No Name-Calling Week is a program aimed at elementary and secondary school students to promote acceptance and understanding of the differences among us.  Now in its eighth year, the program’s stated goal is to “end name-calling of all kinds.”

We support this effort with the following playlist of songs urging kindness, love and mutual respect:

1. Don’t Laugh At Me Mark Wills; Wish You Were Here (Mercury)
2. Good Left Undone, The Rise Against; The Sufferer & The Witness (Geffen)
3. If Everyone Cared Nickelback; All The Right Reasons (Roadrunner/IDJMG)
4. Let Me Be Myself 3 Doors Down; 3 Doors Down (Universal Republic)
5. Point Of Light Randy Travis; Heroes And Friends (Warner Bros.)

For some songs on this subject, see GreenBookofSongs.com® categories Character & Integrity and Teaching Values.

Winter isn’t done with us yet! Here are some songs to play as you wait for, watch or clean up after winter’s gifts.

1. Great Big Sled, A Killers featuring Toni Halliday; A Great Big Sled (Island)
2. In This White World Bob Gibson; Ski Songs (Rhino)
3. Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler) Alabama; Roll On (RCA)
4. Six Feet Of Snow Little Feat; Down On The Farm (Warner Bros.)
5. Snowbound Genesis; And Then There Three (Atlantic)
6. White Is The Winter Night Enya; And Winter Came (Reprise)

 For more songs on this subject, see GreenBookofSongs.com® categories Seasons: Winter, Snow and Cold.

We honor Martin Luther King Day 2011 with these songs about the civil rights movement, and those who sacrificed so much for freedom.

1. Anne Braden Flobots; Fight With Tools (Universal Republic)
2. Change Is Gonna Come, A Sam Cooke; Portrait Of A Legend-1951-1964 (Abkco)
3. Everyday Angel Radney Foster; Another Way To Go (Dualtone)
4. He Was My Brother Simon & Garfunkel; Wednesday Morning 3 A.M. (Columbia)
5. Here Comes The Freedom Train Merle Haggard; Capitol Collectors Series-Merle Haggard (Capitol)
6. No Easy Walk To Freedom Peter, Paul & Mary; No Easy Walk To Freedom (Warner Bros.)

For more songs on this subject, see the GreenBookofSongs.com® category, Politics: Civil Rights.

As we watch the aftermath of the political shootings in Arizona, it is clear that violence undermines our entire country.

GreenBookofSongs.com® has long gathered songs about protest, political dissension and and violence, in categories such as Protest, Politics: Social Injustice and Society: Criticizing Modern Society. Here are six songs culled from those lists, each with a different perspective, all leading to the conclusion that violence is not the way.

1. Black Shadow Symphony Westworld; Skin (Dreamscape)
2. Catalyst, The Linkin Park; A Thousand Suns (Warner Bros.)
3. Devil’s Right Hand Steve Earle; Essential Steve Earle (MCA)
4. Get Together Youngbloods; Best Of The Youngbloods (RCA)
5. Vote With A Bullet Corrosion Of Conformity; Vote With A Bullet (Relativity)
6. Winter In America Gil Scott-Heron; First Minute Of A New Day (Arista)

Okay, you’ve made your resolutions for 2011! Here are some songs to give you the energy and focus you’ll need to keep them. Happy New Year from GreenBookofSongs.com®.

1. Dawning Is The Day Moody Blues; A Question Of Balance (Polydor)
2. Future Has Arrived, The All-American Rejects; ST/Meet The Robinsons (Disney)
3. I’m Alive Kenny Chesney with Dave Matthews; Lucky Old Sun (Blue Chair/BNA)
4. Life Won’t Wait  Ozzy Osbourne; Scream (Epic)
5. Sounds Like Life To Me Darryl Worley; Sounds Like Life To Me (Stroudavarious)
6. World Wide Open Love And Theft; World Wide Open (Carolwood)

For more songs on this subject, see the GreenBookofSongs.com® category Motivation.