Where Have All The Protest Songs Gone, Long Time Passing?

Glenda Holste writes a great article on the lack of protest music.

The year 2005 needs songs to guide the feet, to hold to the heart, to articulate whole political ideas that challenge hubris as a foreign policy and plutocracy-enrichment as domestic policy. New songs. Songs that take their heritage seriously, as did the protest songs of the 1960s and 1970s.
Is there not in the mind of a musical artist just one anthem as great as "We Shall Overcome?"

After watching the PBS special, "Get up, Stand up", I have to agree on some points with Holste. But I still think we can resurrect some of the great ones from years ago. Our iPods should be filled with songs like "Ohio", "Imagine", "Give Peace a Chance" - yesterday's songs of protest, peace, hope. But don't forget today's songs like Bright Eyes' "When the President Talks to God."

Unlike Holste I think we don't need one anthem, we need all the anthems of yesterday and today to stop the madness.