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songwriting for social change, solidarity, and sustainability

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    • Creatures On the Move
      • The Fish Song
      • The Bird Song
      • The Frog Song
      • The Wolf Song
      • The Butterfly Song
      • The Whale Song
      • The Snail Song
      • The Turtle Song
      • The Cow Song
      • The Puffin Song
      • The Child Song
    • Mondays On the Move
    • On the Move (the book)
    • Migration Songs
      • Never give up
      • The mountain and me
      • I’ll meet you there
      • Side by side [We are alive]
      • I want a peaceful life
      • Zindgi Sakhta [Life is hard]
      • Live free
      • The sun will come again
      • Let’s dance in the rain
      • Laugh at life, and Life laughs back
      • I am the change
      • Love
      • Break the code
      • I am a word
      • Free again
      • Remember Rose
      • The Domes of Damascus
      • Who you love is who you are
      • If only we hope
      • Don’t wait, create
      • A Song for Mohanad
      • There is a day
      • Free [Nobody asking me]
      • Nataghiar [Let’s change]
      • The Pigeon Song
      • My lovely, my lovely [Habibi, habibi]
      • Soyons Unis [Ce n’est que la vie]
      • When the whole world is gone
      • Just be happy [The meaning of life]
      • I could be you, you could be me
      • Thank you for coming
      • Let the silence speak
      • We are all human
      • The hand that hurts can also heal
      • I want to live
      • Yala Yala Yala [Let’s go!]
      • Feel free
      • Open the Borders
      • Let me be free [Free like a smile]
      • What gives you hope
      • We are the nomads
      • You are always here with me
      • Give me a chance
      • She will walk again
      • A wild idea
      • When you cross the border
      • Waiting words
    • New Bedford Whaling
      • Mansions Divine
      • These are not just names
      • We would all walk home
    • The Workers Remember
      • No fans [Celia’s song]
      • You are the lucky one
      • Four pennies
      • I was a mill worker
      • The ghosts of Lowell
      • Rainy day song
      • I would do it all again
    • A Month of Music
      • Monsters
      • A song for Zana
      • City to remember
      • The stones of Lowell canals
      • Long distance song
      • We’d be happy
      • Saturn’s return
      • Pick a side
    • Songs for Children (and your inner child)
      • Life outside my house is strange and crazy
      • Wake up, Vytha
      • Bria’s song [Penguins make me happy]
      • Imagine your city
      • Fantastic flag song
    • Family Love Loss Memoir
      • I need to feel this place [Liza’s song]
      • Valentine’s Day song
      • A song of survival
      • What a child would do
      • I can’t believe I made it there
      • To spend my life with you
      • Because she isn’t me
      • This house feels like a home
      • Born to fly
      • Shadow in the dark
      • Alaska
      • In peace with myself
      • Happy birthday Kamran
    • Marieke Slovin: Life in Story and Song
      • The preschool song
      • Nowhere is home
      • Free in the moment
      • Canyon song
      • Size doesn’t matter
      • Snow angels
      • I can only be myself
      • The way that they do
      • What do you need to be happy?
      • Creating me
  • Migration and Movement Poetry
    • Sarah Reader Harris
      • Migration
      • Another Country
      • 75 inspirerende plaatsen in Brussel
    • Aziz Lamarti
    • Mimi Kunz
    • Daisy Tsvete
    • Movement and Migration Poetry Around the World

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Speak like you are a Fortune 500 Company, but don’t quit your day job just yet

Don’t call us, we’ll call you. It’s not you, it’s me. These clichés were ringing in the back of my mind during one of our recent evening sessions at the Sandbox. There were two gentlemen seated at the front of the room. They were entrerpreneurs with startup businesses in the Boston area. They each introduced…

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