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	<title>Voices without Votes &#187; Grenada</title>
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		<title>Caribbean, Latin Music Videos for Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Solana Larsen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[World citizens have created a string of campaign songs in support of American presidential candidate Barack Obama that are so good his campaign ought to compile them and sell them on an album.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>World citizens have created a string of campaign songs in support of American presidential candidate Barack Obama that are so good his campaign ought to compile them and sell them on an album.</p>
<p>Mexican-American Miguel Orozco in California has created a website, <a href="http://www.amigosdeobama.com">Amigos de Obama</a>, that features a downloadable <em>reggaeton</em> tune in MP3 that can even be used as a mobile phone ring tone (<a href="http://www.amigosdeobama.com/lyrics-spa.htm">listen here</a>).</p>
<p>The lyrics in Spanish to the sexy Caribbean beat, go:</p>
<blockquote><p>Listen to me people, it&#39;s time for something different&#8230;<br />
What we need is a new <em>presidente</em><br />
How do you say it? What is he called?<br />
OBAMA! OBAMA! (repeat)<br />
Mexicans, what is his name?<br />
OBAMA! OBAMA!<br />
Puerto Ricans, what is his name?<br />
OBAMA! OBAMA!<br />
Peruvians, what is his name?<br />
OBAMA! OBAMA!</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.amigosdeobama.com">Amigos de Obama</a> also <a href="http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=37617">reaches out</a> to Latino voters in the United States with a music video of Mexican mariachis lauding Obama.</p>
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<p>Colombian singer <a href="http://www.virb.com/useche">Andrés Useche</a> wrote a song for Obama, while he was volunteering with the grassroots group, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/UnitedForObama">United for Obama</a>.</p>
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<p>And finally (via <a href="http://www.theworldwantsobama.org/2008/03/jamaica-reggae-tribute.html">The World Wants Obama</a>), Jamaican reggae artist <a href="http://www.artistsonly.com/cocoa.htm">Cocoa Tea</a> and Trinidadian-Grenadian, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mighty%20Sparrow">The Mighty Sparrow</a> have each produced irresistible new tunes about their presidential candidate of choice.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA9i5qFfmSM&#038;eurl=http://www.solanasaurus.com/?p=352">Cocoa Tea sings</a>: &#8220;‘This is not about class nor color, race nor creed. It’s about the changes, that the Americans need.”</p>
<p>Mighty Sparrow&#39;s lyrics <a href="http://www.theworldwantsobama.org/2008/02/calyspo-legend-mighty-sparrow-sings-for.html">dig deep into policy and personal history</a>. His message: &#8220;The respect of the world that we now lack, If you want it back then, vote Barack!</p>
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		<title>Jammin Ba-rack O-bama</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every time I visit Voices without Votes I am stunned at the amount of engagement and creativity around the world in regards to the US elections.
Take this song from Jamaica for instance - it’s much better than anything that could have come out of the Obama campaign itself (via The World Wants Obama).
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Every time I visit Voices without Votes I am stunned at the amount of engagement and creativity around the world in regards to the US elections.</p>
<p>Take this song from Jamaica for instance - it’s much better than anything that could have come out of the Obama campaign itself (via The World Wants Obama).</p>
<p>    Jamaican reggae star Cocoa Tea has released a new song “We Want Obama”. The lyrics include this line: ‘This is not about class nor color, race nor creed. It’s about the changes, what the Americans need.”</p>
<p>Want more? Here’s a song about Barak Obama from Grenadian-Trinidadian artist, The Mighty Sparrow. These are the first lines of the song (see full lyrices here). This is not light fare, listen to the whole thing:</p>
<p>    The respect of the world that we now lack,<br />
    If you want it back then, vote Barack!<br />
    Because this time we come out to vote!<br />
    Stop the war!<br />
    Stop genocide in Darfur!<br />
    No matter what,<br />
    Get health care for who have not!<br />
    The Foreign Relations Committee,<br />
    Can attest to his tenacity,<br />
    For homeland and job security.</p>
<p>No question US politics could do with a little more music, and I don’t mean this boring old stuff. Who will be the first to sell compilation CD’s of all the songs out there to raise money for the Obama campaign?</p>
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