Artist	Song
Beastie Boys	Right Right Now Now
from To the 5 Boroughs (2004)
Morrissey	America Is Not the World
from You Are the Quarry (2009)
Jackson Browne	For America
from Lives In the Balance (2008)
Curtis Mayfield	(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below We're All Going to Go
from Curtis (2004)
Public Enemy	Son of a Bush
from Fight the Power - Greatest Hits Live (2007)
Ashanti, Brandy, Claudette Ortiz, Eve, Fabolous, Faith Evans, Floetry, Jadakiss, Jaheim, Jamie Foxx, Mary J. Blige, Missy Elliott, Monica, Musiq Soulchild & Wyclef Jean	Wake Up Everybody
from Wake Up Everybody (Bedford Remix) - Single (2004)
Sleater-Kinney	Combat Rock
from One Beat (2002)
Pete Seeger	We Shall Overcome
from Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits (1987)
A Perfect Circle	Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums
from Emotive (2004)
Lucinda Williams	American Dream
from World Without Tears (2003)
Jewel	America
from 0304 (2003)
The Impressions	This Is My Country
from This Is My Country (2006)
Saul Williams, Coldcut, DJ Spooky & DJ Goo	The Pledge of Resistance
from Not In My Name (2002)
Nine Inch Nails	The Hand That Feeds
from With Teeth (2005)
Prince	Sign 'O' the Times
from Sign 'O' the Times (2007)
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy	Satanic Reverses
from Hypocrisy Is the Greatest Luxury (1992)
K'naan	Wavin' Flag
from Troubadour (2010)
Sarah McLachlan	World On Fire
from Afterglow (2003)
Country Joe & The Fish	I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag
from The Life and Time of Country Joe and the Fish - From Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock (1991)
k.d. lang	Acquiesce
from All You Can Eat (2008)
Thievery Corporation	The State of the Union
from The Richest Man In Babylon (2003)
Bill Withers	I Can't Write Left-Handed
from Bill Withers - Live At Carnegie Hall (1997)
Bad Religion	The Empire Strikes First
from The Empire Strikes First (2005)
Lifesavas	Resist
from Spirit In Stone (2003)
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings	This Land Is Your Land
from Naturally (2006)

Comment:

Sooner or later, all our complaints wind up in the nation's Capitol. But "The State of the Union" isn't your typical speech [i]from[/i] the government, as Thievery Corporation delivers its demands, wrapped in down-tempo dub-hop, [i]to[/i] the politicians. With the Vietnam War winding down, Bill Withers launched his own offensive in the soul-scarred sorrow of "I Can't Write Left-Handed (Live)," as a dying vet asks a friend to write a letter that might help keep his brother from suffering the same fate. And it's only fitting that the granddaddy of all modern protest songs, "We Shall Overcome," is performed here by the granddaddy of all protest [i]singers[/i] — Pete Seeger, who, in his ninth decade, is [i]still[/i] raising his voice on topics ranging from the ecology to the economy to equality.

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