Get Out the Vote 2020 by James George / The Earthlings and friends.

This is an upbeat election song in the Pete Seeger tradition with banjo, mandolin , harmony. Royalty free. 98 seconds.

Please share with anyone who may be interested or who needs an extra nudge to do their civic duty – or more with your local radio station!

Get Out The Vote 2020 full version, 98 secs, with 3 verses
(Corona virus, voter suppression, climate change)
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Public Service Announcement shorter versions: (62, 48, or 13 seconds)

62 second PSA, first 2 verses (Corona virus & voter suppression)
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48 seconds PSA, first verse (voter suppression)
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13 second PSA (Get Out the Vote chorus only)
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Lyrics:
Get out get out and vote, and let your voice be heard

With Corona virus raging, so many have been lost
cast your vote as safely as you can
drop your ballot at the ballot drop box
(and make sure that you sign it!)

Get out get out and vote, and let your voice be heard

If you believe in democracy – and counting up every vote
voter suppression is the out of the question, ‘n voting is the antidote
(so let’s get out and vote!)

Get out get out and vote, and let your voice be heard

Let’s talk about global warming
cause we’re running out of time
Forest fires and hurricanes,
and politicians on big oil’s dime
(doing climate crime!)

Get out get out the vote, and let your voice be heard

‘WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has recently removed the chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the nation’s premier scientific agency, installed new political staff who have questioned accepted facts about climate change and imposed stricter controls on communications at the agency.’

Source: As Election Nears, Trump Makes a Final Push Against Climate Science | The New York Times

‘If Mr. Biden wins, he will face a dilemma he knows well — so much to do, and so little time. As a newly inaugurated vice president, he and Barack Obama dove first into passing an economic recovery bill in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, then focused on the Affordable Care Act. By the time Congress moved to climate change, the White House’s political capital was exhausted’

Source: Biden Pledges Ambitious Climate Action. Here’s What He Could Actually Do. | The New York Times

‘The issue is particularly important in Pennsylvania, a state that could be decisive on election day and has a strong fracking industry and Trump base in the southwestern part of the state. Biden, however, has said he would only ban fracking on federal lands. Most oil and gas does not come from federal lands.’

Source: Joe Biden calls climate change the ‘number one issue facing humanity’ | CNBC

‘The record-breaking forest fires burning in Colorado even as winter sets in are the latest sign climate warming is hitting the West hard, causing scientists to up their rhetoric and warn it is past time to move beyond planning and start aggressively acting.’

Source: As Colorado wildfires burn, fears that climate change is causing “multi-level emergency” mount | The Denver Post

‘This year Mother Nature has supplied us with smoking-gun evidence to prove what climate scientists have been warning about for decades. The scorched-earth impacts of climate change have arrived.’

Source: Colorado’s record-breaking wildfires show “climate change is here and now” | CBS News

‘When asked a clear ”yes or no” scientific question about climate change, she should have jumped at the chance to give a clear answer — but she did not. She replied that it is a “very contentious matter of public debate.” Settled science is clear and visible proof abounds — so she is either grossly uniformed or she lied.’

Source: Climate change answer disqualifies Barrett for Supreme Court |Chicago Sun*Times

‘Supreme court nominee Amy Coney Barrett refused to say whether she accepts the science of climate change, under questioning from Kamala Harris, saying she lacked the expertise to know for sure and calling it a topic too controversial to get into.’

Source: Amy Coney Barrett refuses to tell Kamala Harris if she thinks climate change is happening | The Guardian

‘…Two-thirds of Americans say the government isn’t doing enough to reduce the effects of global warming, according to a June survey from the Pew Research Center, and the two presidential candidates’ approaches couldn’t be further apart. President Trump has often dismissed global warming as a hoax; his rival, Joseph R. Biden Jr., calls climate change an “emergency” that requires rapidly overhauling the nation’s energy system.’

Source: A FIELD GUIDE TO THE ELECTION AND CLIMATE CHANGE | The New York Times

‘What concerns me is that we may have already pushed the planetary system past the point of no return.’

Source: The great unravelling: ‘I never thought I’d live to see the horror of planetary collapse’ | The Guardian