Various Artists - Folk The Banks - [Vinyl]

The upcoming Diamond Jubilee weekend is set to be a very special weekend as Occupation Records, a record label for the Occupy movement, releases its first album, Folk the Banks, with album artwork by Jamie Reid - famed for the iconic artwork of the Sex Pistols 'God Save the Queen' released during Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee in 1977. The album features original and exclusive tracks from Ani DiFranco, Billy Bragg, Chris T-T, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, Peggy Seeger, Ryan Harvey and Tao Rodriguez-Seeger. Jamie Reid said: 'It was an honour to be asked to do this artwork for the Occupy movement. I have been involved with doing 'protest' visuals since the early 70's, and I hoped with this image to incorporate ideas from this source, putting them into a modern context within the birth of a whole new form of protest and resistance, against the increasing corruption and corporate greed of current policies and economics. Learn from the past. Live in the present. Look to the future' With all profits from the record label donated to the Occupy movement, other artists on the Folk the Banks album include The Nightwatchman: Tom Morello, Martha Wainright, Anais Mitchell, Show of Hands, King Blues, Leon Rosselson, The Young-uns, Oysterband, Chumbawumba, Jim Moray and Eddie Morton. Tom Morello said: 'The wealthiest CEO's reward themselves with million dollar bonuses while millions are out of work. What can we do about it? We can protest against it, fight back against it, and sing songs that do both'

Various Artists - Folk The Banks - [Vinyl]

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