You need a good soundtrack to a have a great cinematic war, that's the problem with these modern wars - crap music, crap locations, and not enough people smoking dope through a gun barrel or flying helicopters whilst tripping their tits off.
So the last playlists wasn't really for me. Only song I can say I really liked is the Regina Spektar one. Good thing I picked Springsteen and not POD though, or that really wouldn't have fit in.
Raimon was a Catalan protest singer during the Franco epoch in Spain (although he is still singing these days). He managed both to sing in Catalan and sing protest songs and somehow didn't wind up in prison or worse. This song is one of his famous ones, inspired by the work of a Catalan poet who had lived through the civil war, and its words seem fairly relevant today. Especially today, maybe.
Lyrics in English
Let's Say No
Now that we’re together
I’ll tell you what you and I know
And often forget:
We’ve seen how fear
Was the law for everybody.
We’ve seen how blood
- Which begets only blood -
Was the law of the world.
No, I say, “No”,
Let’s say, “No”:
We do not belong to that world.
We’ve seen how hunger
Was the workers’ bread,
We’ve seen how they hushed
Men full of reason.
No, I say, “No”,
Let’s say, “No”:
We do not belong to that world.
That version isn't on Spotify so this is a link to a live version from the Olympia in Paris in 1966. A lot of his music was being censored in Spain at the time so he performed a lot in France. https://open.spotify.com/track/1XNGud4wf1VaDGvmfYEUbO
Right then. This isn't a protest song in the traditional sense, so I'm half expecting it to get vetoed, but I'll try and make the case...
Why We Build The Wall by Anais Mitchell (sung by Greg Brown) is from a concept album based around Orpheus and Euridyce. Hades is reimagined as a dictator whose people labour continuously to maintain the walls that keep out the outside world. So, superficially the song is about a God of the Underworld addressing his people. However the subtext is reasonably obvious (I was going to write "really obvious" until I read some of the Youtube comments beneath it). I'll stop over-explaining and let you decide for yourselves.
So yeah, if you want something more explicitly "protesty", I'm happy to pick something else. But if we're choosing Protest songs in light of Trump, this seems sadly appropriate...