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Protest Tunes
- Every week on Wed at 9:00 PM
Music
With DJ General Strike
Protest Tunes hosted by Lambert Rochfort aka General Strike, a weekly collection of music from all genres and eras sharing a theme relevant to current news, events, and protests.

Mar 22, 2023 9:00 PM β 11:00 PM
With DJ General Strike
World Water Day
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.
Mar 15, 2023 9:00 PM β 11:00 PM
With DJ General Strike
St Patrick's Day
Tonight is our St Patrick's Day show, on Irish rebel songs, protest music against British rule of Ireland.
Mar 8, 2023 9:00 PM β 11:00 PM
With DJ General Strike
International Women's Day
We're celebrating International Women's Day, March 8th, today with protest songs by diverse women artists.
Mar 1, 2023 9:00 PM β 11:00 PM
With DJ General Strike
Women of Color Day
March Firstβthe first day of Women's History Monthβ 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.
Feb 22, 2023 9:00 PM β 11:00 PM
With DJ General Strike
Amadou Diallo
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.
Feb 15, 2023 9:00 PM β 11:00 PM
With DJ General Strike
2/15/03 Anti-War Protests 20th Anniversary
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.
Feb 8, 2023 9:00 PM β 11:00 PM
With DJ General Strike
V-Day (Violence Against Women)
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.
Feb 1, 2023 9:00 PM β 11:00 PM
With DJ General Strike
Black History Month
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.
Jan 25, 2023 9:00 PM β 11:00 PM
With DJ General Strike
Vietnam War
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.
Jan 18, 2023 9:00 PM β 11:00 PM
With DJ General Strike
Roe 50th Anniversary: Reproductive Justice
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.
Jan 11, 2023 9:00 PM β 11:00 PM
With DJ General Strike
MLK Day
We're celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday tonight with protest songs about or inspired by Dr. King.
Jan 4, 2023 9:00 PM β 11:00 PM
With DJ General Strike
Top Protest Songs of 2022
Tonight's show is our top protest songs of the last year, 2022, or what I call molotov hot tracks.
Dec 28, 2022 9:00 PM β 11:00 PM
With DJ General Strike
Top Protest Songs This Fall
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.
Dec 21, 2022 9:00 PM β 11:00 PM
With DJ General Strike
Christmas Protest Songs
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.
Dec 14, 2022 9:00 PM β 11:00 PM
With DJ General Strike
Bill of Rights Day
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.
Dec 7, 2022 9:00 PM β 11:00 PM
With DJ General Strike
Human Rights Day
Tonight we are honoring Human Rights Day on Saturday December 10thβ the day the UN General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with human rights themed protest songs.
Nov 30, 2022 9:00 PM β 11:00 PM
With DJ General Strike
WTO Protest Anniversary
Tonight we are honoring the 23rd anniversary of the WTO protests this week with songs protesting the WTO and corporate globalization.
Nov 23, 2022 9:00 PM β 11:00 PM
With DJ General Strike
Thanksgiving/Native American Heritage Day
With the Thanksgiving and for Native American Heritage Day this week, tonight's show is on decolonization, indigenous resistance and anti-thanksgiving protest songs.
Nov 16, 2022 9:00 PM β 11:00 PM
With DJ General Strike
Watergate Anniversary
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.
Nov 9, 2022 9:00 PM β 11:00 PM
With DJ General Strike
Election Day
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.