URI Social Justice music series now on CD
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By RICK MASSIMO The University of Rhode Island's Songs of Social Justice series was one of the highlights of the 2006 musical calendar. Performers who had devoted not only their careers but their lives to social change, sharing songs and stories of struggle with an audience composed largely of university students who were getting an education they could never have gotten anywhere else. Now highlights of that series are available on a double-disc set that benefits a scholarship fund at URI. Songs of Social Justice contains music and stories from Utah Phillips, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Tom Paxton, Rosalie Sorrels and more (unfortunately, Public Enemy's Chuck D doesn't make it on) and is available for $25, all of which goes to the Stephen Myles Social Justice Scholarship at URI. A lot of the introductions are nearly as long, or longer, than the songs themselves. This is the real Americana -- the stuff that you don't get in the history books and that you won't be getting anywhere much longer. Phillips has already died since his performance, but you can remember his words about Mother Jones, who led a group of children to President Theodore Roosevelt's front lawn on Long Island in her fight for child-labor laws: "Did Mother Jones write letters to Congress? Organize a petition drive? Go to the Democratic Party? No. ... Roosevelt called Mother Jones the most dangerous woman in America. She was 83 years old." For more information on buying the set, go to www.songsofsocialjustice.com or e-mail URI communication studies professor Stephen Wood at DocWood@mail.uri.edu. Or send a check or money order payable to the URI Foundation Account #5986 to Wood at the Department of Commnication Studies, Davis Hall, 10 Lippitt Rd., Kingston, RI 02881. 
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