compensation Blues
34. Billy Joel – Allentown
35. Dolly Parton – 9 to 5
36. Bruce Springsteen – Youngstown
37. Marlene Dietrich – Sag mir wo die Blumen sind (Tell me where the flowers are)
38. Bruce Springsteen – Factory
39. Joan Baez – Bread and Roses
40. Look for the Union Label television ad featuring members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union
41. John Lennon and Plastic Ono Band – Working Class Hero
42. Green Day – Working Class Hero
43. Strawbs – Part of the Union
44. The Kinks – Get Back in the Line
45. Prince & The New Power Generation – Money Don’t Matter 2 Night
46. Nina Simone – Backlash Blues
47. John Lee Hooker – Hard Times
48. The Stylistics – People Make the World Go Round
49. Joe Glazer – Farm Workers’ Song
50. 1960s Farm Worker Protests and Strikes
51. Pete Seeger – The Farmer is the Man
52. Joan Baez – De Colores
53. Woody Guthrie – Deportee (Plane Crash at Los Gatos)
54. Teatro Campesino – El Picket Sign
55. Los Perros del Pueblo Nuevo – Corrido de Cesar Chavez
56. Los Lobos – Corrido De Dolores Huerta #39
57. Pete Seeger – This Land is Your Land
58. Taboo – Stand Up / Stand N Rock #NoDAPL
59. Amber Hasan – NO FILTER
60. Georgia Anne Muldrow – New Orleans
61. Georgia Anne Muldrow – Roses Pt. 2
62. Jimi Hendrix – The Star-Spangled Banner
63. Joan Baez – Forever Young (Bob Dylan cover)
64. Woody Guthrie – All You Fascists
65. Tracy Chapman – Talkin’ Bout a Revolution