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JAN 5, 2012 - Activist band, "The Employees", have released a song called 'Part of the 99", inspired by the Occupy movement. They say on their YouTube channel, "The Employees are at it again, OCCUPYING your EARDRUMS with this song, Part of the 99, inspired by the Occupy movement. The band has also been hard at work finishing up their new concept album, UNEMPLOYED. While rocking your socks off, this album focuses on serious issues in todays world like government, unemployment, the environment, the economy, corruption, and wanting to escape it all! Who else better to know about these issues than THE EMPLOYEES in it!" Check out their Facebook page here, and watch the video below.

In an interview with SuicideGirlsBlog.com, Anti-Flag guitarist Justin Sane says the Occupy movement "gives me a lot of hope."  He adds, "I think in America there’s a sense of fairness – that everybody has an opportunity to get ahead and that’s based on an assumption that there’s a level playing field that we all start out on. Now people are looking around and seeing that there isn’t a level playing field, things are vastly out of balance, and people with a lot of money are actually breaking the law in many cases and doing things that should be illegal to make more money – all this while the rest of us are just trying to scrape by. I think Americans are pretty fair minded – most people are just saying that they want a level playing field and that’s why we see a lot of protests popping up recently."

To read the whole interview check out SuicideGirlsBlog.com.

DEC 21 - Al Jourgensen and Ministry have revealed the artwork for their new album "Relapse" which will feature a modern day ballad in support of the Occupy movement called "99 Percenters". In an interview with Revolver Mag, Al said, “Putting out this song is the least I could do. We wanted to fly to New York and protest and get arrested and pepper sprayed. But we can’t do it because I got a Christmas deadline on this album. But I’m with ‘em in spirit so the least I could do is give them a chant-along song. I’m going, Hey man, here’s your song. All you gotta do is chant the chorus.”  The chorus that goes, "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,99 Percent!" was inspired by the "1,2,3 What are we fightin' for!" in Country Joe's "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag" protest song from the 1960s. The song will be available on iTunes on December 23rd. Below you can watch a exclusive JTMP video of Al and Ministry in Washington, DC in October of 2004, right before the 2004 presidential election.

See the new album artwork and read the interview on Revolver here.

DEC 14, 2011 - Citing protesting as "the defining trope of our times", Time magazine has named "The Protester" as their "Person of the Year". They state that after 1989 "street protests looked like pointless emotional sideshows — obsolete, quaint, the equivalent of cavalry to mid-20th-century war." But then came the Arab Spring and the young people uprising in Tunisia, then Egypt, and now has spread throughout the Middle East in Yemen, Lebanon and Syria. Even here at home, the Occupy Movement that sprang up in Zuccotti Park has left an indelible mark on history.

JTMP has recognized the various protests around the world on our Social Media Activist Central and our Occupy Music pages (see tabs above). To check out the full article, read the Time Magazine article here.

Justice Through Music is all about music and activism, and on this page you will find all the best Occupy Music. If you have or know of any Occupy Music that the world needs to see, let us know and we will try and get it posted. Rock Your Rights!

Op_Critical: For What It's Worth

Op_Critical: Anonymous

When The Dictator Ran Away - David Rovics

This Playground Is Run By Bullies - David Rovics

FILM THE POLICE - B. Dolan feat. Toki Wright, Jasiri X, Buddy Peace, Sage Francis

I Am a Patriot - Jackson Browne

Whose Side Are You On? - Jackson Browne and Dawes

Occupy Broadway

Trickle Down (Explicit Version) - Sintex Era

Third Eye Blind - If There Ever Was A Time

It's A Liberty Walk! - Miley Cyrus Rock Mafia

Occupy Wall Street Anthem - Bruce Springsteen

We Are The Many - Makana

We Stand As One - Joseph Arthur

Gogol Bordello

Crosby and Nash

Who's The Man? - MK Ultra

We Are The 99 - Rick Harris

The Bottom 99 - Rhiannon Giddens

The Economy is Suffering - Justin Sane from Anti-Flag

Occupy (We The 99) - Jasiri X