Coda


Scroll down for audio, video, images and information to supplement your reading of the “coda” chapter of We Shall Not Be Moved/No nos moverán: Biography of a Song of Struggle.



U.S. pop singer Dean Reed performed "No Nos Moveran" in the Palast der Republik in East Berlin before a gathering of officials of the Democratic Republic of Germany, including secretary general Erich Honecker, in a ceremony honoring the release from prison of  Luis Corvalán, leader of the Chilean Communist Party.




Dean Reed recorded a cover of Tiemponuevo's adaptaion of "No nos moveran" for the 1971 Uruguayan presidential campaign of Liber Seregni, candidate of the Frente Amplio.




British punk rocker Billy Bragg sang Bernice Johnson Reagon's song "Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto" at an open-air Artists against Apartheid concert in London in 1988. Bragg’s performance begins a little more than seventeen minutes into the video.




Click the photo to learn more about the South African poet Diana Ferrus.




The Coro del Pueblo, directed by Patricia Wells-Solórzano, performed the Chilean movement anthem “El pueblo unido jamás será vencido” at a May Day celebration in Fresno, California in 2012.




Click the image to learn more about Patricia Wells Solorzano's life and work.




In 2007 Teatro de la Tierra, the Fresno, California theater company directed by Agustín Lira and Patricia Wells-Solórzano, put on a play telling the life story of San Antonio activist Emma Tenayuca.   The Yellow Rose of Texas opened with the cast walking on stage singing  "No nos moverán."



Click the image for more information on the Teatro de la Tierra's production of The Yellow Rose of Texas.




Folk music legend Pete Seeger and friends marched from Symphony Space at West 95th Street and Broadway down to Columbus Circle in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City in 2011.



Other artists' versions of
We Shall Not Be Moved/No nos moverán



Mississippi John Hurt sings his arrangement of "I Shall Not Be Moved"




Johnny Cash sings "I Shall Not Be Moved"




"I Shall Not Be Moved" performed by the Blind Boys of Alabama




Pete Seeger leads an audience singing "We Shall Not Be Moved"




"We Shall Not Be Moved" performed by Mavis Staples




David Spener sings the history of how the song of struggle "I Shall Not Be Moved" traveled around the world to a Spanish-speaking audience in Santiago, Chile.



 

Cover of "No nos moveran" by the East L.A. rock group Los Lobos



"No nos moveran" performed by Mexican punk rockers Vantroi