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We are honoring World Water Day today, an annual United Nations Observance, that celebrates water and raises awareness of the 2 billion people currently living without access to safe clean water. So we're playing songs about keeping the earth's waters clean and safe for all.

Tonight is our St Patrick's Day show, on Irish rebel songs, protest music against British rule of Ireland.

We're celebrating International Women's Day, March 8th, today with protest songs by diverse women artists.

March First—the first day of Women's History Month— is International Women of Color Day, founded by the National Institute for Women of Color in 1986, so tonight we play a mix of protest songs by diverse Women of Color.

This week, we are playing protest songs inspired by the police murder of Amadou Diallo, a 22-year-old immigrant from Guinea, by four NYPD officers who fired 41 bullets, hitting Diallo 19 times, killing him on February 4th '99, and a year later, February 25th, 2000 a jury acquitted the officers of all charges, sparking nationwide protests.

This week, we are honoring 20 years since the biggest anti-war protest in world history, February 15th, 2003, when over 10 million of people took the streets in over 600 cities across the world against the impending Iraq War on every continent, including 50,000 here in Seattle, with protest songs against the Iraq War.

This week, we are playing protest songs against violence against women in honor of V-Day February 14th, a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls started by playwright and activist V, AKA Eve Ensler.

This week, we are honoring Black History Month, with protest songs by black artists about black history and/or of historical significance, from the 1930s through today.

Tonight we are playing protest songs against the Vietnam war, in honor of the 50th anniversary of The Paris Peace Accords, signed on January 27, 1973, ending direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War. That same day, the Selective Service announced the end of the military draft.

Tonight we are honoring the 50th anniversary of the Roe v Wade decision, guaranteeing the right to abortion on January 22nd 1973 and the Nationwide Bigger Than Roe Women's March this Sunday, the 22nd, with protest songs about reproductive justice.

We're celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday tonight with protest songs about or inspired by Dr. King.

Tonight's show is our top protest songs of the last year, 2022, or what I call molotov hot tracks.

Tonight's show is on my favorite new protest songs released in the last 3 months, Fall 2022, or what I call molotov hot tracks.

Tonight's show is on Christmas themed protest songs or protest themed Christmas songs. Playing Christmas songs that are also protest songs against war, poverty, consumerism and more.

Tonight we are celebrating Bill of Rights Day, the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which were ratified on December 15, 1791, with protest songs critiquing and/or calling for fair enforcement of the Bill of Rights.

Tonight we are honoring Human Rights Day on Saturday December 10th— the day the UN General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with human rights themed protest songs.

Tonight we are honoring the 23rd anniversary of the WTO protests this week with songs protesting the WTO and corporate globalization.

With the Thanksgiving and for Native American Heritage Day this week, tonight's show is on decolonization, indigenous resistance and anti-thanksgiving protest songs.

We are playing protest songs about Watergate tonight for the 50th anniversary this year of the Watergate burglary and wiretapping of the DNC headquarters by members of Nixon's re-election campaign and the 49th anniversary tomorrow of Nixon's infamous "I'm not a crook" speech.

This Election night (or post-election-day if you're listening to our re-broadcast Wednesday on our new timeslot) take a break from listening the election results and listen to some protest songs about elections, voting, voter suppression, campaign finance, and the two party system.