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Joseph Arthur, a music activist from Canada, has been inspired by the Occupy movements popping up everywhere, and wrote this song, "We Stand As One".

NOV 11, 2011 - Legendary musical activist Joan Baez swore she would visit the Occupy Wall Street, and now she has kept to her word and has announced she would do a concert today from 1PM to 5PM, the 11/11/11 Veterans Day Concert and the slogan will be, "Honor the Dead, Fight Like Hell for the Living!" Tens of thousands are expected, and speakers will include Marine Sgt. Shamar Thomas who became famous for decrying police brutality against unarmed peaceful protesters, and other speakers. At first she wanted to hold the concert in Zuccotti Park, but officials balked at that, and Foley Square was chosen instead. JTMP will post videos of the concert when they are posted, so check back.

Read more on NY Daily News.

The visit to Zuccotti Park and impromptu acoustic guitar set by the legendary musical activists David Crosby and Graham Nash has generated a lot of buzz in the last 48 hours. Washington Post has a great article about it and music and Occupy here, and several more videos came out from their "concert" at Zuccotti Park.

NOV 9, 2011 - In a recent interview with NewsTimes, musician activist Joan Baez said she and her crew who are in Connecticut for a show were inspired by the Occupy movement adding, "I've been thinking about what is a good song to start with, But I'm not sure what that song will be." She also said she wants to visit Occupy Wall Street at Zuccotti Park but added, "I don't want to go in toting my guitar. This has a very different tone. I am going to want to talk to the people." Watch her sing "Finlandia" below in a clip from Michael Moore's "Slacker Uprising".

Photo Credit: Marcus Santos - NY Daily News

NOV 5, 2011 - David Crosby, a musical activist for over 50 years, briefly visited Occupy Wall Street at Zuccotti Park yesterday. Perhaps like the song of his longtime bandmate Stephen Stills he was thinking, "Stop, Hey, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down!", and he wanted to see what was going down at Zuccotti Park with his own eyes. It looked like a show of support, and the word on the street says he hovered around the edge of the park near the drummers before venturing in and talking several of the peaceful Occupy activists. Check out some more pictures here, and watch him below playing with his bandmates Stills and Nash performing the Buffalo Springfield classic, "For What It's Worth".