Up the Rebels: Songs of Resistance session 3

The third in my series of musical broadcasts about the history of resistance in its many forms.

In this session I share songs and thoughts exploring:

The mostly Irish soldiers who left the US Army and joined the Mexican Army during the Mexican-American War

The gold diggers' rebellion in Ballarat, Australia in 1854

The syndicalists' occupation of the Danish Stock Exchange in Copenhagen in 1918

The Japanese diplomat who saved the lives of thousands of Polish Jews during WWII

The My Lai Massacre in Vietnam in 1968, and helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson's stand in defense of the survivors

The explosive beginnings of the Icelandic environmental movement in 1970

The notion that music can change the world