Andrew Bird » Cass McCombs from The Voice Project on Vimeo.

All right, so I wasn't going to post today, but there were these two beautiful videos from a peace movement called the Voice Project, who were inspired by the women of Uganda to create a "cover chain," hopefully stretching back around the world to the choirs there.

You see, the army in Uganda abducted children and husbands and forced them to rape, murder and pillage their own cities and families. Those who escaped and deserted into the bush were afraid to return to their families after the atrocities that they had committed; the women, the majority of whom are widows and rape victims living in internal displacement camps, reached out the only way they knew how... through song. They sang in the forest at the tops of their lungs, broadcast on radios, sang through megaphones, left cassettes where they could with one simple message: We forgive you. We love you. Come home.

This brought tears to my eyes, and also to the eyes of the people who started the mission. In the videos on the website, various artists - all of extremely high caliber - are invited to play the episode after their song had been performed. The group that they cover (and they get to choose) becomes the next group invited. The videos are posted, and sponsors, advertisers and donors all help to support the rebuilding of Uganda.

I found out about it through Andrew Bird's website, watched, and became addicted. His vid's up top, and Joe purdie's is below. Awesome.

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Joe Purdy » REM from The Voice Project on Vimeo.